CEED one month practice topics - quick list

(Updated with new strategy from 2021)

A very quick list of topics useful for one month CEED preparation.  

Before that I will answer the question that might be troubling you - 'Is one month sufficient?'. 

The straight answer is 'YES'

Just use the available time properly and stop having the questions

'what marks should I get?', 

'How may questions should I attempt?'

and more....

I considered suggesting some topics purely based on my view.

I suggest you to modify the below generic strategy and come up with your own strategy, which shall be best suited for you.....according to your abilities, speed, time availability and other commitments. 

Let's start being self dependent :)

Complete CEED related SYL blog links download PDF (2021 update)

Priority list

1) Sketching

If you have been practicing from a while then continue with the flow. If you are just starting then start by solving 2020 previous paper (or the most recent one)....Coz first you should understand the sketch questions type being asked. Once you understood, start practicing similar questions. 

The below strategies are suggested assuming that you have already practiced sketching basics like - line quality, perspective sketching, sketching minding form, shape, size, proportion etc. If you haven't and are starting a fresh, then you may want to practice general sketching to improve the above mentioned factors.

The topics that need immediate focus and can be continued until the first three weeks are

• Scenario based sketching (given a scenario and the requirements and you are asked to show that) - like Q1 in CEED 2020 paper - if you have time then at least an hour. If no time then min 30 mins
• Making form - like Q4 in CEED 2020 paper - take one or two ques each day and spend around 30 mins

Visual synthesis part (like Q3 in CEED 2020 paper) can be planned only for one week and that too on the third week (start two weeks before the exam and use only one week for this) - may be 20-30 mins per day if you've less time.

 

The below topics should be continued until the last day from the very beginning because these are very important!

• Problem Identification (like Q5 in CEED 2020)  - if you have time then spend as much time, solve a minimum of 2-3 questions for which the problems needs to be identified
• Creative thinking (like Q2 in CEED 2020) - take at least one question and try to solve. 

I've already listed many practice questions and you can use them or you can use use questions from any other sources that you have. But do practice as much as you can and improve quickly....

CEED Part B Practice Questions Part 1

CEED Part B Practice Questions Part 2

Find more Practice Questions

Check the below video on sketching Level required (sufficient) for CEED if you haven't yet 

(This will clarify, guide as well as prevent you from doing wrong practices since time is precious!) 

2) 

Next comes Part A practice, Following topics (that deals with visualization/imagination) are recommended first

Geometrical views, 

Projections, 

Solid manipulations, 

Visualization of solids (practice these very quickly)

Basically any type of questions dealing with images, solids etc., including the puzzles kind are recommended

How to Solve Design Aptitude, non verbal, and ability questions with clear explanation

3)

Mensuration (medium level) - topics that need the basic maths (trust me, no need to go for detailed mathematics, very very basics formulaes are sufficient. I've already covered them in this video. It will hardly take a few hours to memorize them.) Keep practicing this on daily basis by spending say 15-20 mins every day until u feel u are able to solve problems related to mensuration. 

This includes problems on (mostly the below are sufficient) 

Pythagoras theorem

Basic level - Area, volume,

Triangles,

Circles.

Check the video on Basic Mathematics formulas sufficient for Design exams

A snap from the video showing the basic formulas sufficient from mathematics

4)

Mechanical Ability, Spatial ability,

5)

Image Aptitude, 

Pictogram puzzles, 

Inference from pictures

Animation movement

6)

Pattern recognition from images

7)

Image observation (like identifying similar patterns in a set of patterns)

8)

Paper cuts

9) Reading/Paragraph comprehension (Very little - don't spend much time on this if you have already done some practice or if this is handy to you, but remember this topic is important for UCEED exam!)

And finally

10) GK/GA on 

1. Art, painters - works of famous artists, ability to identify and recognise the works,  
2. Renaissance
3. Designers,  famous persons related to design
4. Indian art history, Culture
5. Photography and art media - terms, techniques, standards, 
6. Color theory, Art and print media
7. Architecture - significant/historical structures, persons, media, variants etc
8. Logos (mostly in Indian context that too related to design institutes, governmental service sectors as well as cars, skippable if you have less time)
9. Indian regional culture, literature, music, style etc 
10. Materials (just overview if you have time else skip)
11. English - (skip this, no need to spend time for this).

The first nine in the list above......you can start immediately, and skip the design GA initially. In the last week before the exam (or if you can cover up the above topics quickly.....then you can use the last two weeks before the exam) 

Or, if you feel that you need more time for sketching and the aptitude part of Part A then it is safe to skip some topics of GA. That's because not many questions are seen in CCED papers related to GK and/or design GA. 

Also, don't forget to attempt previous papers (including UCEED, NID papers) so as to keep a track of the time that you consume for answering the papers as well as keep yourself in pace with the time-bound answering.

Good luck :)

Bhanu

You may check my old video on 'CEED one week practice tips'.

Picture composition - narrating a story based on an incident in an image

Usually in CEED or any other design exam for that matter, has the following type of question : Given an illustration of a incident/situation, narrate a story based on your creative imagination in not more than 200/300 words. 

Well, although this is purely based on your observation of the given scenario and derivation of useful links for the story, we can follow some rules/principles that might help us find way to you a creative and meaningful story. These points are already discussed by me in my earlier post - Frame a story by seeing an image - composed by our friend Aditi, I'm listing them again here for your reference. 

1. Understand the question and know about the situation, ex. for the below picture, (story of which i'm writing down at the end), it was stated that "The illustration is an artistic impression of an incident in a club house". So, we NEED to flag these keywords - 'club house' and 'incident' inorder to start the story. The whole story should (most of the times) roam around the incident i.e. activity in the club house. This is very important! Spend time observing the given situation/sketch without jumping straight to write the story - Have a clear vision of what has to be written by framing the story Take time !
2. Observe most of the individuals/character of the situation 
3. Observe their activities - what they are doing
4. Most importantly note/mind the "mood" of the character (if it is clear in the image) - it's very important in story framing ! 
5. Mind the age and gender of the characters !
6. Look for surrounding things - like TV, books, background (if its sceneray) etc. Background might be a closed room, might be a beach (ex. image shown in above post by Aditi), a school, a farm land etc. what not ? anything!   
7. Try to derive a meaningful relation among the individual characters, and try to speak about most of the characters/things etc in your story 

There are two methods (I guess - might be more) of narrating any incident

• By assuming one of the characters in the incident as yourself, and narrating accordingly
• By assuming that you are not involved and you are seeing the incident, just like watching a TV and telling what is happening there.

Most of the times, in CEED exams, second method is applicable, I mean we just need to narrate the incident wihtout being involved (unless specifically mentioned)

Below is an example story that I wrote for one of the previous paper question - CEED 2014, Part B, question 2

Question :

The illustration above is an artist’s impression of an incident in a club house. 

Narrate the incident in your own words, based on your creative imagination. 

Limit your description to less than 250 words. 

Evaluation Criteria: 

Originality of the narrative 

Imagination and Ideation 

Story telling ability

Note: I remember, when I gave exam in 2013, they gave space (with ruled lines) for writing the story, which in actual is less for 250 words. I mean space is very less to elaborate the story. Keeping this in mind, I try to write a short story. Hope, that's ok for you.

My Story for the above situation

It's already 4.40pm in the evening and the so called meeting-head, who has to be there for the club meeting 'xyz colony welfare' is yet to arrive. Scheduled time was 4.00pm and so most of them, who arraived in time, are almost loosing their patience. Children started their naughty activites as usual. One of the colony resident 'Ramu' got totally impatient and inspite of his mothers attempts of pacifying him, he walked away form the club in order to go out and do some other activity, thinking that the meeting is not going to happen that day. 

His mother was trying to stop him with her level best, since the meeting is basically about conducting a counselling sessions for the teens in the colony and so she was interested in having his son present during the meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Shah, whom just came inside the club was wondering about the mess in the room. They stood watching Ramu and his Mom, whispering between them that they did right thing of being late. 

Soumya and her neighbour were trying to get hold of their kids and make them sit in the common waiting hall, children of whom were running here and their; playing with one another. Shyam Lal, who opened a temporary setup for selling eatables and drinks was having good time selling things for the desperately waiting club members because of being late. Meanwhile, Ajit and his wife were busy watching live cricket in television, and Meera aunt although not interested in watching, but in order to avoid getting into boredom state, also started watching TV. Assitant of the meeting head, Premji uncle is still confused on what topics to discuss during the meeting and so was putting all his intelligence to make the proceedings in order.

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This is of course a simple story that I made quickly since it's already 2am ;) But, I guess you must have got some idea on how to deal with story writing questions. You can also refer to Aditi post - Frame a story by seeing an image for another example or you can share your own attempt of story composition writing in the blog specifically meant for design questions sharing for everyone's benefit.

Note - Here's one more story writing example by Prashant

Have a nice week with your story writings :)

CEED and UCEED 2016 mock test 2

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This mock test is best applicable both for CEED and UCEED participants.

Please set 1 hour time limit and check how many questions you are able to answer. After 1 hour you may try again the left over questions and check if you can answer them or not!

Level : Difficult

Answer key to this Mock test

1. Correct unfolded view of the solid is

2. What are the common "Perceptual channels" (select as many)

a. Tactile

b. Communication

c. Auditory

d. Kinesthetic

e. Visual

3. Emotions, actions, movement, taste, smell ...... (something that is felt) represents

a. Auditory

b. Kinesthetic

c. Visual

d. Tactic

4. When "Rule of thirds" is applied to a picture/image, then in many parts the picture/image will be divided

a. no divison

b. 3 parts

c. 6 parts

d. 9 parts

e. 3*3*3 = 27 parts

5. Which of the following is/ARE considered "Impossible triangle"

a. Kanizsa triangle

b. Penrose triangle

c. Barmoda triangle

d. Color triangle 

6. Select the correct basic types of "perspective" 

a. Angular persepctive

b. Linear Perspective

c. Aerial Perspective.

d. all

7. The relation between h, d, a, where h = apparent height of object, a is the actual size, and d is the distance of the object is best given by

a) h = a*d

b) d = a*h

c) h=a/d

d) a = h*d

8. The following image is ipads cover. Identify how many visuals represents Paris

9. Which option represents the correct unfolded view of the given solid ? (select a,b,c,d)

10. Identify to which brand(s) the following products belongs to

a. Sennhieser, apple

b. Samsung, Philips

c. Sony, apple

d. Beats by Dre, apple

e. Philips, Philips

f. Sony, Sony

g. Beats by Dre, Philips

11. Light bulbs are usually filled with inert gas, which of the following can be used (multiple)

a. Nitrogen

b. Methane

c. Helium

d. Krypton

e. Argon

f. Xenon

12. How many different colors are used in this image ?

13. How many font sizes are used in the visual given in (Q12)

14. How many times the following letters 'R', 'E', 'A', 'D' appered in the visual given in (Q12)

15. How many triangles and semi circles (with different colors) are there in the given image

16. How many different colors are used in the given image

17 - How many diff patterns are there in the given image

18. Select the types of biodiversity among the options given

a. Species Diversity

b. Operational Diversity

c. Genetic Diversity

d. Functional Diversity

e. Forest Diversity

f. Plant Diversity

g. Ecosystem Diversity

19a.  How many triangles are possible in the given picture

a. 12

b. 9

c. 11

d. 10

19b. How many intersection points (like A,B ....) are there, where exactly three lines are meeting

a. 6

b. 4

c. 7

d. 8

19c. If E =C, both points are lie on the same place, then how many triangles are possible, and how many lines are sufficient to generate this pentagon image ? 

20. How many reptiles are visible in the below image

21. Image shows a structure (links) in which bottom link (link joined by bottom two nodes) is fixed/pivoted to the ground. choose the correct option

a. The mechanism is rigid/static (cannot move)

b. The mechanism can move either left or right but to some angle

c. The mechanism can move either left or right

d. The mechanism is not stable, and might collapse with little disturbances

22. For the given pulley system, if mass M2, goes down by 10 cm, choose the correct choice

a. Mass M1 goes down by 10cm

b. Mass M1 goes up by 10cm

c. Mass M1 goes up by 5cm

d. Mass M1 goes up by 20cm

23. Figure shows a mechanism that helps to perform which action

a. Provide push force

b. Dig earth

c. Acts as a elevator mechanism

d. he mechanism cannot have motion

24. How many marble pieces are used to make this pattern ?

25. Match the following cultural dance with the state to which it belongs to

a. Kathakali     1. Gujurat

b. Dandya       2. Rajasthan  

c. Bhangra      3. Maharastra

d. Bihu           4. Punjab

e. Chau          5. Kerala

f. Ghoomer     6. Assam

g. Dindi          7. West Bengal

26.  Identify to which brand the following logos belong to

27. How many non-color pencils can be spotted in the picture ?

a. 17

b. 20

c. 16

d. 13

e. 21

28a. Which type of materials is/are recyclable completely or partly (select as many)

a. Coke bottles

b. Coke tins

c. Use and throw tea/juce cups

d. Tennis ball

e. Foam plates

f. Incandescent light Bulbs,

g. Card board boxes tarnished with food

h. Aquafina water bottle

i. CFL bulbs

28b. Plastic drinking water bottles are made from

a. PVC

b. Polyethylene 

c. Polycarbonate

d. Polyethylene terepthylene

29. Select the correct order for the following shown instruments numbered a,b,c

a. Sarod, Sarangi, Sitar

b. sarangi, sarod, sitar

c. sitar, sarod, sarangi

d. sarod, sitar, sarangi

30. How many intersections (one line crossing or meeting another line) are possible in this image

(additional exercise: If lines AB, BC, CD are removed, then how many triangles are possible)

31 Check this car, and identify the correct option to which it belong to

a. Dodge Challenger

b. Ford Mustang

c. Caroll Shelby

D. Citreon DS4 HDI Sport chic

32. Identify to which organizations the following logos belongs to

33. How many lines of clear waves (no partial visible waves) are

clearly visible in the picture (don't count half waves)

a. 22

b. 24

c. 21

d. 26

e. 27

34. How many times letter E is flipped downwards ? (from UCEED)

35. In color triangle, how many primary colors are used as an additive combination to make the triangle

a. 4 colors

b. 1 color

c. 3 color

d. Rainbow colors

36. Match the following

a. Ruth Kedar            1. Graphic designer, paintern sculptor, architect

b. Herbert Bayer        2. Falling water & Guggenheim museum architect

c. Frank Lloyd Wright 3. Logo designer for 'Google'

d. Justin Trudeau      4. Canada Prime minister

37. Alphabets (A,B,C,D,K) are used on fire extinguishers, identify which alphabet is related to which classification among a,b,c,d

a. Combustible metals (magnesium, lithium, titanium)

b. cooking media (cookin oils, fats)

c. Common combustibles (wood, paper, cloth)

d. Flammable liquids and gases (Gasoline, propane, and solvents)

e. Live electrical equiments (computers, fax machines)

38. Identify the correct next pattern

source - Theonlinetest

39.Choose the correct folded cube

source - Theonlinetest

40. Which of the following is a sculpture material

a. Metal clay

b. Hardstone carving

c. Terracota

d. Wathering steel

e. Alabaster

f. Granite

g. Microcrystalline wax

h. Salt dough

41. Observe the facial expressions numbered 1,2,3,4 and match with options given

a. Angry

b. Surprised

c. Bored

d. sad

42) Match the correct options (alphabets to numbers)

a. Eternal India

b. A suitable boy

c. A Revolutionary Life

d. A Voice of Freedom

e. The Secret of Nagas

1. Vikram Seth

2. Laxmi Sehgal

3. Nayantara Shehgal

4. Mahatma Gandhi

5. Amish Tripathi

43. Who among the following are some of the greatest designers of all time

a. Charlie Parrish

b. Pierre Cardin

c. Michael Graves

d. Caravaggio

e. Rubens

f. Jonathan Ive

g. Dieter Lubs

44) one is not equal to seven, but can you move one match stick to make the equation correct ? which one ?

Source and more puzzles

references for pictures used in this page

Q12-http://educationcareerarticles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Visual-Communication.jpg

Q5 - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/189221621817779521/

Q6 - 17 - http://www.byhanna.com/tiles_twp0608.html

Q24 - amazon.com

Q19 - http://tiorema.blogspot.in/2013/06/coloracao-do-plano.html

Q20 - http://www.thebluedotpost.com/why-biodiversity-and-the-interconnected-web-of-life-are-important/

Q33 - http://www.byhanna.com/korsnas150ar.html

CEED 2016 Sample Part-A Mock test - 1

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There isn't much difference in the pattern of CEED (as well as UCEED) in the last couple of years, this blog already have many mock tests, which would give you an idea of what type of questions might appear in exams as well as give you some clues on how to solve them. In-spite of this, many are leaving comments for mock tests specifically for this year. For this reason, I collected some more sample questions and included here as a warm up practice for you. 

Please make sure that you also cover or attempt other mock tests released in earlier years (and this year) for both CEED as well as UCEED. CEED Part A and UCEED patterns are way similar. So, take both papers and solve them. For those giving CEED this Dec, they can consider attempting UCEED 2015 paper as well as UCEED mock tests that I had dealt in this blog. You can find the links to those mock tests at the end.

Answer Key to this mock test

  1) Solve this

2) What is the correct option for a Tetrahedron

a) Face = 4, Vertex = 6, Edges = 4

b) Face = 6, Vertex = 6, Edges = 6

c) Face = 4, Vertex = 4, Edges = 6

d) Face = 6, Vertex = 8, Edges = 12

3) Figure shows a Bolt and Nut combination, if you have to rotate and tight it using your left hand in the same orientation as shown as given in the figure, which option is correct

a) rotate clockwise direction

b) rotate anticlockwise direction

c) any direction

d) None

4) Which type of mirrors are used 'as wall mirrors' or 'dressing mirrors'

a) convex

b) concave

c) cylindrical

d) plane

5) Below picture shows a famous painting "Three girls" made by

a) Rabindranath Tagore

b) Amrita Sher Gil

c) Manjit Bava

d) Lalita Lajmi

6) The Great Sphinx Of Giza, Egypt is made from

a) Clay 

b) Rock

c) Limestone

d) Plaster of Paris 

e) Wood

7) Famous book "The God of small things" was written by

a) Jhumpa Lahiri

b) Salman Rushdie

c) Amish Tripathi

d) Arundhatti Roy

8) Which of the following are true related to Paint brush (select multiple)

a) Two basic types of bristles: natural and synthetic

b) Only one type: made from animal hair

c) synthetic bristles are made from nylon

d) synthetic bristles are made from Polyster

e) Natural bristles are made from hog or badger

f) b,e

g) a,c,e

h) a,c,d,e

9) What reasoning fact can you give after judging the below picture

10) Figure shows a solid and its projection in three different views, a,b,c, represents

a) front view, top view, right side view

b) left side view, top view, front view

c) top view, front view, left side view

d) top view, front view, right side view

11)

All the flutes are instruments.

All the harmoniums are flutes.

what can you derive from the above two sentences ?

12) count the number of squares in the given figure (source: UCEED 2015 paper)

13) The given figure is made of letters L,T,H,I,E and F, set in different orientations. Find the total number of

occurance of capital letter T in the figure. (source: UCEED 2015 paper)

14) Count the number of surfaces for the given picture

15) A square paper is folded twice and four small triangular cuts are given as shown in the picture Identify the correct unfolded pattern 

source  

16) Which of the following are Image formats

a) ANI, CAL, PBM, PGM

b) BMP, GIF, IMG

c) WMF, JPG, JPEG,

d) FAX, PCB, PPM, RAS

e) a and d

f) All

17) Which of the following is/are types of pollution

a) Light Pollution

b) Noise Pollution

c) Visual Pollution

d) Radioactive contamination

e) Soil contamination

f) Visual pollutions

18) Canon released the highest pixel camera recently, select the correct range of it's MP

a) 30-40 megapixel

b) 20-30 MP

c) 65-70 MP

d) 50-55 MP

19) A machine produces 100 units of product per minute. If 24 units of product are packed to the case, how many cases can be filled in one hour by the machine? 

A. 125

B. 250

C. 500

D. 2,500

E. 6,000 

20) Identify the correct pattern

21) Shown below is a belt and pulley arrangement. How many pulleys are rotating clockwise

22) Below shows a image of a man in running position, select the next four set of movements of the human in order

a) 2, 1, 3, 4

b) 3, 1, 4, 2

c) 1, 2, 4, 3

d) 4, 1, 3, 2

23) Who among the following, doesn't belong to the list of 'famous Graphic designers'

a) Sachin Bavkar

b) Satish Gurera

c) Sujata Kesavan

d) Akshr Pathak

e) all

f) none

24) If teapot A holds 32 ounces of tea, about how many ounces does teapot B hold?

source

a) 64

b) 0

c) 16

d) 48

e) cannot determine

25) Which two of the four images are same

a) a,c

b) a,b

c) b,d

d) (a,c) and (b,d)

e) all four match to the same pattern

f) none

26) Left image shows four cut papers, which when joined will form which pattern

a) A

b) B

c) C

d) D

27) Identify the famous personality 

a) Sir C.V.Raman

b) Jagadeesh Chandra Bose

c) Subash Chandra Bose

d) Arya Bhatta

28) Following image is a strange design made by the famous company "Porsche".  Identify the product use

source

a) Table and night lamp

b) Hot water and tea maker

c) Hookah

d) voice speaker

29) Select as many (source: UCEED 2015 paper)

30) Figure shows what is called "Archimedes screw" that is principally used to raise water. In order to raise water , the shaft with blades should rotate

a) Cloclwise

b) Aniclockwise

c) both directions lift water

31) which among the following comes under recycled packing materials

a) Bubble wrap

b) Paper board

c) Corn starch

d) Glass

e) none

32)

In all cultures, gestures are used as a form of communication, but the same gestures may have very different meanings in different cultures.

a) No two cultures use the same gestures.

b) One gesture will never have the same meaning in two cultures.

c) A person from one culture may misunderstand the gestures used by a person from another culture. 

33) The following image is 

source

a) A photogragh

b) edited image of photoshop

c) made by oil painting

d) Acrylic painting

e) Pastel work

34) The much anticipated movie "The Jungle Book" to be released in 2016 is directed by

a) Justin Murphy

b) Nick Park

c) Brad Bird

d) Jon Favreau 

35) Below image shows a cardboard box, select the best option

a) 4-point perspective

b) 1-point perspective

c) 11-point perspective

d) Picture not in perspection

36) Figure shows a palace in Russia, state the material used

a) Brick

b) Limestone

c) Marble

d) Italian stones

e) Cement

37) Which among the following is/are (select as many) not a style of Architecture in India

a) Gadag

b) Maru-Gujara

c) Nagara

d) Badami

e) None

Answer Key to this mock test

As you can seen, I have included a good number of UCEED 2015 questions, just to remind you the similarities in the pattern of both the exams, in fact I guess the level for UCEED Part A is some steps ahead to the level of CEED! So, those preparing for CEED are recommended to practice UCEED previous papers (as well as the mock tests that I dealt in this blog) to strengthen your practice and mathematical as well as design abilities. I knowingly neglected asking questions related to culture and other GA related, hoping that you are aware of them, or you can find them in previous mock tests.

More Mock tests for your practice

Sample Mock test practice - 3
Official UCEED 2015 sample test Answer key
UCEED Sample Mock test practice - 2 
Sample questions for UCEED 2015, Model test - 1 

Self Evaluation practice questions 

Sample numerical and aptitude questions for UCEED

Here is my guide on - How to solve Reasoning and Logical questions with ans example 

Part-A and Part-B practice exercises (*)

• CEED Part - A Mock test - 3 
• CEED Part - A Mock test - 2 
• New everyday Design Practice exercise - 1 (2014) 
• CEED 2014 Part - A practice exercise for week - 1  
• Design Thoughts for every day-1
• Design practice exercises for everyday - 2
• Aptitude and GA practice for Part-A 

Hope this helps, All the best ........