Q. A court is to a judge as _________is to a teacher. (A) a student (B) a punishment (C) a syllabus (D) a school Ans: a school Solution: A court is a place where judges hear cases, similarly, a school is a place where teachers teach students.

Q. Ten friends planned to share equally the cost of buying a gift for their teacher. When two of them decided not to contribute, each of the other friends had to pay Rs 150 more. The cost of the gift was Rs. . (A) 666 (B) 3000 (C) 6000 (D) 12000 Ans:(C) 6000 Solution: Let ...

Q. Two cars start at the same time from the same location and go in the same direction. The speed of the first car is 50 km/h and the speed of the second car is 60 km/h. The number of hours it takes for the distance between the two cars to be 20 km is . (A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 6 Ans: ...

Q. The search engine’s business model_______________around the fulcrum of trust. (A) revolves (B) plays (C) sinks (D) bursts Ans: revolves

Q. The expenditure on the project__________as follows: equipment Rs.20 lakhs, salaries Rs.12 lakhs, and contingency Rs.3 lakhs. (A) break down (B) break (C) breaks down (D) breaks Ans: breaks down Solution: The phrase "breaks down" in this context is used as a verb and means ...

Q. 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 ...

Q. Constant head permeability tests were performed on two soil specimens, S1 and S2. The ratio of height of the two specimens (LS1:LS2) is 1.5, the ratio of the diameter of specimens (DS1:DS2) is 0.5, and the ratio of the constant head (hS1:hS2) applied on the specimens is 2.0. If the discharge ...

Q. 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     Solution: Increment in the vertical stress ...

Q. 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. The flow enters as an M-3 profile in the long wide rectangular channel with bed slope =  1/1800 and Manning’s n = 0.015. A hydraulic jump is formed at a certain distance from ...

Q. A confined aquifer of 15 m constant thickness is sandwiched between two aquicludes as shown in the figure (not drawn to scale). 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 ...

Q. The speed-density relationship of a highway is given as 𝑢 = 100 − 0.5 𝑘 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 Solution:                                  

Q. A broad 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 ...