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Theory of Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete is a very important subject for Civil Engineers. The subject is included in higher semesters like 7th semester in Mumbai University because it needs concepts of stress analysis, force diagrams, stress-strain relationship, load study, beam structures and other concepts of lower semesters. The paper consists of topics like limit state design concepts, properties of concrete, ultimate flexural strengths, beams with reinforcement having a definite yield point etc. The paper is generally numerical based but other designing concepts and stress consideration is highly marked on the paper. So if the students have fewer ideas about the stress distributions and failure considerations then it is tough for them to score well here. Strong designing concepts of beams, force analysis and moment diagrams can help the student from civil engineering score higher marks in this particular paper of Reinforcement and Prestressed concretes. You will find two compulsory questions, question 1 and Question 7. In addition to this you have to answer another 3 questions. Students are adviced to draw neat sketches with their answers to get maximum out of 20 marks allotted for each question. Below are attached some of the previous year’s question papers.