Part B UCEED 2020 sketching solution

In this post, I will share my rough sketch made for UCCED 2020 Part B subjective (mandatory sketching) question to give you an idea of how to solve such questions. 

The question as appeared in the paper 

I hope the below image of the question is clearly visible. If not, you can refer to the question paper available in the UCEED official website or in the 2020 part A solution page.

My rough solution done digitally (Adobe Draw app in iPad mini)

Sketch 1

Same solution with a little details 

Sketch 2

Few tips and points to remember

Referring to the above two sketches drawn by me, here are a few suggested tips and mandatory points to keep in mind

1. First thing first, always.....always......always read the question properly and understand the requirement. I repeat to stress the importance.......READ the question and UNDERSTAND the requirements properly. If not understood in the first go, read several times. Because it's very very important to meet the requirements - as stated in the question. Also keep in mind the 'evaluation criteria' listed in the question. 
2. Understand the 'Evaluation criteria' and try to sketch or design accordingly. Every centimeter of your sketch/design must try to meet the criteria listed by them. This is very important. For this specific question, the six criteria given are observation, imagination, selection and composition of objects, quality of line, presentation, and attention to detail. (Note that the solution that I've given as sketches might not be meeting all the criteria owing to my time constraint. But while you are attempting, you should mind these criteria. 
3. Also, follow the instructions given as 'note' in the question
4. In the sketch that I've drawn, I tried to show all the objects/items mentioned in the question and as required by them. I've not drawn Prof. Shastri as mentioned by them. Also, I've read the question carefully to understand the situation by noting the conversation between her and her husband. 
5. Because of time constraints, I've shown only a few books and my sketch has space above the work desk. You can try showing more books since it was mentioned in the question that she has the habit of being untidy! 
6. To improve your imagination and draw in proper perspective while at exam hall, what I would suggest to you is to place papers, pad, and mobile/desktop (whatever available at that time) on top of the desk and take advantage of the current situation at hand (a kind of copy sketch). This will particularly help with giving proper perspective to your sketch. In most cases, this works. When I was giving CEED exam back in 2013, there was a question about identifying the correct aadhar logo among the given four options. What I did was take out my aadhar in my wallet and check the options to answer it :P  
7. Again, proportion, shape and size of objects w.r.t. each other and line quality are very important for any sketch of this kind. 

(Ignore the background empty space in the sketch and the title 'UCEED 2020' I had to keep the image in portrait to make it appear large in this post. I would suggest NOT to show unnecessary empty spaces, something like shown in the below image.)

I made the sketch in the following manner: 

• First: understand the question and the requirement
• Second: Visually imagine the scenario and think on what to include and where to position - like what items/objects are to be shown, where to position them w.r.t. the image,  in what proportion and angle etc. 
• Third: Started making an outline of the view that I had in my imagination, sketching all the items in their assumed positions. I took care of perspective, line thickness, quality, size and shape(proportion w.r.t each object as per the perspective view). 
• Fourth: Keeping in mind the given time of 30 mins, after I finished the outline of the sketch and based on the leftover time, I did the remaining sketch - like showing the keyboard, adding names or lines above the paper and books, drawing pakodas on the plate, showing steam over tea glass etc. as shown in the first sketch image above.
• Fifth: Based on the leftover time  I tried giving little more details, like the texture of the desk, shadows of the book etc. (which is also the requirement of the question). Although I could only do a tiny part of it, I assume that you will give a good amount of details based on the time during your attempt. 

As already mentioned above, giving an outline to your sketch is very important than trying to giving a good amount of details but completing only say 50% of the sketch. As per my experience with CEED, what I understood is that the reviewers expect mostly an outline and a complete structure of the answer. So, be wise enough to start and complete the outline first before you move to give details. 

Now, to add further

Possible mistakes in the above sketch that I made 

1. I missed showing the laptop completely. Part of it got hidden. This may not be a mistake but still given that Prof. was working on her thesis, probably I should've shown the complete laptop or desktop. 
2. Some objects seem to be NOT in a proper perspective. I could've done better than what I drew. 
3. The glasses are looking a little smaller in size as compared to other objects (especially the nearby plate). I should've drawn them a little bigger in size. 
4. The books in the background are also smaller in size. I should've drawn them a little bigger in size - maybe 3/4th the size of the nearby bunch of exam papers. 
5. Based on the perspective view of the laptop, the written paper beneath the laptop, mobile, the paratha plate and the books in the back, the bunch of exam papers should be given a little more perspective, maybe by showing more breadth.   
6. The empty pakoda plate at the back could have been drawn better.   

The above are some mistakes that I could list out to help you with your practice and to give you a hint on how the sketch should be drawn better. You mihjt have spotted more mistakes, but ignore them for now (or take it as your learning to avoid such mistake in your own attempt) as like I mentioned, I had to make this sketch very roughly owing to my other commitments. 

I hope the above sketch solution gave you an idea to answer such questions. To remind you, I've already listed a set of Sample UCEED subjective practice questions last year (I will also update more questions based on this year's question). You may take them as a daily or weekly practice to improve with time by keeping the points, requirements and evaluation criteria in mind. I would suggest you practice mostly with pencils only! 

Sketching Level required/sufficient for CEED and UCEED exams

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 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 questions 3 (for both CEED and UCEED)

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)

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

NID-DAT Subjective Practice questions (PG)

Here is a set of practice questions that I prepared for your NID-DAT Subjective (PG) practice after I analysed some previous papers. Please practice only which you feel relevant to your preparation. I will update this page with more example soon. If you have any specific requirement on subjective questions type, drop in the comment and let me know or if you feel some other topic could be added, feel free to update me. Note that some of the questions have been taken from this blog's BDes subjective post.

Downloadable PDF - A complete list of SYL links for NID-DAT exam (sitemap) 

Note - To save this posts images to your PC or mobile phone for your practice, click on the image and try saving them.

1. Complete the drawings

Part of the images will be given to you. Complete the remaining part with pencil/pen. Also, draw the background. No need to give details, line drawing should be enough but give importance to size, proportion, 

(Sorry for the blog name (watermark) on the images. I came to know that some coaching centres are just copying this blog's content as it is, and so I had to do this) 

Q1. Complete the scene of an ice cream parlour front, with a set of chairs and tables and also illustrate the ice cream shop. Draw a couple sitting on chairs relishing ice cream.

Q2. Complete the scene of a grandmother with her grandson sitting on a chair in a park feeding birds. Also, draw squirrels in the scene.

Q3. Complete the scene of a living room with windows, tables, racks etc. Draw a kid on the floor playing with his/her toys, and a music player on top of the table.

Q4. Complete the scene with a bunch of kids being outdoor and about to relish their food as part of their picnic. Show birds and animals in the scene and also cloud with sun and some trees.

Q5. Complete the scene of a living room with sofa, chairs, tv AC and wall mountings. Also, draw a vacuum cleaner lying on the floor

2. Story Framing and Writing Exercises

a. Part of the story will be given. Complete the story in not more than 7 lines and illustrate them in 5 frames

1. There lived a mise under a tree, above which a crow .........
2. One day, I went to playground along with my cousin ......
3. A golden swan which used to be pride once visited a pond where .........
4.  Long ago, snakes don't have a home until one day a snake saw ants ..........
5. Once upon a time, an elephant king used to rule the forest when .......
6. Once, a miser trader .......

b. Frame stories using the following set of words, don't exceed 7 lines 

1. Iron box, doll, shirt, table
2. Tiffen box, stove, wall clock, mother, cat
3. grandma, shoes, car horn, TV
4. Ants, Laptop, cookies, Sleep
5. Water bottle, monkey, window grills, fridge
6. Doctor, sweets, salt, grandma, 
7. Bulb, plant, carpet, glass jar

If possible illustrate one frame of the story for the above,  (pick any scene of your choice from the chosen story), which you've written. 


c. Story narration for a given image

You will be given a scenario based on which you need to narrate a story in not more than 10 lines. This exercise will help you in enhancing your story framing and scene analysis skills. The first two questions appeared in CEED previous papers and the third example was taken from the internet.

Q1.  The illustration above is an artist’s impression of an incident in a club house. Narrate the incident in your own words, based on your creative imagination. Limit your description to less than 250 words.

Solution to the above scenario with tips on how to deal with such questions in this post

Q2. Check the below messy picture and write a story related to the situation depicted in not less than 200 words.

Solution to the above scenario with some tips 

Q3. Check the below scenario and narrate a story

3. Situation analysis questions

1. A monkey got into a mall somehow and wants to get out without anyone’s notice. A 10-year-old boy helps him - state at least three problems/challenges faced by him in helping the monkey. Also, suggest solutions to the problems identified.
2. A self-aware intelligent robot was lost in a forest and its battery was draining, state at least three challenges the robot will face and also suggest some solutions to the identified problems
3. An alien was lost from its ship which got landed on the outskirts of your city and you decided to help it reach its ship. State at least three challenges/problems that you might encounter will take it to the ship safely. State also the transport you prefers to use and also give solutions
4. A turtle somehow got into the city and is now in a lane filled with Non-veg shops, state the challenges it needs to face in order to cross and also reach the sea at the outskirts. Also, state solutions to that problems.
5. A mosquito was inside a hall and it wants to get out. But the whole windows and doors were protected with mosquito catchers and repellants. State three challenges on how he can escape from the room. Also, give the solutions to the mosquito

4. Drawing/sketching exercises

A. General Drawing questions

1. Draw a teen (only upper half portion sufficient) sipping coffee/tea and/or eating ice cream 
2. Draw the scene of a school-boy studying a book, intensively, with no power but only candlelight in the room, being seated on the floor
3. Draw the scene of yourself sitting on your rooms sofa and taking selfie
4. Draw the scene of a mother, feeding her 2 year child with a milk bottle
5. 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.
6. Draw a creature, upper half human and lower half a tree trunk with some branches, watering itself. 
7. Assume you are sitting in front of a laptop or a desktop PC adjacent to a wall, draw how your eyes see the scene
8. Draw different facial emotions of a human (boy or girl) - only face/portrait is sufficient. Maintain the same person in all the scenes
9. Draw the scene of an artist making art in his/her living room.
10. Draw the scene of a manager in his office room, in front of a system (Computer) with files piled on his desk.
11. Draw the scenario of two kids competing for one another on video game
12. raw 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
13. 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
14. 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 made mud stove, burning using wood/twigs. 
15. 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.
16. There was a power cut. Draw the scene of your father fanning you, while you're fast asleep at the comfort of the fanning. Your father being happy at that moment.
17. Draw yourself with head over phones on, enjoying the music like anything
18. Draw yourself in a superhero costume 
19. Draw yourself sitting on a sofa exhibiting ur happiness in watching the winning match on TV

B. Same-Scale drawing sample questions (just line drawing sufficient, no need of details)

• Draw a bolt-nut (used for bolting, consider 1cm diameter of the bolt) and a pencil alongside in correct proportion
• Draw a laptop and a pressure cooker in correct proportion, alongside
• Draw a cat and a 5-year boy in, correct size
• Draw a mobile phone and a big sized Ant next to it, in correct proportion.
• Draw an elephant, a tiger and a monkey

C. Different-Scale drawing sample questions (just line drawing sufficient, no need of details) 

• Draw a rat, thrice its usual size and a human (25+)  in his original size. 
• Roughly draw a crow of 4 times its usual size, sitting above a bicycle.
• Draw a 10 years cheerful girl, holding the tail of a real tiger which is of the size of a rat. Illustrate as if the girl is holding the tail in air

D. Human or Object sketching exercises

1. Draw a portrait of a pretty girl with curly hairs, cheering up, with appropriate details in the background.
2. Draw a 6 years kid weeping on his/her study table with some books. Show appropriate details including the background.
3. Draw a 2-3 years child, just learnt to walk using the support of the adjacent wall. Show appropriate details including the background.
4. Draw a portrait of a cheerful farmer with a turban and moustache, holding a plough. Show appropriate details including the background.
5. Draw a girl kid (6-10 years old) with a puppy in her hand.
6. Draw the sketch of a basket of vegetables on top of a table, visible in the dimness of a candle-light. Show appropriate details, shades etc. 

E. Choose two Homonym of your choice and draw them. 

Note: Homonym is a word that is spelt the same or sounds the same as another word but is different in meaning.

Ex: 

(pray, prey), 

(sell ,cell)

this page has a very long list of Homonym

1. Draw the two meanings of the word "Spring" and write a one-line explanation for the sketch.
2. Draw the two meanings of the word "tire" and write a one-line explanation for the sketch.
3. Draw the two meanings of the word "desert" and write a one-line explanation for the sketch.

5. Poster making exercise

(you may use colours, rulers or other media)

1. Population reduction - a theme poster that shows the downside of population growth. Give appropriate title and caption
2. Make a poster for avoiding food wastage showing at least one kid in hungry or starving mode
3. Create a poster advertisement to promote 'Swachh Bharat' campaign, showing at least a kid involved in the activity, 
4. Make a poster for bringing awareness of digital India. Include the key elements like e-payments, govt. apps, digishala, govt. digital services, prevention of corruption, reduction of documents, hence papers, fast services/processes, 
5. Your college is organising a cultural festival, make a poster showing the details of events or diff. kind of cultural.
6. Create a poster advertising men to join Indian armed forces for a minimum of one year. Use Indian flag, Indian emblem, a Soldier. Use the form of them (texture, pattern, outline etc) 
7. Design a poster to bring awareness about education focused on the rural parts of India. Illustrate visually the benefits 

Hope above practice questions helps you. All the best :)

NID DAT Subjective sample practice questions (B.Des)

Hi there,

In this post, I've covered some sample questions that might be useful for your subjective practice. This is in specific to BDes paper and according to 2017 official sample paper available in NID official website. Please note that the questions are purely based on my analysis and have been shared with the intention that some of them might actually turn useful for your practice. Please also note that some of the questions may not fit well to the exam.  

Downloadable PDF - A complete list of SYL links for NID-DAT exam (sitemap) 

1. Drawing exercises of scenarios

1. Draw the scene of a school-boy studying a book, intensively, with no power but only candle light in the room, being seated on the floor
2. Draw the scene of yourself sitting on your rooms sofa and taking selfie
3. Draw the scene of a mother, feeding her 2 year child with a milk bottle
4. 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.
5. Draw a creature, upper half human and lower half a tree trunk with some branches, watering itself. 
6. Assume you are sitting in front of a laptop or a desktop PC adjacent to a wall, draw how your eyes see the scene
7. Draw different facial emotions of a human (boy or girl) - only face/portrait is sufficient. Maintain the same person in all the scenes
8. Draw the scene of an artist making art in his/her living room.
9. Draw the scene of a manager in his office room, in front of a system (Computer) with files piled on his desk.
10. Draw the scenario of two kids competing for one another on video game
11. raw 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
12. 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
13. 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. 
14. 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.
15. There was a power cut. Draw the scene of your father fanning you, while you're fast asleep at the comfort of the fanning. Your father being happy at that moment.
16. Draw yourself with head over phones on, enjoying the music like anything
17. Draw yourself in a superhero costume 
18. Draw yourself sitting on a sofa exhibiting ur happiness in watching the winning match on TV

2. Human/Object sketching exercises

1. Draw a portrait of a pretty girl with curly hairs, cheering up, with appropriate details in the background.
2. Draw a 6 years kid weeping on his/her study table with some books. Show appropriate details including the background.
3. Draw a 2-3 years child, just learnt to walk using the support of the adjacent wall. Show appropriate details including the background.
4. Draw a portrait of a cheerful farmer with a turban and moustache, holding a plough. Show appropriate details including the background.
5. Draw a girl kid (6-10 years old) with a puppy in her hand.
6. Draw the sketch of a basket of vegetables on top of a table, visible in the dimness of a candle light. Show appropriate details, shades etc. 

Choose two Homonym of your choice and draw them. 

Note: Homonym is a word that is spelt the same or sounds the same as another word but is different in meaning.

Ex: 

(pray, prey), 

(sell ,cell)

this page has a very long list of Homonym

1. Draw the two meanings of the word "Spring" and write a one-line explanation for the sketch.
2. Draw the two meanings of the word "tire" and write a one-line explanation for the sketch.
3. Draw the two meanings of the word "desert" and write a one-line explanation for the sketch.

3. Story writing exercise

Frame stories using the following set of words, don't exceed 7 lines 

1. Iron box, doll, shirt, table
2. Tiffen box, stove, wall clock, mother, cat
3. grandma, shoes, car horn, TV
4. Ants, Laptop, cookies, Sleep
5. Water bottle, monkey, window grills, fridge
6. Doctor, sweets, salt, grandma, 
7. Bulb, plant, carpet, glass jar

If possible illustrate one frame of the story (pick any scene of your choice from the chosen story), which you've written. 

4. Poster making exercise

(you may use colours, rulers or other media)

1. Population reduction - a theme poster that shows the downside of population growth. Give appropriate title and caption
2. Make a poster for avoiding food wastage showing at least one kid in hungry or starving mode
3. Create a poster advertisement to promote 'Swachh Bharat' campaign, showing at least a kid involved in the activity, 
4. Make a poster for bringing awareness of digital India. Include the key elements like e-payments, govt. apps, digishala, govt. digital services, prevention of corruption, reduction of documents, hence papers, fast services/processes, 
5. Your college is organising a cultural festival, make a poster showing the details of events or diff. kind of cultural.
6. Create a poster advertising men to join Indian armed forces for a minimum of one year. Use Indian flag, Indian emblem, a Soldier. Use the form of them (texture, pattern, outline etc) 
7. Design a poster to bring awareness about education focused on the rural parts of India. Illustrate visually the benefits 

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(Below is a Supplementary Exercise)

5. Replicate exercises

Exactly redraw/replicate the below images, giving form and details - as much as possible

(just replicate the front girl and the table, no need to draw other kid in the backdrop)

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P.S.: I will update this page with more exercise and other variants of questions as soon as I finish next phase of previous paper analysis. Until then I hope the above exercise practice questions would come handy to during your preparation. 

NID-DAT 2015 previous paper subjective ideas

Hi there,

I wished to attempt NID-DAT sample test subjective paper to share it with you all, but given my time limit, I'm not able to do that. So, in this post, rather than a complete solution form, I will just give my basic idea for the two questions without any sketches/frames (excluding Poster which I guess cannot be put into words). I think this is the dumbest post that I ever made, with less content. Sorry for that. Anyway, I think this post could be made interactive with your views. I would like to see you share your own creative ideas in the comment section so that everyone can discuss on that.

Q89) 

The Water tap of the washbasin in a bathroom is leaking. It is midnight and no professional help is available at that hour. Give five ideas to prevent water wastage and represent them through drawings with two-three lines of explanation each.

Idea 1: 

Connect the tap to a washing machine.

Even if the tap is fully opened, but connected to washing machine inlet hose pipe, not even a single drop of water leaks out from the washing machine unless it is turned on. So, just plug it the inlet to the tap

Idea 2: 

Use chewing gum. Chew the gum until it turns to the usual adhesive material, then use it to block the pores/holes of the tap by pressing it to the faucet opening.

Idea 3:

Use medium sized ropes (or strong threads) to tie the loose tap handle tightly such making a knot until water won't leak out.

Idea 4:

Most washbasin taps come with a control valve beneath the basin. Use that main valve (which is just like the tap) to shut the supply to the tap. In case when that washbasin didn't come with a valve at the bottom and water is leaking heavily, use the main valve that will be available next to the water tank on the roof to shut the whole supply.

Idea 5:

Use a plastic cover to wrap the tap bottom opening and using rubber bands, tighten the cover. 

Idea 6:

Place a cover in between the tap opening and a thick flat cardboard sheet or a plastic flat plate or any flat surface and place a supporting stick to it from the basin till the tap, such that the cover is held tight and straight to the opening, preventing water leakage.

Q90)

Story:

Frame 1:

Once upon a time, monkeys had no longer tails and elephants had very short trunks. Until one day it so happened that an elephant was climbing through a narrow passage which was along the edge of a cliff beside a river. That narrow passage was the only route to top cliff, which happened to be the home for many banana trees. A monkey was sitting on top of a tree, which was alongside the narrow edge and was munching on bananas, throwing the Banana peels on the ground.

Frame 2:

The elephant, not noticing the banana peel, stepped on it and slid, not able to balance herself and was about to fall from the cliff onto the river. 

Frame 3:

The monkey realising its mistake ran towards the about-to-fall elephant, held his hands and hind legs tightly over the tree trunk and showed his tail towards the elephant

Frame 4:   

   

The elephant, understanding the monkeys' intention of helping him, held the small tail with her trunk, and used it as a support preventing herself from being falling.

Frame 5:

After the elephant climbed up using the monkey's tail, the elephant realised that it's trunk has enlarged till the ground. Monkey also observed that its tail has grown longer. Both felt happier with the new development. Very soon, all the elephants held monkeys tails and pulled over, helping each other in enlarging their parts.

Share your views or your ideas in the comments and let's discuss on that.