Question

In Panel I of the figure below, the front view and top view of a structure are shown. Which one of the 3D structures shown in Panel II possesses the views shown in Panel I?

Panel I shows the Front View and Top View of a 3D stepped block structure; Panel II shows four candidate 3D structures (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv).
Choose one option
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 3×33 \times 3 base:

  1. 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 11). This immediately eliminates (i) (which has no front-right cutout) and (ii) (where the middle-center cell is raised to height 22 instead of being coplanar with the height-11 step).
  2. From the Front View, only the leftmost column reaches height 33, while the middle and right columns at the back have height 22 (forming a 2×12 \times 1 horizontal rectangle). This eliminates (iii) (where the middle-back column also rises to height 33). 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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