GATE 2016 CE (CE2) – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2016 CE (CE2) with answers and explanations. Read each question, then practise it by topic or as a full paper.
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- Question 1 – If I were you, I that laptop. It’s much too expensive.
- Question 2 – He **turned a deaf ear to** my request. What does the highlighted phrasal verb mean?
- Question 3 – Choose the most appropriate set of words from the options given below to complete the following sentence. is a will, is a way.
- Question 4 – (x % of y) + (y % of x) is equivalent to .
- Question 5 – The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 12. If the new number formed by reversing the digits is greater than the original number by 54, find…
- Question 6 – Two finance companies, P and Q, declared fixed annual rates of interest on the amounts invested with them. The rates of interest offered by these…
- Question 7 – Today, we consider Ashoka as a great ruler because of the copious evidence he left behind in the form of stone carved edicts. Historians tend to…
- Question 8 – Fact 1: Humans are mammals. Fact 2: Some humans are engineers. Fact 3: Engineers build houses. If the above statements are facts, which of the…
- Question 9 – A square pyramid has a base perimeter x, and the slant height is half of the perimeter. What is the lateral surface area of the pyramid?
- Question 10 – Ananth takes 6 hours and Bharath takes 4 hours to read a book. Both started reading copies of the book at the same time. After how many hours is the…
- Question 11 – The spot speeds (expressed in km/hr) observed at a road section are 66, 62, 45, 79, 32, 51, 56, 60, 53, and 49. The median speed (expressed in km/hr)…
- Question 12 – The optimum value of f(x)=x2-4x+2 is .
- Question 13 – On [-,], f(x)=0 for -<x0 and f(x)=-x for 0<x<. Its Fourier series is f(x)=/4+(2/) n=1((2n-1)x)/(2n-1)2+ n=1(nx)/n. Convergence at x=0 gives .
- Question 14 – X and Y are independent events with P(X)=0.40 and P(X Yc)=0.7. What is P(X Y)?
- Question 15 – What is (x,y)(0,0)xy/(x2+y2)?
- Question 16 – The kinematic indeterminacy of the plane truss shown in the figure is
- Question 17 – As per IS 456:2000, the maximum allowable shear stress c,max in reinforced-concrete beam design depends on .
- Question 18 – An assembly made of a rigid arm A-B-C hinged at end A and supported by an elastic rope C-D at end C is shown in the figure. The members may be assumed…
- Question 19 – As per Indian standards for bricks, minimum acceptable compressive strength of any class of burnt clay bricks in dry state is
- Question 20 – A construction project has twelve activities. Durations (days): A inauguration 1; B foundation work 7; C structural construction-1 30; D structural…
- Question 21 – A strip footing is resting on the surface of a purely clayey soil deposit. If the width of the footing is doubled, the ultimate bearing capacity of…
- Question 22 – The relationship between the specific gravity of sand (G) and the hydraulic gradient (i) to initiate quick condition in the sand layer having porosity…
- Question 23 – The results of a consolidation test on an undisturbed soil, sampled at a depth of 10 m below the ground level are as follows: Saturated unit weight :…
- Question 24 – Profile of a weir on permeable foundation is shown in figure I and an elementary profile of 'upstream pile only case' according to Khosla's theory is…
- Question 25 – Water table of an aquifer drops by 100 cm over an area of 1000 km2. The porosity and specific retention of the aquifer material are 25% and 5%,…
- Question 26 – Match fluid types P Newtonian, Q pseudoplastic, R plastic, S dilatant with curves 1–5 in the shear-stress versus shear-rate diagram.
- Question 27 – The atmospheric layer closest to the earth surface is
- Question 28 – A water supply board is responsible for treating 1500 m3/day of water. A settling column analysis indicates that an overflow rate of 20 m/day will…
- Question 29 – The hardness of a ground water sample was found to be 420 mg/L as CaCO3. A softener containing ion exchange resins was installed to reduce the total…
- Question 30 – The sound pressure (expressed in µPa) of the faintest sound that a normal healthy individual can hear is
- Question 31 – In the context of the IRC 58-2011 guidelines for rigid pavement design, consider the following pair of statements. I: Radius of relative stiffness is…
- Question 32 – If the total number of commercial vehicles per day ranges from 3000 to 6000, the minimum percentage of commercial traffic to be surveyed for axle load…
- Question 33 – Optimal flight planning for a photogrammetric survey should be carried out considering
- Question 34 – The reduced bearing of a 10 m long line is N30°E. The departure of the line is
- Question 35 – A circular curve of radius R connects two straights with a deflection angle of 60°. The tangent length is
- Question 36 – The linear system x+2y-3z=a, 2x+3y+3z=b, 5x+9y-6z=c is consistent if .
- Question 37 – Two probability densities are f(x)=casesx/a+1,&-a x<0\\-x/a+1,&0 x a\\0,&otherwisecases and g(x)=cases-x/a,&-a x<0\/a,&0 x a\\0,&otherwise.cases Which…
- Question 38 – The intersection angle of x2=4y and y2=4x at (0,0) is .
- Question 39 – The area between x2=8y and the line y=8 is .
- Question 40 – The quadratic approximation of f(x)=x3-3x2-5 at x=0 is .
- Question 41 – An elastic isotropic body is in a hydrostatic state of stress as shown in the figure. For no change in the volume to occur, what should be its…
- Question 42 – For the stress state (in MPa) shown in the figure, the major principal stress is 10 MPa. The shear stress τ is
- Question 43 – The portal frame shown in the figure is subjected to a uniformly distributed vertical load w (per unit length). The bending moment in the beam at the…
- Question 44 – The hinged structural system shown carries W=100 kN. Member properties L,A,E are indicated. Let L=1 m, A=0.05 m2, and E=30106 N/m2. Which set gives…
- Question 45 – A haunched (varying depth) reinforced concrete beam is simply supported at both ends, as shown in the figure. The beam is subjected to a uniformly…
- Question 46 – A 450 mm long plain concrete prism is subjected to the concentrated vertical loads as shown in the figure. Cross section of the prism is given as 150…
- Question 47 – Two bolted plates under tension have the alternative hole arrangements in Figures 1 and 2. Hole diameter, pitch and gauge are d,p,g, respectively.…
- Question 48 – A fixed-end beam has two segments of length L with plastic capacities 2M p and M p, as shown. A concentrated load P acts at 2L/3 from the left…
- Question 49 – The activity-on-arrow network of activities for a construction project is shown in the figure. The durations (expressed in days) of the activities are…
- Question 50 – The seepage occurring through an earthen dam is represented by a flownet comprising of 10 equipotential drops and 20 flow channels. The coefficient of…
- Question 51 – The soil profile at a site consists of a 5 m thick sand layer underlain by a c-φ soil as shown in figure. The water table is found 1 m below the…
- Question 52 – OMC-SP and MDD-SP denote the optimum moisture content and maximum dry density obtained from standard Proctor compaction test, respectively. OMC-MP and…
- Question 53 – Water flows from P to Q through two soil samples, Soil 1 and Soil 2, having cross sectional area of 80 cm2 as shown in the figure. Over a period of 15…
- Question 54 – A 4 m wide strip footing lies 1.5 m below ground in c–φ soil. The water table is 5.5 m below ground. Soil properties: c=35 kN/m2, =28.63, sat=19,…
- Question 55 – A square plate is suspended vertically from one of its edges using a hinge support as shown in figure. A water jet of 20 mm diameter having a velocity…
- Question 56 – The ordinates of a one-hour unit hydrograph at sixty minute interval are 0, 3, 12, 8, 6, 3 and 0 m3/s. A two-hour storm of 4 cm excess rainfall…
- Question 57 – A 3 m wide rectangular channel carries 6 m3/s at depth 0.5 m at P. A flat-topped hump is placed downstream. With negligible energy loss and g=9.81…
- Question 58 – A penstock of 1 m diameter and 5 km length is used to supply water from a reservoir to an impulse turbine. A nozzle of 15 cm diameter is fixed at the…
- Question 59 – A tracer takes 100 days to travel from Well-1 to Well-2 which are 100 m apart. The elevation of water surface in Well-2 is 3 m below that in Well-1.…
- Question 60 – The water-analysis bar diagram gives cumulative boundaries (meq/L): cations 0, 2.65, 4.10, 6.35, 6.85 for Ca²⁺, Mg²⁺, Na⁺, K⁺; anions 0, 3.30, 3.90,…
- Question 61 – A noise meter located at a distance of 30 m from a point source recorded 74 dB. The reading at a distance of 60 m from the point source would be
- Question 62 – For a wastewater sample, the three-day biochemical oxygen demand at incubation temperature of 20°C (BOD3day, 20°C) is estimated as 200 mg/L. Taking…
- Question 63 – The critical flow ratios for a three-phase signal are found to be 0.30, 0.25, and 0.25. The total time lost in the cycle is 10 s. Pedestrian crossings…
- Question 64 – A motorist traveling at 100 km/h on a highway needs to take the next exit, which has a speed limit of 50 km/h. The section of the roadway before the…
- Question 65 – A tall tower was photographed from an elevation of 700 m above the datum. The radial distances of the top and bottom of the tower from the principal…