GATE Exam for Civil Engineering

GATE Exam – Practice Set (30 MCQs)

1. Hooke’s law is valid up to:

Ultimate stress Proportional limit Yield point Breaking point

2. Initial setting time of OPC should not be less than:

30 minutes 10 minutes 45 minutes 90 minutes

3. Soil having highest permeability is:

Clay Silt Fine sand Gravel

4. Maximum bending moment in a cantilever beam occurs at:

Free end Mid span Fixed end Quarter span

5. pH value of pure water at 25°C is:

7 6 5 8

6. The unit of permeability is:

m²/s m/s N/m² s/m

7. In a simply supported beam with UDL, maximum BM occurs at:

Support One-third span Mid-span Quarter span

8. Standard lane width as per IRC is:

3.5 m 3.0 m 4.0 m 2.75 m

9. Alum is used in water treatment for:

Disinfection Filtration Softening Coagulation

10. Slump test is unsuitable when slump is:

50–100 mm More than 150 mm 75 mm 25 mm

30. Governing criterion in structural design is:

Economy Safety Speed Aesthetics