Question
Official answer and solution
- Official answer
- D
- From
- Official GATE 2026 answer key
Solution
Compare the front-right cutout in the Top View and the middle-back height in the Front View against the four 3D candidates in Panel II.
Examining the views in Panel I on a base:
- From the Top View, the front-right corner cell is missing (cut out), and the middle-front and middle-center cells lie on the same flat horizontal step (forming an L-shaped face of height ). This immediately eliminates (i) (which has no front-right cutout) and (ii) (where the middle-center cell is raised to height instead of being coplanar with the height- step).
- From the Front View, only the leftmost column reaches height , while the middle and right columns at the back have height (forming a horizontal rectangle). This eliminates (iii) (where the middle-back column also rises to height ). Structure (iv) matches both the Front View and the Top View.
Final answer
Option (D)
Common trap
Selecting (i), which matches the Front View but lacks the front-right corner cutout shown in the Top View.
The answer is the one in the official GATE answer key. The solution is this site's own explanation.
Source
- Paper
- GATE 2026 Computer Science and Information Technology - Session 1 (CS1)
- Question
- 7 of 65
- Section
- General Aptitude
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