Hello all,
Please note that there is no universal strategy applicable for everyone. Strategy and preparation level varies from person to person based on their existing abilities (proficiency in a field), how much time to spend everyday, their status (completely dedicated or partially preparing and also aiming for other exams), their ease of understanding/grasping topics, their ability skills and so on. So, it all depends on personal capabilities, but this timetable will be helping those who need guidance or a systematic approach of preparation.
Having a reference time table might give you some idea of what topics to be studied, how much time to be spent for the topics, how length they are, your status/level for that topic and most importantly it will help as a check list to ensure that you don't miss any topic being unprepared.
The first strategy/time-table is for those who are average or below average at sketching/ drawing etc
The second strategy is for those whom are above average or very good at sketching
Kind note:
- I've included numbered labels for the Design part of CEED (Part - B), so that I don't have to repeat them every time in the schedule. I've given two Strategies for relevant people related to Part B (design part), but GA time table will be common for both the strategies
- You might be the best judge to know your abilities, shortfalls and the need for topic improvements, so adjust the given time table accordingly and go on your phase, that best suits you. Below timetable might only act as a reference :)
The following topics and their
respective Labeled numbers will be used in the schedule given below.
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(Label - Topic)
0 - product Design/Industrial Design
1 - Visual Communication, Poster, Logo
2 - Animation, Story board making, comic strips/frames
3 - Story writing, Story write-up given some characters, picture composition - story writing by looking at a scene/image
4 - Creative use of items - waste/reusable
5 - Problem identification given a scenario, finding Factors, design idea proposal for the prob.
6 - Sketching, Line drawing, Exploded view/shape, composition, part view
7 - Shading/rendering
8 - Human/animal sketching line/object sketching
9 - Ideas of using products and applications (like use of invisible fluids etc)
10 - Fault finding in existing products/designs/sketches
11 - Visualization and Imagination ques.
12 - Draw things/products/designs/human/animal from imagination
13 - Draw by copying/ replicating/ seeing existing images/ products/ scenarios/ scenes/ designs etc
14 - Study on latest technology, products, design ideas etc
15 - Ideas from others in social/print media say in blogs, FB, Pinterest, behance etc
16 - Sketch practice
17 - Previous years part B practice; going through questions to understand the nature
18 - Geometric/solid manipulations, transformations, views
19 - Perspective/Vanishing point drawings/study
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Important Note (for CEED Design; Part-B):
- Going through existing products/design/frame/others ideas is very important, likewise finding faults and coming up with your solutions is always a good designer practice (at least in my view)
- Carefully understand the requirement of the design questions - What they asked or looking for
- Mind the evaluation criteria before attempting/solving any design question
- You need to have a fair idea on existing products and their technology. So, I've included a topic/section with this heading in the timetable
- Sketching is imp. but design idea is the first important criteria to be considered, that's why I've given greater emphasis on how you can culminate the process of idea generation by way of various practices listed in the Labels/topics
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STRATEGY - 1 (Only Design Part)
Level : Below average in Sketching
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Month : September
- 3rd week - 6 (line drawing), 13, 5, 19 (line drawing)
- 4th week - 4 ,8 , 10, 15, 13, 17, 6, 11 (Line drawing), 14, 18
Month : October
- 1st week - 3, 12, 17, 8, 10, 6 (sketch/Line-drawing), 0, (1 or 2 or both), 18, 19
- 2nd week - 10, 16, 15, 9, 6 (sketch, exploded view), 5, 0, 11, 12, 19
- 3rd week - 3, 10, 9, 5, 0, (1 or 2 or both), 4, 15, 18
- 4th week - 17, 8 (little), 6 (sketch/exploded view), 0, (1 or 2 or both), 4, 10, 12, 14, 15
Month : November
- 1st week - 17, 16, 8, 9, 7, 5, 11, 12 (little), 14, 19
- 2nd week - 10, 16, 7, 0, (1 or 2 or both), 14, 15
- 3rd week - 3, 10, 9, 7, 11, 12, 5, 15, 18
- 4th week - 16, 12, 18, 19
Month : December
- 1st week - 16, 12, 17 (just overview, mild practice)
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STRATEGY - 2 (Only Design Part)
Level : Above average (good) at Sketching
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Month : September
- 3rd week - 5, 10, 11,, 14, 15, 18
- 4th week - 0, (1 or 2 or both), 4 , 5, 17, 18, 19
Month : October
- 1st week - 0, (1 or 2 or both), 3, 4, 5, 9, 18, 19
- 2nd week - 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18
- 3rd week - 0, (1 or 2 or both), 5, 6, 11, 19
- 4th week - 0, (1 or 2 or both), 3, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18
Month : November
- 1st week - 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 14, 15, 19
- 2nd week - 0, (1 or 2 or both), 6, 7, 11, 10, 15, 17, 18
- 3rd week - 0, (1 or 2 or both),, 3, 4, 12, 17
- 4th week - 18, 12, 10, 15, 4
Month : December
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GA Study Strategy (applicable for all)
GA study includes verbal and verbal topics.
Since most of you can have access to aptitude and reasoning books, cost of which is comparatively less than any NID/UCEED/CEED books, I, therefore, list out the topics from those books. I will list out the topics with their ranking in brackets. A very high rank (high being 5) means you are advised to prepare to the full for that topics, and a very low rating (low being 1), means you are advised not to spend much time on that and any rating in between means you are advised to give importance accordingly (time).
Verbal Reasoning
- Syllogism (2)
- Logical Sequence of Words (2)
- Blood Relation Test (1)
- Series Completion (2)
- Cause and Effect (2)
- Dice, Venn Diagrams (3)
- Cube and Cuboid (2)
- Analogy (2)
- Seating Arrangement (3)
- Character Puzzles (4)
- Direction Sense Test (5)
- Arithmetic Reasoning (3)
- calendar (1)
Non Verbal Reasoning
- Series (4)
- Analogy (4)
- Classification (4)
- Analytical Reasoning (5)
- Mirror Images & Water Images (2)
- Embedded Images (2)
- Pattern Completion (5)
- Figure Matrix (3)
- Paper Folding (5)
- Paper Cutting (5)
- Rule Detection (5)
- Grouping of Images (3)
- Shape Construction (2)
- Image Analysis (5)
- Cubes and Dice (5)
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Month : September
- 3rd week - CEED/UCEED Mock-test/previous paper test (to get hold of pattern)
- 4th week - GK on art history, renaissance, designers, famous paintings/works, aptitude on images/math, mensuration, non-verbal reasoning
Month : October
- 1st week - Perspective study, vanishing point concepts, practice/test on ability tests, IQ ques, reading and paragraph comprehension, GA on authors, art history, renaissance, mechanism and everyday usage things working, basic concept behind that, CEED/UCEED Mock-test/previous paper test, non-verbal reasoning
- 2nd week - print/color media study, India culture, animation study, logical arrangement of words, illusions, pattern analysis, pictograph puzzles, aptitude on images/math, mensuration, odd-man-out type ques, verbal reasoning
- 3rd week - paragraph comprehension, Architectural concepts, mechanism and everyday usage things working, basic concept behind that, pattern analysis, aptitude on images/math, CEED/UCEED Mock-test/previous paper test, verbal and non verbal reasoning
- 4th week - GK on painters/paintings, designers, famous persons, facial expressions, Mathematical aptitude, image based aptitude ques that improve observation/visualization and imagination skills, pictograph puzzles, mensuration/math aptitude, CEED/UCEED Mock-test/previous paper test
Month : November
- 1st week - ability tests (identifying pattern in a given set), verbal reasoning, math aptitude, solid geometry/projections, CEED/UCEED Mock-test/previous paper test, GK on India culture,
- 2nd week - Solid/image manipulation, geometry etc, GK on materials, typography, font, Architecture, mensuration, odd-man-out type ques, non verbal reasoning revision
- 3rd week - latest products, authors, architecture, video/media, animation, math and image aptitude revision and practice, ability practice, pictogram puzzles, color schemes practice, CEED/UCEED Mock-test/previous paper test, environmental awareness, Paragraph comprehension revision
- 4th week - English verbals, meanings, synonyms and antonyms,, revision on painters/paintings, designers, famous persons, India culture, art history, animation terms, Mock tests or previous year papers (as many as possible), CEED/UCEED Mock-test/previous paper test
Month : December
- 1st week - revision on GK: art media, colors, designers, font, typography, photography, logos, authors, architecture, video, renaissance, CEED/ UCEED Mock-test/ previous paper test
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Hope this comprehensive time-table helps you prepare well!
If you feel like some topics are uncovered in the above weekly plan, please do comment here so that others would also know.
All the best for your start :)
