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Branch: Civil Engineering: Time: 3 Hours GATE Full Length Mock Test - F Marks: 100
Branch: Civil Engineering: Time: 3 Hours GATE Full Length Mock Test - F Marks: 100
Branch: Civil Engineering: Time: 3 Hours GATE Full Length Mock Test - F Marks: 100
01. (i) Question Numbers 01 to 25 (25 questions) will carry one mark each.
(ii) Question numbers 26 to 55 (30 questions) will carry two marks each.
(iii) Question Numbers 56 to 60 (5 questions) will carry one mark each.
(iv) Question numbers 61 to 65 (5 questions) will carry two marks each.
02. Wrong answers carry 33% negative marks. (i.e., 0.33 marks for one mark & 0.66 marks for two marks)
However, there is no negative marking for Numerical Answer Type questions.
Which of these statements are correct? 10. A vertical rectangular wall with a width of 20
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1 & 2 only m and a height of 12 m is holding a 7 m deep
(c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1 & 3 only water body. The line of action of the
resultant hydrostatic force on this wall from
06. The turbidity which can be seen easily by the free surface is
naked eye is of the order of (a) 8 m (b) 4.0 m
(a) 1 JTU (b) 2 JTU (c) 4.67 m (d) 2.33 m
(c) 3 JTU (d) 5 JTU
1 0 0
07. The preferred range of carbon-nitrogen ratio 11. If A = 0 2 1 then determinant of
in a MSW for composting is 2 0 3
(a) 20 – 35 A2 – 3A + 6I is _____.
(b) 40 - 60
(c) 5 – 10 12. Match the following pairs.
(d) Varies from waste to waste Column – I
P. Francis turbine
08. Examples of impulse turbines Q. Kaplan turbine
(a) Pelton wheel R. Pelton wheel
(b) Turgo wheel S. Hydroelectric power plant
(c) Cross-flow wheel
(d) All of these Column – II
1. Penstock
09. An open, clean glass tube is inserted 2. Adjustable guide vanes
vertically into a pan of liquid (water) whose 3. Spear nozzle
surface tension is 0.08 N/m and specific 4. Adjustable runner vanes
weight is 104 kN/m3. What tube diameter is Codes:
needed if the liquid level in the tube is to rise P Q R S
two tube diameters due to surface tension? (a) 4 2 1 3
(a) 2.0 mm (b) 4 mm (b) 2 4 3 1
(c) 1 mm (d) 3 mm (c) 1 4 2 3
(d) 3 4 1 2
13. If all the dimensions of a prismatic bar of 18. The general requirement in constructing a
square cross-section suspended freely from reinforced concrete road is to place a single
the ceiling of a roof are doubled then the total layer of reinforcement
elongation produced by its own weight will (a) Near the bottom of the slab
increase (b) Near the top of the slab
(a) eight times (b) four times (c) At the middle
(c) three times (d) two times (d) Equally distributed at the top and bottom
14. A cast iron pipe is 1.25 m in diameter and is 19. Eight rain gauge stations are installed over a
required to with stand 100 m head of water. catchment and they recorded rainfalls of
Assuming limiting tensile stress for the pipe certain magnitude. The mean value of the
material as 20 MPa, the thickness of metal is rain falls is 120 cm and standard deviation is
(in mm) _______. 35cm. The percentage accuracy associated in
the estimation of average rainfall over the
15. The equilibrium cant provided on a BG curve catchment will be ________.
of 3 degree is ________ (mm) if the speed of (in terms of percentage)
the train is 65 kmph.
20. A bag contains 5 Red, 7 Green balls another
16. If x, y are two independent random variables bag contains 4 Red, 8 Green Balls. If a Bag is
with variances 2 and 5, selected and from that Bag one ball is
then V (2x + 3y) = ____. selected, what is the probability of selected
ball is green ball?
17. In a locality of heavy rainfall, it is proposed 13 14
(a) (b)
to construct a single lane road of thin 24 24
bituminous surface using IRC 13 15
(c) (d)
recommendations for camber and 25 24
carriageway. What would be the height of
crown with respect to the edges? 21. Which of the following is a weakness of bar
(a) 37.50 mm chart?
(b) 45.00 mm (a) Interdependencies of activities
(c) 46.87 mm (b) Project progress
(d) 56.25 mm (c) Uncertainties
(d) All of these
(a) 26 (b) 42
11 m
(c) 53 (d) 105 14 m
W
A
25. A web splice in plate girder is used to
(a) 1.42 (b) 0.92
(a) increase cross sectional area of web plate
(c) 1.18 (d) 1.29
(b) rigidity of web plate
(c) strengthen the web plate
x x dx
2
(d) increase the length of web plate 28. The value 2 3
= _______.
0
28 26
(a) (b)
3 3
29 25
(c) (d)
3 3
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29. Match List –I and List –II and select the above the existing soil to provide a factor of
correct answer using the codes given below safety of 2 against piping? Assume that
the lists: coarse sand has the same porosity and
List –I specific gravity as the soil and there is
(Condition under which foundation is negligible head loss in sand.
suited) (a) 1.25 m (b) 2.20 m
P. When structural load is uniform and soil (c) 2.70 m (d) 4.4 m
is soft clay, made up of marshy land
Q. When structural load is heavy and/or soil 31. Two clay samples A and B have initial void
having low bearing capacity for a ratio of 0.5 and 0.65 respectively under a
considerable depth pressure of 1 kg/cm2. When pressure is
R. When soil is having good bearing increases to 1.5 kg/cm2 and void ratio is
capacity at shallow depth and structural decreases to 0.47 and 0.625 respectively. The
load is within permissible limit. time for clay sample 'A' to achieve 50%
S. When structural load of bridge is to be consolidation is one third of that required for
transferred through sandy soil to bed sample 'B'. if the initial thickness of sample
rock A and B were 45 mm and 30 mm
List –II respectively, the ratio of coefficient of
(Type of foundation) permeability of two samples would be
1. Footings (a) 7.6 (b) 8.9
2. Piles (c) 9.5 (d) 3.2
3. Raft
32. For a water sample the total alkalinity is 350
4. Wells or pier
mg/lit as CaCO3. The concentration of Mg++
Codes:
and Ca++ is 45 mg/lit and 90 mg/lit
P Q R S
respectively. The non-carbonate hardness is
(a) 1 2 3 4
(a) 562.5 mg/lit (b) 350 mg/lit
(b) 3 2 4 1
(c) 212.5 mg/lit (d) 0 mg/lit
(c) 1 4 2 3
(d) 3 2 1 4
xe x dx
2
33. The improper definite integral
30. A 1.25 m layer of soil having the porosity
0.35 and specific gravity 2.65 is subjected to (a) converges to 1 (b) converges to 0
an upward seepage head of 1.85 m what (c) converges to 2 (d) diverges
depth of coarse sand would be required
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34. A sludge with 2% solids contains 65% 37. The discharge from a spillway on a
volatile solids with S = 2.1 and remaining horizontal floor is 16 m3/s per width. If the
non-volatile solids with S = 2.8. The mass depth before the jump is 0.25 cm, the depth
density of sludge is after jump will be ______meters
(a) 1000 kg/m3 (b) 1011 kg/m3 (Rounded off to 2 decimal places)
3 3
(c) 2300 kg/m (d) 2800 kg/m
38. The fourier series of f(x) = x2 ; – < x <
35. The composition of a certain MSW sample is
and specific weight of its various 2 cos x cos 2x cos 3x
f(x) = 4 2 ......
components are given below 3 1 2 2
32
Specific
Percent by 1 1 1
Component weight gives the series ...........
weight 12 22 32
(kg/m3) The series equal to
Food waste 50 300
2
Dirt and Ash 30 500 (a) (b)
2 12
Plastics 10 65 2
(c) (d)
Wood and 10 124 12 8
yard waste
39. A stream function is given by (x2–y2).
Specific weight (kg/m3) of the MSW sample The potential function of the flow will be
is (a) 2xy+f(x) (b) –2xy+constant
(a) 319 (b) 217 (c) 2(x2–y2) (d) 2xy+f(y)
(c) 209 (d) 199
40. The velocity along the center line of the
36. An average water consumption of a city is
Hagen –Poiseuille flow in a 100 mm
observed as 200 L.p.c.d. to serve its total
diameter pipe is 120 m/min. The viscosity of
population of 6,00,000. If the fire demand in
the fluid is 70 mPa –sec and its relative
the city is 50 lpcd then the maximum daily
density is 0.92.
water demand and total demand respectively
Consider the following statements.
will be
(1) The volume flow rate is 471 l.p.m.
(a) 216 MLD & 266 MLD
(2) The shear stress of the fluid at the pipe
(b) 216 MLD & 324 MLD
wall surface is 5.6 N/m2
(c) 324 MLD & 216 MLD
(3) The Darcy friction coefficient is 0.048
(d) 266 MLD & 216 MLD
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47. What is the deflection at the surface of a 50. Determine the horizontal thrust in the cable
flexible pavement due to a wheel load of 40 suspended from different levels as shown in
2
kN and tyre pressure of 0.5 MN/m ? (The figure
value of E of the pavement and subgrade
may be assumed to be uniformly equal to 20 A
2
MN/m )
(a) 0.6 cm (b) 0.7 cm 15 m B
(c) 0.8 cm (d) 1 cm 10 kN/m 10 m
48. Consider a histogram shown below . 25 m C 25 m
8.5
7.8
Rainfall 6.5 (a) 100 kN (b) 2125 kN
6.4 6.0
intensity (c) 250 kN (d) 3125 kN
(cm/hr) 4.0
3.5
-index=4.5cm/hr
51. The particular integral of y + 4y + 4y =
0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 x4 e–2x is
duration e 2 x x 6 e 2 x x 6
(a) y p (b) y p
30 38
The total rainfall excess is ________ mm.
e 2 x x 6 e 2 x x 5
(c) y p (d) y p
25 30
49. A field test for permeability consists in
observing the time required for a tracer to
52. For the structure shown with loading
travel between two observation wells. A
symbolized as and what is the stiffness
tracer was found to take 18 hrs to travel
matrix.
between two wells 75 m apart when the 8m 4m
difference in the water surface elevation in 1
B C 2
them was 0.6 m. The mean particle size of
the aquifer was 2 mm and the porosity of the
medium is 0.4. If = 0.01 cm2/sec, the 5m
7m
intrinsic permeability of the aquifer is
_______ × 10–5 cm2
EI is constant
60. The smallest number which when divided by (a) 4400 (b) 4350
20, 25, 35 and 40 leaves a remainder of 14, (c) 4150 (d) 4200
19, 29 and 34 respectively is
(a) 1994 (b) 1494 64. What will be the maximum cost (in Rs) of
(c) 1394 (d) 1496 travelling from Delhi to the four towns?
GROUP – IV
Each question carries Two marks
5 2 = 10
61. In a ABC, O is its circumcentre and BAC
(a) 23600 (b) 22700
= 500. The measure of OBC is
(c) 24500 (d) 21900
(a) 600 (b) 300
(c) 400 (d) 500
65. Experienced car drivers seem to have more
trouble than novice drives in learning to
62. Find the angle between the hour hand and the
drive the recently developed ultra-light cars.
minute hand of a clock when the time is 4:10.
As the experienced car drivers are
(a) 650 (b) 350
accustomed to heavier cars, they seem to be
(c) 1250 (d) 600
troubled whenever the wind speed is higher
than normal.
63. The table given below cost of journey (in Rs)
The passage implies that heavier cars are
from Delhi to 4 different towns on 4 different
(a) not as safe as the ultra-light cars
trains.
(b) not as popular with drivers as the ultra-
light cars
(c) harder to control than ultra
(d) easier to handle in windy conditions than
ultra-light cars
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