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Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 1

Q. 1 – Q. 5 carry one mark each.

Out of the following four sentences, select the most suitable sentence with respect to grammar and usage.

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‘until’ itself is negative so it can’t take one more negative i.e., ‘does not’. Hence, Option (D) is the right answer

Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 2

A rewording of something written or spoken is a ______________.

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‘paraphrase’ means a restatement of a text, passage or a rewording of something written or spoken.

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Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 3

Archimedes said, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I will move the world.”

The sentence above is an example of a ___________ statement

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‘figurative’ means representing by a figure or resemblance or expressing one thing in terms
normally denoting another with which it may be regarded as analogous.

Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 4

A cube is built using 64 cubic blocks of side one unit. After it is built, one cubic block is removed from every corner of the cube. The resulting surface area of the body (in square units) after the removal is __________.

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From given data, 64 cubic blocks of one unit
Sizes are formed
No of faces of the Cube is ‘6’
No of corners of the Cube is ‘8’
After removing one Cubic block from
Each corner, The resulting surface area of the body = 6 * (4) = 96 sq. Units.

Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 5

If ‘relftaga’ means carefree, ‘otaga’ means careful and ‘fertaga’ means careless, which of the following could mean ‘aftercare’?

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‘taga’ and ‘care’ are a matching pair in every combination.
So, ‘taga’ surely represents ‘care’.
 
Also, note here that the second half of the word in encoded value refers to the first half of the word in the decoded value.
So, ‘fer’ represents ‘less’, ‘relf’ represents ‘free’ and ‘o’ represents ‘full’.
 
Going by the same logic, the answer would be tagazen, i.e., C.

Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 6

Q. 6 – Q. 10 carry two marks each.

A shaving set company sells 4 different types of razors, Elegance, Smooth, Soft and Executive. Elegance sells at Rs. 48, Smooth at Rs. 63, Soft at Rs. 78 and Executive at Rs. 173 per piece. The table below shows the numbers of each razor sold in each quarter of a year.

Which product contributes the greatest fraction to the revenue of the company in that year?

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Total Revenue

More revenue is on executive

Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 7

Indian currency notes show the denomination indicated in at least seventeen languages. If this is not an indication of the nation’s diversity, nothing else is.

Which of the following can be logically inferred from the above sentences?

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If seventeen languages were not an indication of the nation’s diversity, nothing else is. If nothing else is so the best inference is option ‘D’

Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 8

Consider the following statements relating to the level of poker play of four players P, Q, R and S.

I.    P always beats Q
II.   R always beats S
III.  S loses to P only sometimes
IV.  R always loses to Q

Which of the following can be logically inferred from the above statements?

(i) P is likely to beat all the three other players
(ii) S is the absolute worst player in the set

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From the given data
Player P > Player Q
Player R > Player S
Player S < Player P (sometimes only)
Player R < Player Q
Player ‘P’ > Player ‘Q’ > Player ‘R’ > Player ‘S’
 Logically, the statement (i) is definitely true, but statement (ii) is not
Option ‘A’ is true

Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 9

If f(x) = 2x7+3x−5, which of the following is a factor of f(x)?

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Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 10

In a process, the number of cycles to failure decreases exponentially with an increase in load. At a load of 80 units, it takes 100 cycles for failure. When the load is halved, it takes 10000 cycles for failure. The load for which the failure will happen in 5000 cycles is ________.

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Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 11

The number of simultaneous equations to be solved in the slope deflection method, is equal to :

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Slope Deflection Method, is a type of displacement method. In displacement method, the deflection and rotation are unknowns. For every joint we can write a relation between the moments and displacements. Thus, to solve for the structure number of simultaneous equations to be solved in the slope deflection method is equal to the number of joints in the structure.

Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 12

The type of partial differential equation 

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Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 13

If the entries in each column of a square matrix M add up to 1, then an eigenvalue of M is

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All Options are correct

Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 14

Type II error in hypothesis testing is

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Type II error means acceptance of the null hypothesis when it is false and should be
rejected

Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 15

The number of revolutions of a current meter in 50 seconds were found to be 12 and 30 corresponding to the velocities of 0.25 and 0.46 m/s respectively. What velocity (in m/s) would be indicated by 50 revolutions of that current meter in one minute ?

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Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 16

Consider the plane truss with load P as shown in the figure. Let the horizontal and vertical reactions at the joint B be HB and VB, respectively and VC be the vertical reaction at the joint C.

Which one of the following sets gives the correct values of VB, HB and VC?

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Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 17

In shear design of an RC beam, other than the allowable shear strength of concrete ( τc), there is also an additional check suggested in IS 456-2000 with respect to the maximum permissible shear stress ( τcmax) . The check for τcmax is required to take care of

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If Tv > Tc max , diagonal compression failure occurs in concrete

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Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 18

The semi-compact section of a laterally unsupported steel beam has an elastic section modulus, plastic section modulus and design bending compressive stress of 500 cm3, 650 cm3 and 200 MPa, respectively. The design flexural capacity (expressed in kNm) of the section is _________


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Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 19

Bull's trench kiln is used in the manufacturing of

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Bulls Trench kiln is used for manufacturing bricks

Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 20

The compound which is largely responsible for initial setting and early strength gain of Ordinary Portland Cement is

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The compound responsible for initial setting and early strength gain in OPC is C3S

Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 21

In the consolidated undrained trixal test on a saturated soil sample, the pore water pressure is zero

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In consolidated undrained test, at the first stage consolidation will be allowed to take place. Since, consolidation takes place due to excess pore water pressure, the soil will continue to consolidate and at the end of consolidation stage will be completed implying pore water pressure in the soil to be zero.
Since, in the second stage drainage is not allowed, thus, water may drain in or out during the shearing stage thus, leading to development of pore water pressure again.

Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 22

A fine grained soil is found to be plastic in the water content range of 26-48%. As per Indian standard classificatin system, the soil is classified as

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wP = 26%,
wL = 48%
Since wL lies in the range of 35 - 50%, it is intermediate compressible. Hence soils is CI.

Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 23

A vertical cut is to be made in a soil mass having cohesion c, angle of internal friction φ, and unit wieght γ, considering kand kp as the coefficients of active and passive earth pressure, respectively, the maximum depth of unsupported excavation is

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Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 24

The direct runoff hydrograph in response to 5cm rainfall excess in a catchment is shown in the figure. The area of the catchment (expressed in hectares) is ____________


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Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 25

The type of flood routing (Group I) and the equation(s) used for the purpose (Group II) are given below.

The correct match is 

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Hydrologic Routing-Also known as lumped routing. Flow is only a function of time. Considers the use of continuity equation,
Hydraulic Flood Routing-Also known as distributed routing. Flow is a function of space and time. Considers the use of continuity equation and momentum equation.

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Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 26

The pre-jump Froude number for a particular flow in a horizontal rectangular channel is 10. The ratio of sequent depths (i.e., post-jump depth to pre-jump depth) is ____________


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Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 27

Pre-cursors to photochemical oxidants are

Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 28

Crown corrosion in a reinforced concrete sewer is caused by:

Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 29

It was decided to construct a fabric filter, using bags of 0.45 m diameter and 7.5 m long, for removing industrial stack gas containing particulates. The expected rate of airflow into the filter is 10 m3/s. If the filtering velocity is 2.0 m/min, the minimum number of bags (rounded to nearest higher integer) required for continuous cleaning operation is

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Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2016 Paper - Question 30

Match the items in Group – I with those in Group – II and choose the right combination.

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