Showing posts with label UCEED guide. Show all posts
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12 January 2021

List of priority topics for UCEED last few days preparation

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


Part B

  1. Avoid spending hours for sketching of one particular question.
  2. Do quick scribbling of line sketching and do as many situation based exercises as possible, like at least four situations in just one hour!
  3. Don’t spend more than two hours per day 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. 

23 September 2019

Subjective (Part B) guide for UCEED design exam


From 2020, UCEED started this new pattern with the introduction of a new part-B section (subjective), which requires the aspirant to attempt a design question. This page carries the relevant resources and many practice questions to improve your design/sketch skills. 



This link covers:
  1. Practice exercise for sketching. 
  2. These exercises will test your sketch line quality, imagination skill, perspective, proportion and size of your drawing.
  3. Object practice questions.
  4. Human, scenario, room, persepctive practice questions.



This link covers:
  1. Downloadable books to help with basics of sketching, perception and shading techniques
  2. Books to help with how to use drawing media like pencils
  3. Beginner guide to sketching
  4. Youtube videos on how to improve human sketching
  5. Youtube videos on how to improve drawing objects and humans with proper size and proportion


Sample design based questions - just for overview/idea....not for practice!


I believe product design type questions have very very less chance of appearing in UCEED Part B. But, I'm including a solved design question here so that you will get an idea of how to attempt such questions. Just go through this sample product design question in 10 mins and understand how I came up with a design and where and when I added notes for the explanation. Read through the tips given at the end of the post and that's it. I would suggest not to practice these type of questions except that get an idea of how to attempt if such question appears in the exam in the worst situation.

Sketching Level required/sufficient for CEED and UCEED exams




(Watch this space.......I will update more resource links in the coming days)


UCEED Part B practice questions and exercises


Owing to the new changes from 2020, I've included the following practice questions that cover your Part-B preparation. Hope the below questions will improve your sketching skills.

UCEED brochure stated the following


So, I've come up with the questions as per the above mention. 




Practice question 1:

Draw the scene of a school-boy sitting in a room, studying a book, intensively, with no power but only candlelight in the room, being seated on the floor.

Give preference to:
  • pencil stroke
  • Size of objects
  • Proportion of objects with respect to the boy
  • Light condition of the room because of candle light
  • Finally, shading

Practice question 2:

You are sitting in a side lower berth of 2nd AC compartment of Indian rail and you are viewing the remaining (i.e opposite ) berths i.e upper and lower berths (total four berths). You need to sketch the view that includes windows, berths, AC, lights, one person sitting or sleeping on the berth, center stands, water bottle with holders and charging ports etc.


Practice question 3:

Sketch the view of a computer desk/table with the following things included
  1. Desktop computer with all accessories
  2. A rotatable/swinging chair in front of the table
  3. Couple of speakers music preferably woofer
  4. Three books placed next to the PC in a closed position 
  5. A table light (for night reading) switched off
  6. Dustbin on the bottom
  7. Racks or cupboards included in the table
  8. If possible a person working on the PC 
First make a visual plan of how to organize and arrange each of the above things, take time for the initial plan. Then go for the actual or rough sketch.


Practice question 4:

Draw the scene of a girl with the following details 
  • In a room
  • Sitting on a sofa
  • TV and a few appliances
  • Taking a selfie
As a continuation of this question, draw the above selfie image from the camera point of view (how it appear in her mobile phone camera).


Practice question 5: 

Visualize and sketch the view of a bathroom with the following things included
  1. A bathtub with water tap arrangement
  2. A washbasin with water tap and a mirror above it
  3. Cupboard and other holder arrangements for stacking brushes, pastes and other items
  4. Holders for soap and shampoos
  5. A water geezer
  6. A window for exhaust; preferably step-type-glass one
  7. And any of your own additions

Practice question 6:

Visualize and sketch the view of a scenario
  1. A boy opening a fridge
  2. Show cooking stove, gas stove, kitchen appliances etc.
  3. Show the fridge door as partially opened

Practice question 7:

Sketch the view of a dining table

  1. With a basket full of different varieties of fruits with proper shading and surface texture. Show shadows. 
  2. A glass jug half-filled with water, with a spoon inside it.
  3. A few set of plates, saucer cups, and some steel utensils.


Practice question 8:

Visualize and sketch the view of an appliance showroom wall rack with 
  1. Kitchen appliances like grinder, mixer, microwave oven, Induction cooktop, etc. displayed in shelves
  2. Fridge and washing machines displayed on the sides. 

Practice question 9:

Sketch the bird's eye view of the scenario mentioned below: 
  1. The location of a village field.
  2. A tree and a well along the field boundary.
  3. A farmer ploughing in the field using two cows. 
  4. Water flowing from the pump connected to the well.

Set of practice question 

  1. Sketch the view of a drawing room with facilities like sitting arrangement, tables, wall plates etc. All should be in perspective. 
  2. Draw the scene of a mother, feeding her 2 year child with a milk bottle
  3. 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.
  4. Draw the scene of an artist making art in his/her living room.
  5. Draw the scene of a manager in his office room, in front of a system (Computer) with files piled on his desk.
  6. Draw the scenario of two kids competing for one another on video game
  7. Draw 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
  8. 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
  9. 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. 
  10. 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.
  11. There was a power cut. Draw the scene of your father fanning you (you being a kid), while you're fast asleep at the comfort of the fanning. Your father being happy at that moment.
  12. Draw a girl with head over phones on, enjoying the music like anything
  13. Draw yourself in a superhero costume 
  14. Draw an adult sitting on a sofa exhibiting ur happiness in watching the winning match on TV

Additional question:

Draw the view of a classroom with a few students giving an exam and an invigilator moving around observing the students. The drawing should also show the view of the classroom board and all. 


Sketching Level required/sufficient for CEED and UCEED exams



(Watch this space.......I will update more type of questions in the coming days)



22 September 2019

UCEED subjective (Part B) resources for preparation


Get free PDFs and online study materials and videos in this page related to UCEED subjective (Part B) practice. 

I will keep adding/updating the below study materials as and when required.......In case of lengthy books (pdf) as available below - go through them very quickly - that too the syllabus required for you, to save time.

Sketching Level required/sufficient for CEED and UCEED exams



A. Sketching and Perception drawing


  • Very good sketching views of drawings and general things and drawing techniques can be found in the book by David Lewis - downloadable PDF link here
  • A superb book for learning sketching techniques and different facets of design (including perspective, shadowing, shading, texture, architectural facts etc) Design drawing by Francis D.K.Ching
  • A very famous complete pdf book "Basic Rendering (downloadable PDF link here)" from Robert W.Gill, which covers most of the rendering topics including perspective projections (for starters having time) 
  • A book about basics of drawing instruments, holding positions, perspective, quality of lines and shading techniques for beginners by freebies4u.net - downloadable pdf link here
  • Perspective made easy: from story teller A complete beginner guide, by Ernest R Norling (free time study) - downloadable PDF link here

Youtube videos to help with size, proportion and human sketching

Quickly read through my tips on making exploded views: Tips for Exploded view drawing


(Focus more on sketching, then shading and detailing as given in A above. If time is running and you have less time then skip B and C sections below or give a brief and quick overview of them on how to deal with them if in case they appear in exam by any chance. In any case, be ready with hand sketching of scenario and humans/objects. Check the practice questions here)

B. Comic Strips


Japanese usually call comic strips as manga. A Comic Strip is a very good/creative form of communicating a story or idea in pictorial forms, usually with comments (also called callout). Let's check the related pages for comic strip improvement
  • Steps for creating comic strip by courtsed web in PDF - here
  • Wikihow gave the general procedure - here
  • Basic concepts from readwritethink web - here
A very good website with complete detail about storyboard - here 



C. Storyboard and Poster making


Discussion on Storyboard and Poster making is a lengthy process and so I grouped that in a separate page. Please go through that and check the links provided for tips and guidelines.

You may check my guide on - Storyboard and poster making >>

leisure time works

Storyboard tutorial - here
A Storyboard sample - here
Some examples for storyboard - here
A Starting Guide to storyboard - here

D. Picture Composition


Picture composition means writing/narrating a story given a scenario in the form of an image or a photo. Basically, this tests the story making, creative as well as narrative skills of you. As a safer side, I've considered including this part for your practice assuming that this will help you in many ways. Quickly go through the samples given below but deliberate more on the tips given by me to ease you with such questions attempt.





I will keep adding/updating the above study materials as and when required.........


E. Video Guide


Here's a detailed video discussion about UCEED new pattern (applicable for syllabus change from 2020). The video covers


  1. Why this new pattern?
  2. How that affects your preparation/selection?
  3. What parts might be covered for Part B?
  4. What topics are recommended to prepare - given that no sample paper is available?
  5. Do you need coaching or not?
  6. How to improve sketching skills?
  7. If you are average, good, or below average in sketching, whether you should opt BDes or not? 
  8. What will help in cracking UCEED exam?



Analysis of common mistakes in sketches





24 August 2019

Collection of UCEED exam study materials

  1. Collection of SYL blog pages to practice exercise for sketching.  (To help you practice and test your sketch line quality, imagination skill, perspective, proportion and size of your drawing.). 
  2. Object practice questions.
  3. Human, scenario, room, persepctive practice questions. 
  4. Downloadable books to help with basics of sketching, perception and shading techniques
  5. Beginner guide to sketching
  6. Youtube videos on how to improve human sketching, drawing objects and humans with proper size and proportion





This link contains:
  1. Mathematical Geometry ( Types of views, how to visualize solids in all the sides) - orthographic drawings, exercises, transformation of solids, 
  2. Basics of solid shapes
  3. Observation and visualization skills (tangram puzzles. animation movement, geometric objects and how to work with them, hidden words and images, tesselllations, illusions, objects evolution)
  4. General guide on - photography, animation, typography, video/colors, illustration, artistic tools, drawing terms and sculpture, Logos etc.)  
  5. Answers to previous papers of CEED (that will help you prepare for UCEED by solving image based and other design aptitude questions)
  6. Sample reasoning practice. How to solve reasoning question
  7. English comprehension
  8. GK on indian culture - State painting and painters, musical instruments etc.) 
  9. Something about materials and manufacturing related topics



This link contains:
  1. Free books for mechanical and ability questions
  2. Verbal, non-verbal and psychometric practice online links
  3. Odd man out series exercises
  4. Direction sense tests 
  5. Spatial and verbal ability practice exercises
  6.  Inference from paragraph
  7. Paragraph summary exercises
  8. Deductive, Inductive and verbal reasoning, conclusive drawing 
  9. Data interpretation
  10. Abstract tests, IQ and word/pictogram puzzles


Link 4: Resource update for new syllabus for UCEED 


Refer the topics listed below for UCEED:
  1. Guide on font with several online links
  2. Typography, visual infography
  3. Intro. to mathematical solid shapes
  4. Famous paintings, painters, artistic media, art movements etc.
  5. Cultural tour of India.
  6. Colors 
  7. General topics (paper sizes, dances, image formats, drawing terminology, perspective and non perspective works)  


Refer only to 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





Study only the topics listed below:
  1. UCEED previous papers (from 2015 to this year)
  2. UCEED sample practice papers
  3. CEED sample practice papers 
  4. CEED previous papers solutions (from CEED 2012 to latest) - CEED solutions will help you for CEED Part A preparation as most of the syllabus is same (UCEED is tougher than CEED.


This link contains
  1. Mock tests, samples and previous model papers for UCEED.
  2. Mock tests, samples and previous model papers for CEED (to be practiced for CEED too).


This link contains: (Topics to be prepared after completing the above topics)
  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

Complimentary: Discussion on UCEED new pattern from 2020 part B and part A



General guide 





Check this if your exam is only two or one week ahead - List of priority topics to be covered for sure as available in resource page in the last week of your exam




Videos to help you


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

PART 1


PART 16


Maths Basics for non-math background design aspirants





How to count no. of faces on solids

UCEED exam - what section to attempt during exam


21 August 2019

UCEED resource for General topics

General Knowledge

Environmental GA and Sustainability study


A very good article on Environmental issues in Design and Technology

D'Source - Design for sustainability  

Effect of human activities on environment

Envi GA slide - 1

Envi GA slide - 2

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

Environmental awareness presentation

Additional Materials

  • A list of famous Indian authors - here
  • All about Prime ministers of India - here
  • A very good list of Indian Bank Logo's - here
  • Past to present logo evolution for some famous brands - here

Facial Expression of emotions



Plutchik-Wheel of emotions

UCEED forum/discussion page with FAQ's

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


20 July 2019

Answer key to UCEED 2019 Previous paper

You are here Solutions >> UCEED 2019 solution


You may download UCEED 2019 question paper here 


Detailed explanation to some of the design aptitude questions of UCEED 2019 is available in the below set of videos







Answers for UCEED 2019 Exam paper 


1) 3

In the below image, I've identified the possible pairs of shoe sole patterns. 


2) 22

The surface will be extruded to a solid as shown in the below image, 

No. of surfaces in the front = 10
No. of surfaces in the right = 2 (I considered the inner curved surface of the circle)
No. of surfaces in the back = 8
No. of surfaces in the left = 0
No. of surfaces from top = 1
No. of surfaces from bottom = 1
Total =22

3) 316

Each person gives a gift/hug to the remaining 14 people. 

No. of gifts that each person should have = 2*14 = 28

Total No. of gifts for 15 people = 28*15 = 420

No of hugs that each person gives to other = 14

However, here it should be noted that one person hugging a second person is also equivalent to the second person hugging the first person. So, the second person will only be hugging the remaining 13 people. Likewise, if we add the no. of hugs that each person will be making, the numbers will be like

14+13+12+11+10+9+8+7+6+5+4+3+2 = 104

So, the difference between the no. of hugs and the no. of gifts exchanged will be
420 - 104 = 316

4) 44

On all the three sides, same no. of tetrahedrons should be visible.
Total number on say face 1 = 16
Total number on say face 2 = 16-(1+1+1+1) 
the deduction is because they are already counted for the face 1
Total number on say face 3 = 16 - (1+2+2+2)
the deduction is because they are already counted for the face 1 and 2
Total number on bottom surface = 16 - (3+6)
The deduction is because they are already counted for faces 1,2,3

so, total = 16 + (16-4)+(16-7)+(16-9) = 44

5) 18

In the below image, I've marked numbers for each respective squares. Green square mean 0. The position of red square determines the value for that square. If it's left most, it's move would be 3 to the power 0, if in the middle, the value would be 3 to the power 1 and red box in the right mean 3 to the power 2 as shown below. Based on the position of the green and red boxes, we can add the numbers to get the total sum. 

Now, in the second image below, the same logic applies but note that it will be multiplied by 2. 


In the image below, I've indicated the numbers.

so, the answer is 

9 X 2 = 18

6) 18

(1,1) = 1 
(1,2) = 2 
(1,3) = 3
(1,4) = 4
(1,5) = 5 
(1,6) = 6 
(2,1), (2,2), (2,3) are not possible because their products 2, 4, 6 are already available. 

continuing with the series
(2,4) = 8
(2,5) = 10
(2,6) = 12
the product values of (3,1), (3,2), (3,4) are already taken. So,
(3,3) = 9
(3,5) = 15
(3,6) = 18
the product values of (4,1), (4,2), (4,3) are already taken. So,
(4,4) = 16
(4,5) = 20
(4,6) = 24
the product values of (5,1), (5,2), (5,3), (5,4) are already taken. So,
(5,5) = 25
(5,6) = 30
the product values of (6,1), (6,2), (6,3), (6,4), (6,5) are already taken. So,
(6,6) = 36

Counting all the possible unique products, we see 18.

7) 20

Adding the second pattern exactly on top of the first (leftmost) pattern will look like below.


Now, if we add the lines on top of the combination of A and B, it will look something like shown in the below image. Now, I belive you can count the no. of triangles. 


8) 7

After 7 unit of time, the position of the blocks will be as shown in the below image.


9) 9

Below image shows the solid formed after the intersection. 

No. of sides = 2+2+2+1+1+1

10) 57

Since the cuboid is symmetrical about the three axes, we count the no. of cubes in the three rows of the top, which will be sufficient. 

No. of cubes in 
First row on top = 5
second row from top = 5 + 8 = 13
third row from top = 13 + 8 = 21
Total no. of cubes = twice the first two rows + middle (third) row
= 2x(5+13) + 21 = 36+21 = 57

11) 10

Front = 1+2 = 3 (2 includes the cut hole surfaces of drill)
right side = 1+2 = 3 (2 indicates the slots already present in the solid)
back = 1
left side = 1
top = 1
bottom = 1

12) 450

Given the length between B and Q is 150(sqrt(6)). Since there are 10 steps in between, the distance between B and X as shown in the image below would be 15(sqrt(6)). (divide the total length by 10).
We are interested in finding the length of BD. So, using length BX and angle 45 degrees, we can put like

cos(45) = BX/BD
1/sqrt(2) = 15sqrt(6)/BD
BD = 15*sqrt(2)*sqrt(6) = 15*sqrt(12) = 15*sqrt(3*4) = 15*2*sqrt(3) =30*sqrt(3)

Now, when ABR makes 60 degrees, angle made by BD with BX will be 30 degrees as shown below. We want the new distance BX = d
cos(30) = BX/BD
sqrt(3)/2 = d/(30*sqrt(3))
d = 30*sqrt(3)*sqrt(3)/2
 = 30*3/2
 = 45

So, the new distance between B and Q is 45*10 = 450

13) 399

Given in (i)

1+4 = 5

in (iii)
x-y = 14
x is two digit and y is one digit
Let's assume 20-6 =14

in (ii)
4+x=y
we know 1,4,5, and 6, we should choose y such that it is single digit when 4 is added to x
say 
4+3 = 7
Now, from (iv)
313 + some two  digit number (with 6 at the end)= ?

given the result should have two same digits

313 + a6 = 3(1+a)9
since two numbers should be same, we assume 1+a as 9, which means a = 8

14) 96

For easy understanding, I've shown some portion lines below. 


If you carefully observe the given pattern, you will see that even the dark portion area is the same as the area of the white trapezoid. In fact, the black pattern can be reorganized to form the exact trapezoid shape as shown below.

Area of each trapezium = one fourth of the area of one square of side 8.
That is, area of one pattern = 8*8/4 = 16

Total area of 6 such shapes = 16*6 = 96

15) 24

In the below image, I've given alphabets, using the length AC, we can estimate the required total length of the star outer border. 

AB is the radius of the circle, which is sqrt(3), and ABC makes 30 degrees at the center (because ABC is 1/12th of the total circle)

from triangle ABC, 
tan(30) = AC/AB = AC/sqrt(3)
AC = tan(30)*sqrt(3) = sqrt(3)/sqrt(3) = 1

Since AC =1,
CD =1*2 = 2
Also, CE=ED=DN=MN=LM=KL=JK=IJ=HI=GH=FG=CF=2
Total length of outer border = 
2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2 = 24

16) 1190

The font of the number '9' as shown in '1190' is different than that used in other numbers. This type of questions is purely based on your observation.

17) 23

No. of surfaces from
Front = 6
Right side = 5
back = 4
left side = 4
top = 2
bottom = 2

18) 9

The below image shows the images.

19) 112

The first thing is to find the radius of the small circles. Once the radius is known, we can find the area of the shaded part as shown in the below image. 


Once the small shaded part area is known, then the total area of the orange part is 8 times of the shaded part. 
Area = 8x14 = 112

20) 160

No. of female yellow cows = (7-1) = 6
Volume in liters of milk by yellow cows = 6*10 = 60
No. of female brown cows = (6-2) = 4
Volume in liters of milk by brown cows = 4*7 = 28
No. of female white cows = (9-3) = 6
Volume in liters of milk by white cows = 6*12 = 72

Total liters of milk collected = 60+28+72 = 160

21) C, D

By careful observation

22) A, B

Source: Wikipedia

Ali Akbar Khan was a Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod.

Amjad Ali Khan Bangash is an Indian classical sarod player, best known for his clear and fast ekhara taans. He was awarded India's second highest civilian honour Padma Vibhushan in 2001.

Pandit Dr. Lakshminarayana Subramaniam is an acclaimed Indian violinist, composer and conductor, trained in the classical Carnatic music tradition and Western classical music, and renowned for his virtuoso playing techniques and compositions in orchestral fusion.

Pandit Ravi Shankar was a Bengali Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music. He was the best-known proponent of the sitar. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna in 1999. 

Hariprasad Chaurasia is an Indian music director and classical flutist.

23) B, C, D

Let us number the sides as shown in the below image.


As shown below image, A doesn't satisfy the condition.

B,C,D allign the sides in proper number as shown in the below set of images.





24) A,B,C 

In the below image, I've shown the direction of the arrow along which the structure in the options was supposed to be passed through.


25) C

26) B, D

The below two images shows the working of the answer.


27) C, D

By observation

28) A, C, D

29) A, B


30) A, C

In the below pictures, I've highlighted in red, the patterns that are not matching to the given style.



31) A, C, D

32) B, D

B and D are literally the same while both A and C operations lead to a different configuration.


As usual, I've taken the below two highlighted regions as a reference to match with Q. (This solution key was prepared by Bhanu of stuffyoulook blog. In case if you found this being taught or copied by some coaching institutes, then better understand the level of that coaching institute!) 

33) A, B, D

A is Coucal - A widespread resident in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia

B is Jungle babbler (Argya striata) is found in the Indian subcontinent. They are gregarious birds that forage in small groups of six to ten birds, a habit that has given them the popular name of "Seven Sisters" in urban Northern India, and Saath bhai (seven brothers) in Bengali.

C is The toco toucan, also known as the common toucan, giant toucan or simply toucan, is the largest and probably the best known species in the toucan family. It is found in semi-open habitats throughout a large part of central and eastern South America. 

The white-bellied drongo (Dicrurus caerulescens) is a species of drongo found across the Indian Subcontinent.

34) 
Not very sure.

35) A, C

To facilitate easy understanding, I've made the below images. Since red frame is stationary and green frame is rotated or turned, I've marked the empty squares on the green first in red color.
Now, after the operations (turning or rotation based on the hinge or the pivot - check the direction of the arrow in each image) I've marked the position of the numbered squares in yellow and green color.


Yellow colored number on top of the red frame indicates that it will not be visible while green coloured numbered square means it will be visible coz the open squares on both the frames will match with them. Now look for the position of the green numbers and match with the pattern shown in the left of the ques. Also, note the small yellow dot circle in the below image for C and D, that indicates the position where both the circles coincides after the rotation operation.



36) A, C

All the tools are meant for cutting something or the other, but they are not for fabric. Only A has spring back action and B can crack nuts. 

37) B

Matching the small cut line (dashed line ) o nthe side of the big paper, the following are the front and back pairs before they got folded. 

13, 14
15, 16
1, 2
3, 4
11, 12
6, 10
5, 6
7, 8

Also, following the pattern of the fold, the follwoing is the ordering of the numbers 

5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12

Working for my reference 
first fold pattern
8,9,4,13
7, 10, 3, 14
6,11,2,15
5,12,1,16

second fold pattern
16,1
15, 2
14, 3
13, 4
8, 9
7, 10
6, 11
5, 12

Third fold pattern (final order)
5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12

38) A, C

A. Probability that one of the drawn socks is white = no. of white socks divided by total socks = 10/20 = 0.5 = 50%

B. The chance that both are of same color = (10/20)*(9/19) which is not 0.5 or 50%

the rest two options can be worked something similar to above.

39) B, D

A is definitely no, As C is adjacent and needs sliding/lifting - he needs less effort to do that than put in the bin C than the effort required for B. Same goes with bin A as given in option B.  

40) A,B,C,D

1. Given:  
Some mizrabs play Tabla   
2. Also given:
Mizrabs and Dictions do not play the same instrument.

So, Dictions will not play Tabla.

3. Given: 
Some Frets play Sitar

4. Also given:
Frets and Scripts do not play the same instrument

So, Scripts do not play Sitar for sure.

5. Given,
Dictions do not play Harmonium

From 5 and 2 above, we can say that some or all Mizrabs will play Harmonium.

6. Given, 
The kind that plays Harmonium does not play Sarod 

So, Mizrabs will play Sarod and dictions will not play Sarod (from 2)

7. Given, 
The kind that plays Tabla does not play Sitar
Since Mizrabs play Tabla, they does not play Sitar.(from 1), Hence, Dictions play Sitar (from 2)

Since scripts does not play Sitar (from the result of 3 and 4), they would play Tabla.

Since Scripts play Table, Frets will not play Tabla (from 4)

41) D

I couldn't infer the whole translation for Maharashtra but I got some clue from the translation of Gujurat. 

In the below two figures, I've highlighted the interesting pronunciations in red, green and blue color boxes. If you compare both the images, you might agree to the one highlighted in blue indicating 'ra' 


In the word 'Maharashtra' 'ra' comes in the middle. So, trying to identifying the equivalent letter in the options gave me D as answer. 

42) A

Pretty straight forward. 

The texture of the letters given in options B,C, and D are not smooth while only option A has smooth texture.

For example, observe the texture of the letter B as shown below.

43) B

By observation. Note that I've kept the following as reference to match with the options



44) B

By observation.

45) A

46) A

As the light source is turned about the center of the rod, the red light rotates around the surface of the square room. But, as it turns from the mid of the wall to the edge/side, the bulb tries to make same angle with the rod. As it turns, the length of the red light shall increase and so it's the height from the ground shall be low. I've shown this on the isometric view below. 

47) B

Below image shows the 3D view and the corresponding front and top view. The solid is nothing but a dice. No. 1 denotes the curved surface in 3D view. The same surface will be visible in both the front, top and left side views. So, surface 1 shouldn't be counted thrice, but only once.



Following this logic,  
No. of surfaces in the top view = 5
No. of surfaces in the bottom view = 5
No. of surfaces in the front view = 1
No. of surfaces in the left side view = 1
No. of surfaces in the back view = 1
No. of surfaces in the right side view = 1

Total = 5+5+1+1+1+1 = 14

48) C

Like I explained in the post below, when the person's left leg is front (while walking/running), the person's right hand will be front, and same goes with the other leg and hand. 



49) C

As shown in the first image below, the curve of the hand band in the side view should be like the curve downwards and not upwards. So, option B is not correct. 


As shown in the second image (point 1), his beard cut should be low - almost to the horizontal level of the mustache. So, option A is not correct. As highlighted in point 3, the curve f the padding should not be upwards as the batsman's leg is crossed. So, as pointed is point 2, it should be curved downwards. So, option C fits.

50) C

In mirror reflection, left appears right and right appears left. If the person is seeing to the right originally, then in mirror he/she appears as if looking towards left and vice versa.

51) B

In the below image, I've marked the light direction using a curve and arrow. I've shown the wrong location of the light in circles. 
In the other image for option C, I've drawn circle denoting the wrong location of lights. In option D, the light is foused only to the eyes and no other location of the person. The correct option is B.

52) D 

By observation, we can note the following as shown by arrow in the below figure. This shows that the grey colored board should appear continuous, unlike in option B where the board is interrupted. Also, the right portion of the other board is smaller in length as compared to the length of the same board, but to its left as it is appearing bit same to larger length in the given perspective image.

53)  B

On one side, the milkman has 8 liters and on the other side he has zero liters as the 5 liter and 3 liter cans were empty. Follow the steps below by transferring milk each time.

Initially 

8L can - 8L remaining   

5L Can - 0L remaining
3L can - 0L remaining

Step 1
transfer 3L from 8L to 3L can

8L can - 5L remaining   

5L Can - 0L remaining
3L can - 3L remaining

Step 2
transfer 3L from 3L to 5L can

8L can - 5L remaining   

5L Can - 3L remaining
3L can - 0L remaining

Step 3
transfer 3L from 8L can to 3L can

8L can - 2L remaining   

5L Can - 3L remaining
3L can - 3L remaining

Step 4
transfer 2L from 3L can to 5L can

8L can - 2L remaining   

5L Can - 5L remaining
3L can - 1L remaining

Step 5
transfer 5L from 5L can to 8L can

8L can - 7L remaining   

5L Can - 0L remaining
3L can - 1L remaining

Step 6
transfer 1L from 3L to 5L can

8L can - 7L remaining   

5L Can - 1L remaining
3L can - 0L remaining

Step 7
transfer 3L from 8L can to 3L can

8L can - 4L remaining   

5L Can - 1L remaining
3L can - 3L remaining

Now you can see that on oth the sides, the cans has 4 liter each. 

54) A

Let's say for instance that P is the liar. 

Then his statement is wrong, which means that Q, R and S statements should be correct. If you check them all, they are all  matching with each other. 

Let's try by assuming that Q is the liar. This menas that P is correct and so there should be equal no. of red and white balls. But R says that Q is not a liar, which is false. 

similarly, you can check by assuming R and S as liar each time.

55) A

The dark line highlighted in blue is to the right of the light line highlighted in red. Also, note the gap between the two lines as marked in green arrow. Based on these points, option A matches.

56) C

At the end of the three folds and when turned back, the bottom portion as highlighted in blue will cover the rest of the folds. Also, the bottom of the T shirt will go up as marked as top.


57) D

As shown in the below image, the cut happens alternatively as marked in numbers in a consecutive way. 

As shown in the below image, the cuts will happen consecutively and their alignment will be increasing on one side and decreasing on the other side. Note that slot 3 will be little higher than slot 1 while slot 4 is little lower than slot 2. In the same way, slot 5 will be higher than 3 and so on.

58) C

In the below image, I've shown the direction along which the solid rotates. 

Based on that, the next position would be as shown in C. 


59) B

Tetrahedron is formed by four equal triangles, including the triangle on the base. In the given cur figure, ieh forms the base triangle. Now, three more triangular faces are remaining. The two longer sideas are if, ig and the corresponding longer sides on the cut part are ac, bc. So, the possible combinations are 
ci, af, bg
or
ci, df, ag
or
ci, bf, dg

60) A

Below image shows the direction of rotation and the resultant orientation of the object after the first 180 degrees rotation about y-axis. Note the direction of the axes in green color. There is a shift about z-axis by 90 degrees as I drew the image with y-axis in front by mistake. Rotating the below view (already 90 degrees turned) by another 90 degrees will result in the pattern shown in A.

61) B

Below image shows the direction of the arrow when the paper was turned back with respect to the tape (in green color). The yellow color arrow points towards Northwest.


62) A

By visual observation you can note that both A and C are eligible to be considered while B and D are not sure to fit. Now, selection between A and C depends on your visual skills of judging the height of 1 unit of the top frustum as compared to the size of the given two objects. A will fit the size. 

63) C

Javed - P
Jai - Q
Joshua - R
Jaspreet - S

64) B

Though the crocodile targets C and moves straight, it will catch the meatball at B. After reaching a, and even if it tries to move along ac, because of the flow of water (which has half the speed as it's own speed), for 200m distance, it will land at 'b' which will be 100m (half of 200m) from c. After reaching b, the crocodile will move straight and catches B.


65) B

In the below image, I've combined set of two numbers in red and blue boxes.

Consider the first pattern, 
red bix 
11+13 = 24 (one of the numbers of the four numbers)
this no. (24) and the smallest of the red box (11) will add up to
11+24=35 (the fourth no.)

Now, check the second pattern for clarification
15+17 = 32 
32+ 15(smallest of 15,17) = 47

Similarly, for the fourth pattern
?+24 = 48
and 
?+48 = 72
Now, you got what ? should be....

66) C

By careful observation 

67) B

By visual observation, you can verify that B fits into the remaining portion of the solid formed by the green, yellow and grey blocks. For your understanding, I have numbered the missing cube space as 1 and 2 in the below picture. 


Those numbered vacant space will be occupied by the cubes numbered accordingly, as shown below. I hope you were able to visualize. I couldn't draw and show this to you as I don't see any other way of explaining this other than above.

68) B

In all the three given pattern, the top rows follow the same pattern. So, option D is not suitable. 

Also, as shown in the below image, the balls highlighted in the circle rotates by one step in clockwise direction in the patterns from left to right (note the rotating arrow). Observe the balls numbered 1,2,3,4


69) B

Gynaeo needs Paed on standby during operating hours, which means they work together. Orthop surgeries cannot happen on the same days that gynaeo surgeries happens. This means Paed and Gynaeo are not together. 
Also, Neuro and ortho work together. 

Sudhir and Dilip have never met Sushma. Let's say Sushma belongs to Gynaeo,(and so Jaya and Arun are with her), Sushir and Dilip belongs to Neuro + Ortho. Arun is an anaesthiest. So, Rama is the left over and he the left over work is Intensive care. 

70) D

Here is how I interpreted the case.
Green line shows the connecting rod. At 1, the centrifugal force is trying to push the seater as shown in the direction of the red arrow (tangent to the circle at that point).

At 2 (for instance), the centrifugal force is along the red arrow, slanting downwards. At 3, though the centrifugal foce (red line) is downwards, the effect of rotation and force at point 2, causes the inertia of the seater to try to fly away from the wheel. This inertial force, added with the setaer weight and centrifugal forces make the seater incline more as shwon at 3. 
The same applies to all the seaters (seaters on the right half also).  

71) D

Observe the straight lines that I've drawn across the given patterns. Based on these lines, we can tell position the internal thin lines on the required pattern at the question mark. 

Also, in the second image below, there is no much difference between the column 3 and column 4 except that the patterns in column 4 are slightly oriented to that in pattern 3 in an alternating fashion. In row 1, the pattern in column 4 is rotated slightly towards anti clockwise to the orientation of the pattern in column 3.

In row 2, the pattern in column 4 is rotated slightly towards clockwise (alternated to that in row 1) to the orientation of the pattern in column 3. Like this, the alternating continues and for the last row, the pattern at the question mark should be rotated slightly in clockwise as that in column 3. Now, you can tell the correct pattern.

72) B

By observation. The patterns are moving in anti-clockwise direction.

73) D

The third art work seems to be Indian making our life easier in choosing the option.

74) A

75) C
Because of having four legs, P is the most stable of all the four chairs. The no. of visible parts in S is 4, which is lesser than in R.

76) A

77) D

C and D looks similar but the dark lines in C is bit thinner than in D. 

78) B

When folded, the portion that appears in the front is the one highlighted by blue color in the below image.


79) D

When folded such that all the sides make a flat face as shown in options, the front cut of the triangle (shown in the direction X) will be visible. Now the question is what will appear inside the traingle hole. The following shapes gets overlaid on top of one another.
1. triangle (coincides with the front triangle)
2. inverted (upside down) traingle
3. hexagon (this will not be visible because of big in size)
4. Pentagon. 

Below, I've shown how the traingle (blue) and inverted triangle (red) coincides. Also are shown the bordering lines in yellow. Interestingly, the pentagon also matches with the slot as highlighted in yellow.


80) D

Simple, the contact area between the hand and the cylinder (like a pipe)  plays a crucial role in transmitting the force apart from the size of the . However, B is the worst of all as it has the worst grip owing to small diameter of the cylinder and the aspect ratio (hand size to dylinder diameter). In A and B, some energy is needed to prevent the slipping/rotation of the hand. 

81) B

The following are the possible combinations.
q,
q, r, p
r,p 
r,s,p
q,r,s,p

82) B

83) A 
  
In the below image, I've illustrated the steps in finding the sides of the triangle. Once the side is known, the area of the triangle is easy to find. I've done this for two triangles. You can verify the same for the third (outer most) triangle to get the answer.
(click to view larger image)


84) C
Below image shows the direction in which the frog should be descending.

85) A

By observation.