GATE 2025 AR — Architecture – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2025 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 – Fish : Shoal :: Lion : Select the correct option to complete the analogy.
- Question 2 – Identify the grammatically correct sentence:
- Question 3 – Two cars, P and Q, start from a point X in India at 10 AM. Car P travels North with a speed of 25 km/h and car Q travels East with a speed of 30 km/h.…
- Question 4 – The ceiling function of a real number x, denoted by ce(x), is defined as the smallest integer that is greater than or equal to x. Similarly, the floor…
- Question 5 – P and Q play chess frequently against each other. Of these matches, P has won 80% of the matches, drawn 15% of the matches and lost 5% of the matches.…
- Question 6 – Identify the option that has the most appropriate sequence such that a coherent paragraph is formed: P. At once, without thinking much, people rushed…
- Question 7 – If HIDE and CAGE are coded as 19-23-7-11 and 5-2-17-11 respectively, then what is the code for HIGH?
- Question 8 – The given figure is reflected about the horizontal dashed line and then rotated clockwise by 90° about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the…
- Question 9 – Which one of the following options has the correct sequence of objects arranged in the increasing number of mirror lines (lines of symmetry)?
- Question 10 – A final year student appears for placement interview in two companies, S and T. Based on her interview performance, she estimates the probability of…
- Question 11 – Which is NOT a key Human Development Index indicator in the framework referred to by the paper, which cites the 1990 UN development report?
- Question 12 – Under URDPFI 2015, what population is suggested per neighbourhood-park unit in plain areas?
- Question 13 – Under NBC 2016, find the minimum clear doorway opening for single-wheelchair access in mm.
- Question 14 – What is the Miyawaki landscaping technique used for?
- Question 15 – In Burgess’s concentric-zone model, which zone contains mixed residential and commercial establishments?
- Question 16 – Which water-quality relationship is correct?
- Question 17 – Under Solid Waste Management Rules 2016, co-processing uses which waste categories of calorific value above 1500 kcal/kg as raw material and/or…
- Question 18 – Which is closest to an optimum carbon-to-nitrogen ratio for composting?
- Question 19 – P:17th-century French gardens use axial layout, symmetry, proportion and long perspective to express wealth and social power. Q:early Renaissance…
- Question 20 – Which concept describes urban green spaces and waterbodies used to retain or detain rainwater?
- Question 21 – Choose the normal sequence of architectural drawings through design and construction.
- Question 22 – Under the NBC 2016 comparison in the paper, choose increasing embodied energy.
- Question 23 – Which universal-design principle minimises hazards and adverse consequences of accidental or unintended actions?
- Question 24 – Which listed building has an onion dome?
- Question 25 – What are SDG 3 and SDG 6 respectively?
- Question 26 – What do the 4th and 5th dimensions of BIM conventionally represent?
- Question 27 – Which phenomena can be caused by an earthquake?
- Question 28 – Which cities predominantly have a gridiron street pattern in the planning comparison?
- Question 29 – Match P honeycomb brickwork, Q steel reinforcement, R brick-on-edge work, S excavation with 1 running metre, 2 cubic metre, 3 square metre, 4…
- Question 30 – Match P combined sewer, Q vacuum sewer, R partially separate system, S pressurised sewer with 1 roof rain joins sewage but other stormwater stays…
- Question 31 – Match P Jaipur walled city, Q Fatehpur Sikri, R Hampi monuments, S Dholavira with 1 planned 16th-century Mughal city, 2 timber Sultanate city, 3…
- Question 32 – Match P datum, Q symmetry, R hierarchy, S rhythm with 1 recurring patterns, 2 equivalent forms balanced about line/point, 3 line defined by two points…
- Question 33 – Match P Cities for People, Q Architecture:Form, Space, and Order, R The Death and Life of Great American Cities, S The Image of the City with 1…
- Question 34 – A see-saw has a 50 kg box 5 m to the left of fulcrum P and box B 8 m to the right. Find B’s mass for static equilibrium in kg.
- Question 35 – Which interventions can improve housing affordability on the supply side?
- Question 36 – Which methods desalinate water?
- Question 37 – Identify complementary-colour pairs based on the RGB model as printed in the source.
- Question 38 – Using Kuichling’s formula, find fire demand for a city of 175000 people, in litres/min to two decimals.
- Question 39 – A 20×15 m plot uses FAR 3.0 and 50% ground coverage fully. All floors have equal area. Find maximum number of floors, as an integer.
- Question 40 – A 12 ha site has 6 buildings, each covering 3% of site area. Landscape covers 40%; roads occupy the rest. Runoff coefficients are 0.15 for landscape…
- Question 41 – A semicircular arch has 2 m clear span, 30 cm radial thickness and 40 cm wall breadth. Find brickwork volume in m³, to two decimals.
- Question 42 – An actual roof area 6000 m² occupies 240 cm² on a drawing. Find scale denominator n in 1:n, to nearest integer.
- Question 43 – A₹50 lakh property offers full down payment with 8% rebate, or deferred payments₹10 lakh now, ₹15 lakh after 1 year, ₹15 lakh after 2 years and₹10…
- Question 44 – City populations in 2001, 2011, 2021 were 52000, 76000, 120000. Using the geometric mean of decadal growth rates and geometric-increase projection,…
- Question 45 – A 12×8 m room, 4 m high, contains 80 m³ combustible material of density 3 kg/m³ and calorific value 4000 kcal/kg. Find floor-area fire load in…
- Question 46 – Project paths are P→R and Q→S. Activity(normal weeks, crash weeks, normal₹, crash₹):P(8, 5, 20000, 26000), Q(5, 2, 30000, 33000), R(6, 4, 40000,…
- Question 47 – A 24 cm vertical line stands on the ground. Station point is 18 cm high and 15 cm horizontally in front of the line. A perpendicular picture plane…
- Question 48 – The projected sky diagram shows hatched sky and black obstructions within a circle of radius 3. Quarter-sector sky radii are 2, 1, 1 and 3 units as…
- Question 49 – Metro ridership 367200/day will replace 18% of existing trips. Existing shares are two-wheelers 22%, four-wheelers 17%, public bus 16%,…
- Question 50 – P:a squinch supports a circular or octagonal dome above a square hall. Q:a squinch is a double-layer masonry dome. Choose the correct statement.
- Question 51 – HVAC dampers are essentially:
- Question 52 – Which paint ingredient increases spreading quality and helps attain the desired consistency?
- Question 53 – Identify the material test and X/Y variables corresponding to the peaked curve shown.
- Question 54 – For the Doric Greek temple shown, identify P, Q, R.
- Question 55 – Which are concrete-cased pile examples in the source classification?
- Question 56 – The Sun has altitude 40° and north azimuth 130°. Find solar zenith angle in degrees.
- Question 57 – Match P Garmet, Q aldrop, R mortise, S gusset with 1 lock, 2 screw, 3 bolt, 4 hinge, 5 plate.
- Question 58 – Match architectural statements P Form follows function, Q Less is more, R Architecture should speak of its time and place but yearn for timelessness,…
- Question 59 – Match pump terms P suction lift, Q discharge lift, R rotary pump, S priming with 1 discharge-point/pump elevation difference, 2 filling the casing…
- Question 60 – Match P Kailasa Ellora, Q Shore Temple Mamallapuram, R Mahabodhi Bodh Gaya, S Brihadisvara Thanjavur with 1 Chandella temple, 2 late-Gupta brick…
- Question 61 – Which tall building has a bundled-tube structural system?
- Question 62 – A simply supported beam under full-span UDL deflects 24 mm at midspan. Double its span and depth, keeping other parameters unchanged. Find new…
- Question 63 – An RCC beam has width 250 mm, effective depth 400 mm, factored shear 120 kN and concrete shear strength 0.35 N/mm². Use two-legged 8 mm stirrups with…
- Question 64 – Point light C is 1.75 m vertically above A. B is 1 m horizontally from A on the same receiving plane. If illumination at A is 300 lux, find…
- Question 65 – Sixteen independent identical machines are equally distant from a receiver. Each produces 60 dB there. With a 70 dB limit, find maximum machines…