GATE 2022 CE (CE2) – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2022 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 – The movie was funny and I .
- Question 2 – x:y:z=12:13:14. What is (x+z-y)/y?
- Question 3 – The numerator and denominator of 3/4 are increased by a positive integer x, and those of 15/17 are decreased by x. The resulting fractions are equal.…
- Question 4 – A survey of 450 students about their subjects of interest resulted in the following outcome. • 150 students are interested in Mathematics. • 200…
- Question 5 – For the picture shown above, which one of the following is the correct picture representing reflection with respect to the mirror shown as the dotted…
- Question 6 – In the last few years, several new shopping malls were opened in the city. The total number of visitors in the malls is impressive. However, the total…
- Question 7 – In a partnership business the monthly investment by three friends for the first six months is in the ratio 3: 4: 5. After six months, they had to…
- Question 8 – Consider L1: 2x-3y=5; L2: 3x+2y=8; L3: 4x-6y=5; L4: 6x-9y=6. Which statement is correct?
- Question 9 – Given below are two statements and four conclusions drawn based on the statements. Statement 1: Some soaps are clean. Statement 2: All clean objects…
- Question 10 – An ant walks in a straight line on a plane leaving behind a trace of its movement. The initial position of the ant is at point P facing east. The ant…
- Question 11 – f(x,y) satisfies 2 f=0 on the unit circular domain centred at (0,0), with boundary value 3. Find f(0,0).
- Question 12 – Evaluate (x-x22+x33-x44+)dx.
- Question 13 – For a linear elastic and isotropic material, the correct relationship among Young’s modulus of elasticity (E), Poisson’s ratio (ν ), and shear modulus…
- Question 14 – Read the following statements relating to flexure of reinforced concrete beams: I. In over-reinforced sections, the failure strain in concrete reaches…
- Question 15 – Match cement compounds (i) C₃S, (ii) C₂S, (iii) C₃A with properties: Label Property --- --- P Early age strength Q Later age strength R Flash setting…
- Question 16 – Consider a beam PQ fixed at P, hinged at Q, and subjected to a load F as shown in figure (not drawn to scale). The static and kinematic degrees of…
- Question 17 – Read the following statements: (P) While designing a shallow footing in sandy soil, monsoon season is considered for critical design in terms of…
- Question 18 – The figure shows stresses with z> x, compression positive. Let principal stresses be 1, 3. Find the angle between the major principal stress plane and…
- Question 19 – Match P: Horton equation, Q: Penman method, R: Chezy formula, S: Lacey theory, T: Dicken formula with I: design of alluvial channel; II: maximum flood…
- Question 20 – In a certain month, the reference crop evapotranspiration at a location is 6 mm/day. If the crop coefficient and soil coefficient are 1.2 and 0.8,…
- Question 21 – The dimension of dynamic viscosity is:
- Question 22 – A process equipment emits 5 kg/h of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). If a hood placed over the process equipment captures 95% of the VOCs, then the…
- Question 23 – Match attributes P: average city temperature (°C), Q: city name, R: population density, S: ease-of-business ranking with scales I: interval, II:…
- Question 24 – If the magnetic bearing of the Sun at a place at noon is S 2° E, the magnetic declination (in degrees) at that place is
- Question 25 – P and Q are two square matrices of the same order. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?
- Question 26 – In a solid waste handling facility, the moisture contents (MC) of food waste, paper waste, and glass waste were found to be MCf, MCp, and MCg,…
- Question 27 – To design an optimum municipal solid waste collection route, which of the following is/are NOT desired:
- Question 28 – For a traffic stream, v is the space mean speed, k is the density, q is the flow, vf is the free flow speed, and kj is the jam density. Assume that…
- Question 29 – The error in measuring the radius of a 5 cm circular rod was 0.2%. If the cross-sectional area of the rod was calculated using this measurement, then…
- Question 30 – =bmatrix1&1\\1&-1bmatrix. Given P=tr(8) and Q=tr(11), find P+Q (integer).
- Question 31 – The inside diameter of a sampler tube is 50 mm. The inside diameter of the cutting edge is kept such that the Inside Clearance Ratio (ICR) is 1.0 % to…
- Question 32 – A concentrically loaded isolated square footing of size 2 m × 2 m carries a concentrated vertical load of 1000 kN. Considering Boussinesq’s theory of…
- Question 33 – In a triaxial unconsolidated undrained (UU) test on a saturated clay sample, the cell pressure was 100 kPa. If the deviatoric stress at failure was…
- Question 34 – A flood-control structure has life n years and design flood return period T years. For T=n and n, find hydrologic failure risk (%) to one decimal.
- Question 35 – The base length of the runway at the mean sea level (MSL) is 1500 m. If the runway is located at an altitude of 300 m above the MSL, the actual length…
- Question 36 – f(x)=x3-6x2+11x-6 on 1 x3. I: f is zero at x=1,3. II: one local maximum exists. III: f>0 throughout. IV: one local minimum exists. Choose the correct…
- Question 37 – An undamped spring-mass system with mass m and spring stiffness k is shown in the figure. The natural frequency and natural period of this system are…
- Question 38 – For the square steel beam cross-section shown in the figure, the shape factor about z−z axis is S and the plastic moment capacity is MP. Consider…
- Question 39 – A post-tensioned concrete member of span 15 m and cross-section of 450 mm 450 mm × is prestressed with three steel tendons, each of cross-sectional…
- Question 40 – Match P: volumetric strain of loose sand during drained triaxial compression; Q: excess pore pressure of loose sand during undrained compression; R:…
- Question 41 – A saturated soil lies under water height h₁, with submerged unit weight γ′. A is its top, B is h₂ below A, C is h₃ below B. The valve is closed as…
- Question 42 – A 100 mg of HNO3 (strong acid) is added to water, bringing the final volume to 1.0 liter. Consider the atomic weights of H, N, and O, as 1 g/mol, 14…
- Question 43 – In a city, the chemical formula of biodegradable fraction of municipal solid waste (MSW) is C100H250O80N. The waste has to be treated by…
- Question 44 – A single-lane highway has a traffic density of 40 vehicles/km. If the time-mean speed and space-mean speed are 40 kmph and 30 kmph, respectively, the…
- Question 45 – Let y be a nonzero 2022×1 vector. Which statements are true?
- Question 46 – Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?
- Question 47 – Water flows in a horizontal frictionless rectangular channel over a smooth hump whose height increases until choking. Depth on hump is y₂, upstream…
- Question 48 – s t=Ds xx on 0 x L, with s x=0 at both ends. Initially s=s₀ on 0≤x≤0.4L and zero elsewhere (figure). D=0.1 m²/s, s₀=5 μmol/m, L=10 m. Find steady…
- Question 49 – A pair of six-faced dice is rolled thrice. The probability that the sum of the outcomes in each roll equals 4 in exactly two of the three attempts is…
- Question 50 – Two collinear rods HI and IJ, each length b=2 m, lie between fixed ends. Their axial rigidities are 2AE and AE, with AE=10⁶ N. Both have α=10⁻⁶ °C⁻¹.…
- Question 51 – Two cantilevers UV and WX, each length 2a, have fixed ends U and X. Their rigidities are EI and 2EI. A vertical spring joins free ends V,W. P=100 kN…
- Question 52 – A uniform rod KJ of weight w shown in the figure rests against a frictionless vertical wall at the point K and a rough horizontal surface at point J.…
- Question 53 – Activities: A (10 days, none); B (12, none); C (5, after A); D (14, after B); E (10, after B and C). Find total float of E (integer days).
- Question 54 – Sixteen piles form a 4×4 grid, spacing s=3 m, diameter d=1 m, embedment 20 m, each capacity 1000 kN. Given g=1-90(n-1)m+(m-1)nmn, =-1(d/s) in degrees,…
- Question 55 – A saturated compressible clay layer of thickness h is sandwiched between two sand layers, as shown in the figure. Initially, the total vertical stress…
- Question 56 – A hydraulic jump takes place in a 6 m wide rectangular channel at a point where the upstream depth is 0.5 m (just before the jump). If the discharge…
- Question 57 – A pump with an efficiency of 80% is used to draw groundwater from a well for irrigating a flat field of area 108 hectares. The base period and delta…
- Question 58 – Two discrete spherical particles (P and Q) of equal mass density are independently released in water. Particle P and particle Q have diameters of 0.5…
- Question 59 – At a municipal waste handling facility, 30 metric ton mixture of food waste, yard waste, and paper waste was available. The moisture content of this…
- Question 60 – A sewage treatment plant receives sewage at a flow rate of 5000 m3/day. The total suspended solids (TSS) concentration in the sewage at the inlet of…
- Question 61 – A sample of air analyzed at 25 °C and 1 atm pressure is reported to contain 0.04 ppm of SO2. Atomic mass of S = 32, O = 16. The equivalent SO2…
- Question 62 – A parabolic vertical crest curve connects two road segments with grades +1.0% and −2.0%. If a 200 m stopping sight distance is needed for a driver at…
- Question 63 – Assuming that traffic on a highway obeys the Greenshields model, the speed of a shockwave between two traffic streams (P) and (Q) as shown in the…
- Question 64 – It is given that an aggregate mix has 260 grams of coarse aggregates and 240 grams of fine aggregates. The specific gravities of the coarse and fine…
- Question 65 – The lane configuration with lane volumes in vehicles per hour of a four-arm signalized intersection is shown in the figure. There are only two phases:…