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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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14 November 2015

Answer key for CEED 2016 Part - A mock test -1

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This is the anser key to CEED/UCEED 2016 Mock test -1, If you haven't checked the questions, yet, I strongly recommend to go through the actual questions, try to solve them, and them come here to check the answers. Here is the actual question set - 2016 Part - A practice mock test - 1

1) Solve this

ans) A

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

ans) C

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

ans) a

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

a) convex
b) concave
c) cylindrical
d) plane

ans) d

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


a) Rabindranath Tagore
b) Amrita Sher Gil
c) Manjit Bava
d) Lalita Lajmi

ans) b

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


a) Clay 
b) Rock
c) Limestone
d) Plaster of Paris 
e) Wood

ans) c

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

a) Jhumpa Lahiri
b) Salman Rushdie
c) Amish Tripathi
d) Arundhatti Roy

ans) d

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

ans) h

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

ans) Pain-less operation

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

ans) d

11)
All the flutes are instruments.
All the harmoniums are flutes.

what can you derive from the above two sentences ?

ans) All harmoniums are instruments

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


ans) 37

 Check the below images for better understanding, note the blue shapes fitted to indicate the square counted.
Handle these type of questions as follows:
  1. First count the big squares, write it down for sure, 
  2. then count next lesser sized squares, write it down, and so on. 
  3. Don't stick to principles like 'Symmetry', even in symmetry images, there might be squares (or any required shape) derived from the two symmetry.
Squares -> 1 (in the center) + 1x(2 - for both sides) = 3


Squares -> 9 x (2 - for both sides) = 18

Squares -> 8 x (2 - for both sides) = 16

Total squares -> 3+18+16 = 37

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)


ans) 7

14) Count the number of surfaces for the given picture

ans) 13

 3+3+2+3+1+1 = 13

check how to solve similar questions here - solving for no. of faces on solids
Also see -  working with geometric shapes

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  

ans) 2nd pattern

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

ans) f
Check all the image formats list

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

ans) a,d,c,d,e (all)

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

ans) d

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 

ans) B 

Explanation:
If 100 units are produced every minute, then 100 units x 60 minutes = 6,000 units are produced every hour. 6,000 units per hour / 24 units per case = 250 cases per hour. The correct answer is B.

20) Identify the correct pattern


ans) B

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




ans) 5

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

ans) d

Learn more about - Animation and step by step movement

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

ans) f

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

 ans) 16 ounces (about half of pot A).

The amount of tea that can be kept within each pot is determined by the height of the spout opening. The tea level cannot rise above the spout opening since any extra tea would merely spill out from the spout.  A simple visual estimate would conclude that the spout of teapot B is approximately half the height of that of teapot A, therefore providing only half of the capacity, or 16 ounces.

 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

ans) d

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


a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D

ans) B

27) Identify the famous personality 

a) Sir C.V.Raman
b) Jagadeesh Chandra Bose
c) Subash Chandra Bose
d) Arya Bhatta

ans) b

28) Following image is a strange design made by the famous company "Porsche".  Identify the product use
a) Table and night lamp
b) Hot water and tea maker
c) Hookah
d) voice speaker

ans) c

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


ans) C,D

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

ans) a

31) which among the following comes under recycled packing materials

a) Bubble wrap
b) Paper board
c) Corn starch
d) Glass
e) none

ans) a,b,c,d

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. 

ans) c

33) The following image is 
a) A photogragh
b) edited image of photoshop
c) made by oil painting
d) Acrylic painting
e) Pastel work

ans) c

A pure oil painting!
More Painting Resources : on wiki page, most popular painting styles

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 

ans) d

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 perspective

ans) d

Very good collection of - perspective and non-perspective images

An example image showing how to evaluatre 'out of persepctivness' in the given image. Note that the thing you need to do is to extend the edges of the object till extensions meets at some points. These meeting points are termed as 'Vanishing points'. If there are two such points, it's called Two-point persepctive image (2PP), if three, it's 3PP. In an given image, some objects might be wrongly sketched/showed which will be out of persepctive.



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


a) Brick
b) Limestone
c) Marble
d) Italian stones
e) Cement

ans) c
See more - Architectural guide

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

ans) e
See more - Architectural guide


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

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


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


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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
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 
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
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

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


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


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