Civil engineering Practice paper
Practice paper for graduates in Civil Engineering
Practice MCQ Questions Civil Engg
1. What is the bond stress acting parallel to the reinforcement on the interface between bar and concrete?
(a) Shear stress
(c) Flexural stress
(b) Local stress
(d) Bearing stress
Ans. (a)

2. In a singly reinforced concrete beam section, maximum compressive stress in concrete and tensile stress in steel reach their permissible stresses simultaneously. What is such a section called?
(a) Under-reinforced section
(b) Economic section
(c) Balanced section
(d) Over-reinforced section
Ans. (c)

3. Which one of the following is correct?
While designing combined footing, the resultant of the column loads passes through the centre of gravity of the footing slab such that the net soil pressure obtained is
(a) parabolic
(c) uniform
(b) trapezoidal
(d) non-uniform
Ans. (b)

4. In an unconfined compression test on stiff clay, if the failure plane made an, angle of 52° to the horizontal,
what would be the angle of shearing resistance?
(a) 16°
(b) 14°
(c) 12°
(d) 13°
Ans. (b)

5. On which of the following soils is the standard penetration test useful?
1. Cohesionless soils
2. Medium clays
3. Gravelly soils
4. Very stiff clays
Select the correct answer using the code give below:
Code:
(a) 1 only
(b) l and 3
(c) l and 2
(d) 3and 4
Ans. (a)

6. Consider the following statements
1. Standard penetration test (SPT) is conducted by pushing a cone into soil at the rate of 2 cm/s.
2. Standard penetration test results are unreliable in deposits containing large number of boulders.
3. Dutch cone is a static penetrometer.
Which of the above statement is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 3 only
Ans. (c)

7. What is the intensity of active earth pressure at a depth of 10.0 m in dry sand with an angle of shearing resistance of
30° and unit weight of 18 kN/m3?
(a) 50 kN/m3
(b) 60 kN/m3
(c) 70 kN/m3
(d) 80 kN/m3
Ans. (b)

8. For a sheet pile wall constructed in a soil having effective grain size = 0.1 mm, the difference of the upstream and
downstream water levels is 3 m. If the flow net drawn for the problem is yields 2 as the ratio of number of head drops to
number of flow channels, then what is the discharge in unit of m3/s/m length of sheet pile wall?
(a) 3.0 x l0-4
(b) 3.0 x 10-2
(c) 1.5 x 10-4
(d) 1.5 x l0-2
Ans. (c)

9. Consider the following statements:
1. Quicksand is a special variety of sand.
2. Quicksand is not a material but a hydraulic condition.
3. In nature, quicksand condition is observed usually in coarse silt or fine sand.
Which of the above statements are correct?
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 1 and 2 only
(c 2 and 3 only
(d) 1 and 3 only
Ans. (c)

10. In a 6 m thick stratum of fine sand having submerged density of 11 kN/m3, quicksand condition occurred at a depth of
lowering of groundwater table required for making an excavation 5 m deep? Take density of water as 10 kN/m3.
(a) 3.85 m
(b) 1.68 m
(c) 1.1 m
(d) 0.897 m
Ans. (d)

11. Consider the following statements
1. Permeability of a soil decreases as the effective stress acting on the soil increases.
2. The presence of organic matter in the soil increases its permeability.
3. Entrapped air decreases the permebility of a soil.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 1 and 3
Ans. (d)

12. A 1 m thick layer of saturated caly, drained at both faces, settles by 10 cm in one year. If a thin layer of pervious soil
is introduced in the middle of this layer, then what will be the period during which the settlement of 10 cm will be completed? (a) 4 years
(b) 0.5 year
(c) 0.25 year
(d) 2 years
Ans. (c)

13. A soil has allowable bearing capacity. The soil deposit contains compressible loss. A foundation is to be provided for a
structure carrying carrying a heavy load. Which one of the following foundation types is to be adopted?
(a) Strap footing
(b) Continuous footing
(c) Raft foundation
(d) Combined spread foundation
Ans. (c)

14. Consider the following statements increasing width of footing results in
1. increase in settlement of a consolidating clay layer
2. increase in bearing capacity of sandy
3. decrease in bearing capacity of clays
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Ans. (b)

15. Consider the following statements with respect to an anchored sheet pile wall
1. Failure occurs due to bulging.
2. Failure occurs due to rotation
3. large yield is observed above the anchor rod.
4. Large yield is observed below the anchor rod and above the dredge line.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 4
(d) 3 and 4
Ans. (b)

16. Consider the following statements:
1. Underreamed piles are precast piles with one or more underreams in each pile.
2. The ratio of pile shaft size to bulb size in an underreamed pile may be 0.33 to 0.50.
3. In a multibulb underreamed pile, the load- carrying capacity is a function of the area of cross-section of the lowest bulb.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and .3
Ans. (d)

17. Consider the following statements:
1. Underreamed piles are designed as bearing piles.
2. In multiple-bulb underreamed piles, the bulbs are spaced at 1.5 to 2.0 times the diameter of the underream, the centre of
the first underream being at a minimum depth of 1.75 m.
3. The length of traditional underreamed pile ranges from 3 m to 4 m.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
(a) 2 and 3
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 2 only
(d) 1 and 3
Ans. (d)
18. When a vertical face excavation was made in a clayey silt, having density of 20 kN/m3, it failed at a depth of excavation of 4 m. What is
the cohesive strength (in kN/m2) of the soil, if its angle of internal friction was 30°?
(a) 23.1
(b) 20.0
(c) 11.6
(d) 10.2
Ans. (c)

19. If an SPT test gave the average blow count of 32 in fine sand below water table, then what is the corrected value of blow count?
(a) 22.1
(b) 23.5
(c) 24.2
(d) 24.8
Ans. ()

20. Consider the following statements:
1. The soil obtained from wash boring is a representative sample.
2. Recovery ratio will be high during drilling in sound rock.
3. Hollow stem augers are sometimes used to drill holes in silty sand.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 3 only
Ans. (b)

21. The standard penetration resistance value obtained in a deep deposit of sand at a depth of 6.0 m was 28. The unit weight of
sand is 18.0 kN/m3. What is the corrected value of number of blows for overburden pressure?
(a) 60
(b) 57
(c) 59
(d) 55
Ans. (c)

22. The net ultimate bearing capacity of a purely cohesive soil
(a) depends on the width of the footing and is independent of the depth of the footing
(b) depends on the width as well as the depth of the footing
(c) depends on the depth, but is independent of the width, of the footing
(d) is independent of both the width and the depth of the footing
Ans. (d)

23. Which of the following sights will be applicable for a change point?
(a) Back sight
(b) Intermediate sight and fore sight
(c) Fore sight
(d) Back sight and fore sight
Ans. (d)

24. The whole circle bearings of lines OP and OQ are 18°15’ and 335°45’ respectively. What is the value of the included angle QOP?
(a) 307°30’
(b) 42°30’
(c) 354°00’
(d) 177°00’
Ans. (b)

25. Which one of the following linear methods of setting out a circular curve needs reference of the centre of the curve?
(a) Offset from chord produced
(b) Radial offset
(c) Perpendicular offset
(d) Successive bisection of arcs
Ans. (b)

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