Showing posts with label UCEED new pattern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UCEED new pattern. Show all posts

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