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. 

Link 1: Free practice  questions for Part B sketching

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.

Link 2: Part B Free resources (PDFs and practice videos)

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!

Link 3: Sample of how to attempt Product design type questions

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 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

• YouTube video on how to use pencil to draw drawings in size and proportion - link to youtube here
• Youtube help on drawing objects in proportion
• Another lengthy but detailed youtube video on drawing objects in proportion
• Video help on drawing humans in proportion

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.

My tips for writing composition given an image

Example of framing a story by looking at an image (Picture composition)

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