Directions and Distances
CBAT-style practice test · Spatial
Holding a position in your head through a deliberately confusing description.
- Skill area
- Spatial
- Length
- 16 minutes
- Format
- Timed questions
- Cost
- Free version, or Premium
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What this test involves
- Answer as many as you can.
- Press 1–4 to choose an answer, or click it.
- Read the whole route before you start calculating.
How to prepare for Directions and Distances
- Track two running totals, north/south and east/west, rather than trying to picture the whole route.
- Turns are always 90°, so each leg only ever changes one of those two totals.
- On a straight-line distance, estimate rather than calculate. The answer is always more than the longer of your two totals and less than the two added together, which is enough to rule out every wrong option.
- No straight-line answer here is ever a square root you have to work out. The two totals are always one of five triangles scaled up (3·4·5, 5·12·13, 8·15·17, 7·24·25, 20·21·29), so 400 North and 300 East is 500, and 1 200 North and 500 East is 1 300.
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