The UCEED 2025 syllabus, as outlined by IIT Bombay, is divided into two parts: Part A and Part B. Here’s a detailed overview:​

🧠 Part A: Computer-Based Test (CBT)

This section assesses candidates through Numerical Answer Type (NAT), Multiple Select Questions (MSQ), and Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ). The topics include:

1. Visualization and Spatial Reasoning: Ability to visualize and transform 2D shapes and 3D objects and their spatial relationships.

2. Practical and Scientific Knowledge: Know-how of scientific principles and everyday objects.​

3. Observation and Design Sensitivity: The capacity to detect concealed properties in daily life and think critically about them. Attention to detail, classification, analysis, inference, and prediction.​

4. Environment and Society: General awareness of environmental, social, and cultural connections with design.​

5. Analytical and Logical Reasoning: Ability to analyze qualitative and quantitative information.​

6. Language: Proficiency in reading and comprehending Standard English.​

7. Creativity: Grasp of verbal and non-verbal analogies, metaphors, signs, and symbols.​

✏️ Part B: Drawing and Design Aptitude

This section evaluates candidates’ drawing skills and design aptitude through two questions:​

1. Drawing: Ability to draw products, people, or scenes in proportion with good line quality, composition, proportion, perspective, and shading.​

2. Design Aptitude: Capability to practically and appropriately respond to problems/situations with ingenuity and empathy.​

Criteria for selection for UCEED (Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design), based on the latest structure:

1. Eligibility:

   • Age Limit: Candidates must have been born on or after October 1, 2000 (for the 2025 exam).

   • Attempts: A candidate can attempt UCEED a maximum of two times and in consecutive years only.

   • Educational Qualification: The candidate should have passed the Class XII (or equivalent) examination in 2024 or appearing in 2025 in any stream (Science, Commerce, or Arts & Humanities).

2. Qualifying UCEED:

   • You must appear for the UCEED exam and secure a rank (only securing marks is not enough; you must qualify as per cut-off marks announced for different categories like Open, EWS, OBC-NCL, SC/ST/PwD).

3. Score and Rank List:

   • A Common Rank List (CRL) and category-wise rank lists are prepared.

   • Only candidates who score the minimum prescribed marks in each section and overall are included in the rank list.

4. Application for B.Des. Programs:

   • Qualifying in UCEED does NOT automatically guarantee admission.

   • After the result, you must separately apply for B.Des admission through the UCEED admission portal.

   • Participating institutes (like IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Hyderabad, IIITDM Jabalpur) have their separate admission processes based on the UCEED Rank.

5. Seat Allotment:

   • Admission is based on UCEED Rank, seat availability, choice preference, and reservation norms.

   • There can be multiple rounds of seat allotment.

List of IITs that accept UCEED scores for admission to their B.Des (Bachelor of Design) programs:

🎓 IITs Accepting UCEED Score:

1. IIT Bombay

   • Program: B.Des

   • Department: Industrial Design Centre (IDC)

2. IIT Guwahati

   • Program: B.Des

   • Department: Department of Design (DoD)

3. IIT Hyderabad

   • Program: B.Des

   • Department: Department of Design (DOD)

4. IIT Delhi

   • Program: B.Des

   • Department: Department of Design (started offering B.Des from 2022)

🏛️ Also Accepting (Non-IIT Institute through UCEED portal):

5. IIITDM Jabalpur (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur)

   • Program: B.Des

   • Department: Design Discipline

🔵 Important:
Other private universities or institutes (like UPES, MIT ID, Srishti Manipal, etc.) may accept UCEED scores separately, but for IIT admissions, the above four IITs + IIITDM Jabalpur are officially listed under the UCEED Admission Portal.

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🎯 UCEED Learning Methodology

1. Understand the Exam Pattern and Syllabus Clearly

• Part A: NAT, MSQ, MCQ (online computer test)

• Part B: Drawing and design aptitude (pen-paper test)

• Syllabus Areas: Visualization, observation, design sensitivity, logical reasoning, environment awareness, language comprehension, drawing, and creativity.

🔵 Tip: Read official syllabus carefully; break it down into small topics.

2. Make a Weekly Study Plan

• Daily 3–4 hours of focused study initially; increase later.

• Divide time between Part A and Part B.

• Keep Sundays for full-length mock tests and revisions.

Example:

3. Core Skills Development

• Drawing Skills:
  Practice basic shapes, perspective, proportions, shading, storytelling through sketches.

• Design Thinking:
  Solve problems creatively (e.g., how would you redesign a water bottle?).

• Observation Skills:
  Analyze everyday objects – shape, material, usability.

• Visualization:
  Practice imagining 3D objects, cutting them mentally, rotating them.

• Analytical Reasoning:
  Solve puzzles, riddles, pattern sequences daily.