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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



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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. 

  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

 5. Color Selection

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

7. Perception and Aesthetics

A very good guide on Art Perception
All about - Aesthetics


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27 September 2015

Is coaching required for CEED exam ?



"Do I need coaching for CEED exam ?"

and this is the question, that I always get from most of you. In this post, I will try to give my justification as to which one is better for you: coaching or self-study, Let us see!

CEED is different from other design exams and the pattern of CEED includes design part as well as Part-A (Objective type). It's clear that for Part-A, you mostly don't need coaching or training. Just make sure that you are aware of the syllabus and also you got hold of suitable materials related to that. Most of which is available online (unfortunately, no specific books (offline) that caters all the needs of Part-A are yet available to us. Let's hope we will get one in future). Anyway, I have covered most of the topics in this blogs resource page. Also, since you've already crossed your bachelor's level and you are capable of dealing with exams (that covers Part-A type of questions) by your own. 

So, if Part-A is your only concern (if you are good in Part B and not in Part A), then better if you check your self study level and go accordingly. Take as many patterns and puzzles from internet and other sources and try to solve them. GA type questions are remembrance type, and so no specific training required for that, except that you know the syllabus. Like I always mention, 1 month of serious preparation is more than enough for Part A. Of course, most of the aspirants prepare in last moment (say in couple of weeks) and get good results in part A! 

Now, we will discuss about the big issue ! Part - B. I agree that Part B and solving similar design questions require experience as well as guidance. Although it seems bit handy and easy for those who have design and art background (art), yet it's still a concern even for them! All you to solve a design problem is some  bunch of relevant ideas, and the way you represent them in stipulated time. May be in this regard, one needs proper guidance.

Okay, do you need coaching then ?

Well, It depends ....... honestly speaking most of them who crack CEED and secure AIR below 500; mostly prepare by themselves. Anyway, let me put some points - the situations under which you need to think for taking coaching seriously

  • When you are a total beginner in sketching, and you never tried any sketch works in your past ...... as a hobby, as an assignment or never took part in any art competitions
  • When your confidence level is way low and when you have no resources/materials from any where else
  • When you need some one to always instruct you, and are less efficient with self preparation
  • When you feel like your improvements week by week is not that much
Okay, these are just some theoretical points. But, let me assure you by saying that everybody has got some art talent with them, the only thing is some of you might not have tried them and so feel like not capable, which is not true in reality.

Here are some tips on how you can realize your level by yourself

  • Practice....practice.....practice for at least a week. Get your hands dirty by trying different design ideas and by sketching them roughly as well as with utmost care (try both and make two sketches of the same idea)
  • Analyse and get accustomed to the pattern of exam
  • No one is an expert by birth. Everybody (even experts) needs practice and of course improvements take time. So, be patient and don't jump to take a decision within the first couple of days! Wait for at least one or two weeks to realise your capability and by practising (below; I gave a self-assessment method for your benefit, Try if you feel it's worth !)
  • Develop creative thinking ideas by way of regular exposure and practice
  • Careful scheduling and planning to cover up all the topics of the exam will help you easily cover and improve in time

In other words, your level of practice is what helps u know whether coaching is absolutely required or not.

Self-assessment method


 Here, I suggest the following simple exercise for you to self access your level :

  • Initially, consider a design stream that you are actually interested in, if you are not sure yet (it's absolutely fine, don't worry) then consider choosing a design stream that interests you, that looks easy for you or that you have tried earlier
  • Now, take related stream question from any CEED previous paper (Part -B) and try to solve them by ideating the idea as well as implementing them by way of sketching. Assume yourself that you are giving the actual exam.
  • Take time, don't worry if it consumes much time at the beginning, but try to do that properly and yaa ....... before attempting a question, make sure that you read the question properly and that you understood what the actual requirement is. Without which, any attempt is waste. Also, you may (I must say you should !) know your way of representing ideas. Anyway, you may refer to my way of presenting designs and writings in this post as a reference - Solution to CEED 2009 design question (Q.10) -walking stick design problem
  • After you are done with your attempt, now try comparing your work with that of other students, as well as from solutions from online (you can find some in this blog too). Cross check yours with the reference and that should help you analyse ups and downs in your works. 
  • Remember, the so called reference (that you are comparing with others idea including this blogs) is not always complete, and it can also be partial or not in full fledge, but comparison might give you some idea and in most case confidence ! 
  • Single/first time attempt is not enough to realize the actual fact. So, make one or two more attempts with different questions. find the faults in your design works. Do ,this for the first week.
  • Now, compare your first work with that of your latest work, and check whether there is an improvements in yours or not ! I bet there will definitely be if you are serious !
Hope this idea works for you pretty well.

If you have decided to prepare by yourself, then probably you need to read this post - step-by-step guide for starting CEED process

When to start ?


It's never late to start for preparation. Most of the aspirants start their preparation before two months and some (students and working people) start even before a month ! So, never worry regarding the start. You could have spent your time practising rather than just thinking 'shall I start or not? is this time enough or not ?' You might end up wasting time just on thinking rather than proceeding! Don't wait, just go ahead and act.

Which coaching institute to join ?


If you have made your mind to join any coaching institute, then good luck with that, but the question "Which institute to join ?" is really a big issue ! You need to be careful in choosing the right institute by considering reviews from those who did from those institutes. Unfortunately, I don't have any review about any institute and not sure which one is good. Some of our blog readers told me that some institutes (forgot the name), are just using this blogs mock tests and content as course guiding.

So, be careful before investing both your time as well as money on something. Speak with seniors and get to know which one is better and which one has got higher track records and scores. Again, don't compromise with online (coaching center released) videos where students were made to speak!

Check my recent video on how to choose the best coaching institute and save your money by asking the 5 questions mentioned



How many hours every day for practice ?


Well, most of the aspirants are prospect students and employees, so they obviously get little time for other preparations, any way, considering the time limit, 4-5 hours a week is recommended till the last month; if you belong to this category. In the last month, spare as much time as you can, and work on Part A simultaneously. Again, if your sketch level is below average and if you are self preparing, then you must consider spending many more hours per week, making yourself comfortable with drawing/sketching as well as ideas.

If you are at home or if you are having enough time for preparation, then don't hesitate to spend time. Just go ahead and enjoy practising.

Finally, here's how I put  step-by-step guide for starting CEED process

 step-by-step guide for learning sketching for beginners


Hope this helped you ....... 
All the best with your start. Happy ceeding


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