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GENERAL APTITUDE
Q.1 Suresh wanted to lay a new carpet in his new mansion with an area of 70  55 sq.mts. However an
area of 550 sq.mts., had to be left out for flower pots. If the cost of carpet is Rs.50 per sq.mts., how
much money (in Rs.) will be spent by Suresh for the carpet now?
(A) Rs.1,65,000 (B) Rs.2,75,000 (C) Rs.1,92,500 (D) Rs.1,27,500
Ans. (A)
Q.2 Daytime temperatures in Delhi can _______ 400 C .
(A) get (B) peak (C) reach (D) stand
Ans. (C)
Q.3 A retaining wall with measurements 30 m 12 m  6 m was constructed with bricks of dimensions
8cm  6 cm  6 cm . If 60% of the wall consists of bricks, the number of bricks used for the construction is
_______ lakhs.
(A) 30 (B) 40 (C) 75 (D) 45
Ans. (D)
Q.4 Hima Das was _______ only Indian athlete to win _______ gold for India.
(A) the, a (B) an, a (C) an, the (D) the, many
Ans. (A)
Q.5 The growth rate of ABC Motors in 2017 was the same _______ XYZ motors in 2016.
(A) as that off (B) as those of (C) as off (D) as that of
Ans. (D)
Q.6 Mohan, the manager, wants his four workers to work in pairs. No pairs should work for more than 5 hours.
Ram and John have worked together for 5 hours. Krishna and Amir have worked as a team for 2 hours.
Krishna does not want to work with Ram. Whom should Mohan allot to work with John, if he wants all
the workers to continue working?
(A) Amir (B) Krishna
(C) Ram (D) None of the three
Ans. (B)
Q.7 “Popular Hindi fiction, despite - or perhaps because of - its wide reach, often does not appear in our
cinema. As ideals that viewers are meant to look up to rather than identify with, Hindi film protagonists
usually read books of aspirational value : textbooks, English books, or high value literature.”
Which one of the following CANNOT be inferred from the paragraph above?
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(A) Protagonists in Hindi movies, being ideals for viewers, read only books of aspirational value
(B) People do not look up to writers of textbooks, English books or high value literature.
(C) Though popular Hindi fiction has wide reach : it often does not appear in the movies.
(D) Textbooks, English books or high literature have aspirational value, but not popular Hindi Fiction.
Ans. (A)
Q.8 Population of state X increased by x% and the population of state Y increased by y% from 2001 to 2011.
Assume that x is greater than y. Let P be the ratio of the population of state X to state Y in a given year.
The percentage increase in P from 2001 to 2011 is ______.
x 100 ( x  y ) 100 ( x  y )
(A) (B) (C) x  y (D)
y 100  y 100  x
Ans. (B)
Q.9 An oil tank can be filled by pipe X in 5 hours and pipe Y in 4 hours, each pump working on its own. When
the oil tank in full and the drainage hole is open, the oil is drained in 20 hours. If initially the tank was
empty and someone started the two pumps together but left the drainage hole open, how many hours will
it take for the tank to be filled?
(Assume that the rate of drainage is independent of the Head)
(A) 4.00 (B) 1.50 (C) 2.00 (D) 2.50
Ans. (D)
Q.10 The Newspaper reports that over 500 hectares of tribal land spread across 28 tribal settlements in
Mohinitampuram forest division have already been “alienated”. A top forest official said. “First the tribals
are duped out of their land holdings. Second, the families thus rendered landless are often forced to
encroach further into the forests.”
On the basis of the information available in the paragraph, ______ is / are responsible for duping the
tribals.
(A) The Newspaper (B) It cannot be inferred who
(C) Forest officials (D) Landless families
Ans. (B)
TECHNICAL PART
Q.1 The notation “SC” as per Indian Standard Soil Classification System refers to
(A) Silty clay (B) Clayey sand (C) Sandy clay (D) Clayey silt
Ans. (B)

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Q.2 The speed-density relationship in a mid-block section of a highway follows the Greenshield’s model. If
the free flow speed is v f and the jam density is k j , the maximum flow observed on this section is

vf k j vf k j vf k j
(A) (B) (C) v f k j (D)
4 2 8
Ans. (A)
Q.3 A vehicle is moving on a road of grade +4% at a speed of 20 m/s. Consider the coefficient of rolling
friction as 0.46 and acceleration due to gravity as 10 m / s 2 . On applying brakes to reach a speed of 10
m/s, the required braking distance (in m, round off to nearest integer) along the horizontal, is ________.
Ans. (30)
Q.4 The Laplace transfer of sin h(at ) is
s s a a
(A) (B) (C) (D)
s  a2
2
s  a2
2
s  a2
2
s  a2
2

Ans. (C)
Q.5 The value of the function f ( x) is given at n distinct values of x and its value is to be interpolated at the
point x * , using all the n points. The estimate is obtained first by the Lagrange polynomial, denoted by I L

and then by the Newton polynomial, denoted by I N . Which one of the following statements is correct?

(A) I L is always greater than I N

(B) No definite relation exists between I L and I N

(C) I L and I N are always equal

(D) I L is always less than I N .

Ans. (B)
Q.6 A closed thin-walled tube has thickness, t, mean enclosed area within the boundary of the centerline of
tube’s thickness, A m and shear stress,  . Torsional moment of resistance T , of the section would be

(A) 2 Amt (B) 4 Amt (C)  Amt (D) 0.5  Amt

Ans. (A)
Q.7 If the fineness modulus of a sample of fine aggregates is 4.3, the mean size of the particles in the sample
is between
(A) 300 m and 600 m (B) 2.36 mm and 4.75 mm
(C) 1.18 mm and 2.36 mm (D) 150 m and 300 m

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Ans. (C)
Q.8 The degree of static indeterminacy of the plane frame as shown in the figure is _____.

Hinge

Ans. (15)
Q.9 The characteristic compressive strength of concrete required in a project is 25 MPa and the standard
deviation in the observed compressive strength expected at site is 4 MPa. The average compressive
strength of cubes tested at different water-cement (w/c) ratios using the same material as is used for the
project is given in the table.

Water-cement (w/c (%)) 45 50 55 60


Average compressive strength of 35 25 20 15
cubes (MPa)

The water cement ratio (in percent, round off to the lower integer) to be used in the mix is _______.
Ans. (46)
Q.10 Structural failures considered in the mechanistic method of bituminous pavement design are
(A) Fatigue and Rutting (B) Fatigue and Shear
(C) Shear and Slippage (D) Rutting and Shear
Ans. (A)
Q.11 The following inequality is true for all x close to 0.
x2 x sin x
2  2
3 1  cos x
x sin x
What is the value of lim ?
x  0 1  cos x

1
(A) 1 (B) 0 (C) (D) 2
2
Ans. (D)
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Q.12 The command area of a canal grows only one crop. i.e., wheat. The base period of wheat is 120 days and
its total water requirement,  , is 40 cm. If the canal discharge is 2 m3 / s , the area, in hectares, rounded
off to the nearest integer, which could be irrigated (neglecting all losses) is ________.
Ans. (5184)
Q.13 A solid sphere of radius, r and made of material with density, s is moving through the atmosphere

(constant pressure, p) with a velocity, v. The net force ONLY due to atmospheric pressure ( F p ) acting on

the sphere at any time t, is


4 3 dv
(A) 4 r 2 p (B) r s (C) r 2 p (D) zero
3 dt
Ans. (D)
Q.14 A steel column is restrained against both translation and rotation at one end and is restrained only against
rotation but free to translate at the other end. Theoretical and design (IS : 800-2007) values, respectively,
of effective length factor of the column are
(A) 1.0 and 1.2 (B) 1.2 and 1.0 (C) 1.0 and 1.0 (D) 1.2 and 1.2
Ans. (A)
Q.15 For a channel section subjected to a downward vertical shear force at its centroid, which one of the
following represents the correct distribution of shear stress in flange and web?
(A)

(B)

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(C)

(D)

Ans. (C)
Q.16 An anisotropic soil deposit has coefficient of permeability in vertical and horizontal directions as k z and

k x respectively. For constructing a flow net, the horizontal dimension of the problems geometry is
transformed by a multiplying factor of
kx kz kx kz
(A) (B) (C) (D)
kz kx kz kx

Ans. (B)
Q.17 An earthen dam of height H is made of cohesive soil whose cohesion and unit weight are c and  ,
respectively. If the factor of safety against cohesion is Fc , the Taylor’s stability number ( Sn ) is

C CFc H Fc H
(A) (B) (C) (D)
Fc H H cFc c
Ans. (A)
Q.18 The velocity field in a flow system is given by v  2i  ( x  y ) j  ( xyz ) k . The acceleration of the fluid at
(1, 1, 2) is
(A) 4i  12 k (B) 2i  10 k (C) j  k (D) 4 j  10k
Ans. (D)

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Q.19 AN inflow hydrograph is routed through a reservoir to produce an outflow hydrograph. The peak flow of
the inflow hydrograph is PI and the time of occurrence of the peak is t I . The peak flow of the outflow

hydrograph is P0 and the time of occurrence of the peak is t0 . Which one of the following statements is
correct?
(A) PI  P0 and t I  t0 (B) PI  P0 and t I  t0

(C) PI  P0 and t I  t0 (D) PI  P0 and t I  t0

Ans. (B)
Q.20 Euclidean norm (length) of the vector [4 2 6]T is

(A) 48 (B) 56 (C) 24 (D) 12


Ans. (B)
Q.21 The data from a closed traverse survey PQRS (run in the clockwise direction) are given in the table
Line Included angle (in degrees)
PQ 88
QR 92
RS 94
SP 89
The closing error foe the traverse PQRS (in degrees) is _______.
Ans. (3)
Q.22 What is curl of the vector field 2 x 2 yi  5 z 2 j  4uyzk ?

(A) 14 xi  2 x 2 k (B) 6 zi  4 x 2 j  2 x 2 k

(C) 14 zi  6 yj  2 x 2 k (D) 6 zi  8 xyj  2 x 2 yk


Ans. (A)
Q.23 Analysis of a water sample revealed that the sample contains the following species.
CO32 , Na  , PO43 , Al 3 , H 2CO3 , Cl  , Ca 2 , Mg 2 , HCO3 , Fe 2 , OH 
Concentrations of which of the species will be required to compute alkalinity?
(A) CO32 , H  , HCO3 , OH  (B) H  , H 2CO3 , HCO3 , OH 

(C) CO32 , H 2CO3 , HCO3 , OH  (D) CO32 , H  , H 2CO3 , HCO3


Ans. (A)
Q.24 Construction of a new building founded on a clayey soil was completed in January 2010. In January 2014,
the average consolidation settlement of the foundation in clay was recorded as 10 mm. The ultimate

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consolidation settlement was estimated in design as 40 mm. Considering double drainage to occur at the
clayey soil site. The expected consolidations settlement in January 2019 (in mm, round off to the nearest
integer) will be ______.
Ans. (15)
Q.25 Which one of the following options contains ONLY primary air pollutants?
(A) Ozone and peroxyacetyle nitrate
(B) Hydrocarbons and ozone
(C) Hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides
(D) Nitrogen oxides and peroxyacetyl nitrate
Ans. (C)
Q.26 Consider the reactor shown in the figure. The flow rate through the reactor is Q m3 / h . The concentrations
(in mg/L) of a compound in the influent and effluent are C0 and C , respectively. The compound is
degraded in the reactor following the first order reaction. The mixing condition of the reactor can be varied
such that the reactor becomes either a completely mixed condition of the reactor can be varied such that
the reactor becomes either a completely mixed flow reactor (CMFR) or a plug-flow reactor (PFR). The
length of the reactor can be adjusted in these two mixing conditions to LCMFR and LPFR while keeping the

LCMFR
cross-section of the reactor constant. Assuming steady state and for C / C0  0.8 , the value of
LPFR
(round off to 2 decimal places) is _________.
Q, C0 Q, C

Ans. (1.12)
Q.27 A rolled I-section beam is supported on a 75 mm wide bearing plate as shown in the figure. Thicknesses
of flange and web of the I-section are 20 mm and 8 mm, respectively. Root radius of the I-section is 10
mm. Assume : material yield stress, f y  250 MPa and partial safety factor for material,  mo  1.10 .

Beam (I-section)

Bearing plate
75 mm

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As per IS : 800-2007, the web bearing strength (in kN, round off to 2 decimal places) of the beam is
________.
Ans. (272.73)
Q.28 The probability density function of a continuous random variable distributed uniformly between x and y
(for y  x ) is
1 1
(A) y  x (B) (C) x  y (D)
yx x y
Ans. (B)
Q.29 At the foot of a spillway, water flows at a depth of 23 cm with a velocity of 8.1 m/s, as shown in the figure.

Hydraulic
Spillway M-3 Profile
Jump
23 cm y1 = ?

1
The flow enters as an M-3 profile in the long wide rectangular channel with bed slope  and
1800
Manning’s n  0.015 . A hydraulic jump is formed at a certain distance from the foot of the spillway.
Assume the acceleration due to gravity, g  9.81m / s 2 . Just before the hydraulic jump, the depth of flow
y1 (in m , round off to 2 decimal places) is ______.

Ans. (0.42)
Q.30 The ordinates, u, of a 2-hour unit hydrograph (i.e., for 1 cm of effective rain), for a catchment are shown
in the table.
t (hour) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
u (m3 / s) 0 2 8 18 32 45 30 19 12 7 3 1 0

A 6-hour storm occurs over the catchment such that the effective intensity is 1 cm/hour for the first two
hours, zero for the next two hours and 0.5 cm/hour for the last two hours. If the base flow is constant at
5 m3 / s , the peak flow due to this storm (in m3 / s , round off to 1 decimal place) will be _______.
Ans. (97.0)

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Q.31 The uniform arrival and uniform service rates observed on an approach road to a signalized intersection
are 20 and 50 vehicles/minute, respectively. For this signal, the red time is 30s, the effective green time
is 30,s and the cycle length is 60 s. Assuming that initially there no vehicles in the queue, the average
delay per vehicle the approach road a during a cycle length (in s, round off 2 decimal places) is
________.
Ans. (12.50)
Q.32 For a plane stress problem, the state at a point P is represented by the stress element as shown in figure.

By how much angle () in degrees the stress element should be rotated in order to get the planes of
maximum shear stress?
20 MPa

25 MPa

80 MPa P 80 MPa

25 MPa

20 MPa

(A) 31.7
(B) 13.3

(C) 26.6

(D) 48.3

Ans. (A)

Q.33 A series of perpendicular offsets taken from a curved boundary wall to a straight survey line at an
interval of 6m are 1.22, 1.67, 2.04, 2.34, 2.14, 1.87, and 1.15 m. The area (in m 2 , round off to 2 decimal

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places) bounded by the survey line, curved boundary wall, the first and the last offsets, determined using
Simpson’s rule, is ________.

Ans. (68.50)

Q.34 A flexible pavement has the following class of load during a particular hour of the day

(i) 80 buses with 2-axles (each axle load of 40 kN);

(ii) 160 trucks with 2-axles (front and rear axle loads of 40 kN and 80 kN, respectively)

The equivalent standard axle load repetitions for this vehicle combination as per IRC:37- 2012 would be

(A) 250

(B) 320

(C) 180

(D) 240

Ans. (C)

 dy 
Q.37 An ordinary differential equation is given below   ( x ln x)  y
 dx 

The solution for the above equation is

(Note : K denotes a constant in the options)

(A) y  Kxe x

(B) y  Kxe x

(C) y  K ln x

(D) y  Kx ln x

Ans. (C)
Q.38 Constant head permeability tests were performed on two soil specimens, S1 and S2. The ratio of height of
the two specimens ( Ls1 : Ls 2 ) is 1.5, the ratio of the diameter of specimens ( Ds1 : Ds 2 ) is 0.5, and the ratio
of the constant head (hs1 : hs 2 ) applied on the specimens is 2.0. If the discharge from both the specimens
is equal, the ratio of the permeability of the soil specimens (ks1 : ks 2 ) is ________.

Ans. (3)
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Q.39 A timber pile of length 8 m and diameter 0.2 m is driven with a 20 kN drop hammer, falling freely from
a height of 1.5 m. The total penetration of the pile in the last 5 blows is 40 mm. Use the Engineering News
Record expression. Assume a factor of safety of 6 and empirical factor (allowing reduction in the
theoretical set, due to energy losses) of 2.5 cm. The safe load carrying capacity of the pile (in kN, round
off to 2 decimal places) is _________.
Ans. (151.51)
Q.40 A board gauge railway line passes through a horizontal curved section (radius = 875 m) of length 200 m.
The allowable speed on this portion is 100 km/h. For calculating the cant. Consider the gauge as centre-
to-centre distance between the rail heads, equal to 1750 mm. The maximum permissible cant (in mm,
round off to 1 decimal place) with respect to the centre-to-centre distance between the rail heads is
________.
Ans. (81.5)
Q.41 The dimensions of a soil sampler are given in the table.
Parameter Cutting edge Sampling tube
Inside diameter (mm) 80 86
Outside diameter (mm) 100 90

For this sampler, the outside, clearance ratio (in percent, round off to 2 decimal places) is _______.
Ans. (11.11)
Q.42 A square footing of 2 m sides rests on the surface of a homogeneous soil bed having the properties :
cohesion c  24 kPa , angle of internal friction   250 , and unit weight   18 kN/m3 . Terzaghi’s bearing
capacity factors for   250 are N c  25.1, N q  12.7, N   9.7, N c '  14.8, N q '  5.6 and N  '  3.2 . The
ultimate bearing capacity of the foundation (in kPa, round off to 2 decimal places) is ________.
Ans. (353.92)
Q.43 The speed density relationship of a highway is given as
u  100  0.5k
Where, u  speed in km per hour, k  density in vehicles per km. The maximum flow (in vehicles per
hour, round off to the nearest integer) is _______.
Ans. (5000)

Q.44 A water treatment plant treats 6000 m3 of water per day. As a part of the treatment process, discrete
particles are required are required to be settled in a clarifier. A column test indicates that an overflow
rate of 1.5 m per hour would produce the desired removal of particles through settling in the clarifier
having a depth of 3.0 m. The volume of the required clarifier (in m3 , round off to 1 decimal place)
would be ________

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Ans. (500.0)
Q.45 A plane frame shown in the figure (not to scale) has linear elastic springs at node H. The spring
constants are k x  k y  5  105 kN/m and k  3  105 kNm/rad .

kq
30 kNm
Internal
hinge H
F G kx
ky

6m

3m 3m

For the externally applied moment of 30 kNm at node F, the rotation (in degrees, round off to 3
decimals) observed in the rotational spring at node H is _______.
Ans. (0.006)
Q.46 The critical bending compressive stress in the extreme fibre of a structural steel section is 1000 MPa. It
is given that the yield strength of the steel is 250 MPa, width of flange is 250 mm and thickness of
flange is 15 mm. As per the provisions of IS : 800 – 2007. The non – dimensional slenderness ratio of
the steel cross-section is
(A) 0.50
(B) 0.75
(C) 0.25
(D) 2.00
Ans. (A)
Q.47 Raw municipal solid waste (MSW) collected from a city contains 70 % decomposable material that can
be converted to methane. The water content of the decomposable material is 35 %. An elemental analysis
of the decomposable material yields the following mass percent.
C : H : O : N : other = 44 : 6 : 43 : 0.8 : 6.2
The methane production of the decomposable material is governed by the following stoichiometric
relation

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Ca H bOc N d  nH 2O  mCH 4  sCO2  dNH 3

Given atomic weights : C = 12, H = 1, O = 16, N = 14. The mass of methane produced (in grams, round
off to 1 decimal place) per kg of raw MSW will be _______.
Ans. (416.9)
Q.48 A 2 m  4 m rectangular footing has to carry a uniformly distributed load of 120 kPa. As per the 2 : 1
dispersion method of stress distribution, the increment in vertical stress (in kPa) at a depth of 2 m below
the footing is _______.
Ans. (40)
Q.49 A camera with a focal length of 20 cm fitted in an aircraft is used for taking vertical aerial photographs of
a terrain. The average elevation of the terrain is 1200 m above mean sea level (MSL). What is the height
above MSL at which an aircraft must fly in order to get the aerial photographs at a scale of 1 : 8000 ?
(A) 3200 m (B) 2600 m
(C) 3000 m (D) 2800 m
Ans. (D)
Q.50 A long uniformly distributed load of 10 kN/m and a concentrated load of 60 kN are moving together on
the beam ABCD shows in the figure (not drawn to scale). The relative positions of the two loads are not
fixed. The maximum shear force (in kN, round off to the nearest integer) caused at the internal hinge B
due to the two loads is _____.
Internal hinge

A B C D

2m 2m 4m

Ans. (–70)
Q.51 Chlorine is used as the disinfectant in a municipal water treatment plant. It achieves 50 percent of
disinfection efficiency measured in terms of killing the indicator microorganisms (E – Coli) in 3
minutes. The minimum time required to achieve 99 percent disinfection efficiency would be
(A) 19.93 minutes
(B) 11.93 minutes
(C) 9.93 minutes
(D) 21.93 minutes
Ans. (A)
Q.52 A confined aquifer of 15 m constant thickness is sandwiched between two aquicludes as shown in the
figure (not drawn to scale).
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Piezometer P
Piezometer Q

Piezometer Surface

55.2 m
Aquiclude
34.1m

Aquifer

Aquiclude

L = 2500 m
Reference Datum

The heads indicated by two piezometers P and Q are 55.2 m and 34.1 m, respectively. The aquifer has a
hydraulic conductivity of 80 m/day and its effective porosity is 0.25. If the distance between the
piezometers is 2500 m, the time taken by the water to travel through the aquifer from piezometers P to Q
(in days, round off to 1 decimal place) is ________.
Ans. (925.7)
Q.53 Consider the hemispherical tank of radius 13 m as shown in the figure (not drawn to scale). What is the
volume of water (in m3 ) when the depth of water at the centre of the tank is 6 m ?
13 m

6m

(A) 156 

(B) 396 

(C) 468 

(D) 78 

Ans. (B)

Q.54 When a specimen of M25 concrete is loaded to a stress level of 12.5 MPa, a strain of 500 106 is recorded.
If this load is allowed to stand for a long time, the strain increases to 1000 106 . In accordance with the
provisions of IS : 456 – 2000, considering the long – term effects, the effective modulus of elasticity of
the concrete (in MPa) is ________.

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Ans. (12500)
Q.55 Two identical pipes (i.e., having the same length, same diameter, and same roughness) are used to
withdraw water from a reservoir. In the first case, they are attached in series and discharge freely into the
atmosphere. In the second case, they are attached in parallel and also discharge freely into the atmosphere.
Neglecting all minor losses, and assuming that the friction factor is same in both the cases, the ratio of the
discharge in the parallel arrangement to that in the series arrangement (round off to 2 decimal places) is
________.
Ans. (2.83)

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