GATE Civil Engineering (CE) Question Papers: Answer Keys, Previous Years PDF

GATE Civil Engineering (CE) Question Papers 2024: The GATE 2024 Civil Engineering (CE) exam was held on Feb 4, 2024. The important topics are transportation engineering, geo technical engineering, building material, engineering mathematics, length of materials, irrigation, open channel flow, survey aptitude, surveying structural engineering and consolidation.

The Civil Engineering (CE) Question Papers for GATE exam are a valuable resource for candidates who are interested in improving their time management abilities and finishing the test in the allocated time.

GATE Civil Engineering Question Papers with Answer Keys PDF 2024

The GATE 2024 Civil Engineering question paper, answer key and paper analysis is available for students to guage their performance and estimate score. GATE Civil Engineering (CE) Question Papers 2024 for the both shifts with answer keys are updated below. 

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GATE CE Previous Year Question Papers with Answer Keys PDF

GATE Civil Engineering (CE) question papers of previous years with answer key in PDF format are listed down below for both sessions. Students can practise them to evaluate their readiness and preparation level for the upcoming exam.

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Top 10+ GATE CE Question with Solutions 

For the benefit of the students, the top 10+ Physics problems and their predicted solutions for GATE 2024 are presented below. Pupils can practise them and gauge their level of readiness.

Que1. The number of simultaneous equations to be solved in the slope deflection method is equal to :

1. the degree of statical indeterminacy
2. the degree of kinematic indeterminacy
3. the number of joints in the structure
4. none of the above

Ans. Option C

Que2. The maximum size of a fillet weld for a plate of the square edge is

1. 1.5 mm less than the thickness of the plate
2. one half of the thickness of the plate
3. the thickness of the plate itself
4. 1.5 mm more than the thickness of the plate

Ans. Option A

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Que3. The treatment that should be given to the water from a deep tube well is :

1. pre-settling only
2. coagulation and flocculation only
3. filtration only
4. disinfection only

Ans. Option D

Que4. On sag (or valley) curves, the available sight distance is determined based on the following:

1. design speed
2. height of obstacle
3. height of the driver's eye
4. night-time driving conditions

Ans. Option C

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Que5. The span-to-depth ratio limit is specified in IS: 456-1978 for the reinforced concrete beams in order to ensure that the

1. tensile crack width is below the limit
2. shear failure is avoided
3. stress in the tension reinforcement is less than the allowable value
4. deflection of the beam is below a limiting value

Ans. Option D

Que6. Some of the structural strength of a clayey material lost by remoulding is slowly recovered with time. This property of soils to undergo an isothermal gel-to-soil-to-gel transformation upon agitation and subsequent rest is termed :

1. Isotropy
2. Anisotropy
3. Thixotropy
4. Allotropy

Ans. Option C

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Que7. The capacities of "One-way 1.5 m wide sidewalk (persons per hour)" and "One-way 2-lane urban road (PCU per hour, with no frontage access, no standing vehicles and very little cross traffic)" are respectively.

1. 1200 and 2400
2. 1800 and 2000
3. 1200 and 1500
4. 2000 and 1200

Ans. Option A

Que8. Is 459-1978 recommends providing certain minimum steel in an RCC beam

1. to ensure compression failure
2. to avoid rupture of steel in case a flexural failure occurs
3. to hold the stirrup steel in position
4. to provide enough ductility to the beam

Ans. Option B

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Que9. The Prandtl mixing length for turbulent flow through pipes is

1. independent of shear stress
2. a universal constant
3. zero at the pipe wall
4. independent of radial distance from the pipe axis

Ans. Option A

Que10. Lysimeter and Tensiometer are used to measure, respectively, one of the following groups of quantities :

1. Capillary potential and permeability
2. Evapotranspiration and capillary potential
3. Velocity in channels and vapour pressure
4. Velocity in pipes and pressure head

Ans. Option B

Que11. The principle involved in the relationship between submerged unit weight and saturated weight of soil is based on

1. Equilibrium of floating bodies
2. Archimedes' principle
3. Stokes' law
4. Darcy's law

Ans. Option B

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GATE Exam Pattern 2024

The organising authority has released the GATE exam pattern 2024, which is available for each of the 30 papers. The MCQ, MSQ, and NAT question types that make up the GATE 2024 paper format are combined with a 3-hour (180-minute) exam period.

• Marks for General Aptitude (15 marks) and subject questions (85 marks) will be distributed in papers AR, CY, DA, EY, GG, MA, PH, ST, XH, and XL.
• There will be sixty-five questions on the exam. The GATE maximum score is 100. 
• In both engineering and general aptitude, approximately 28% of the total marks for the papers will come from the mathematics section.

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