UCEED 2025 - Under Graduate Common Entrance Examination for Design : Application Form, Exam Date, Eligibility, Syllabus and Exam Pattern

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UCEED Exam 2025 – Under Graduate Common Entrance Examination for Design acronym as UCEED is conducted by IIT under the guidance of the UCEED Admissions Committee to provide admission to Bachelor's Degree program in Design  as given below:

College

Course

Total Seats
IIT Bombay

B.Des, B.Des + M.Des

30
IIT Guwahati 

B.Des

45
IITDM Jabalpur

B.Des

30

Total

105

 

UCEED Exam 2025 Important Dates

Date of Notification and start of Online Application

  • October 2024

Last Date of Online Registration

  • November 2024

Availability of Admit Cards

  • December 2025

Date of Entrance Exam

  • January 2025

Date of Declaration of Result

  • March/April 2025 (tentative)

UCEED Exam 2024 was held on-

  • 21st January 2024 (Sunday)

 

UCEED Exam 2025 Eligibility  

Educational Qualification

Age Limits

Aspiring candidates should have passed Class XII (or equivalent) examination OR appear in 2021 (all streams).

The candidate should have been born on or after October 1, 1995, if belonging to the GEN or OBC-NCL category and on or after 1st October 1990 if belonging to the SC, ST, or PwD category.

 

UCEED Exam 2025 Syllabus

UCEED will consist of questions from the following subjects/topics.

Visualization & spatial ability

Observation & design sensitivity

Pictorial and diagrammatic questions to test; understanding of transformation and/or manipulation of 2D shapes and 3D objects and their spatial relationships; knowledge of practical and everyday mechanical and scientific concepts.

Ability to detect concealed properties in ordinary things, people, situations, and events, and think critically about them. Applying attention to certain details, analyzing, reasoning, classifying, inferring, and predicting. Ability to discern subtle differences in visual properties and aesthetic outcomes.

Environmental & social awareness

The analytical & logical reasoning

General awareness of environmental factors such as climate, population, water, vegetation, pollution, weather, natural resources, etc., and their implications on the design of products, images, infrastructure, and environment. Awareness of social and cultural connection with the design, history of the designed artifact, and socially responsible and environmentally sustainable design responses.

Ability to look at information, be it qualitative or quantitative in nature, and discern patterns within the information. Ability to weigh opinions, arguments, or solutions against appropriate criteria. Ability to check for hidden bias or hidden assumptions and whether evidence and argument support conclusions. Ability to use logic and structured thinking to deduce from a short passage, which of a number of statements is the most accurate response to a posed question. Data Interpretation, brainteasers, and patterns.

Language & Creativity

Design thinking & problem solving

Ability to understand comprehend, abstract, and summarize written content in the Standard English language. Being able to think creatively in terms of alternatives, the ability to distinguish innovative options, & thinking out of the box.

Ability to use visual analogies, metaphors, signs, and symbols. Ability to understand complexity, ability to identify the problem, generate alternatives, evaluate options, and select solutions. 

 

UCEED Exam 2025 Pattern

  • UCEED will consist of two question papers, Paper 1 and Paper 2.
  • Both papers will be administered through computer-based tests. 
  • Each question paper will carry 150 marks
  • The question papers will consist of MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions), and numerical answer-type questions.

Note: There is a negative marking for wrong responses.

Imp: The question papers will be in English.

 

How to apply for UCEED Exam 2025?

Aspiring candidates can apply for UCEED by visiting the official website i.e., http://uceed.iitb.ac.in/, and following the instructions given there.

 

UCEED 2025 Exam Dates

UCEED is normally held in the month of January.

 

UCEED Exam 2025 Test Centres

UCEED will be held in the following 14 cities in India:

  • Bengaluru, Bhopal
  • Calicut, Chandigarh, Chennai
  • Delhi
  • Guwahati
  • Hyderabad
  • Kanpur, Kolkata
  • Mumbai
  • Nagpur
  • Pune and
  • Thiruvananthapuram

Note: Candidates should compulsorily choose a city of their choice at the time of Online registration. Request for change of city will NOT be entertained under any circumstance.

Imp: Choice of examination Centres in a particular city will be allowed before the generation of the admit cards. UCEED committee reserves the right to add and/or drop any examination city/town at its discretion.

 

UCEED Exam 2025 Contact details

Chairman UCEED
GATE-JAM-CEED-UCEED Office
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Powai, Mumbai 400076
Toll-Free No: 1800-2660-314
Ph: 976-991-7069, 976-995-7068, 022-257-67-068
Fax: 022 2572-3706
Email: [email protected] 
Web: http://uceed.iitb.ac.in