CUET PG PYQs for Foundation Engineering with Solutions: Practice CUET PG Previous Year Questions

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Foundation Engineering is an important topic in the Civil Structural and Transport Engineering section in CUET PG exam. Practising this topic will increase your score overall and make your conceptual grip on CUET PG exam stronger.

This article gives you a full set of CUET PG PYQs for Foundation Engineering with explanations for effective preparation. Practice of CUET PG Civil Structural and Transport Engineering PYQs including Foundation Engineering questions regularly will improve accuracy, speed, and confidence in the CUET PG 2026 exam.

CUET PG PYQs for Foundation Engineering with Solutions

1.
Which of the following statements are true?
A. The proportioning of footing in sand is more often governed by settlement rather than by bearing capacity.
B. The pressure bulb profiles under a strip footing form as co-axially imaginable bulbs under its length.
C. Friction piles are also called as 'floating piles'.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
- A, B and C
- A and B only
- A and C only
- B and C only
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2.
A square pile of section $50 \, \text{cm} \times 50 \, \text{cm}$ and length $15 \, \text{m}$ penetrates a deposit of clay having $C = 5 \, \text{kN/m}^2$ and the adhesion factor $\alpha = 0.8$. What is the load carried by the pile through skin friction only?
- 192 kN
- 120 kN
- 60 kN
- 48 kN
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3.
Match LIST-I with LIST-II:\[\begin{array}{|c|l|l|} \hline \textbf{LIST-I (Type of footing/foundation)} & & \textbf{LIST-II (Suitability)} \\ \hline \text{A. Spread footings} & & \text{II. Up to 3 m black cotton soil followed by medium dense sand} \\ \hline \text{B. Friction piles} & & \text{IV. Loose sand extending to great depth} \\ \hline \text{C. Raft foundation} & & \text{I. Soft clay for 10 m followed by hard rock stratum} \\ \hline \text{D. End bearing piles} & & \text{III. Compact sand deposit extending to great depth} \\ \hline \end{array}\] Choose the most appropriate match from the options given below:
- A - IV, B - I, C - III, D - II
- A - III, B - IV, C - II, D - I
- A - II, B - IV, C - III, D - I
- A - III, B - I, C - II, D - IV
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