Important Topics to Study for UCEED Exam: Part A and Part B
Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design 2026 ( UCEED )
Round I: Withdrawal of seat / exit from seat allocation process
30 Apr '26 - 11 May '26
UCEED 2026 Exams are approaching, and you all must be confused between important topics, previous year question papers, sample papers, etc. In this article, important topics for UCEED Part A and Part B are given. Read on to know more.
UCEED Important Topics
UCEED Exam was conducted on January 18, 2026 from 9 AM to 12 PM. The exam was conducted in 27 cities. UCEED Application opens with regular fees and late fee of INR 500. The last day to fill the application form for UCEED 2026 was November 10, 2025, with late fees. Admit cards for UCEED was available from January 02, 2026, onwards.
- UCEED Pattern 2026
- Syllabus for UCEED 2026
- Topics for UCEED 2026
- Tips to cover the topics for UCEED 2026 Entrance Exam
UCEED Pattern 2026
UCEED 2026 Entrance exam will have two Parts: Part A and Part B. Part A will be of 200 marks and of 1 hours. Part B will be of 100 marks and of 2 hours. UCEED Part A will be conducted online. It will be a computer-based exam, whereas Part B will be conducted offline. There is negative marking only in Part A.
| UCEED Syllabus for Part-A (2 hours) |
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| Section |
Type of question |
Number of questions |
Marks for correct answer |
Marks for wrong answer |
Marks for question not attempted |
Total marks for the section |
| 1 |
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) |
14 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
56 |
| 2 |
Multiple Select Question (MSQ) |
15 |
Partial Marking |
-1 |
0 |
60 |
| 3 |
Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) |
28 |
3 |
-0.71 |
0 |
84 |
| Total |
57 |
200 |
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| UCEED Syllabus for Part-B (1 hour) |
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| Type of question |
Number of questions |
Total marks |
| Sketching |
1 |
50 |
| Design Aptitude |
1 |
50 |
Syllabus for UCEED 2026
The syllabus for Part A of UCEED 2026 is explained below.
- Visualization and spatial reasoning: The question will be based on ability to visualise and transform 2D shapes and 3D objects and their spatial relationships.
- Practical and scientific knowledge:The question will be on the basic scientific principles and everyday objects, like dining table, bookshelves, etc.
- Observation and design sensitivity:Questions will be based on detail, classification, analysis, inference and prediction.
- Environment and society:This part of the syllabus will have topics from general awareness of environmental, social and cultural connections with design
- Analytical and logical reasoning:Question will include analytical and logical reasoning.
- Language: Reading comprehension passage, vocabulary, antonyms and synonym. Etc.
- Creativity:Questions on analogies, metaphors, signs and symbols.
Part-B will have questions on the following topics:
- Drawing: Ability to draw products, people or scenes in proportion with good line quality, composition, proportion, perspective and shading.
- Design aptitude: The Capability to practically and appropriately respond to problems/situations with ingenuity and empathy.
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Topics for UCEED 2026
The topics for UCEED 2026 are explained in two parts: Part A and Part B.
UCEED 2026 Part-A Topics
The topics for Part A of UCEED 2026 is given below.
- Percentage, speed, distance, direction, seating arrangement, Venn diagrams, triangles
- Visualization & spatial reasoning: Cube analysis, pattern, recognition, surface counting
- Geometry basics: circles, areas and volume, 2 D figures: area and parameter, 3 D figures, Construction of squares, triangles, blood relation, 3D Figure, surface areas, volume
- Pattern completion, figure matrix, cubes and dice.
- Basic topics of physics: gears, pulleys, basic physics like force, gravity, and inertia
- For Analytical & logical: Image analysis, analogy, mirror images, water images,
- Design Sensitivity & Advanced Reasoning: Fonts, Riddles, 8-piece puzzles, spot the difference
- GK and current affairs
- Vocab: at least 20 words, comprehension passage
- Visual analogies, symbols, metaphors.
Part B UCEED Topics
This will include questions on drawing and design aptitude. Some of the important topics are given below.
- Study about Design’s role in society and culture, design connection
- Daily sketching: basic shapes, everyday objects like spoon stand, jug, dressing table
- Theme-based regular sketching.
- Tracing practice: this will be without lifting the pen
- Memory-based sketching.
- Idea-based drawing based on imagination
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Tips to cover the topics for UCEED 2026 Entrance Exam
- Practice mock test once a week. Check your errors and solve them. Solve 2 per week when last month is left. Solve at least 40 mock tests in six months of preparation.
- Solve the sample paper and PYQs. Download it from the website.
- Practice weekly reading comprehension passage.
- Practice 15-20 new words( vocabulary) in a week and solve a reading comprehension passage daily..
- Practice design sketching daily. Increase the speed of sketching.
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Student Forum
Anything you would want to ask experts?Answered 2 weeks ago
UCEED Exam analysis will provide insights into exam, including sectional and overall difficulty level, types of questions asked, and expected cut-off. Analysis also informs candidate if there were any technical or other issues during the exam. Candidate, thus by consulting UCEED exam analysis, will
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Yes, you need to fill the ADEPT Application form even if you have scored rank under 2500 in UCEED. Only one step will be eliminated, which is ADEPT written exam.
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Ecole Intuit Lab, New Delhi offers both merit and entrance based admission to its BVoc programme. The students may get selected without a valid UCEED score as well. However, the candidates may have to go through other selection rounds.
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Yes, the UCEED Result was out. It was showing 502 Bad Gateway initially, due to heavy traffic on the website.
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To fill the Common application form for B.Des released by IIT Bombay,
- Digital copies of relevant supporting documents, and the signed copy of the completed application form.
- Supporting documents required for the application are digital copies of photograph, signature, UCEED Score Card, qualifying e
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The qualifying cut-off for UCEED 2026 will be prepared based on the following formulae: 𝜇 + (𝜎⁄2) = 𝛿, where 𝜇 and 𝜎 are the average marks and standard deviation of distribution of marks obtained by all the candidates in Part-A of UCEED 2026.
- 𝜇, 𝜎, and 𝛿 will be rounded-off to two decimal p
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UCEED 2026 question paper will have two parts, Part A and Part B. Part B answer booklet will be checked only if a candidate qualifies Part A or meets cut-off. The qualifying cut-off for Part A will be determined by admission committee. It will be used to shortlist candidates for Part A. All candidat
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Yes, UCEED Cutoff will be round specific. It will be released separately for each round of seat allotment. Candidates who meet cut-off criteria in their categories will be considered for admission to the B. Des programme.
Cut-off for each round will be different for various categories like OPEN, OBC-
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The closing rank for IIT Hyderabad was 43. So, if you secure a merit rank of 100 in the UCEED 2026 exam, you chances of admission to the B. Des will be very low. To have a good chance of admission into the institute, you must target a UCEED merit rank within the top 40. However, note that if you bel
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Admission cutoff for UCEED 2026 is the minimum marks a candidate needs to secure in their category for admission to B.Des programme.
Candidates who meet cutoff criteria will be considered for admission. If the candidate fails to meet the cutoff, he or she will not be considered for admission. Admissi
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