Collection of UCEED exam study materials

Link 1: Subjective (Part B) complete collections for UCEED as per new pattern from 2020


This link contains:

1. Collection of SYL blog pages to practice exercise for sketching.  (To help you practice and test your sketch line quality, imagination skill, perspective, proportion and size of your drawing.). 
2. Object practice questions.
3. Human, scenario, room, persepctive practice questions. 
4. Downloadable books to help with basics of sketching, perception and shading techniques
5. Beginner guide to sketching
6. Youtube videos on how to improve human sketching, drawing objects and humans with proper size and proportion

Link 2: Collection of UCEED Main topics

This link contains:

1. Mathematical Geometry ( Types of views, how to visualize solids in all the sides) - orthographic drawings, exercises, transformation of solids, 
2. Basics of solid shapes
3. Observation and visualization skills (tangram puzzles. animation movement, geometric objects and how to work with them, hidden words and images, tesselllations, illusions, objects evolution)
4. General guide on - photography, animation, typography, video/colors, illustration, artistic tools, drawing terms and sculpture, Logos etc.)  
5. Answers to previous papers of CEED (that will help you prepare for UCEED by solving image based and other design aptitude questions)
6. Sample reasoning practice. How to solve reasoning question
7. English comprehension
8. GK on indian culture - State painting and painters, musical instruments etc.) 
9. Something about materials and manufacturing related topics

Link 3: Design Aptitude and Reasoning practice materials collections

This link contains:

1. Free books for mechanical and ability questions
2. Verbal, non-verbal and psychometric practice online links
3. Odd man out series exercises
4. Direction sense tests 
5. Spatial and verbal ability practice exercises
6.  Inference from paragraph
7. Paragraph summary exercises
8. Deductive, Inductive and verbal reasoning, conclusive drawing 
9. Data interpretation
10. Abstract tests, IQ and word/pictogram puzzles

Link 4: Resource update for new syllabus for UCEED 

Refer the topics listed below for UCEED:

1. Guide on font with several online links
2. Typography, visual infography
3. Intro. to mathematical solid shapes
4. Famous paintings, painters, artistic media, art movements etc.
5. Cultural tour of India.
6. Colors 
7. General topics (paper sizes, dances, image formats, drawing terminology, perspective and non perspective works)  

Link 5: Resource collections from NID page for UCEED

Refer only to 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 6: Solutions to previous papers

Study only the topics listed below:

1. UCEED previous papers (from 2015 to this year)
2. UCEED sample practice papers
3. CEED sample practice papers 
4. CEED previous papers solutions (from CEED 2012 to latest) - CEED solutions will help you for CEED Part A preparation as most of the syllabus is same (UCEED is tougher than CEED.

Link 7: Mock tests and sample papers collections

This link contains

1. Mock tests, samples and previous model papers for UCEED.
2. Mock tests, samples and previous model papers for CEED (to be practiced for CEED too).

Link 8: GA on famous designers for all design exams

This link contains: (Topics to be prepared after completing the above topics)

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

Complimentary: Discussion on UCEED new pattern from 2020 part B and part A

General guide 

How to prepare and what to practice for UCEED  

Weekly strategy and schedule/time-table for UCEED practice 

List of priority topics for one month UCEED preparation

Check this if your exam is only two or one week ahead - List of priority topics to be covered for sure as available in resource page in the last week of your exam

Priority topics from resource page for 3 days UCEED preparation

Last minute tips and time management for UCEED exam

What to do if you get less ranks in Design exams or if you couldn't get design seat at all

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Videos to help you

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

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