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.

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

How to start and what to practice for CEED exam (NEW)

A book of very good Mechanical ability questions PDF

Afraid of CEED ?  Big mistakes that you should avoid  for preparation

Organize time-time to best prepare for CEED exam

Here's my Portfolio with tips and tools used

Clear your doubts by asking here - Forums and discussions

Some CEED Part A materials

1. Evolution of objects

Evolution generally mean product cycle from past to present. So, you are generally required to observe and identify the everyday use items (say TV) from old to new generation.

check the details in downloadable (Pdf) from here>>

2. Illusions and Perception: Improve Observation skills with Illusions -  here>>

Second list of illusions - here>>

leisure time reference

A very good guide on Art Perception

All about - Aesthetics

3. Materials and Manufacturing process

I had detailed and categorized materials as well as manufacturing processes with examples of day-to-day products. 

You may check - Material and manufacturing process >>

1. Every day materials - here
2. Plastic materials and manufacturing process - A very good guide for household plastic materials and their manufacturing process. You may not go through manufacturing process, just note for what material, what particular manufacturing process is employed - here
3. Tips for selecting plastic materials - here
4. Top sculptors - here
5. Top Indian stone and rock carvings - here
6. Famous bronze sculptures - here

4. General Knowledge

• List of logos - here>>
• All about Indian culture; A very good website detailing all about India - cultureindia.net
• Famous artists - totallyhistory.com
• Top painters list - iloveindia.com
• Indian artists list - wikipedia

5. Color Selection

Let us now see some pdf files, which may help you choose color at different occasions

• Shades of colors - wiki page - complete list of color and template shades 
• Psychology of color by Painters of Louisville from - nowsorcing.com
• Colors by gender from blog.kissmetrics.com

Something about - Prototype making from MIT, Cambridge

Product Design Open course free PDF's - MIT Product Design open courseware




6. Other IQ tests and exercises

• Analogy online exercise
• A very good guide for Mental ability and picture type questions -
• Mental Ability Test samples
• Logical arrangement of words sample practice

Learn the basics and terms of 'Design for the environment' - with general practices, products, regulations, best practices etc by goinng through this wiki page

Leisure time study - Design for social impact

• Eco-friendly products
• Eco products official directory - (just give a overview in free) (not imp)
• Some basic mechanical principles
• Working principles
• home appliances working with explanations (not imp)

7. Perception and Aesthetics

A very good guide on Art Perception

All about - Aesthetics

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 ........