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GATE 2024 CE (Civil Engineering) Most Expected Questions

Various GATE Civil Engineering experts have prepared a list of important GATE 2024 Civil Engineering expected questions list that have been presented here for the candidates. Check out the list of important topics and their weightage.

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GATE 2024 Civil Engineering Most Expected Questions - Candidates can download the GATE Syllabus 2024 for CE on the official website in the form of a PDF. Along with mechanical engineering, electronics and communication engineering, computer science engineering, and chemical engineering, the GATE CE test is quite popular. Candidates who will take this year's GATE civil engineering test should read this article to learn about the most likely questions, according to experts. This GATE 2024 CE most predicted questions post would be beneficial to test-takers because it was developed using the previous year's GATE CE question papers. It is strongly advised that applicants exclusively take the questions given in this piece as a reference.

Latest: GATE Admit Card 2024 released at gate2024.iisc.ac.in

Around 1.4 lakh candidates are expected to appear in this year’s Civil Engineering paper for the GATE examination. We will also touch upon the expected GATE 2024 CE exam cutoff scores and other useful details in the sections to follow. 


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GATE CE 2024 Exam Date

The dates of GATE 2024 CE are as follows -

Event Date
GATE 2024 Civil Engineering Exam DateEither of the dates - February 3, 4, 10, 11, 2024
GATE Civil Engineering Results Date 2024March 16, 2024


GATE 2024 Civil Engineering Important Topics 

This section contains the list of the most important topics for the GATE 2024 civil engineering aspirants - 

Topic

Important Sub-Topic/s

Expected Marks

Surveying

  • Compass Surveying
  • Traversing
  • Levelling

4 to 5 marks

Engineering Hydrology

  • Hydrograph
  • Risk & Reliability
  • Infiltration

2 to 4 marks

Strength of Materials

  • Stress & Strain Curve
  • Bending Stresses
  • Slope & Deflection
  • Transformation of Stresses

6 to 8 marks

Geotechnical Engineering

  • Quick Sand Condition
  • Terzhagi Bearing Capacity
  • Time Rate of Settlement
  • Darcy’s Law
  • Phase Diagram

14 to 16 marks

Fluid Mechanics

  • Hydrostatic Forces
  • Kinematics
  • Bernoulli Application
  • Flow Through Circular Pipes

7 to 9 marks

Steel Structure

  • Plastic Analysis
  • Connection

3 to 4 marks

Structural Analysis

  • Indeterminacy
  • Trusses
  • ILD

2 to 4 marks

Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC)

  • Properties of Concrete
  • Beam Design by LSM
  • Shear Reinforcement and Bond
  • Prestressed Concrete

6 to 7 marks

Environmental Engineering

  • Hardness and Alkalinity
  • Sedimentation
  • Filtration
  • BOD
  • ASP

12 to 14 marks

Irrigation Engineering

  • Water Requirement of Crops
  • Duty-Delta Relationship
  • Gravity Dam

2 to 4 marks

Transportation Engineering

  • Sight Distance
  • Super Elevation
  • Webster Method
  • Road Capacity

7 to 8 marks

Also read: GATE Syllabus 2024

GATE 2024 CE List of Expected Questions

Candidates looking for the list of GATE 2024 civil engineering exam expected questions are given in this section - 

A. 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
B.On sag (or valley) curves the available sight distance is determined based on :
  1. design speed
  2. height of obstacle
  3. height of the driver's eye
  4. night-time driving conditions
C. 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
D. Maximum size of a fillet weld for a plate of a 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
E. In a steady radial flow into an intake, the velocity is found to vary as (1/r2), where r is the radial distance. The acceleration of the flow is proportional to
  1. 1/r5
  2. 1/r3
  3. 1/r4
  4. 1/r

GATE 2024 CE Cutoff

The table below highlights the cut off of GATE Civil Engineering (CE) from 2019 to 2023. The GATE cutoff of Civil Engineering 2024 will be updated after the authorities release the cutoff on the official website. 

Category

Cutoff 2024Cutoff 2023

Cutoff 2022

2021 Cutoff2020 Cutoff2019 Cutoff

General

To be Updated26.6

30.4

29.2032.928.2

OBC-NCL

To be Updated23.9

27.3

26.229.625.4

EWS

To be Updated17.7

20.2

19.421.918.8

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What are the expected marks allocated in Engineering Hydrology?

As per the previous year’s trends, approximately 2 to 4 marks are asked from the Engineering Hydrology section in GATE Civil Engineering exam.
 

Which topics contain the majority in Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC) section in the GATE Civil Engineering exam?

Some of the topics holding the majority in the Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC) section in the GATE Civil Engineering exam is Properties of Concrete, Beam Design by LSM, Shear Reinforcement and Bond, Prestressed Concrete, etc.
 

Which are the important sub-topics in GATE civil engineering- Geotechnical Engineering?

Quick Sand Condition, Terzhagi Bearing Capacity, Time Rate of Settlement, Darcy’s Law, Phase Diagram, etc are some of the important topics to study from GATE civil engineering- Geotechnical Engineering.
 

Which are the important topics for GATE civil engineering exam?

Some of the important topics of GATE civil engineering are Surveying, Engineering Hydrology, Strength of Materials, Geotechnical Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, Steel Structure, Structural Analysis, Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC), Environmental Engineering, Irrigation Engineering, Transportation Engineering, etc.

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