GATE 2024 AR — Architecture – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2024 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 – If '→' denotes increasing order of intensity, then the meaning of the words [sick → infirm → moribund] is analogous to [silly → → daft]. Which one of…
- Question 2 – The 15 parts of the given figure are to be painted such that no two adjacent parts with shared boundaries (excluding corners) have the same color. The…
- Question 3 – How many 4-digit positive integers divisible by 3 can be formed using only the digits 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, such that no digit appears more than once in a…
- Question 4 – The sum of the following infinite series is 2+12+13+14+18+19+116+127+
- Question 5 – In an election, the share of valid votes received by the four candidates A, B, C, and D is represented by the pie chart shown. The total number of…
- Question 6 – Thousands of years ago, some people began dairy farming. This coincided with a number of mutations in a particular gene that resulted in these people…
- Question 7 – The probability of a boy or a girl being born is 1/2. For a family having only three children, what is the probability of having two girls and one…
- Question 8 – Person 1 and Person 2 invest in three mutual funds A, B, and C. The amounts they invest in each of these mutual funds are given in the table. Mutual…
- Question 9 – Three different views of a dice are shown in the figure below. The piece of paper that can be folded to make this dice is
- Question 10 – Visualize two identical right circular cones such that one is inverted over the other and they share a common circular base. If a cutting plane passes…
- Question 11 – Classify the curvature of the structural form shown.
- Question 12 – In the Ekistics logarithmic settlement scale, what is the world city called?
- Question 13 – In Mānasāra Śilpaśāstra, what is a bow-shaped town plan called?
- Question 14 – What is the value realised when a property must be sold below its open-market price?
- Question 15 – An enoscope in a traffic survey measures which quantity?
- Question 16 – Who wrote Human Aspects of Urban Form?
- Question 17 – Which statement correctly describes an urban cool island?
- Question 18 – Which is correct for an oxidation pond treating wastewater?
- Question 19 – Who was the conservation architect for the Maitreya Buddha Temple at Basgo, Ladakh, associated with the 2007 UNESCO Asia-Pacific heritage award?
- Question 20 – Which sequences occur in conventional water treatment?
- Question 21 – Which changes are associated with neighbourhood gentrification?
- Question 22 – Which sites were on UNESCO’s World Heritage List by December 2022?
- Question 23 – For the two-point perspective construction shown, which nomenclature pairs are correct?
- Question 24 – Which commitments belong to India’s updated 2022 nationally determined contribution?
- Question 25 – Under Census of India 2011, which categories are non-notified slums?
- Question 26 – Which are within the scope of India’s ECBC 2017?
- Question 27 – Which mobilise municipal fiscal resources?
- Question 28 – A wheelchair ramp has 1:12 slope and must rise 900 mm. Provide a 1.5 m intermediate landing after every 9 m run. Find total straight-ramp running…
- Question 29 – Match P raster editing, Q energy modelling, R visual programming, S structural analysis with 1 OpenStudio, 2 GIMP, 3 STAAD, 4 Grasshopper, 5 Radiance.
- Question 30 – Match P lightweight structure, Q base isolation, R tuned mass damper, S diagrid with 1 Taipei 101, 2 London Gherkin, 3 Te Papa Wellington, 4 Shigeru…
- Question 31 – Match P NIMBY, Q form-based code, R tactical urbanism, S suburbanisation with 1 waterfront view through abutting street, 2 regulation primarily by…
- Question 32 – Match renewal projects P Cheonggyecheon, Q High Line, R False Creek South, S Canary Wharf with 1 New York, 2 London, 3 Seoul, 4 Vancouver, 5 Tokyo.
- Question 33 – Match reserves P Gulf of Mannar, Q Sundarbans, R Nanda Devi, S Nilgiri with 1 ridges/glaciers, 2 tropical/subtropical forested hills, 3 mangrove…
- Question 34 – Match P edge city, Q synekism, R urbicide, S urban sprawl with 1 rapid outward urban expansion, 2 violence against the city, 3 secondary edge CBD, 4…
- Question 35 – Match P floating floor, Q float valve, R metal float, S free float with 1 overflow control, 2 scheduling delay allowance, 3 acoustic buffer, 4…
- Question 36 – Under URDPFI 2015, match facilities P integrated school, Q senior secondary school, R college, S primary school with population norms 1:4000, 2:2500,…
- Question 37 – Which statements are true?
- Question 38 – Which colour statements are correct?
- Question 39 – Which garden locations are correct?
- Question 40 – Which planting statements are correct?
- Question 41 – Which are physical components within a road right of way?
- Question 42 – Under NBC 2016, which terms are associated with building fire safety/fighting?
- Question 43 – For the beam and loads shown, ignore self-weight and find the maximum hogging-moment magnitude in kN·m, to one decimal.
- Question 44 – Equipment costs₹50000 and has 15% salvage after 5 years. Using straight-line depreciation, find its book value after 3 years in rupees, as an integer.
- Question 45 – Using the activity-on-node network shown, with durations in days and start time 0, find total critical-path project duration, as an integer.
- Question 46 – A 1200-seat hall has one-third women and two-thirds men. Male WCs:1 per 100 up to 400, then 1 per 250 or part. Female WCs:3 per 100 up to 200, then 2…
- Question 47 – For a 400 mm storm, runoff coefficients and(existing, proposed) hectares are industrial 0.7:(1500, 800), residential 0.5:(1000, 1200), parks…
- Question 48 – A 2.672 ha PPP township permits FAR 2.25. Of total FAR area, 20% is MIG housing; each MIG unit including common/services area is 72 m². Find maximum…
- Question 49 – A town needs 70000 m³ compacted waste to fill land. Of 10000 households, 30% generate 0.10 m³/day, 60% generate 0.15, and 10% generate 0.20. Find…
- Question 50 – Which building is characterised by a rose window?
- Question 51 – In the cooling-mode unitary air-conditioner diagram, what is component P?
- Question 52 – Who designed Titan Integrity Campus, Bengaluru?
- Question 53 – Which label combinations correctly describe the arch shown?
- Question 54 – Which buildings use pendentives?
- Question 55 – Which stadium roofs use PTFE-coated fibreglass membrane?
- Question 56 – An express lift runs from floor 2 to floor 80 with 4 m floor spacing. Maximum speed is 8 m/s; net acceleration and deceleration are 2 m/s² each.…
- Question 57 – Match P bell capital, Q mihrab, R gopuram, S pediment with 1 mosque, 2 Hindu temple, 3 Greek temple, 4 Romanesque church, 5 Egyptian temple.
- Question 58 – Match museums P Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya Bhopal, Q Bihar Museum Patna, R Gandhi Memorial Ahmedabad, S Museum of Art and Photography…
- Question 59 – Match shaped bricks P–S with 1 plinth header, 2 bird’s mouth, 3 squint, 4 double cant, 5 plinth stretcher.
- Question 60 – Which unit statements are correct?
- Question 61 – Which vernacular-building statements are correct?
- Question 62 – A vertically suspended 5 m aluminium rod has section 0.20×0.04 m and mass 21.20 kg/m. Use g=10 m/s² and E=70000 MPa. Find maximum tensile strain in…
- Question 63 – The two-room foundation excavation shown has uniform trench width 1.10 m and cumulative centreline length 41.10 m. Concrete depth is 0.30 m. Find…
- Question 64 – A 3500 m³ lecture hall has the sound-decay curve shown. The source is switched off at P. Using RT 60, find total absorption in sabins, to nearest…
- Question 65 – A 2 TR window AC with EER 3.1 cools a 40 m³ room for 600 hours, compressor continuously running. Find electricity use in kWh, to nearest integer.