CEED last few days preparation priority list

 List of topics to prepare and to skip (2021 update)

Part B

1. Avoid spending hours for sketching of one particular question.
2. Problem identification (given a product or scenario) and creativity are the the two area which you should continue till the last day. You don’t have to sketch, just list down the identified problems or quickly scribble the creativity part.
3. Do quick scribbling of line sketching and do a few situation based exercises too, like at least two situations in just one half an hour!
4. Don’t spend more than three hours per day for part B, if you have the whole day for your preparation.

Part A

1. Skip current affairs and GK
2. Skip Materials and Manufacturing process study
3. If you have started your preparation recently - skip design awareness (like culture, designers, painters etc. - from here on let’s term this as GA)
4. If you have been preparing for a while, esp. the image based and non verbal part and haven’t touched GA part then quickly revise the following GA topics
• Painting, state wise painting, art and all.
• Quickly go through colour theory
• Famous designers,
• Quickly about photography
• Based on leftover time, plan to cover any other GA topics that you felt imp.
• Revise and practice some samples of nonverbal and image involved aptitude questions, including ability questions
• Practice at least one previous paper with a time limit. It’s fine to cross check the answers but never ever try to estimate the score or check if that score is sufficient or not! Remember, whether you prepare or not your positive attitude and confidence are very important and if you keep comparing scores you might loose your confidence....for no reason. So be smart!
5. If you are not ready with non verbal too (just started), then do the following
• Skip current affairs
• Skip entire GA including about designers, materials etc. No need to touch any and it’s absolutely ok, especially if you feel you can pick up some score from the below preparation
• Practice wholly (apart from the sketching) on
• Abstract tests
• Solids and their manipulation (folding, unfolding, different views, counting no. of surfaces etc.)
• General, mechanical and spatial ability
• Deductive reasoning
• Odd man out series
• Revise basic math formulas (check the formulas in this video and they are more than sufficient)
• Skip signs, symbols etc,
• Skip paragraph comprehension (just face them during exam)
• Base on time availability you may plan to cover the utmost imp GA topics as listed above
6. Again, Practice at least one previous paper with a time limit. It’s fine to cross check the answers but never ever try to estimate the score or check if that score is sufficient or not! Remember, whether you prepare or not your positive attitude and confidence are very important and if you keep comparing scores you might loose your confidence....for no reason. So be smart!

That’s it...

All the best, 
Your bro,
Bhanu. 

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'.