How to Prepare for CEED 2023: Tips, Strategy, Best Books & Study Material

You can start preparing for CEED 2024 by following the below steps:

• Understand CEED exam pattern and syllabus well.
• Note that the CEED 2024 syllabus has been revised for both Part A and Part B.
• IIT Bombay will release the detailed exam pattern when it releases the information brochure, sometime in September 2023.
• Make a well thought-out timetable for CEED preparation
• Practice as many CEED previous year question papers and sample papers as possible
• Take notes when you are studying.
• Analyse your weak areas for the exam and work to improve those areas/subjects
• Take mock tests.

The CEED 2024 exam will be conducted tentatively in the 4th week of January 2024. So, the candidate has a little more than 6 months to prepare for the exam. Given the CEED 2024 syllabus has been revised, you would ideally need 6 months or so to prepare for the exam. That being said, if your fundamentals are strong, you can cover the syllabus in less time. To start you preparation, go through the revised syllabus and pattern, and draft a plan. Once the plan is ready, get going with full guns blazing.

It is very much possible to prepare for CEED 2024 without coaching. But before you embark on exam preparation on your own, you need the conviction that you can do it. If you are not convinced yourself and only decide to forgo coaching on the advice of others, the journey may be difficult.

If you prepare for the exam on your own, you need to be serious and plan the preparation smartly. For instance, after going through the syllabus, you must be able to decide the difficulty level, time it will take to cover the syllabus, and do revision. 

Remember, there are many instances of toppers who managed to ace the CEED exam without the aid of any coaching. Further, the final outcome may not depend on whether you do coaching or not, but the quality of your preparation.

Candidates have the option to enroll in a coaching center to prepare for CEED 2024. But by no means is coaching is a sure-shot route for success. In fact, it is far from it. If you pick up any statistics, only a very small percentage of students who get enrolled in a coaching institute manage to crack CEED. The reason being, a coaching class is attended by a large number of students. Now the coaching centre won’t be able to or may not pay attention to the needs of each student individually. The result being most of the students are left to fend for themselves. This means, if your fundamentals are not strong or you manage to be in the radar of the coaching management, you might not get the extra support that you require.

The candidate needs to focus on the following resources to prepare for the CEED 2024 exam:

• Make sure that you get the best books to prepare the CEED 2024.

• If the study material is good, they will contain few to no errors, will cover the entire syllabus, contain practice problems, etc.

• Solve sample and previous year’s question and sample papers

• Take mock tests.

• When studying make it a point to take notes. These notes will help you jot down all the important points.

• Do timely revision. 

The candidate must note that the CEED 2024 syllabus is quite comprehensive. Also, this year the syllabus has been revised. So, it is expected that some candidates may find the new syllabus difficult. The reverse is also true - some candidates may find the new syllabus easier!

If you are not able to complete a particular chapter or topic even after a few attempts, it is better to let it go for the time being. Move on to the next topic and complete that. Once you are done with the easier topics, you can come back and tackle the difficult ones. The point here is the judicious use of time.

Since CEED is a general aptitude test, you can benefit greatly by practicing previous year question papers. Also, after practicing the papers, it is highly important to analyse your strong and weak areas for the exam and then work on them accordingly. 

But that being said, you can’t prepare for the CEED 2024 only on the strength of solving the sample papers. You need to read the text books to learn the concepts, understand the various dynamic. Note that unless your theoretical knowledge is sound, you won’t be able to feel truly confident. 

Some of the important topics to prepare for CEED 2024 include:

• Design Concepts
• Product Designing
• Logical Reasoning
• Colour Theory, Color Schemes and color Compositions 
• Scale and Proportion
• Poster, Logo, Character designing
• Basics of Drawing - Lines and Shapes
• Anatomy, Proportions and Divisions
• Sketching
• How to Develop Characters
• Basic and advanced Human Drawings
• Story Illustrations

These topics are important because they either carry more weighatge or have a greeter chance of being asked in the entrance exam.

To improve your English language skills, you should develop a habit of reading English newspapers daily. Apart from this, you can also practice grammar by attempting past year question papers and mock tests. There are many good books in the market to polish your English comprehension skills. Word Power Made Easy is one example.

Check out the list of recommended books for the English language and start working. Note that it is not enough to just read the book with your eyes, you need to bring out your pen and paper and do sufficient practice. Also, when reading, make it a habit to read out loud. It will improve your pronunciation and give you a better grip on vocabulary.

The sketching part of CEED 2024 will include stages like - representation, in the form of geometric figures like lines, squares, and triangles, outline drawing, detailing, and shading. If you are a beginner, focus more on outline drawing, representation, and the easier aspects, rather than focusing on detailing and shading. As you become more adept, you can start adding nuances to your drawing. When making a sketch, focus on the following points:

• Shape of the figure

• Proportion

• Line quality

Some experts suggest that you skip your GA preparation for now. Instead, you can start preparing for the section 45 days or so before the exam. The logic is, GA is more about theory than anything else. So, even if you must the subject now, you will have to do thorough revision closer to the exam to remember all the points. 

Also, you need not bother about the interview now. That part will be important only after the results are declared.