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Soil Properties and Classification - Geotechnical Engineering - Civil Engineering Previous Year Questions

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

21Papers
15Years
47Questions
1Topics

Soil Properties and Classification question pattern

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Questions by year

Year-wise coverage for Soil Properties and Classification. Each bar uses a separate theme-derived color.

Difficulty distribution

How the classified questions are distributed by difficulty.

Easy 32 68.1%
Medium 15 31.9%

Question type distribution

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

MCQ 32 68.1%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 12 25.5%
MSQ 2 4.3%
Fill in the blanks 1 2.1%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

Civil Engineering
47 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Geotechnical Engineering
47 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Soil Properties and Classification
47 Qs

Paper coverage

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

Civil Engineering (CE) 2026
2 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2026
1 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 1]
2 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 2]
2 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2024 [Session 1]
3 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2024 [Session 2]
2 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2020 [Session 2]
4 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2019 [Session 2]
2 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2018 [Session 2]
3 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 1]
3 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 1]
3 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 2]
3 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 1]
1 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2013
1 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2012
2 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2011
2 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2010
1 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2009
5 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2008
3 Qs

Included previous year papers

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

PaperYear / sessionQuestions in this viewOpen
Civil Engineering (CE) 202620261View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 202620262View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 1]20252View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 2]20252View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2024 [Session 1]20243View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2024 [Session 2]20242View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2020 [Session 2]20204View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2019 [Session 2]20192View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2018 [Session 2]20183View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 1]20163View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 2]20161View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 1]20153View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 2]20151View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 1]20141View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 2]20143View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 201320131View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 201220122View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 201120112View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 201020101View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 200920095View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 200820083View paper

All Soil Properties and Classification previous year questions

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2014 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 1]
A given cohesionless soil has $e_{max} = 0.85$ and $e_{min} = 0.50$. In the field, the soil is compacted to a mass density of $1800 \text{ kg/m}^3$ at a water content of 8%. Take the mass density of water as $1000 \text{ kg/m}^3$ and $G_s$ as 2.7. The relative density (in %) of the soil is
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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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2014 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 2]
The clay mineral primarily governing the swelling behavior of Black Cotton soil is
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2014 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 2]
A certain soil has the following properties, G_s = 2.71, n = 40% and w = 20%. The degree of saturation of the soil (rounded off to the nearest percent) is
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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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2015 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 1]
In an unconsolidated undrained triaxial test, it is observed that an increase in cell pressure from 150 kPa to 250 kPa leads to a pore pressure increase of 80 kPa. It is further observed that, an increase of 50 kPa in deviatoric stress results in an increase of 25 kPa in the pore pressure. The value of Skempton's pore pressure parameter B is:
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2015 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 1]
A non-homogeneous soil deposit consists of a silt layer sandwiched between a fine-sand layer at top and a clay layer below. Permeability of the silt layer is 10 times the permeability of the clay layer and one-tenth of the permeability of the sand layer. Thickness of the silt layer is 2 times the thickness of the sand layer and two-third of the thickness of the clay layer. The ratio of equivalent horizontal and equivalent vertical permeability of the deposit is _______________.
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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 · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 1]
A fine grained soil is found to be plastic in the water content range of 26-48%. As per Indian Standard Classification System, the soil is classified as
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2016 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 1]
The porosity (n) and the degree of saturation (S) of a soil sample are 0.7 and 40%, respectively. In a 100 m³ volume of the soil, the volume (expressed in m³) of air is ________
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2016 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 2]
Water flows from P to Q through two soil samples, Soil 1 and Soil 2, having cross sectional area of 80 cm² as shown in the figure. Over a period of 15 minutes, 200 ml of water was observed to pass through any cross section. The flow conditions can be assumed to be steady state. If the coefficient of permeability of Soil 1 is 0.02 mm/s, the coefficient of permeability of Soil 2 (expressed in mm/s) would be _____
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2018 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2018 [Session 2]

Which one of the following statements is NOT correct?

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2018 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2018 [Session 2]

The clay mineral, whose structural units are held together by potassium bond is

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2018 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2018 [Session 2]

The initial concavity in the load-penetration curve of a CBR test is NOT due to

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2019 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2019 [Session 2]
The notation "SC" as per Indian Standard Soil Classification System refers to
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2019 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2019 [Session 2]
Constant head permeability tests were performed on two soil specimens, S1 and S2. The ratio of height of the two specimens (\(L_{S1}:L_{S2}\)) is 1.5, the ratio of the diameter of specimens (\(D_{S1}:D_{S2}\)) is 0.5, and the ratio of the constant head (\(h_{S1}:h_{S2}\)) applied on the specimens is 2.0. If the discharge from both the specimens is equal, the ratio of the permeability of the soil specimens (\(k_{S1}:k_{S2}\)) is ____________
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2020 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2020 [Session 2]

Soil deposit formed due to transportation by wind is termed as

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2020 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2020 [Session 2]
A sample of 500 g dry sand, when poured into a 2 litre capacity cylinder which is partially filled with water, displaces 188 cm³ of water. The density of water is 1 g/cm³. The specific gravity of the sand is
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2020 · Civil Engineering · Geotechnical Engineering · Soil Properties and Classification
Civil Engineering (CE) 2020 [Session 2]
A soil has dry unit weight of 15.5 kN/m³, specific gravity of 2.65 and degree of saturation of 72%. Considering the unit weight of water as 10 kN/m³, the water content of the soil (in %, round off to two decimal places) is __________.
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