Sense of direction test practice
Sense of direction is tested as spatial transformation: something is shown facing one way, disappears, and reappears facing another. You identify the change. It sounds simple and is punishingly fast.
Practise free — no account neededNATS names this as one of its five Stage 1 ability areas. It is closely related to spatial awareness but distinct — this is about tracking a change in orientation rather than reading a position.
The rotation is absolute, not relative to the object's own frame. Reading it as though the object turned from its own point of view produces a confident wrong answer every time.
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Sense of Direction
An arrow is shown, disappears, then reappears in a new orientation. Identify the manoeuvre. One of the five ability areas NATS names publicly.
An arrow points north-east. It reappears pointing north-west. What happened to it?
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