GATE 2022 AR — Architecture – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2022 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 – After playing hours of tennis, I am feeling tired to walk back.
- Question 2 – The average of the monthly salaries of M, N and S is ₹ 4000. The average of the monthly salaries of N, S and P is ₹ 5000. The monthly salary of P is ₹…
- Question 3 – A person travelled 80 km in 6 hours. If the person travelled the first part with a uniform speed of 10 kmph and the remaining part with a uniform…
- Question 4 – Four girls P, Q, R and S are studying languages in a University. P is learning French and Dutch. Q is learning Chinese and Japanese. R is learning…
- Question 5 – A block with a trapezoidal cross-section is placed over a block with rectangular cross section as shown above. Which one of the following is the…
- Question 6 – Humans are naturally compassionate and honest. In a study using strategically placed wallets that appear "lost", it was found that wallets with money…
- Question 7 – A rhombus is formed by joining the midpoints of the sides of a unit square. What is the diameter of the largest circle that can be inscribed within…
- Question 8 – An equilateral triangle, a square and a circle have equal areas. What is the ratio of the perimeters of the equilateral triangle to square to circle?
- Question 9 – Given below are three conclusions drawn based on the following three statements. Statement 1: All teachers are professors. Statement 2: No professor…
- Question 10 – In a 12-hour clock that runs correctly, how many times do the second, minute, and hour hands of the clock coincide, in a 12-hour duration from 3 PM in…
- Question 11 – What do the concentric circles in a sun-path diagram represent?
- Question 12 – Under the January 2017 operational guidelines for the Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme for EWS, what is the maximum annual household income defining…
- Question 13 – Which is vector graphics software?
- Question 14 – A suspension-bridge cable supports a deck through equally spaced hangers, giving a uniformly distributed load along the horizontal bridge length.…
- Question 15 – Arrange P arterial road, Q expressway, R collector road, S local street in descending order of accessibility.
- Question 16 – What relationship is represented by the two-dimensional composition shown?
- Question 17 – Which ratio represents the Golden Ratio?
- Question 18 – What is Hogarth’s Line of Beauty?
- Question 19 – Which sites were added to the Ramsar List in 2020?
- Question 20 – Which devices help keep direct solar radiation out of a building?
- Question 21 – Under the Council of Architecture Handbook of Professional Documents 2015, in which situations are architects liable?
- Question 22 – Which Sustainable Development Goals in the UN 2030 Agenda directly address water-related issues?
- Question 23 – A 600 mm wide masonry section has zero tensile capacity and a linear stress distribution. At what limiting eccentricity, in mm, does tensile cracking…
- Question 24 – Indoor maximum/minimum dry-bulb temperatures are 38°C/34°C, while outdoors they are 42°C/30°C. Find thermal damping as a percentage reduction in…
- Question 25 – A site measures 96 cm² on a 1:12500 plan. Find its actual area in hectares, as an integer.
- Question 26 – An off-street parking lot has 75 bays and serves 687 cars over 12 hours. Find average turnover in vehicles per hour per bay, to two decimal places.
- Question 27 – The rectangular open drain shown has internal width 600 mm, total depth 400 mm and water depth 250 mm. Find hydraulic radius in mm, to two decimal…
- Question 28 – A town of 0.45 million people produces 0.21 kg waste/person/day, 40% organic. All organic waste must be transported daily by one 15-ton-capacity…
- Question 29 – Arrange construction-project stages under NBC 2016: P resource planning, Q project inception, R commissioning/handing over, S tendering, T site…
- Question 30 – Match P fire safety, Q seismic safety, R water efficiency, S accessible design with 1 intruder alarm, 2 zero-strength barrier, 3 stair lift, 4…
- Question 31 – Match states P Kerala, Q Jharkhand, R Nagaland, S Gujarat with vernacular types 1 Morung, 2 Pol, 3 Dhumkuria, 4 Nalukettu, 5 Ghotul.
- Question 32 – Match P Navi Mumbai, Q Hissar, R Greater Mumbai, S Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor with 1 counter magnet, 2 urban agglomeration, 3 satellite town, 4…
- Question 33 – Match P Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai; Q Kumbh Mela; R Walled City of Jaipur; S Bhimbetka rock shelters with 1 long interaction between people…
- Question 34 – Match P vertical theory of urban design, Q responsive environments, R serial vision, S winter urbanism with 1 Ian Bentley, 2 Gordon Cullen, 3 Norman…
- Question 35 – Identify the labelled urban-space elements P, Q, R, S in the sketch.
- Question 36 – Match URDPFI 2015 healthcare facilities P multi-speciality hospital, Q dispensary, R veterinary hospital, S general hospital with populations 1=15000,…
- Question 37 – Match plan forms P–S with 1 New Parliament of Egypt, Cairo; 2 Apple Park Campus, California; 3 Commerzbank, Frankfurt; 4 30 St Mary Axe, London; 5…
- Question 38 – Match P Agasthyamala, Q Nokrek, R Cold Desert, S Simlipal biosphere reserves with 1 western Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh; 2 Western Ghats, Kerala/Tamil…
- Question 39 – In the traditional Persian context, which descriptions refer to the qanat system?
- Question 40 – Which are Principles of Universal Design?
- Question 41 – Under URDPFI 2015 drinking-water quality requirements, which acceptable-limit statements are correct?
- Question 42 – For the ideal vapour-compression air-conditioning cycle shown, which statements about labelled segments are true?
- Question 43 – Which are characteristics of a Mughal garden?
- Question 44 – According to CPCB’s National AQI framework 2014, which statements are correct?
- Question 45 – A city’s populations in 1981, 1991, 2001, 2011 were 180750, 195850, 215300, 245450. Using 2011 as base and arithmetic growth, project 2041 water…
- Question 46 – The diagram gives activity durations and early/late start/finish times in weeks. Find the interfering float of activity R, as an integer.
- Question 47 – A 230 mm thick brick wall is 10 m long and 3 m high, built in Flemish bond from 230×112.5×70 mm bricks with 5 mm mortar joints. Estimate required…
- Question 48 – The reflected roof plan and section show a 10 m×10 m RCC roof, 150 mm slab, with 300 mm wide beams 600 mm deep including slab, equally spaced…
- Question 49 – The Lorenz graph shows cumulative population/income points (0, 0), (30, 18), (70, 45), (100, 100), in percent. Find the Gini coefficient to three…
- Question 50 – Which process is used for surface treatment of metals?
- Question 51 – Which ancient Greek monument is an octastyle peripteral temple with eight Doric columns on both east and west façades?
- Question 52 – In a direct UPV test under IS 516(Part 5/Section 1):2018, a pulse travels 600 mm in 0.18 ms. Grading: above 4.4 km/s excellent; 3.75–4.4 good;…
- Question 53 – Which are examples of ancient Egyptian tomb architecture?
- Question 54 – Aluminium : anodisation :: glazing : X. Which processes can represent X?
- Question 55 – A blackbody radiant heating panel has area 5 m² and surface temperature 35°C. A 1 m² surface at 20°C is 1 m away. With Stefan–Boltzmann constant…
- Question 56 – In the weightless pin-jointed truss shown, tension is positive and compression negative. Find force in member TU in kN, to one decimal place.
- Question 57 – Match arch illustrations P–S with 1 Venetian, 2 ogee, 3 Moorish multifoil, 4 corbelled, 5 shouldered arch. The source page mislabels this question 47;…
- Question 58 – Match P IIM Bangalore, Q Osho International Meditation Resort, Pune; R Nalanda International School, Vadodara; S Matrimandir, Auroville with 1 Revathi…
- Question 59 – Match joining systems P welding, Q spider connector, R mortise and tenon, S mortar with common materials 1 glass, 2 plastic, 3 brick, 4 steel, 5…
- Question 60 – Match instruments P pyranometer, Q disdrometer, R hygrometer, S anemometer with 1 humidity, 2 wind, 3 solar radiation, 4 pressure, 5 precipitation.
- Question 61 – Which statements about traditional Indian temples are true?
- Question 62 – Which factors affect daylight autonomy of a space?
- Question 63 – The beam diagram shows supports W and Y 4 m apart, a 1 m overhang YZ, 20 kN/m UDL over WY and 120 kN downward at Z. Section X–X is 2 m from W. Taking…
- Question 64 – A panel has absorption coefficients at 63, 125, 250, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000, 16000 Hz of 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 0.5, 0.7, 0.8, 0.8, 0.9, 0.9…
- Question 65 – A room has wet-bulb temperature 25°C, globe temperature 30°C and air speed 0.5 m/s. By how many °C does Tropical Summer Index decrease when speed…