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. 

Collection of UCEED exam study materials

Link 1: Subjective (Part B) complete collections for UCEED as per new pattern from 2020


This link contains:

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

Link 2: Collection of UCEED Main topics

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

Link 3: Design Aptitude and Reasoning practice materials collections

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)  

Link 5: Resource collections from NID page for UCEED

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

Link 6: Solutions to previous papers

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.

Link 7: Mock tests and sample papers collections

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).

Link 8: GA on famous designers for all design exams

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 

How to prepare and what to practice for UCEED  

Weekly strategy and schedule/time-table for UCEED practice 

List of priority topics for one month UCEED preparation

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

Priority topics from resource page for 3 days UCEED preparation

Last minute tips and time management for UCEED exam

What to do if you get less ranks in Design exams or if you couldn't get design seat at all

Complementary -  (PDF) List of Scholarships and exam-based-scholarships for school and college students

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

UCEED resource for General topics

Briefly overview these EA topics 

1. Environmental design in Wiki 
2. Eco Design on wiki  
3. List of Environmental issues
4. Indian Environmental Impact Laws  
5. Social Sustainability 

Wiki guide on Sustainable design

Basic values of Sustainable Design

An article on Alternative thinking

Eco-friendly products

Eco products official directory - (just give a overview in free) (not imp)

Some basic mechanical principles

Working principles

home appliances working with explanations (not imp)


Below, I've included topics that are less important to UCEED. Give them a overview only if you have completed the remaining syllabus/resources and if you are left with time.

General Knowledge

• List of logos - here>>
• Animation Terms and related techniques

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

Source: darkspeeds work on devianart

Plutchik-Wheel of emotions

UCEED forum/discussion page with FAQ's

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UCEED - priority topics from resource posts for last 7 days

Hi,

Just seven days to go and you must be in a crunch just like me :D

Anyway, earlier, I've given the priority list, in this post I will tell which headings of which post/page is required which you can skip saving time as well study the most important topics as per my analysis. Note that this is purely based on my observation and calculations and I wished to share that with you. Please don't blame me if the same pattern didn't appear this time :D

Note that I'm assuming that you can deal with English and verbal questions.

Not wasting your time further,

Download PDF - complete UCEED links in SYL blog (2018 update)

Notations followed

*** Very Important (recommended)

**   Important

*     Overview

0     Skip

I will give the links to the resource posts that I had shared earlier, followed by the headings in that resource page, with the notation stating whether that need to be studied or skipped. If you didn't understand this, leave a comment so that I will ty to clear further.

1. Post - Books and Study materials for UCEED exam 

• (heading)Orthographic Drawing * - Geometry, solid shapes (overview) * 
• Observation and Visualisation skills - only study working with Geo objects (Imp) **
• Abstract tests - All - (Very imp) ***
• General, Mechanical and Verbal Reasoning questions ***
• General Design Awareness study topics - Only - photography *, Typography *, Artistic tools *
• Materials and Manufacturing practice, Mirroring, GK - skip  - 0
• Inference from Paragraphs and pictures ***
• Deductive and Verbal Reasoning ***
• Inductive Reasoning and Conclusion drawing **
• Signs, symbols and their interpretations - Only related to health,m safety, environment **
• Data Interpretation **
• Word/Pictogram puzzles, Paragraph summary, English comprehension, Environmental GA and Sustainability study - skip - 0
• Indian cultural GA ***, Regarding Architecture - study only the styles, history etc, no need to memorise them all or least prefer the memorising, but study theory related to which dynasty associated with which style and which ruler etc
• Odd man out series exercises *
• Direction sense test *
• Spatial and Visual Ability test samples ***
• Other IQ tests and exercises **
• Resource update-4 - skip - 0

2. Post - UCEED Resources 2 - collection of useful web pages

• Guide about Font ***  
• Typography/Font related ***
• Guide for Unfolded view of solids ***
• GA on painting, architecture etc ***
• GA on colors ***
• Golden ratio, Rule of thirds **
• General topics - only - Standard ISO paper sizes, famous books and others, image formats list,  Pablo Picasso works, perspective and non-perspective images
• Useful Materials from D'Source web page - links in this sections have been changed, I've to look through them again, so for now, skip them

3. Post - GA on designers for UCEED, CEED and NID

• Famous Logo designers ***
• Indian Textile/Fashion designers list - skip - 0
• Indian Famous Photographers **
• Additional general topics  **
• Free time study *** - again no need to memorise architecture

4. Post - NID-DAT Resources update 3

• Skip the initial links related to NID
• New Updates - GK ** - Authors, writers, (extend to world level - top list/famous)) 2015, 2016 news on disasters, politics, deaths of famous personalities, environmental calamities 
• Free time study - skip
• Some Facts **
• List of some famous epics of India **
• List of famous Indian Animators *
• Photographers, women designers, Indian Noble prize winners * (last preference)
• List of Indians who won Oscar awards * (last preference)
• List of famous Indian fashion designers, List of Indian women architects  - skip - 0

5. Post - NID-DAT Resources update - New syllabus

• Symmetry **
• General - only Animal tracks * 

I'm still working on collecting relevant materials at this stage. Will share them in G+, SYL or my own Facebook page whenever I find some.


Video Guide - 
How to utilize time for UCEED in the last one week

How to manage time and organize sections during UCEED exam

Best wishes :)