Hydraulics and Geotechnical
Engineering Principles 2025/2026 Exam
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Porosity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ratio of volume of voids and volume of soil.
Degree of Saturation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ratio of volume of water and volume
of soil.
Void Ratio - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ratio of volume of voids and volume of soil
solids.
0 < n < 100 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True for porosity.
0 < e - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True for void ratio.
0 < S < 100 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True for degree of saturation.
Mixture of sand, silt, and clay size particles in approximately equal
proportions - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Meaning of 'Loam'.
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, Darcy's Law - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Principle involved in the relationship between
submerged unit weight and saturated unit weight of a soil.
The unaggregated and uncemented deposits of minerals and organic
particles covering the earth's crust - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Definition of soil in civil
engineering.
Increase in pore water pressure but decrease in total stress - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Effect of rise of water table above the ground surface.
Is inversely proportional to the angle of internal friction of the soil -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Relationship of shear strength of a soil with the angle of
internal friction.
Increases voids ratio and decreases permeability. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Effect of
effective stress on soil.
Stress to strain - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ratio for the coefficient of compressibility
of soil.
0 to 25 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Range for a cohesive soil deposit to be considered
stiff.
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Engineering Principles 2025/2026 Exam
Questions Marking Scheme New Update
| A+ Rated
Porosity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ratio of volume of voids and volume of soil.
Degree of Saturation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ratio of volume of water and volume
of soil.
Void Ratio - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ratio of volume of voids and volume of soil
solids.
0 < n < 100 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True for porosity.
0 < e - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True for void ratio.
0 < S < 100 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True for degree of saturation.
Mixture of sand, silt, and clay size particles in approximately equal
proportions - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Meaning of 'Loam'.
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COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, Darcy's Law - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Principle involved in the relationship between
submerged unit weight and saturated unit weight of a soil.
The unaggregated and uncemented deposits of minerals and organic
particles covering the earth's crust - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Definition of soil in civil
engineering.
Increase in pore water pressure but decrease in total stress - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Effect of rise of water table above the ground surface.
Is inversely proportional to the angle of internal friction of the soil -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Relationship of shear strength of a soil with the angle of
internal friction.
Increases voids ratio and decreases permeability. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Effect of
effective stress on soil.
Stress to strain - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ratio for the coefficient of compressibility
of soil.
0 to 25 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Range for a cohesive soil deposit to be considered
stiff.
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