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24 August 2019

Collection of UCEED exam study materials

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

This link contains:

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.).
Object practice questions.
Human, scenario, room, persepctive practice questions.
Downloadable books to help with basics of sketching, perception and shading techniques
Beginner guide to sketching
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:

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

Link 3: Design Aptitude and Reasoning practice materials collections

This link contains:

Free books for mechanical and ability questions
Verbal, non-verbal and psychometric practice online links
Odd man out series exercises
Direction sense tests
Spatial and verbal ability practice exercises
Inference from paragraph
Paragraph summary exercises
Deductive, Inductive and verbal reasoning, conclusive drawing
Data interpretation
Abstract tests, IQ and word/pictogram puzzles

Link 4: Resource update for new syllabus for UCEED

Refer the topics listed below for UCEED:

Guide on font with several online links

Typography, visual infography

Intro. to mathematical solid shapes

Famous paintings, painters, artistic media, art movements etc.

Cultural tour of India.

Colors

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:

Non-verbal and Image reasoning

Go through the bullet points under the heading "Some facts"

List of some famous epics of India

List of Indian animators, famous photographers, women designers, renaissance poets

List of Indian noble prize and oscar winners

Plutchik-wheel of emotions

Link 6: Solutions to previous papers

Study only the topics listed below:

UCEED previous papers (from 2015 to this year)
UCEED sample practice papers
CEED sample practice papers
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

Mock tests, samples and previous model papers for UCEED.

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)

Collection of famous logo designers, Indian fashion/textile designers,

Indian famous photographers

Some logos

Famous painters/paintings

Olympic medal winners

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

21 August 2019

UCEED resource for General topics

Briefly overview these EA topics

Environmental design in Wiki

Eco Design on wiki

List of Environmental issues

Indian Environmental Impact Laws

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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18 May 2018

NIFT B.Des and M.Des - Free study materials

Fortunately, the syllabus and exam pattern for both BDes and MDes are same except for the difficulty level. Here, I'm including common study materials that will be applicable for both the NIFT exams. I will update this page whenever I find relevant materials worth to be shareable.

In general, NIFT paper has the following sections

GAT, CAT, Analytical Ability, GK and Creative Ability test.

This page will try to cover all the parts except for Creative Ability which will be dealt in a separate post.

Disclaimer: The materials and the syllabus that I included are purely based on my analysis of the previous paper, intended to give you materials for self-study without the need for you to spend on purchase of costly materials. I might not have covered everything related to the exam and at the same time the materials included are related to some extent to your exam.

GAT and Analytical Ability study Materials

Additional Practice:

Online practice - Quantitaive aptitude practice
Quantitative aptitude online practice - here >>
Go through Arithmetic reasoning and venn diagrams - here >>

Logical Reasoning online practice -