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Civil Engineering Gate 2020 Set-I Questions



Ques 1Aptitude
It is a common criticism that most of the academicians live in their ______, so, they are not aware of the real life challenges.

a. Ivory towers
b. homes
c. glass places
d. big flats


a is the correct answer.




Ques 2Aptitude
His hunger for reading is insatiable. He reads indiscriminately. He is most certainly a/an _____ reader.

a. precocious
b. voracious
c. all-round
d. wise


b is the correct answer.




Ques 3Aptitude
Select the word that fits the analogy:
Fuse: Fusion : : Use : ____

a. User
b. Uses
c. Usion
d. Usage


d is the correct answer.




Ques 4Aptitude
If 0, 1, 2, ..., 7, 8, 9 are coded as O, P, Q, ..., V, W, X then 45 will be coded as _____.

a. SS
b. TS
c. SU
d. ST


d is the correct answer.




Ques 5Aptitude
The sum of two positive numbers is 100. After subtracting 5 from each number, the product of the resulting numbers is 0. One of the original numbers is _______.

a. 85
b. 90
c. 80
d. 95


d is the correct answer.




Ques 6Aptitude
Five friends P, Q, R, S and T went camping. At night, they had to sleep in a row inside the tent. P, Q and T refused to sleep next to R since he snored loudly. P and S wanted to avoid Q as he usually hugged people in sleep. Assuming everyone was satisfied with the sleeping arrangements, what is the order in which they slept?

a. SPRTQ
b. RSPTQ
c. QRSPT
d. QTSPR


b is the correct answer.




Ques 7Aptitude
The unit’s place in 26591749110016 is _________.

a. 3
b. 1
c. 6
d. 9


b is the correct answer.




Ques 8Aptitude
. Insert seven numbers between 2 and 34, such that the resulting sequence including 2 and 34 is an arithmetic progression. The sum of these inserted seven numbers is__________

a. 124
b. 120
c. 126
d. 130


c is the correct answer.




Ques 9Aptitude
The American psychologist Howard Gardner expounds that human intelligence can be subcategorised into multiple kinds, in such a way that individuals differ with respect to their relative competence in each kind. Based on this theory, modern educationists insist on prescribing multidimensional curriculum and evaluation parameters that enable development and assessment of multiple intelligences.
Which of the following statements can be inferred from the given text?

a. Howard Gardner wants to develop and assess the theory of multiple intelligences
b. Howard Gardner insists that the teaching curriculum and evaluations needs to be multidimensional
c. Modern educationists want to develop and assess the theory of multiple intelligences
d. Modern educationists insist that the teaching curriculum and evaluations needs to be multidimensional


d is the correct answer.




Ques 10Environmental Engineering
An amount of 35.67 mg HCI is added to distilled water and the total solution volume is made to one litre. The atomic weights of H and CI are 1 and 35.5, respectively. Neglecting the dissociation of water, the pH of the solution, is

a. 2.01
b. 3.50
c. 3.01
d. 2.50


c is the correct answer.




Ques 11Geotechnical Engineering
In a drained triaxial compression test, a sample of sand fails at deviator stress of 150 kPa under confining pressure of 50 kPa. The angle of internal friction (in degree, round off to the nearest integer) of the sample, is _______.


36 - 38 is the correct answer.




Ques 12Geotechnical Engineering
Which one of the following statements is NOT correct?

a. The ultimate bearing capacity of a strip foundation supported on the surface of sandy soil increases in direct proportion to the width of footing
b. A clay deposit with a liquidity index greater than unity is in a state of plastic consistency
c. The cohesion of normally consolidated clay is zero when triaixal test is conducted under consolidated undrained condition
d. In case of a point load, Boussinesq’s equation predicts higher value of vertical stress at a point directly beneath the load as compared to Westergaard’s equation.


b is the correct answer.




Ques 13Water Resources
The probability that a 50 years flood may NOT occur at all during 25 years life of a project (round off to two decimal places), is ________.


0.59- 0.61 is the correct answer.




Ques 14Water Resources
The data for an agricultural field for a specific month are given below: Pan Evaporation = 100 mm Effective Rainfall = 20 mm (after deducting losses due to runoff and deep percolation) Crop coefficient = 0.4 Irrigation Efficiency = 0.5 The amount of irrigation water (in mm) to be applied to the field in that month, is

a. 80
b. 40
c. 20
d. 0


b is the correct answer.