18 August 2019

Collection of CEED exam study materials


Someone was asking me to help in finding and easy navigation to a specific topic. Since the topics are wide and many, I've tried my best to segregate them in order - for easy navigation, along with a brief note of the content of the links. Hope this helps.


Complete CEED related SYL blog links download PDF (2020 update)

Before we see the materials, below is a brief list of syllabus for CEED Part A, just for your quick reference
  1. Visual Communication - Logo's, signage, advertising, packaging, fonts etc.
  2. Animation Design - Movement observation, comic strips, visuals etc.
  3. Product Design - Latest and newest products and trends, current products etc.
  4. Automobile Design - Aesthetics, manufacturers and plants etc.
  5. Digital (applied to almost all the fields) - Photography, color coding, displays, printing etc.
  6. Observation (Basic designer skill) - Mirroring, textures, evolution (past to present), isometrics and geometry, tessellations, shadows and more.
  7. Architecture - Sculpture, monuments, materials etc.
  8. General awareness - Engineering ability, materials, culture of the country, famous personalities and their works, instruments, animals etc.

  1. Photography terms, methods and general guide
  2. Guide to Color and video technology
  3. Artistic tools, drawing terms, sculpture
  4. Architecture guide (complete set of architecture/monuments/stupas etc. collections of SYL).
  5. State Painting and Painters
  6. Typography
  7. Illustrations
  8. Musical Instruments 
  9. Guide to solving animation type questions, step-by-step animation movement type questions and how to solve them
  10. Logo's of reputed institutes, automobiles, and signage (signs, symbols and their interpretations)
  11. About India
  12. Materials and manufacturing process (common materials used and the manufacturing process for them)
  13. Evolution of products
  14. Folding and unfolding of solids (Tessellations)
  15. Solving 'number of faces' type questions
  16. Questions on images and geometric objects
  17. Odd man out series 
  18. Direction sense test
  19. Illusions
  20. Numerical and aptitude questions
  21. Tips for solving inductive and logical reasoning questions
  22. Some Deductive, Inductive and verbal reasoning
  23. Convex and concave mirroring
  24. GK on famous authors, PMs, architectural styles bank logos, famous monuments, wonders and finalists etc.


Link 2: CEED Subjective help (Part B help)

This link contains:
  1. Links to sketching/drawing, perspective drawing, tips to exploded views, shading/detailing works etc. 
  2. Guide to User Interface design (UI/UX)
  3. Guide to comic strip making
  4. Storyboard and poster making
  5. Picture Composition (writing a story given an image)
  6. Theory on Design thinking and Creative studies

Link 3: Non Verbal (Image-based questions for CEED) 

This link contains:
  1. Mathematical Geometry ( Types of views, how to visualize solids in all the sides)
  2. Basics of solid shapes
  3. Observation and visualization skills (tangram puzzles. mechanical and spatial ability, tessellations)
  4. Abstract tests, spatial and visual ability test 
  5. Rebus puzzles (pictogram puzzles) 

This link contains:
  1. Collection of famous logo designers, Indian fashion/textile designers, 
  2. Indian famous photographers
  3. Some logos
  4. Famous painters/paintings
  5. Olympic medal winners
  6. Prehistoric paintings and more


Link 5: Resource collections from UCEED page for CEED

Refer only the topics listed below for CEED:
  1. Guide on font with several online links
  2. Typography, visual iconography
  3. Intro. to mathematical solid shapes
  4. Famous paintings, painters, artistic media, art movements etc.
  5. Colors 
  6. General topics (paper sizes, dances, image formats, drawing terminology, perspective and non perspective works)  

Refer only the topics listed below for CEED:
  1. Non-verbal and Image reasoning 
  2. Go through the bullet points under the heading "Some facts"
  3. List of some famous epics of India
  4. List of Indian animators, famous photographers, women designers, renaissance poets
  5. List of Indian noble prize and oscar winners
  6. Plutchik-wheel of emotions


Link 7 - Some CEED Part - A materials

This link contains:
  1. Evolution of objects
  2. Something about materials
  3. A few GK 
  4. Color selection
  5. A few IQ tests 
  6. Sustainable and eco products


This link contains:
  1. CEED Part A previous papers (from 2012 to this years)
  2. Some solutions to CEED Part B (design, sketching, problem-solving etc.)
  3. UCEED previous papers solutions (from UCEED 2015 to latest) - UCEED solutions will help you for CEED Part A preparation as most of the syllabus is same (UCEED is tougher than CEED.
  4. UCEED sample practice papers
  5. CEED sample practice papers


This link contains
  1. Mock tests, samples and previous model papers for CEED.
  2. Mock tests, samples and previous model papers for UCEED (to be practiced for CEED too).
  3. Subjective practice questions



This link contains
  1. Collections of everyday design practice questions for CEED
  2. Solutions shared by me and some students for everyday practice questions
  3. Solutions to some CEED previous years design (Part B) questions
  4. Tips to solving some design questions.


Videos to help you


When to start making portfolio ? What to prepare for Part B

 


What to start? 
How to solve design aptitude, non-verbal, and Ability questions with examples



PART 16


Maths Basics for non-math background design aspirants


Counting number of surfaces on solids



How to start and what to practice for CEED



Find all videos here


Additional Resources



8 comments:

  1. Bhanu Sir, the content you have provided is very helpful for self study and thanks for sharing it, but the resources itself should be properly arranged as it sometimes very confusing to access

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    1. This is like asking to peel-off and feed the banana to you that was given as free :P
      You cannot expect someone to work and dedicate their complete time just for your sake. You should also spare some time for your self results! Now that the content is available, at least this much work of sorting out and finding the right topics to you in this page should be taken care by you. I'm not here to make people lazy by the way!
      or, let me know what better idea you have to take care of your line 'resource itself SHOULD BE properly arranged...'

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    2. 🤣🤣🤣🤣well said sir

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    3. I felt it confusing too! however i'm just glad i found this blog. it would take me a whole month to gather all these resources at one place.

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  2. This is just amazing..i cant imagine how much of efforts the author has put into creating this master piece..that too for free..may god bless this incredible person..
    This made my journey very easy and organised...
    Thanks man thanks a lot for all the efforts..!!

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  3. Amazing content sir. You make student understand concepts with an ease. Your study material is very helpful to anyone applying for all those exams.

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  4. Sir,i would like to apply for phd in design at IDC,MUMBAI.I am not from design background and have a Masters in another subject .Which exam should i appear Ceed or Uceed?

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    1. UCEED is for beds and CEED is for mdes. I think for phd there shall be separate procedure to apply. Please check idc website admission page.

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