Collection of CEED exam study materials

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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.

Link 1: Complete resource collection for CEED Part-A preparation 

This link contains:

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) 

Link 4: GA on famous designers for all design exams

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)  

Link 6: Resource collections from NID page for CEED

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

Link 8 - Solutions to previous papers

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

Link 9: Mock tests and sample papers collections

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

Link 10: Design Practice questions for every day

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.

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