GATE 2019

1. The fisherman, _______ the flood victims owed their lives were rewarded by the
government.

2. Some students were not involved in the strike.
If the above statement is true, which of the following conclusion is/are logically
necessary?
1. Some who were involved in the strike were students.
2. No students were involved in the strike.
3. At least one student was involved in the strike.
4. Some who were not involved in the strike were students.

3. The radius as well as the height of a circular cone increases by 10%. The
percentage increase in its volume is _______.

4. Five members 10, 7, 5, 4 and 2 are to be arranged in a sequence from left to right
following the directions given below:
1. No two odd or even numbers are next to each other.
2. The second number from the left is exactly half of the left-most number.
3. The middle number is exactly twice the right most number.
Which is second number from the right?

5. Until Iran came along, India had never been ____________________in kabaddi

6. Since the last one year, after a 125 basis point reduction in repo rate by the reserve
Bank of India, banking institutions have been making a demand
to reduce interest rates on small saving schemes. Finally, the
government announced yesterday a reduction in interest rates on small
saving schemes to bring them on par with fixed deposit interest
rates.
Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the given passage?

7. In a country of 1400 million population, 70% own mobile phone. Among the mobile
phone owners, only 294 million access the Internet. Among
these Internet users, only half buy goods from e-commerce portals. What
is the percentage of these buyers in the country?

8. The nomenclature of Hindustani music has changed over the centuries. Since the
medieval period dhrupad styles were identified as baanis.
Terms like gayaki and baaj were used to refer to vocal and instrumental styles,
respectively. With the institutionalization of music education the term gharana
became acceptable. Gharana originally referred to hereditary
musicians from a particular linage, including disciples and grand disciples.
Which one of the following pairings is NOT correct?

9. Two trains started at 7AM from the same point. The first train travelled north at a
speed of 80km/h and the second train travelled south at a
speed of 100km/h. The time at which they were 540km apart is _____AM.

10. “I read somewhere that in ancient times the prestige of a kingdom depended upon
the number of taxes that it was able to levy on its people. It was
very much like the prestige of a head- hunter in his own community.”
Based on the paragraph above, the prestige of a head-hunter depended upon____________

11. Which of the following commands in AUTOCAD is used to create 3D solid
between various cross sections?

12. Name the architect who criticized ornament in useful objects in his
essay ‘Ornament and Crime’

13. A sanitary landfill is provided with High Density Poly Ethylene (HDPE) lining along
the ground surface. This is provided primarily to
prevent

14. Super-elevation of a road with pre-determined radius of curvature is primarily dependent
on

15. In mono-centric urban model, land rent is expected to

16. Fineness modulus of sand measures its

17. The spherical surface of the geodesic dome comprises of

18. The abrupt change or junction between two
ecological zones is termed as

19. Complementary colours in a Munsell pigment colour wheel refers to

20. The closing syntax, for an executable command line in C or C++ program, is

21. The term ‘Necropolis’ refers to

22. Which of the following projection types is adopted in Universal Transverse Mercator
(UTM)?

23. The ingredient to be added to produce
Aerated Cement Concrete, is

24. The cause of short column effect, during seismic occurrence, is due to

25. The solar protection system consisting of fixed slates or grids, outside a building
façade in front of openings, is known as

26. The Indian property inscribed by UNESCO on the World Heritage List in the year 2018
is

27. Typical features of Buddhist architecture are

28. Identify the Queen closer

29. Identify the role of vermiculite in vertical landscapes

30. Which of the following parameters is essential to estimate the Envelope Performance
Factor (EPF) of a building as per the Energy Conservation Building Code
(ECBC), 2011?

31. The illumination level of a room is 300 lux and the efficacy of the lamps is 60. The Light
Power Density (LPD) of the room in Watt/m² is _________.

32. The load on a RCC column is 150 kN. The soil bearing capacity is 80 kN/m². Assuming
a factor of safety of 1.2, the side of the square column footing is
______ meter (rounded off to one decimal place).

33. A room is separated by a partition wall. The average intensities of sound in the source
and receiving sides across the partition are W/m² and
W/m² respectively. The transmission loss (TL) of the partition wall is
_______dB.

34. The purchase price of 2BHK flat rises 10 percent, the demand for such flats is
observed to decrease by 8 percent. The given
elasticity of the housing demand for 2BHK flats is _____ (rounded off to one decimal
place).

35. ‘Threshold enclosure’ created by vertical surface or series
of vertical elements in an urban plaza, represented by the ratio of height and distance,
is given by an angle of _____ degrees (rounded off to one decimal
place)

36. Match the instruments in Column I with the various types of surveying in Column II and
select the appropriate option.
ColumnI
Column-II
P Cross staff 1 Indoor wall to
wall
measurement
Q Alidade 2 Traversing
R Sextant 3 Chain survey
S Distomat 4 Plane table
survey
5 Contour
survey

37. Match the characteristics of settlement systems in Column- I with their corresponding
theory/rules in Column- II and select appropriate option.
Column-I Column-II
P Primacy of settlements 1 Central Place
Theory
Q Settlement size and
location
2 Gravity Model
R Random componenets
in location of settlements
3 Rank size rule
S Interaction between
settlements
4 Entropy of
settlements
5 Core Peripheral
Model

38. Match the architectural projects in Column I with the architect in Column II, and select
the appropriate option.
Column-I Column-IIP India Habitat
Centre, New Delhi
1 Christopher Charles
Benninger
Q United World
College (UWC),
Mahindra College,
Pune
2 Charles Correa
R Brain and
Cognitive Science
Centre- MIT,
Cambridge
3 Joseph Allen Stein
S Habitat -67,
Montreal
4 Norman Foster
5 Moshe Safdie

39. Match the Name of book provided in Column I with the corresponding author in
Column II and select the appropriate option.
Column-I Column-II
P Earthscape 1 Ian McHarg
Q Synthesis of Form 2 John O
Simonds
R Design with Nature 3 Cristopher
Alexander
S The City of Tomorrow
and its Planning
4 Lewis Mumford
5 Le Corbusier

40. Match the thermal properties in the Column- I and their respective units in Column- II
and select the appropriate option.

41. Match the application in the field of construction in the Column I and the respective
itemsin Column II and select appropriate option
Column-I Column-II
P Polytetrafluoroethylene
(PTFE) membrane
1 Tendon
Q Isolated compression
component inside a
network of continuous
tensile member
2 TMT
R Cable used for prestressed concreting
3 Tensigrity
S Reinforcement bar used
in RCC construction
4 TMD
5 Teflon

42. Match the following types of masonry joints in Column I with their respective
corresponding description in Column II, and select the appropriate option.

43. Match the following in Column I with their suitable description in Column II, and
select the appropriate option.
Column-I Column-II
P Tolerance 1 100 mm
Q Precast concrete
rings for well
2 Non modular
dimension
R
M
3 Acceptable
variation
S Weather joints 4 3-D prefabricate
5 Resilient sealants

44. Match the units in Column I with their corresponding items in Column II and select the
appropriate option.
Column-I Column-II
P dB 1 Sound Intensity
Q
Phon
2 Absorption of
sound
R
W/m²
3 Frequency of
sound
S Sabine 4 Loudness
5 Sound Pressure
level

45. Match the scientific names of the trees provided in Column- I with the corresponding
colour of their bloom in Column II, and select the appropriate option.
Column-I Column-II
P Cassia fistula 1 White
Q Lagerstroemia flosreginae
2 Red
R Cordia sebastena 3 Blue
S Piumeria alba 4 Yellow
5 Mauve

46. Match the items in Column- I and their respective location in building/site in ColumnII, and select the appropriate option.
Column-I Column-II
P Nahani Trap 1 Between waste
water pipe and main
house drain
Q
Gully Trap
2 Between Septic tank
and soak pit
R
Bottle Trap
3 Junction of house
drain and sewer
S Intercepting
Trap
4 Bathroom and
kitchen floor
5 Below the wash
basin

47. As per the Handbook on Barrier Free and Accessibility, CPWD – 2014, match the
design guidelines in Column- I with their appropriate standards in Column- II and
select the appropriate option.
Column-I Column-II
P Minimum clear width
of ramp
1 600 mm
Q Maximum height of
wash basin (rim)
above the finished
floor level
2 1500 mm
R Minimum length of
grab rail
3 750 mm
S Minimum clear width
for maneuvering
space (wheel chair)
4 900 mm
5 1800 mm

48. Match the contemporary Urban Design Movements listed in Column- I with the
corresponding principles listed in Column- II and select the
appropriate option.
Column-I Column-II
P Park Movement 1 Self-contained, self-sufficient
community surrounded by
green belts
Q New Urbanism 2 Revival of the relationship
between man and nature
R City Beautiful
Movement
3 Relationship between work
and living, environment and
sustainability
S Garden City
and New Town
Movement
4 Unity, cohesion and balanced
relationship between urban
components and elements
5 Technical and socio economic
process resulting in growth,
energy production and waste
elimination.

49. Match the figures of vault in Column- I with their corresponding types in Column- II
and select the appropriate option.

50. A colony of 50 people is served by a septic tank. The rate of water supply is 90 lpcd in
the colony and 40% of it is going to the septic tank. The retention
period of the tank is 24 hours. The length of the septic tank is _____
meter (rounded off to two decimal places).
Assume, storage capacity/person = 0.085m³( 3 years)
Space for digestion = 0.0425m³/person
Depth of tank = 1.4m
Length: Width = 2:1

51. A cone, with a base of 10cm diameter and axis of 12cm, is lying on Horizontal Plane
(HP) along its generator. The internal angle which the base of the cone
makes with HP is ______ degrees.

52. A public utility building of 5000 m² was constructed 5 years before, on a site of 1
hectare. The present value of open land in that location is Rs.
100/m² and present construction cost of such building is Rs. 2500/m². If the
value of the building is assumed to be depreciating at a constant
rate of 6 percent per annum, then the present value of
the property using ‘Valuation by Cost Method’ is ______ (in Rs. Lakh) (rounded off to one
decimal place).

53. A residential area of 20 hectares is planned for three different types of plots of 500m²,
300m² and 200m² with numbers of plot in each category are 100,
120, 150 respectively. The rest of the area is allowed for roads and
facilities such as school, shops and parks. Each plot has one dwelling unit and the
average household size is 5 persons. The net residential density
of the area in person per hectare is ______.

54. In a single lane road, traffic volume of 1000 vehicles/hr moving at 20Km/h, comes to
halt due to an accident. If jam density is 150 vehicle/km, the
velocity of the shock wave generated (in absolute value) is _____ km/h.

55. In a site map, a rectangular residential plot measures 150 mm x 40 mm, and the width
of the front road in the map measures 16 mm. Actual
width of the road is 4m. If the permissible F.A.R is 1.2, the maximum built up
area for the residential building will be _____ m².

56. The internal dimension of a room is 10m x 10m x 4m (height). The total area of the
doors and windows are 16m². Keeping the doors and windows
closed, the reverberation time of the room becomes 1.2 second. Assume
all the interior surfaces including doors and windows have some absorption
coefficient. If all doors and windows of the room are
kept fully open, the reverberation time will be _____ second (rounded of to one
decimal place).

57. A depressed portion of a land is identified by three closed contours, as shown in the
figure below. The area bound by three contour lines is 6m²,
24m² and 96m² respectively. The contour interval is 1m. Using prismoidal
method, the volume of the earth needed to fill land depression is ________m³.

58. Solar panels are proposed to be installed on a building roof top to generate electricity.
The size of each solar panel is 2m². The efficiency of each panel is 75%. The
orientation of the solar panel and related solar data are given in the table
below.
Orientation No of
panel
Average daily
solar radiation
in W/m²
Average solar
hours per day
South 10 400 4
West 5 300 2
As per above proposal ______ kWh solar power will be generated daily (rounded off to
one decimal place).

59. A power shovel is having 1.8m³
excavation output per batch of operation. The average cycle time of the batch
operation is 45 seconds. The lost time per hour of the excavation activity is
10 minutes. Assume six working hours of operation per
day. The amount of soil excavated by the power shovel per day is ____________ m³
(rounded of to one decimal place).

60. A room having dimension 12m x10m x 3.5m is required to be mechanically ventilated
by air-conditioner. The temperature difference outdoor ambient air
and the supply air is 12 ℃ . Consider three air exchanges per hour.
The volumetric specific heat of the air is 1250J/m³ ℃ . Assume one ton ofrefrigeration (TR) is equal to 3.5kW. The
capacity of the air-conditioner for the room in TR will be _______.

61. A simply supported beam AB has a clear span of 7
meter. The bending moment diagram (BMD) of the beam due to a single concentrated
load is shown in the figure below.
The magnitude of the concentrated load in kN is _________.

62. For a symmetrical trapezoidal open drain in a landscape with grass and loose rock,
surface, the velocity of flow of water is ___m/sec, (round off to two
decimal places), given the following data.

63. The stack pressure is created by 10m height of stack and 15 ℃ temperature
difference. The motive force due to the stack pressure over a cross section
area of 2.5m² is _____N.

64. An industrial building contains 3000 kg of combustible materials, in dry state,
distributed over three rooms of area 100m², 500m² and 300m²
each, in a proportion of 30%, 50% and 20% of the contents, respectively.
Calorific value of the material is 4400kCal/kg. The total fire load of
the rooms is equal to __________ kCal/m²

65. A simple truss is shown in the figure below. The truss is loaded with horizontal and
vertical force 15 kN and 25 kN respectively. The force in
member AB wil be ____ kN.