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Surveying

GATE Civil Engineering · 11 questions across 6 years (2019-2024) · 15% recurrence rate

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20192024
201920222024

Difficulty mix

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Question types

MCQ8
NAT3

All 11 questions on Surveying

2024 Q32

To finalize the direction of a survey, four surveyors set up a theodolite at a station P and performed all the temporary adjustments. From the station P, each of the surveyors observed the bearing to a tower located at s...

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2024 Q64

A child walks on a level surface from point P to point Q at a bearing of 30°, from point Q to point R at a bearing of 90° and then directly returns to the starting point P at a bearing of 240°. The straight-line paths PQ...

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2024 Q65

A bird is resting on a point P at a height of 8 m above the Mean Sea Level (MSL). Upon hearing a loud noise, the bird flies parallel to the ground surface and reaches a point Q which is located at a height of 3 m above M...

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2023 Q46

A delivery agent is at a location R. To deliver the order, she is instructed to travel to location P along straight-line paths of RC, CA, AB and BP of 5 km each. The direction of each path is given in the table below as...

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2022 Q24

A line between stations P and Q laid on a slope of 1 in 5 was measured as 350 m using a 50 m tape. The tape is known to be short by 0.1 m. The corrected horizontal length (in m) of the line PQ will be

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2021 Q5

In general, the CORRECT sequence of surveying operations is

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2021 Q16

Which of the following is NOT a correct statement?

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2021 Q17

Which of the following is/are correct statement(s)?

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2021 Q25

A horizontal angle θ is measured by four different surveyors multiple times and the values reported are given below. Surveyor | Angle θ | Number of observations ---|---|--- 1 | 36°30' | 4 2 | 36°00' | 3 3 | 35°30' | 8 4...

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2020 Q38

An open traverse PQRST is surveyed using theodolite and the consecutive coordinates obtained are given in the table Consecutive Coordinates Line Northing (m) Southing (m) Easting (m) Westing (m) PQ 110.2 - 45.5 - QR 80.6...

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2019 Q10

The interior angles of four triangles are given below: Triangle | Interior Angles ---|--- P | 85°, 50°, 45° Q | 100°, 55°, 25° R | 100°, 45°, 35° S | 130°, 30°, 20° Which of the triangles are ill-conditioned and should b...

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