Verbal Reasoning - Direction Sense Test - Discussion

As per my knowledge, here the statement '. Started from his house in the east. ' states the location of the house and NOT the direction in which he went; because usually when the direction in which a person is moving is mentioned it is usually stated in the following way i.e. started from his house TOWARDS east.

Here towards means the direction in which the person is walking, while the statement mentioned in the question '. From his house in the east. ' signifies the location as mentioned earlier.

I hope your doubt is clear now.

This problem doesn't provide any indication of the potential direction of the University at any stage. We're to "assume" the University is in the only remaining direction but there's no reason why this should be true.

Really, the term, "started from his house in the east" is ambiguous which means either his house in the east or he walked in the east. So which is right?

The answer is North because his house is in West.

I fully agree with you @Aditya.

@All.

Hey guys, listen here already the question was mentioned that the house is located in the direction of east to the university. So Hemanth had to walk towards the west.

As per the statement the right answer in west.

Hemant may go to any direction even he started from east he may go to north, south or any other. How it is considered that he always move to west from east?

Please explain me.

There is no statement for university.

Nowhere it is mentioned that hemant moves to the west from his house at east. House can be situated at any direction it has no connection to which direction he chooses initially to move. He can either move to north, south or west as it is not mentioned newhere that the crossing is opposite to his home so it is not necessary that hemant moves only in the west direction starting from his house located in the east.