GATE 2016 CE (CE1) – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2016 CE (CE1) with answers and explanations. Read each question, then practise it by topic or as a full paper.
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- Question 1 – Out of the following four sentences, select the most suitable sentence with respect to grammar and usage.
- Question 2 – A rewording of something written or spoken is a .
- Question 3 – Archimedes said, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I will move the world.” The sentence above is an example of a…
- Question 4 – If ‘relftaga’ means carefree, ‘otaga’ means careful and ‘fertaga’ means careless, which of the following could mean ‘aftercare’?
- Question 5 – A cube is built using 64 cubic blocks of side one unit. After it is built, one cubic block is removed from every corner of the cube. The resulting…
- Question 6 – A company sells Elegance, Smooth, Soft and Executive razors at ₹48, ₹63, ₹78 and ₹173 each. Quarterly sales in that order are Q1: 27300, 20009, 17602,…
- Question 7 – Indian currency notes show the denomination indicated in at least seventeen languages. If this is not an indication of the nation’s diversity, nothing…
- Question 8 – Consider the following statements relating to the level of poker play of four players P, Q, R and S. I. P always beats Q II. R always beats S III. S…
- Question 9 – Which is a factor of f(x)=2x7+3x-5?
- Question 10 – In a process, the number of cycles to failure decreases exponentially with an increase in load. At a load of 80 units, it takes 100 cycles for…
- Question 11 – Use Newton–Raphson to solve 3x-ex+ x=0. With initial estimate x 0=0.333, the next estimate, correct to three decimal places, is .
- Question 12 – The partial differential equation P xx+P yy+3P xy+2P x-P y=0 is .
- Question 13 – If the entries in each column of a square matrix M add up to 1, then an eigenvalue of M is .
- Question 14 – Type II error in hypothesis testing is
- Question 15 – For u t= u xx, which is a possible separated solution?
- Question 16 – Consider the plane truss with load P as shown in the figure. Let the horizontal and vertical reactions at the joint B be HB and VB, respectively and…
- Question 17 – In shear design of an RC beam, IS 456:2000 specifies allowable concrete shear strength c and a maximum permissible shear stress c,max. The latter…
- Question 18 – The semi-compact section of a laterally unsupported steel beam has an elastic section modulus, plastic section modulus and design bending compressive…
- Question 19 – Bull's trench kiln is used in the manufacturing of
- Question 20 – The compound which is largely responsible for initial setting and early strength gain of Ordinary Portland Cement is
- Question 21 – In a consolidated undrained triaxial test on saturated soil, the pore water pressure is zero .
- Question 22 – A fine-grained soil is plastic at water contents between 26% and 48%. Under the Indian Standard classification system, it is .
- Question 23 – A vertical cut is made in soil of cohesion c, friction angle and unit weight . With active and passive earth-pressure coefficients K a,K p, the…
- Question 24 – The direct runoff hydrograph shown results from 5 cm of rainfall excess. The catchment area is ha.
- Question 25 – Match flood-routing methods P hydrologic and Q hydraulic with equations 1 continuity, 2 momentum and 3 energy.
- Question 26 – The pre-jump Froude number in a horizontal rectangular channel is 10. The ratio of post-jump sequent depth to pre-jump depth is .
- Question 27 – Pre-cursors to photochemical oxidants are
- Question 28 – Crown corrosion in a reinforced concrete sewer is caused by:
- Question 29 – It was decided to construct a fabric filter, using bags of 0.45 m diameter and 7.5 m long, for removing industrial stack gas containing particulates.…
- Question 30 – Match the items in Group – I with those in Group – II and choose the right combination. Group - I P. Activated sludge process Q. Rising of sludge R.…
- Question 31 – During a forensic investigation of pavement failure, an engineer reconstructed the graphs P, Q, R and S, using partial and damaged old reports.…
- Question 32 – In a one-lane one-way homogeneous traffic stream, the observed average headway is 3.0 s. The flow (expressed in vehicles/hr) in this traffic stream is
- Question 33 – The minimum number of satellites needed for a GPS to determine its position precisely is
- Question 34 – The system that uses the Sun as a source of electromagnetic energy and records the naturally radiated and reflected energy from the object is called
- Question 35 – The staff reading taken on a workshop floor using a level is 0.645 m. The inverted staff reading taken to the bottom of a beam is 2.960 m. The reduced…
- Question 36 – A continuous random variable X has density f(x)=0.25 for 1 x5 and zero otherwise. What is P(X4)?
- Question 37 – The value of 0 dx/(1+x2)+ 0 ( x)/x\,dx is .
- Question 38 – The area enclosed by y=x2+1 and x+y=3 is .
- Question 39 – The magnitudes of vectors P, Q and R are 100 kN, 250 kN and 150 kN, respectively as shown in the figure. The respective values of the magnitude (in…
- Question 40 – For y(4)+3y=108x2, which complementary function and particular integral are correct?
- Question 41 – A 3 m long simply supported beam of uniform cross section is subjected to a uniformly distributed load of w = 20 kN/m in the central 1 m as shown in…
- Question 42 – Two beams PQ (fixed at P and with a roller support at Q, as shown in Figure I, which allows vertical movement) and XZ (with a hinge at Y) are shown in…
- Question 43 – A plane truss with applied loads is shown in the figure. The members which do not carry any force are
- Question 44 – A rigid member ACB is shown in the figure. The member is supported at A and B by pinned and guided roller supports, respectively. A force P acts at C…
- Question 45 – A reinforced concrete (RC) beam with width of 250 mm and effective depth of 400 mm is reinforced with Fe415 steel. As per the provisions of IS…
- Question 46 – For M25 concrete with creep coefficient of 1.5, the long-term static modulus of elasticity (expressed in MPa) as per the provisions of IS:456-2000 is…
- Question 47 – A propped cantilever of span L carries a vertical concentrated load at the mid-span. If the plastic moment capacity of the section is Mp, the…
- Question 48 – Two plates are connected by fillet welds of size 10 mm and subjected to tension, as shown in the figure. The thickness of each plate is 12 mm. The…
- Question 49 – The four activities on a PERT critical path have optimistic, most likely and pessimistic durations (days) of (8,10,14), (6,8,11), (5,7,10) and…
- Question 50 – The porosity (n) and the degree of saturation (S) of a soil sample are 0.7 and 40%, respectively. In a 100 m3 volume of the soil, the volume…
- Question 51 – A homogeneous gravity retaining wall supporting a cohesionless backfill is shown in the figure. The lateral active earth pressure at the bottom of the…
- Question 52 – An undisturbed soil sample was taken from the middle of a clay layer (i.e., 1.5 m below GL), as shown in figure. The water table was at the top of…
- Question 53 – A seepage flow condition is shown in the figure. The saturated unit weight of the soil γsat = 18 kN/m3. Using unit weight of water, γw = 9.81 kN/m3,…
- Question 54 – A drained triaxial compression test on a saturated clay yielded the effective shear strength parameters as c' = 15 kPa and ϕ' = 22o. Consolidated…
- Question 55 – A concrete gravity dam section is shown in the figure. Assuming unit weight of water as 10 kN/m3 and unit weight of concrete as 24 kN/m3, the uplift…
- Question 56 – Seepage is occurring through a porous media shown in the figure. The hydraulic conductivity values (k1, k2, k3) are in m/day. The seepage discharge…
- Question 57 – A 4 m wide rectangular channel, having bed slope of 0.001 carries a discharge of 16 m3/s. Considering Manning's roughness coefficient = 0.012 and g =…
- Question 58 – A sector gate is provided on a spillway as shown in the figure. Assuming g = 10 m/s2, the resultant force per meter length (expressed in kN/m) on the…
- Question 59 – A hydraulically efficient trapezoidal channel section has a uniform flow depth of 2 m. The bed width (expressed in m) of the channel is
- Question 60 – Effluent from an industry 'A' has a pH of 4.2. The effluent from another industry 'B' has double the hydroxyl (OH-) ion concentration than the…
- Question 61 – An electrostatic precipitator (ESP) with 5600 m2 of collector plate area is 96 percent efficient in treating 185 m3/s of flue gas from a 200 MW…
- Question 62 – The 2-day and 4-day BOD values of a sewage sample are 100 mg/L and 155 mg/L, respectively. The value of BOD rate constant (expressed in per day) is
- Question 63 – A two-lane one-way road of radius 50 m predominantly carries lorries with wheelbase 5 m, at 60–80 km/h. The mechanical and psychological widening at…
- Question 64 – While traveling along and against the traffic stream, a moving observer measured the relative flows as 50 vehicles/hr and 200 vehicles/hr,…
- Question 65 – The vertical angles subtended by the top of a tower T at two instrument stations set up at P and Q, are shown in the figure. The two stations are in…