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Mathematical Geometry

Image-based reasoning is very important for UCEED. This requires good imagination and visualization skills. To get this skill, as a first step, you are advised to learn on how to visualize a given solid from all directions. This will help you build your aptitude skill. 

Here are set of my video tutorials that will help with non-verbal, design aptitude and geometry kind of questions

What to start? and How to solve design aptitude, non-verbal, and Ability questions with examples

PART 16

Maths Basics for non-math background design aspirants

How to count no. of surfaces in given solids

Here is my latest post - Improve imagination, work with 3D solids and unfolding of solid shapes

Tips to solve Reasoning and Logical questions

My tips and training around Visualization and Observation 

Some good video tutorials from youtube that help you with Solid transformations

source : Maths Online

source : Study pug

Other downloadable materials

• Slide 1 - Orthographic drawing
• Projection of solids - Front, top and side view guide
• Briefly, go through this slides
• Practice with some exercise questions
• Practice only from 14th page - Basic transformation of solids

Basic Geometry study (for reference) -

• Basic solid shapes - pdf file here
• More math shape basics - pdf file here
• Geometry - cross-sections
• Area and Perimeter of math shapes - pdf file here 
• Area, Perimeter and volume of standard shapes - pdf file here

More - Sectioning of solids from NPTEL

A very Good guide about - Using Perspective and Vanishing Points

Observation and Visualisation skills

1. Puzzles to improve observation

Tangram Puzzles - Downloadable PDF's

• Tangram examples 1
• Tangram examples 2
• Tangram examples 3 
• Tangram examples 4   
• Tangram examples 5
• Tangram examples 6 

PDF book on Non-verbal and Pictorial puzzles to improve observation

Practice questions for Non-verbal (abstract test) questions

2. Animation movement

This topic covers the notion of frame making as used in animation. This basically involves the consecutive steps/positions of the image.

Check the detail in downloadable (Pdf) form Tips for analyzing the pattern and graphic movements >>

3. Working with Geometric Objects

Some solved geomtry related questions (Pdf) with explanation -  working with geometry objects >>

Learn a way of Solving number of faces on complex objects >>

4. Hidden words and images

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

5. Tessellations

Generally called as unfolded views, Tessellation is all about unwrapping a solid on a flat surface and drawing the unfolded view on a paper. I also gave easy way of solving tetrahedron tessellation problem in one of my pages. check below links

My solution for tetrahedron tessellation problem - Tetrahedron Tessellation problem solving here>>

Geometry representations by Malati - here>>

Leisure time works

• A detailed instructions on how to draw a tessellation by David B Sullivan -  here
• Best tessellations work by Escher from teacherweb - here

6. Illusions

Improve Observation skills with Illusions -  here >>
Second list of illusions - here >>

7. Evolution of objects (less important)

Evolution generally means 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 Some examples of evolution here >>

General Design Awareness study topics

I have covered a lot of topics related to CEED Part - A exam in my earlier posts for CEED students.  The topics are basically related to several design field awareness, their past, present and future. Fortunately, most of those topics can be directly helpful for UCEED aspirants also. Thankfully; that reduced my burden :)

I therefore have included those selected topics and skipped some topics that might not be useful. Hope this will be helpful for your preparation. 

• Photography terms and guide
• Animation study
• Typography
• Video and color technology
• Illustrations
• Indian Automotive awareness
• Useful websites 

Free time reference study

• Artistic tools, drawing terms and sculpture material
• Logos of Indian Govt. undertakings - 1
• Logos of Indian Govt. Undertakings - 2

Extra 1 - Mirroring

• Uses of convex and concave mirror - here
• Uses of convex mirrors - here
• Uses of concave mirrors - here

Answer/solutions to Previous CEED papers

Solving previous years CEED Part - A questions would  help you with UCEED preparation as both the syllabus are mostly same. Spare some time to solve CEED questions too !

• CEED 2019 Part A Solutions 
•  CEED 2018 Part A Solutions 
•  CEED 2017 Part A Solutions 
•  CEED 2016 Part-A solutions
• Answers to CEED 2015 Part - A
• 2014 CEED Part - A
• 2013 CEED Part - A
• 2012 CEED Part - A

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Self-Evaluation test

Before going through further materials as part of UCEED preparation. Let's see this. Assuming that you have over-viewed the above resources (topics related to geometry and pictorial questions), I would like you to check your understanding of the concept by solving one simple question.

Sample Practice question for self evaluation 

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

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Sample numerical and aptitude questions for UCEED

English comprehension

Comprehension material 1

Very good exercise with answer key


leisure time study - TOEFL material

Indian cultural GA

I strongly believe that - it's not that important to study topics like Indian Architecture, buildings, Indian past and present culture; but because I received requirement from a blog friend (through FB) to share these topics, I therefore include those topics here (that I have prepared for CEED).  I once again remind you that these topics are of least importance to your preparation !

Indian state paintings and painters

Indian musical instruments

Something about India and time

Cultural and complete Architectural collection of India  (Not Imp)

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Materials and manufacturing related

I had detailed and categorized materials as well as manufacturing process with examples of day-to-day products. Don't spend much time on this topic ! Just give a brief overview.

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 Indian stone and rock carvings - here >>

A very good website for practising unfolded views of solids - Practice unfolded views of solids >>

UCEED forum/discussion page with FAQ's

Like Stuff You Look blog on Facebook page to get connected with latest posts.

Answer key to UCEED 2018 Previous paper

You are here Solutions >> UCEED 2018 Part-A solution

You may download UCEED 2018 question paper here

Detailed explanation to some of the design aptitude questions of UCEED 2018 are available in the below set of videos

Solutions for UCEED 2018 Exam paper 

1) 21

check the below image for explanation

How to solve?

It's difficult to memorize, esp because the ques will be on the screen. So, instead of looking for unique characters, try to find out repetitive characters. Start from the top row and after you complete the top row, move to the next row and so on. See if the symbol that you are checking had appeared in the previous rows. If so, then count it.

2) 113

The series represents the prime numbers between 100 and 170

3) 22

Near-vertical lines - 14

Near-horizontal lines - 4

lines inclined and slanting to right - 2

lines inclined and slanting to left - 3

4) 12

In the below image, the repeated patterns had been marked.

5) 6

In the below image, I had marked with colored lines the repetitions (same font), you can now count unique font types. 

Basically, whenever font questions like this one was asked, I observe the edges of the alphabets and see if any ther word follow the same trend as the alphabet considered. For ex. consider alphabets 'n' and 'g' in the green lined word 'mango', you can see the same trend followed in the word 'orange' marked again in green line. 

Observe the letter 'e' in apple is similar to 'e' in pineapple as well as 'pomogranate' but is different from 'e' in pear. 

I hope, you can find the similarity like this.

6) 49

cross section area of the larger cuboid of height 11 is 3X3

so, we better place some small cuboids such that it's area is 1X1, in other words, make length =2cm as height and height=1cm as length. with that the bottom portion will have a stack of 

3*3 = 9 small cuboids of height 2cm.

stacking another four rows above it will bring it to a height of 10cm. 

No. of small cuboids stacked as of now = 9*5 = 45

the larger cuboid now has only 1cm height. Now we have to fit the cuboids such that their height is always 1cm. The below image shows one possible arrangement. We can accommodate 4 cuboids.

So, total cuboids = 45 + 4 = 49

7) 7

Figure shows the two shapes separately and the union of the two such that their centroids lie on the same point. Since the torus outside diameter is smaller than the idli (cylinder), it's outer surface will be merged inside the cylinder when unioned. Also, the height of torus is 1cm greater than the cylinder and so the curved portion of the torus will project on top and bottom. Figure shows the top one. The same is symmetrical for bottom too. 

No. of surfaces on top = 1 (cylinder flat surface) + 1 (torus curved surface) +1 (circle at the center) = 3

No. of surfaces on bottom = 3 

No. of surfaces on sides = 1

Total = 3+3+1 = 7

8) 8

Height of a equilateral triange of size 3 = 

sqrt(square(3)-square(1.5)) ~ 2.6

Below image shows the arrangement.

9) 40

Image 1 (symmetry)

No. of triangles in image 1 = 12

Image 2

No. of triangles in red color = 4

No. of triangles in green color = 4

Image 3

No. of traingles = 4

Image 4

No. of triangles in green = 2

No. of triangles in purple = 2

Image 5

No. of triangles = 2

Image 6

No. of triangles = 4

Image 7

No. of triangles = 4

Image 8

No. of triangles = 2

Total = 12+8+4+4+2+4+4 = 40

10) 46

No. of stacked triangular pieces in 

Bottom rown = 9 (no. of triangles in top view)

2nd row (from bottom) = 9 

3rd row = 9-1 =8

4th row = 9-2 = 7

5th row = 9-3 = 6

6th row = 4

7th row = 2

8th row = 1

Total = 1+2+4+6+7+8+9+9 = 46

11) 11 

The smallest pulley is indicated by 'S' and it rotates in clockwise dorection as shown in the figure. 

Trick is as follows - Since the weight moves down, the direction of movement of the cable/rope is along the rope movement. In other words, the arrow head should be such that it is the front of the rope movement. It's best to count the circles following the direction of the rope from the weight. Else, you may get confused.

No. of pulleys wheeling in clockwise direction = 11 (indicated by numbers in order of count)

12) 65

Current time is 3 hr 10 mins

Time after 4 hrs and 40 mins will be (3+4) hrs and (10+40) mins

that will be 7 hrs 50 mins

In 1 hr (60 min), the hour hand would have moved to 30 degrees (360/12)

In 50 mins, the hour hand would move to 30*(50/60) = 25 degrees (from 7)

Angle of the hour hand = (7*30) + 25 = 235 

(beacuse the time is right now 7 hrs 50 mins and the hour hand is few degrees past/after 7)

Angle of the min hand = (10*30) = 300 degrees (since the min hand will be at 10 because it denotes 50 mins)

So, the angle between the hour and the minute hand  = 300 - 235 = 65 degrees

13) 8

flow - wolf

loin - lion

balm - lamb

bare - bear

god - dog

act - cat

tab - bat

tar - rat

14) 25

Easy accessing is indicated by the lesser no. of doors to be taken to reach the room. 

You can visually tell which room needs more doors to be passed. Yet, for a clear understanding I will list out the below

Rooms needing only one no. of door entry are 1,5,3,8,1310,12,14,17,19,20,21,22,27,28,26

Rooms needing two no.'s of door entry are 2,4,6,7,9,11,18,15,16,23

Rooms needing three no.'s of doors entry is 24

and Rooms needing four no. of doors entry is 25

15) 3

Figure shows the best path with less no. of doors on the way. Note that the doors that Riya crosses are W, R, S

16) 18

Considering the bottom surface (square formed by EFGH), no. of triangles = 4

No. of triangles on the sides (slant surface) = 4 (Surfaces IEH, IHG, IGF, IFE)

No. of triangles in the below image 

Red = 2 (I have shown only one, you can imagine the other)

Green = 2 (I have shown only one,you can imagine the other)

No. of triangles in the below image

Red = 2

Green = 1

No. of triangles in the below image

Red = 2

Green = 1

Total = 4+4+2+2+2+1+2+1 = 18

17) 19.23

I'm not sure whether there is any foolproof method for this kind of problems. But here i'm giving one possible solution by close observation.

Proportion of the the white rectangle = 6/4

Height of the red triangle = 2*breath of rectangle = 2*4 = 8 (coz the rectangle appears half height) 

Height of BC = twice the height of the red triangle = 2*8 = 16

Now, since the blabk triangles are in proportion to the square too, we can say 

BC/AC = 6/4

we know BC =16,

16/AC = 6/4

which gives, AC = 16*4/6 = 1037

16, 16*4/6 = 10.67

Length of AB = square_root(square(AC)+square(BC)) = sqrt(10.67^2 + 16^2) ~ 19.23

18) 36

T = toffe, L = lollypop, I = Ice cream

Mukund

2 T = 1 L

3I = 1 T

Ranjana

1 I =2 L

3 T = L

Sita has 1 L and wants the max T

Case I

If Sita exchanges with Ranjana first, she would get 3T

Case II

If Sita exchanges with Mukund first,

step 1: she exchanges and gets tofees with Mukund

she will gte 2T first, which she will exchange with mukund again to get 6I

Step 2:

She exchanges her 6I with Ranjana and gets 6*2 = 12L

Now, Sita exchanges 12L with Ranjana and gets 12*3 = 36T

19) 4

The figure shows the possibility

20) 10

Figure in the left shows the differences

21) B, C, D 

By observation 

22) B, D

Below figure shows the continuous line after removing spaces and special characters

Note that I had shown in 8 lines but they are all continuous. Here's the trick to find easily. Note that the options are Ghana, India, Peru, Iran 

that mean we need to look for the first letters G, I, P So, search from the beginning for these letters and stop when you encounter the letter, then look if you can find the name.

23) B, D

If Fredricks and Salunkhe investigate the same criminal (of the three), the remaining four will investigate the other two criminals such that Pradhyuman and Daya won't interrogate the same guy. So, based on this we can say that B and D ate fit

24) A,B, D

2+3 means 2 is the child of 3

2+3*1 means 1 is the wife of 3, so 2 has 3 as father and 1 as mother 

2+3*1+4 means 1 (the mother of 2) is the child (daughter) of 4. So, 2 is the grandchild to 4

2+3*1+4*5 means 5 is the wife of 4. Which means 5 is grandmother and 4 is grandfather to 2

So, options A, B and D are correct

25) A, C

The ques seems bit tricky but it isn't so. The thing is the given configuration of 30 circles are shown in top view and by the distance they mean how near to our eye in top view. In other words, they are not lying on the same plane (on the paper) but are arranged in 3D space according to the conditions given. 

It is clear that larger circles are farther from us. So, straight away ignore 11,2,3,9,10,19,4,20,1,12,18,21. 

Now, we need to check the remaining. 

Given, the thinner the circle the closer they are to us. 

So, circles 17, 22 should be near but since they are red, they must be far. 

So, circles 25 must be nearer (option A). OPtion B is definitely wrong. Also, 14 and 24 are of same thickness and both are red except that 24 is smaller in size and hence it must be near. Circle 6 is intensively thick that mean it is farther compared to 8, which is small as well as lesser thick.

26) A,B 

I guess I had included the details of this in this blog's illusion resource page

27) A, B

I don't think explanations are required for this

28) D

Keeping the two triangles shown in the below figure as reference, we first eliminate the unwanted option (A) Now, it is clear in option B and C that the position and pattern of the remaining triangles are not representing simple rotation.

29) A,B,C

Third statement says that all migrants in their country are not strong (men and women) and according to the second statement, some men are not strong. The fourth statement failed to say that women are included as migrants or not. It didn't gave any confirmation and hence there are no women migrants. So, all women are strong. 

B is also correct. C is obviously correct. D is certainly wrong for native men are also strong. 

30) A,B

31) A,B,C,D

32) A,B

Definitely, it doesn't show lust and the poet isn't happy with the current mode of marriage.

33) D

It is not clear whether C is correct or not for C means that a person just has doubt but doesn't signify its growth in future. So, D must be the correct answer.

34) B,C 

Theory precedes Practice means the theory is required for practice. But in the ques, it is never told like that. 'Practice is knowledge that comes by 'doing' which says that there is no element of theory in here. 

35) D

abhor means hatred.

36) A, B, D

37)

Not sure.

38) B,C 

You can learn more about tessellation problem solving here - 

39) A,C,D

Except L, all belong to Ajanta caves. (based on the color scheme followed)

40) C, D

Actually, they represent warli tribal art

41) B, D

Lol.. chlorine is given as an option :P

42) A, D

Learn more about solid manipulation here 

43) B,C

I don't have the patience to read this to answer, even if I was to give the exam, I would prefer to skip (and check at the end) than spending so much time on a single ques. Anyway, the answers are B,C as given in the official answer key.

44) A, B, C

By visual observation

45) B,C,D

I had given about convex and concave lenses applications in one of my resource page.

46) D

47) C

Obviously, Kerala is the smallest and Rajasthan is the biggest in terms of area.

48) A

star denotes the position where he took turn

49) A

50) C

Easy way

A you can see the poles of the sphere has black stripes crossing while the other color is not meeting there. So, in the given option, the pattern that has black ink on the top and bottom continuously shall be the required mapping

51) C

I recalled the usual punjabi wear (kurtha) of women and it turned out to be correct.

52) D

Checking the bat of the given pattern, - down ? down, up. So, the bat must be up in the top position in the ques mark. 

You need also have to check the position of the front leg and also his head. 

To learn how to deal with step by step animation making, refer this post 

53) D

54) D

55) D

Based on the landing angle (end slant line - approx. 30 degrees to the horizontal) of the letter (marked in red), we choose the option which exhibits the same pattern. Only D has that kind. 

56) B

Sometimes, ques like this might tend to confuse a lot coz the pattern has both the elements of rotation and numbers. Trying to find a pattern using numbers would eat your time and might make you feel the impossibility. It's always better to start with the rotation/orientation of the patterns

Below image shows the required pattern, You can also make the next pattern of required based on B and D.

57) B

Let us utilize the four patterns given in the options for explanations. 

1. Rotate figure clockwise by 90 degrees, then you will get the pattern shown in C
2. Flip new pattern (shown in option C) along its vertical axis, you get the pattern D
3. Flip the new pattern (option D) along the horizontal, you will get option B

58) D

Jim Corbett National Park is the oldest national park in India and was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park to protect the endangered Bengal tiger. It is located in Nainital district of Uttarakhand and was named after Jim Corbett who played a key role in its establishment.

Ranthambhore is the fortieth largest national park in northern India, located in Rajasthan. 

Kaziranga is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state of Assam, India. The sanctuary, which hosts two-thirds of the world's great one-horned rhinoceroses, is a World Heritage Site.

Kanha National Park, is one of the tiger reserves of India and the largest national park of Madhya Pradesh

59) D

In the below image, I've marked numbers for easy understanding. I've also hand-written/drawn for your easy understanding.

To learn more on solid manipulation and unwrapping/wrapping, learn here

60) C

Know about Indian state dances 

61) A

Check the below image

62) A

Check this post on how to solve such question - working with geometry

63) A

64) A

I think drip here means Painters.

65) B

Words are written on paper

66) A

Sleeves rolled, and 'theatre of give and take' is a profession not related to teacher, pilot or even traffic police

67) A

burps mean - a noise made by air released from the stomach through the mouth; a belch.

fart - gas released from stomach. 

So, stomach is the best fit

68) C

The strange clock matches time at 12 noon. 

Given that the hour hand moves half the speed. So, at 4'O clock, it must be 8 hours. 

Also given that the minute hand rotates 6 times than usual. In other words,

in 1 hr no. of ticks of the min hand = 60*6 = 360 ticks

So, let's put like

1 hr = 360 ticks

In the given image, the min hand is at 6, which means 30 ticks 

360 ticks = 1 hr

1 tick = 1/360 hr

30 tick = (1/360)*30 hr = 1/12 hr = (1/12)*60 mins = 5 mins

So, time is 8 hrs 5 mins

69) C

I've marked them in the below picture.

70) C

71) A

72) B

73) C

Rama  - Dharma, Kalki - destruction, those two are sufficient to answer the ques

74) C

As far as Iknew, L (one famous art) represents expressionism. You can check art/painting history in resource page

75) C

Not very sure, just took from the answer key

76) C 

77) C 

distance is shown as AB in the below image.

78) D

Below image gives the explanation

79) A

The figure below shows the movement of the star in every step. Note the numbers 1,2,3....8, they represent the successive steps. In every step, the star moves diagonally till it reaches the diagonal end, after which it reverses its direction. So, the position of star should be as indicated in 8th step.

Similarly, below image shows the movement of the triangle. Note that unlike star, the triangle moves row wise and in every row, it moves two grids clockwise/anti-closkwise as represented by the second table in the row. So, in the question mark table, it should be on the grid marked in the second table of the third row. 

Similarly, we can figure out the movement of the circle. It's easy to note that the circle moves clockwise direction (one grid) in the direction indicated by no's 1,2....8

So, the position of the circle in the question mark table is indicated by the arrow in the 8th table.

80) B

Obviously.

81) A

82) A

Below image shows how the view will be constructed. Green lines are projection lines. and the actual top view is shown in red.

Why did I get a circle?

Well, if you observe the dimensions, the eliptical solid is 11 units out of which 6 units is overlapped with the cuboid. So, 5 units is overlapped. The cross section happened such that it is slightly less than 5 units, but because it is slanted, the length along the crossection is large, more than 4 and hence it could be around 5, so 5X5 cross-section of a curved surface (a circle) must be imagined. 

83) B

Just like in Q79, we try seeing a pattern from the given set. As you can see, no. 7 is moving anticlockwise one step. So, the position of 7 must be as shown in the table 4. Now, fortunately, only one option suits.

84) A, B

85) A

The flat surface marked in the image below makes it look like a sharp edge in top view. Had the case it was slanted, then the answer would be B.

NID DAT Subjective sample practice questions (B.Des)

Hi there,

In this post, I've covered some sample questions that might be useful for your subjective practice. This is in specific to BDes paper and according to 2017 official sample paper available in NID official website. Please note that the questions are purely based on my analysis and have been shared with the intention that some of them might actually turn useful for your practice. Please also note that some of the questions may not fit well to the exam.  

Downloadable PDF - A complete list of SYL links for NID-DAT exam (sitemap) 

1. Drawing exercises of scenarios

1. Draw the scene of a school-boy studying a book, intensively, with no power but only candle light in the room, being seated on the floor
2. Draw the scene of yourself sitting on your rooms sofa and taking selfie
3. Draw the scene of a mother, feeding her 2 year child with a milk bottle
4. Draw the scene of a grandfather narrating a story from a book to his grand-daughter of 9-12 years old during bedtime. Show the excited state of the grand-daughter.
5. Draw a creature, upper half human and lower half a tree trunk with some branches, watering itself. 
6. Assume you are sitting in front of a laptop or a desktop PC adjacent to a wall, draw how your eyes see the scene
7. Draw different facial emotions of a human (boy or girl) - only face/portrait is sufficient. Maintain the same person in all the scenes
8. Draw the scene of an artist making art in his/her living room.
9. Draw the scene of a manager in his office room, in front of a system (Computer) with files piled on his desk.
10. Draw the scenario of two kids competing for one another on video game
11. raw the scene of a room with at least one person, dating back to early 40's, 1940-1950 time. The very look of the image should give the perception that the scene dates back to 40's
12. Draw a gadget tab (iPad or big sized mobile phone) showing that video was running on the screen. No background, only the gadget and the view of the video
13. Draw a villager preparing chappatis/rotis, sitting on the floor, rolling the dough while a pan/tava with a chappatis on top of a natural mud made stove, burning using wood/twigs. 
14. Illustrate the last scene of the thirsty crow-pebbles story, the scene of crow drinking water while it had already dropped some pebbles up to the half of the jar.
15. There was a power cut. Draw the scene of your father fanning you, while you're fast asleep at the comfort of the fanning. Your father being happy at that moment.
16. Draw yourself with head over phones on, enjoying the music like anything
17. Draw yourself in a superhero costume 
18. Draw yourself sitting on a sofa exhibiting ur happiness in watching the winning match on TV

2. Human/Object sketching exercises

1. Draw a portrait of a pretty girl with curly hairs, cheering up, with appropriate details in the background.
2. Draw a 6 years kid weeping on his/her study table with some books. Show appropriate details including the background.
3. Draw a 2-3 years child, just learnt to walk using the support of the adjacent wall. Show appropriate details including the background.
4. Draw a portrait of a cheerful farmer with a turban and moustache, holding a plough. Show appropriate details including the background.
5. Draw a girl kid (6-10 years old) with a puppy in her hand.
6. Draw the sketch of a basket of vegetables on top of a table, visible in the dimness of a candle light. Show appropriate details, shades etc. 

Choose two Homonym of your choice and draw them. 

Note: Homonym is a word that is spelt the same or sounds the same as another word but is different in meaning.

Ex: 

(pray, prey), 

(sell ,cell)

this page has a very long list of Homonym

1. Draw the two meanings of the word "Spring" and write a one-line explanation for the sketch.
2. Draw the two meanings of the word "tire" and write a one-line explanation for the sketch.
3. Draw the two meanings of the word "desert" and write a one-line explanation for the sketch.

3. Story writing exercise

Frame stories using the following set of words, don't exceed 7 lines 

1. Iron box, doll, shirt, table
2. Tiffen box, stove, wall clock, mother, cat
3. grandma, shoes, car horn, TV
4. Ants, Laptop, cookies, Sleep
5. Water bottle, monkey, window grills, fridge
6. Doctor, sweets, salt, grandma, 
7. Bulb, plant, carpet, glass jar

If possible illustrate one frame of the story (pick any scene of your choice from the chosen story), which you've written. 

4. Poster making exercise

(you may use colours, rulers or other media)

1. Population reduction - a theme poster that shows the downside of population growth. Give appropriate title and caption
2. Make a poster for avoiding food wastage showing at least one kid in hungry or starving mode
3. Create a poster advertisement to promote 'Swachh Bharat' campaign, showing at least a kid involved in the activity, 
4. Make a poster for bringing awareness of digital India. Include the key elements like e-payments, govt. apps, digishala, govt. digital services, prevention of corruption, reduction of documents, hence papers, fast services/processes, 
5. Your college is organising a cultural festival, make a poster showing the details of events or diff. kind of cultural.
6. Create a poster advertising men to join Indian armed forces for a minimum of one year. Use Indian flag, Indian emblem, a Soldier. Use the form of them (texture, pattern, outline etc) 
7. Design a poster to bring awareness about education focused on the rural parts of India. Illustrate visually the benefits 

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(Below is a Supplementary Exercise)

5. Replicate exercises

Exactly redraw/replicate the below images, giving form and details - as much as possible

(just replicate the front girl and the table, no need to draw other kid in the backdrop)

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P.S.: I will update this page with more exercise and other variants of questions as soon as I finish next phase of previous paper analysis. Until then I hope the above exercise practice questions would come handy to during your preparation.