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17 September 2013

Solutions for CEED 2012 Part-A question paper

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In this page, we will discuss detailed answers for CEED 2012 question paper just like I discussed solutions for CEED 2013 previous question paper; mostly targeting PART-A.
You may download the PDF format of this solution at the end of this page.

Download CEED 2012 question paper - here

PART-A Answers


1) C
You might confuse the tail for cows. The major difference is cow has got thin tail with more hairs on it, while elephant has got thick tail with little hair (comparatively) on it.

Below is shown cow tail picture


Below is shown horse tail picture


Below is shown Dog tail picture
               
  (source : http://s3.amazonaws.com)

2) C
If you closely inspect the shadow of the walking person, you should note that the length of the shadow is very long, meaning the photography was taken either during early morning or late evening. In the options given; there is no time for early morning. At 8 PM in central India, there would be no sun light and at 11 AM or 2 PM, the sun will be positioned almost above our head and so the shadow should be very short. 
So, the answer is obviously 5 PM.

3) B
Trick is “higher the edge from ground and farther the edge from the sun/source, farther will be the shadow and only the top and side edges will have visible shadows”.

For detailed explanation on similar questions check - here

4) B
Pictures of Arun Jailtley, Jyoti Basu and Farooque Abdulla were shown below (Left to right).



5) B

6) C
The letters in options A,B and D have projections on the corners and only letters in option C are plain.

7) A
By careful observation, you may note that there were spots/dots around the letters (probably bengali language), and if you use any of the writing pens like Ball point, Gell or Calligraphic; there should not be any spots. So, I guess that chalk is the answer.

8) C
Most of the wild animals got four or less than four fingers (whatever you call), but humans and monkey has got five fingers with wide stretch.

Some animals pug mark images were shown below.


9) A
B - face is some what bulged and so not suitable
C - Dark background hides the hair and so no clear cut identity
D - side view of face is never accepted as identity except in Jail ( Lol...!!)

10) D

Check more logos list - here


11) C
If you closely inspect the first pattern, the front two legs of the dog were in air and only the hind legs (back legs) were in contact with ground. It does mean that the dog is about to take a push or jump. If you inspect the third pattern of the dog, the hind legs were in air while the front legs are about to contact the ground; as if just landing the ground. So possibly the dog should be in air with leaping action; 

check more step-to-step animations - here

12) D
I guess so, because usually bulb represents an "Idea" or its a way of showing that some kind of change or new idea/concept strikes your mind (that is supposed to be right). So I hope it should be enlightenment. Knowledge and education is a continuous process.

13) B
This is a very famous painting by Jamini Roy. Remember that paintings of Jamini Roy mostly depicts Indian culture, Gods and civilization with fine art; less or no details of background (only plain coloring can be seen) and with minor (or no) color shading. 

While others like MF Hussain, Nandalal Bose and R.Tagore paintings were mostly concentrated on color blend as well as huge shadings for natural appearance.

14) C
The first thing that we expect from a good hammer is firm grip. Good grip hammers provides comfort as well as safety (if properly designed). Next comes the metal part of hammer. Metal part with claws (for removing nail) on back and the the striking part with bevel edges are mostly suitable. 

Also the handle shown in option C were called as "Hickory handle" (finest and strongest wood) with bell end, designed to give a secure grip. Next only comes hammers with "Fiberglass" handles.

15) D
The two circular shapes on both sides of the face as well as overhead design of the face confirms that it belongs to Kerala culture.

16) B
I hope so, considering symmetry and bevel edges.

17) C
A well known cartoon to all of us.

18) A
There is a confusion between A and C, but elephant skin usually have folds or extra skin, that's why I choose A. Option C denotes probably the skin texture of Hippopotamus.
option B - python snake
option C - hippopotamus
option D - crocodile

19) C
It's a perfect dress code for mature Bengali men.

20) C
If you notice the letter "M" and "R" in the word "SAMRAT", they are bulging outwards as if like the surface of ball, with the word changing from smaller size to zoomed size to smaller size (left to right). Reflections on convex or cylindrical mirrors behave like this. 
In Part-A solutions for CEED 2013 papers, I earlier told that the reflection "CEED 2013" is concave, but actually its convex, please verify it.  

21) C 
Color theory says that a broad range of colors can be evolved by adjusting proportions of Red, Green and blue. The main purpose of  RGB model is for display of images in electronic systems (like televisions, computers as well as photography)

22) B

23) D

  • National flower  - Lotus
  • National song    - Vande mataram by Bankimchandra Chaterjee
  • National Anthem- Jana-gana-mana by Rabindranath Tagore
  • National animal  - Tiger
  • National bird      - Indian Peacock
24) D
Uski Roti is Mani Kaul's first film released in 1969.

25) D

  1. Van Gogh and Paul Klee were both famous painters.
  2. Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer.
  3. Pablo picasso was a painter, stage designer, sculptor, printmaker and ceramicist. (source : Wikipedia)

26) B
The remaining instruments were sounded with the help of strings and only instrument in option B was sounded by blowing air, thus proving as odd.

27) B

  • Chetan Bhagat is an author, speaker as well as columnist.
  • Bimal Roy was one of the most popular film director of India.
  • Aravund Adiga is an Indian writer and Journalist.

28) D
D Udaya Kumar is a noteable designer (Visual communications) from IDC, IIT Bombay who framed the current Indian Rupee symbol.

29) A
Cubism was co-founded by Picasso and Georges Braque. Cubism is a form of art that depicts form from many angles at once and lays less emphasis on showing lifelike representations.
(source: ask.com)

30) B

31) C
Indian rupee symbol was founded by Mr. Uday Kumar. He did PhD in Design from IDC, IIT Bombay.

32) D
This is the first Cast Iron bridge popularly known as "The Iron Bridge"
As you can note in picture, some parts of the bridges were shaped with circular and elliptical truss type structures, for which I hope Concrete and Hard wood material was not feasible.

Modern bridges are built with materials like concrete, Stainless steel, Fiber reinforced polymers (abbreviated FRP) or combination of those materials.

33) C

34) C

  • Front - 3 faces
  • Right - 3 faces
  • Back  - 2 faces
  • Left  - 2 faces
  • Top   - 3 faces
  • bottom- 3 faces


35) C

36) D
Watch in option D looks more sporty.

37) D
This is a sculpture made with marble in China.
Cast Iron is least used in sculpture, Granite is the hardest one and so is expensive. The left options are Bronze and Marble. For sculptures (of small to medium size) that includes more details like curves, bends and more,bronze is best suited for easy molding. Marble is best for large scale sculptures.

38) B
Below is Vidhan Saudha picture


Below is Mysore Palace picture

Below is White House picture


(sources : Wikipedia)

39) D
Ceramic cups doesn't heat your hands, when you hold the cup. The remaining (paper, polystyrene and stainless steel) cups does.

40) A

For detailed explanation on similar questions check - here


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ALSO SEE


Answers for CEED 2014 Part - A

PART-A CEED 2013 detailed solutions

PART-B CEED 2013 solutions


9 September 2013

Resources and books for CEED exam preparation

You are here Resources >> Resource and books for CEED


An updated (revamped) resource page with a structured way of helping you navigate to the right post for CEED has been shared here (2020 update) -

Collection of CEED exam study materials  


Let's go through some of the resources under separate headings. Most of these resources and materials are prepared by me for your smooth preparation. Some other external links and books can be found on the internet, but it might be difficult for you to find them and gather together. I, therefore, grouped them in this page under different sub-headings for your convenience and better understanding.

You may also get CEED previous years question papers at the end of this page.


All CEED related Stuff You Look blog links collections - PDF download  
(Nov 2021 update)


Sketching and Perception drawing Skills


Sketching is the most important part of your CEED exam. Usually drawing is a mode of communicating your ideas in paper (visually).

Here is my complete guide on - How to learn sketching and what strategies to follow to improve drawing skills in CEED exam


Latest update: Tips for Exploded view drawing


Other than my guide. there are some good number of handful books for you to go through them to improve your drawing skills. check them below
  • A very good sketching views of drawings and general things and drawing techniques can be found in the book by David Lewis - here
  • 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" from Robert W.Gill, which covers most of the rendering topics including perspective projections (for starters having time) 
  • A book about basis of drawing instruments, holding positions, perspective, quality of lines and shading techniques for beginners by freebies4u.net - here
  • My favorite book on Perspective drawing; A complete beginner guide, handbook by Joseph D'Amelio - here
  • A very good website giving step-by-step guide for beginners from howtodraw - here

leisure time works

  • A free pencil shading exercise by David Lewis - here
  • A broad explanation about human portrait sketching by Wendon Blake - here
  • YouTube video - here

Sketching Level required/sufficient for CEED and UCEED exams



Observation and Visualization skills


1. Puzzles to improve observation

Tangram Puzzles - 
Downloadable PDF's
2. Animation movement

This type of visualization is an important tool for those aspiring to do Animation Design as career. Even this type of questions usually appears in CEED exam. Basically it deals with step-by-step image movements; which when put whole-together helps to create videos or animations.

Check the detail in downloadable (Pdf) form here>>

3. Working with Geometric Objects

Solving Geometric object type of questions improves your imagination as well as visualization skills; thus CEED examiners usually include object type of questions regularly. I therefore worked with some examples and included step-by-step process for solving such type of questions.

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

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

Solving number of faces on geometric complex solids here>>

Maths Basics for non-math background design aspirants



My video series on 'How to solve design aptitude, non-verbal, and ability questions



4. Evolution of objects

Evolution generally mean 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 here>>

5. Hidden words and images

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

6. 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 - here>>
Geometry representations by Malati - here>>

Leisure time works

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

6. Illusions and Perception

Improve Observation skills with Illusions -  here>>

Second list of illusions - here>>

leisure time reference

A very good guide on Art Perception

All about - Aesthetics


PART - A guide for CEED


A complete resources collections catering the needs of Part - A  of CEED exam were given in this link -

Complete resource collection for CEED Part-A preparation 


Design thinking and Creativity Studies


Like I said in my other blog pages; sketching is just a tool to represent your ideas, in other words its a mode of communicating your ideas. Now, when you don't get creative ideas then there is no meaning of learning about drawing or sketching. You must first focus on ways of developing your creativity and design thinking skills. of course the above section on illusions and hidden words will also help you develop your thinking skills.

Here is my posts giving in-depth ideas on "how to improve your creativity and lateral thinking" 

You may also go through the following links to learn more about Creativity
  1. One of my favorite books; A generalized theory about creative problem solving for you with some practice exercises by CPS-Mitchell & Kowalik - here
  2. Creativity exercises from slide share - here

leisure time works


Materials and Manufacturing process


I had detailed and categorized materials as well as manufacturing process with examples of day-to-day products. 

  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 sculptors - here
  5. Top Indian stone and rock carvings - here
  6. Famous bronze sculptures - here

User Interface Design (UID) guide


UI Designs are a form of Visual communication or I can say it's more or less related to Interaction Design (IXD) and CEED started asking similar questions recently. The fact is UID questions are easy to attempt and even they consume lesser time compared to other design questions like Product design, story board framing or even comic strips. The only thing you must consider is to know about how it can be designed and what are the basic principles involved in UID. 

I had given all the details - fundamental principles, standard rules, mobile UID features as well as what could be done (some thumb rules) in attempting such questions in CEED exam here - Fundamental principles and rules in User Interface Designs

Comic Strips


Japanese usually call comic strips as manga. They are an important form of communicating a story or idea in pictorial forms usually with comments (also called callout). Lets check the related pages for comic strip improvement
  • A very good guide for comic strip by Peter Dawes in PDF -here
  • Steps for creating comic strip by courtsed web in PDF - here
  • Wikihow gave the general procedure - here
  • Basic concepts from readwritethink web - here
  • YouTube video by mrjert



A very good website with complete detail about storyboard - here 

leisure time works

Story board tutorial - here
A Starting guide to storyboard - here
A Story board sample - here
Some examples for storyboard - here


Storyboard and Poster making


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


Answers/solutions for

Solutions for the recent years papers are available in the previous papers section of this blog



Here is a quick video tutorial on "How to start and what to practice for CEED exam"





General Knowledge



Color Selection

Let us now see some pdf files, which may help you choose color at different occasions
Something about - Prototype making from MIT, Cambridge

Product Design Open course free PDF's - MIT Product Design open courseware

Abstract Tests

Let me tell you that questions from Abstract reasoning tests won't appear in CEED exams, but I included abstract test exercises in this resources page for a reason. Abstract reasoning tests helps you with pattern findings and also for problem solving. I hope that there may not be any harm in trying this type of tests; which usually takes hardly one day. Theses tests were taken from pscychometric-success.com
  1. Test 1 - here
  2. Test 2 - here
  3. Test 3 - here
  4. Test 4 - here

CEED Previous Year Question Papers


Finally, Let us see the links for getting downloadable format of previous question papers for practice.
  • 2016 question paper - here
  • 2015 question paper - here
  • Official answer key to CEED 2015 paper - here  
  • 2014 question paper - here
  • 2013 question paper - here and (Alternate Download)
  • 2012 question paper - here
  • 2011 question paper - here
  • 2010 question paper - here
  • 2009 question paper - here
  • 2008 question paper - here
  • 2007 question paper - here
  • 2006 question paper - here


There are no secret to success. Success is directly proportional to your preparation, hard work and learning from your failures. Unless you plant a seed, you can't expect  a tree. Same goes with your CEED preparation. The more you practice suggested tests, sketching and observation skills, the more likely you improve your creative thinking skills; thus helping yourself crack CEED exam. Leave a comment regarding any additions to be included in this topic.


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