GATE 2026 AR — Architecture – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2026 AR — Architecture with answers and explanations. Read each question, then practise it by topic or as a full paper.
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- Question 1 – Verbosity : Brevity :: Insolence : Choose the word that best fills the blank.
- Question 2 – The product of the digits of a three-digit number is 70. The sum of the digits of this three-digit number is
- Question 3 – The four pieces of a puzzle are shown in the figure below. Which one of the figures labelled as P, Q, R, and S can be constructed by using each of the…
- Question 4 – Consider two distinct positive real numbers m, n, with m > n. Let x = n 10(m) and y = m 10(n). The relation between x and y is .
- Question 5 – 'If his latest movie had been a commercial success, the actor would have made enough money to sponsor his next movie.' Based only on the above…
- Question 6 – 'My friend and I parted the door the cabin that I had rented the night.' Choose the option with the correct sequence of words to fill the blanks.
- Question 7 – Five integers are picked from 0 to 20, with possible repetitions, such that their mean is 12, median is 18, and they have a single mode of 20.…
- Question 8 – Rishi and Swathi are students of Class 5. Pavan and Tanvi are students of Class 4. Rishi and Pavan are boys. Swathi and Tanvi are girls. The four…
- Question 9 – P, Q, R, S, X, and Y are distinct single-digit whole numbers taking values from 0 to 9. PQ is a two-digit number with Q being in the units place and P…
- Question 10 – In the given figure, P, Q, and R are three points on a circle of radius 10 cm with O as its center, PQ = RQ, and PQR = 45°. The figure is…
- Question 11 – The five elements of Ekistics defined by C. A. Doxiadis are Nature, Man, Society, and Networks.
- Question 12 – An earthquake originates at which location?
- Question 13 – The diagram plots road accessibility on the horizontal axis and road hierarchy on the vertical axis. Which labelled line represents the correct…
- Question 14 – Under the National Building Code of India 2016, the minimum fire resistance of service ducts and shafts is how many minutes?
- Question 15 – On a topographic map, successive contour lines become more widely spaced uphill. What is the slope form?
- Question 16 – Which UN Sustainable Development Goal concerns ending hunger, food security, improved nutrition and sustainable agriculture?
- Question 17 – In Clarence A. Perry’s Neighbourhood Unit concept, the maximum walking radius to the elementary school is how many miles?
- Question 18 – Which listed sequences correctly follow water-cycle processes?
- Question 19 – Which are among the 3R principles in CPHEEO’s Municipal Solid Waste Management Manual 2016?
- Question 20 – Which are verticals of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana–Urban 2.0?
- Question 21 – Which is mandatory for ODF++ status under India’s Swachh Bharat Mission?
- Question 22 – Which plans shown represent tactile tiles for assisting visually impaired people, in the accessibility context referred to by the Rights of Persons…
- Question 23 – Which are ecosystem-service categories provided by forests?
- Question 24 – Find the minimum number of dry masonry units, each 200×100×100 mm, for a solid wall 3 m long, 2 m high and 0.20 m thick. Give an integer.
- Question 25 – A 15000 m² commercial property has two-thirds office space and one-third retail. Parking standards are 6 ECS/100 m² for offices and 4.5 ECS/100 m² for…
- Question 26 – Furniture costs₹850000 and has 8-year useful life. With annual depreciation 15%, find salvage value in rupees at the end of its life, to the nearest…
- Question 27 – Starting with square ABCD of side 1 cm, the figure develops successive golden-mean rectangles. Find length IJ in cm, to three decimals.
- Question 28 – A 100000 m² site accommodates 500 dwellings. Find density in dwelling units per acre, to the nearest integer.
- Question 29 – Match cities P New Delhi, Q Singapore, R Sydney and S Helsinki with numbered sun-path diagrams 1–5 shown.
- Question 30 – Match graphic compositions P–S with terms 1 progression, 2 alternation, 3 spatial tension, 4 interlacing, 5 interlocking.
- Question 31 – Match P City Beautiful, Q Conservative Surgery, R Happy City and S Garden City with 1 Robert Owen, 2 Daniel Burnham, 3 Patrick Geddes, 4 Charles…
- Question 32 – Match flowering trees P Cassia fistula, Q Jacaranda mimosifolia, R Erythrina indica and S Plumeria alba with 1 scarlet red, 2 orange, 3 white, 4…
- Question 33 – Match books P Silent Spring, Q Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan, R Small Is Beautiful, S The Unquiet Woods with 1 Rachel Carson, 2 Madhav…
- Question 34 – Match P VAV, Q DEWAT, R El Niño, S BRTS with 1 continent–ocean heat balance, 2 public transport, 3 intelligent building air conditioning, 4…
- Question 35 – Match Kevin Lynch concepts P legibility, Q imageability, R structure, S identity with 1 complex reality perceived as one interrelated identity, 2 an…
- Question 36 – Which combinations correctly label the suspension-bridge components shown?
- Question 37 – The operation-theatre circulation diagram marks spaces P, Q, R, S from a common corridor. Which combinations correctly identify them?
- Question 38 – Which AutoCAD shortcut/application pairs are correct under the default aliases intended by the paper?
- Question 39 – Which listed architects had received the Pritzker Architecture Prize by 2025?
- Question 40 – Which is a correct conceptual disaster-risk relation?
- Question 41 – Which responsibilities belong to the Council of Architecture under the Architects Act 1972?
- Question 42 – Which combinations correctly label the city section shown?
- Question 43 – A city has 175000 people in 2025 and grows 8.5% per decade for three decades. Water demand in 2055 is 175 L/person/day. Find daily domestic demand in…
- Question 44 – An RCC stair flight has 10 steps, each 150 mm rise and 300 mm tread, over a 75 mm waist slab. Width is 1500 mm. Steel is 0.75% of total RCC volume and…
- Question 45 – A rectangular open concrete drain is 3 m wide with 1.5 m flow depth, bed slope 0.001 and Manning roughness 0.018. Find mean flow speed in m/s, to two…
- Question 46 – A PERT project starts 27 July 2026. Activities and (optimistic, most likely, pessimistic) days are P 1→2(4, 6, 8), Q 1→3(5, 6, 13), R 2→5(6, 8, 22), S…
- Question 47 – A sample of 1250 must reproduce the city age/sex proportions. Percentages(Male, Female) by age are 0–6:(2, 1.5), 7–18:(8.5, 6), 19–25:(14.5, 13.5),…
- Question 48 – A four-storey building with identical plans uses the full 50% ground coverage on a 500 m² plot and the original maximum FAR. Incentive zoning raises…
- Question 49 – A 4×4 cm square prism, 20 cm high, stands on HP with its faces 45° to VP. The cutting plane perpendicular to VP is shown in the plan and elevation.…
- Question 50 – What is the circular opening at the top of a dome called?
- Question 51 – Albedo is the ratio of:
- Question 52 – When is foundation setting-out executed?
- Question 53 – Which statements about Islamic architectural elements are correct?
- Question 54 – Which statements about construction support or strengthening works are correct?
- Question 55 – Outdoor and room temperatures are 18°C and 22°C. Internal gain is 5 kW and air volumetric heat capacity is 1300 J/(m³°C). With no other heat transfer…
- Question 56 – A column carries 225 kN onto a square footing. Soil safe bearing capacity is 100 kN/m². Find minimum footing side in metres, to one decimal.
- Question 57 – Match styles P Baroque, Q Byzantine, R Art Deco, S Art Nouveau with 1 Hagia Sophia Istanbul, 2 Chrysler Building New York, 3 Seagram Building New…
- Question 58 – Match palaces P Ujjayanta, Q Umaid Bhawan, R Jehangir Mahal, S Hari Niwas with 1 Orchha, 2 Jammu, 3 Jaipur, 4 Agartala, 5 Jodhpur.
- Question 59 – Under the NBC 2016 terminology, match glass P reflective, Q tempered fire-resistant, R insulating glass units, S wired with 1 edge-sealed…
- Question 60 – Which statements about steel construction are correct?
- Question 61 – Which combinations correctly identify the parapet and terrace section labels?
- Question 62 – A facade has 48 m² glazing with U=5.2 W/(m²°C), light-to-solar-gain ratio 1.5 and visible-light transmittance 0.6. Incident solar radiation is 400…
- Question 63 – Overhanging beam ABC has supports at A, B with AB 6 m and overhang BC 2 m. A 12 kN/m UDL covers the full 8 m. At an internal point P between A and B…
- Question 64 – A 25×12 m conference room has CFL efficacy 60 lumen/W and lighting-power density 12 W/m². Utilisation factor is 0.8 and maintenance factor 0.5. Find…
- Question 65 – A 12000 m² mall’s annual energy shares are grid electricity 52%, diesel 30%, LPG 10%, solar 8%. Average monthly solar use is 10 MWh. Find annual…