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Geotechnical Engineering - Civil Engineering Previous Year Questions

Practice Geotechnical Engineering - Civil Engineering previous year questions organised from real papers, with year-wise coverage and clear topic navigation.

23Papers
17Years
204Questions
1Topics

Geotechnical Engineering question pattern

Every graph below is calculated only from this selection.

Questions by year

Year-wise coverage for Geotechnical Engineering. Each bar uses a separate theme-derived color.

Difficulty distribution

How the classified questions are distributed by difficulty.

Medium 116 56.9%
Easy 80 39.2%
Hard 8 3.9%

Question type distribution

MCQ, numerical, multiple-select and other formats found in these papers.

MCQ 126 61.8%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 65 31.9%
Fill in the blanks 7 3.4%
MSQ 6 2.9%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

Civil Engineering
204 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Geotechnical Engineering
204 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Soil Properties and Classification
47 Qs
Shallow and Deep Foundations
45 Qs
Seepage and Effective Stress
33 Qs
Site Investigation, Earth Pressure and Slope Stability
30 Qs
Compaction and Consolidation
25 Qs
Soil Shear Strength and Stress Distribution
24 Qs

Paper coverage

Question coverage for the most populated papers. Every active PYP paper remains listed below.

Civil Engineering (CE) 2026
8 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2026
8 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 2]
9 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 1]
8 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2024 [Session 1]
8 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2024 [Session 2]
8 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2022 [Session 2]
9 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2020 [Session 2]
9 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2019 [Session 2]
9 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2018 [Session 2]
10 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2017 [Session 2]
7 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 1]
9 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 2]
9 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 1]
7 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 2]
5 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 2]
9 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 1]
8 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2013
10 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2012
9 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2011
10 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2010
10 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2009
11 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2008
14 Qs

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Soil Properties and Classification

Explore previous-paper coverage, trends and focused practice for Soil Properties and Classification.

47 questions21 papers15 years

Shallow and Deep Foundations

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45 questions21 papers16 years

Seepage and Effective Stress

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33 questions20 papers16 years

Site Investigation, Earth Pressure and Slope Stability

Explore previous-paper coverage, trends and focused practice for Site Investigation, Earth Pressure and Slope Stability.

30 questions21 papers16 years

Compaction and Consolidation

Explore previous-paper coverage, trends and focused practice for Compaction and Consolidation.

25 questions19 papers17 years

Soil Shear Strength and Stress Distribution

Explore previous-paper coverage, trends and focused practice for Soil Shear Strength and Stress Distribution.

24 questions14 papers13 years

Included previous year papers

Newest papers appear first. Sort by year, question coverage or name.

PaperYear / sessionQuestions in this viewOpen
Civil Engineering (CE) 202620268View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 202620268View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 1]20258View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 2]20259View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2024 [Session 1]20248View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2024 [Session 2]20248View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2022 [Session 2]20229View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2020 [Session 2]20209View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2019 [Session 2]20199View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2018 [Session 2]201810View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2017 [Session 2]20177View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 1]20169View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 2]20169View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 1]20157View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 2]20155View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 1]20148View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 2]20149View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2013201310View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 201220129View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2011201110View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2010201010View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2009200911View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2008200814View paper

Sample previous year questions

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2014 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Site Investigation, Earth Pressure and Slope Stability
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 1]
The degree of disturbance of the sample collected by the sampler is expressed by a term called the “area ratio”. If the outer diameter and inner diameter of the sampler are \( D_o \) and \( D_i \) respectively, the area ratio is given by
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2014 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 2]
As per Indian Standard Soil Classification System (IS: 1498 - 1970), an expression for A-line is
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3
2015 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 1]
A fine-grained soil has 60% (by weight) silt content. The soil behaves as semi-solid when water content is between 15% and 28%. The soil behaves fluid-like when the water content is more than 40%. The 'Activity' of the soil is
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4
2015 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 2]
A 588 cm³ volume of moist sand weighs 1010 gm. Its dry weight is 918 gm and specific gravity of solids, \( G \) is 2.67. Assuming density of water as 1 gm/cm³, the void ratio is __________.
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2016 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 1]
In the consolidated undrained triaxial test on a saturated soil sample, the pore water pressure is zero
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2016 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Shallow and Deep Foundations
Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 2]
A strip footing is resting on the surface of a purely clayey soil deposit. If the width of the footing is doubled, the ultimate bearing capacity of the soil
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