UCEED 2026: Exam Date (Jan 18), Registration (Oct 1st), Syllabus, Previous Question Paper, Preparation

The UCEED question paper will be of 3 hours and include two parts - The computer-based Part A and the offline-based Part B. It is mandatory for candidates to appear in both the paper. 

Also, Part B paper answer booklets will only be evaluated if the candidate qualifies Part A. IIT Bombay will release the cut-off marks for Part A before the declaration of results. 

Part A will include the following types of questions: Numerical Answer Type (NAT) Multiple Select Question (MSQ) Multiple Choice Question (MCQ). Part A will now include 57 questions.

Meanwhile, Part B will include 2 questions; this includes a sketching-based and an aptitide-based question.

The official notification of UCEED 2026 will be released by October 01, 2025, by IIT Bombay on the official website. The exam dates are out and will be conducted on January 18, 2026.

IIT Bombay released the admission notification for UCEED 2026 on October 1, 2025. Candidates can check out the notification online at the UCEED admission portal - uceed.iitb.ac.in.

The admission notification carries updates about the exam, for instance, when will the exam be conducted, the deadlines to fill out the application form, etc. It also contain the eligibility criteria that candidates need to fulfill for admission. The candidate needs to careful go through the admission notification to learn about the upcoming exam, especially if any new update is released. 

The UCEED 2026 exam will be conducted on January 18, 2026.

The use of a scribe can be used by the candidate under the following conditions:

 candidates who have a disability and require assistance in operating the computer for Part-A of the examination

The candidate has to upload d a copy of the PwD certificate at the time of online registration for UCEED 2025.

Yes, the candidate may have to pay the service charges, processing fees and/or any other charges that the banks may charge when filling out the UCEED 2025 application form. Note that this in addition to the application fee.

Also, if the candidate doesn't complete the application process by October 2024, they will have to pay a late fee of INR to apply between November 1 and 8, 2024.

The IITs will not conduct any spot rounds after the completion of the regular counseling rounds. 

UCEED 2025 counseling will be conducted as a Joint Admission Process. The counseling will have five seat-allotment rounds. 

Meanwhile, IITDM Jabalpur may conduct a spot round of admissions at the institutional level if there are any vacant seats after completion of the UCEED counselling.

Exam officials will make the necessary arrangements through the test centre administrator (TCA) of the examination centre to provide a panel of scribes (amanuenses). Only such candidates who meet the eligibility criteria will be considered for scribe services.

Scribes will be students of Class XI. The PwD/Dyslexic (severe) candidate has to choose a scribe from this panel. The candidates are not be allowed to bring their own scribes.

No, candidates from m Commerce, Arts or Humanities at 10+2 are not eligible to apply for BDes admissions at IIITDM Jabalpur. 

For admission to BDes at IIITDM Jabalpur, the candidate must have passed 10+2 with Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics/Biology. The candidate is urged to carefully go through the detailed UCEED 2025 eligibility criteria before applying for admission.

If the candidate wishes to avail the services of a scribe and compensatory time, the same should be mentioned in the UCEED 2025 application form. The candidate is eligible for compensatory time of 20 minutes per hour in Part A and 20 minutes for Part B.

But note that the compensatory time for Part-A cannot be transferred to Part-B and vice versa.

Upload the PwD certificate along with such requests in the given format.

IIT Bombay has released the syllabus for UCEED 2025. 

This syllabus is followed for drafting the UCEED question paper starting 2024 (onward).

So, if you are planning  to appear in UCEED 2025 exam, you must follow the official syllabus.

The UCEED syllabus contains the topics that candidates need to prepare for the national-level design entrance exam. As per changes made to the UCEED syllabus, Part B question paper now include two questions.

IIT Bombay revised the syllabus for the UCEED exam starting 2024.

However, candidates can use the previous years papers to practice for the exam. The more sample papers you solve, the better you will get.

In addition to the syllabus, IIT Bombay had also revised the UCEED exam pattern.

Part A now have 57 questions (down from 68), while Part B will have two questions (instead of 1). 

The evaluated answer booklets of Part-B will not be shared with the candidates. Further, the answer booklets of Part – B will be preserved ONLY for a period of three months from the date of declaration of the UCEED results.

Part B answer booklets will be evaluated manually. The panel will have two expert evaluators who will do the evaluation separately and independently.

IIT Bombay will conduct the counseling process for UCEED 2025 for B.Des admission only. 

Candidates who have qualified in CEED 2025 exam need to apply directly to the particiating college. Note that IIT Bombay will not conduct any Joint Admission Process for CEED 2025.

So, once CEED 2025 results are declared, go to the admission portal of the participating instititues for updates.

The counseling fee of UCEED 2025 is neither refundable nor transferable. So, when making the payment, the candidate needs to be sure about their participation.

UCEED 2025 counseling will have five seat allotment rounds.

Registrations for UCEED counseling 2025 will be held online from March 14-31, 2025.

The seat allotment will be provisional and will be confirmed by the admitting institutes only after the requisite fees are paid, the documents are duly verified, and their formalities are completed. 

If any of the steps are left incomplete, the seat allotment can be cancelled.

In such a case, the vacant seats will be offered to the candidate next in the order of merit.

As per the information given in the UCEED 2025 information brochure, 10% of seats in every course will be reserved for Gen-EWS category. 

Note that to apply under this category, you must meet the conditions given in the OM No. 20013/01/2018-BC-II dated January 17, 2019 issued by the Ministry of Social
Justice and Empowerment.

When applying for UCEED 2025, you can select your category.

The evaluation of Part-B will be done manually by at least two expert evaluators separately and independently. Following is the scheme of evaluation for each question
in Part-B. 

• If the difference in marks awarded by the two evaluators <= 10 marks, a simple average of the two evaluations will be considered.
• If the difference > 10 marks, the answer sheet of Part-B will be evaluated by a third expert examiner (and so on until the difference of marks <= 10).
• A simple average of the closest of two evaluations will be selected as the final marks.
• If the difference in marks of the closest of two evaluations is >10 after several evaluations, a moderator will be invited to examine the answers.
• If the difference in marks between the moderator and either of the examiners is the same, then the higher average will be considered for calculating the score.

Once the UCEED 2025 counseling process is over, the candidate is not allowed to shift from one institute to another. The candidate will have to select their preferred institute at the time of counseling registration.

IIT Bombay will conduct UCEED 2025 counseling registration from March 14-31, 2025.

Candidates who have been allotted a merit rank can apply.

If a qualifying Examination Board awards only letter grades without providing information on the passing grade on the grade sheet, the candidate should obtain a certificate from the Board specifying the passing grade and upload it along with the grade sheet. 

In case such a certificate is not provided, the decision taken by the UCI Committee will be final.

Candidates from the Science Stream with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics as subjects are eligible to apply to IIT Guwahati. Also, note that Biology will not be considered in lieu of Mathematics.

IIT Roorkee has the same eligibility criteria as IIT Guwahati.

The application form for UCEED 2025 must be filled out by candidates after ascertaining their eligibility.

IIT Bombay will not release any hard copies of the UCEED 2025 scorecard. The scorecard will be available in online mode only.

It will be released in the form of a downloadable pdf; you can download it from the official admission portal - uceed.iitb.ac.in.

The last date to download the scorecard is June 11, 2025.

Yes, the seat-acceptance fee paid by the candidate will be adjusted against the institute fees of the admitting institute at the time of joining. In case the candidate
declines the offered seat after remitting the seat acceptance fee, the refund of the seat acceptance fee will be done per the policies of the admitting institute.

So, carefully go through the counseling process.

To avoid any last-minute unforeseen transaction issues, the candidate should pay the seat acceptance fee for a round well before the end time/date of the
corresponding round.

Note that if the fee is not paid within the given deadline, the allotment will be cancelled. Also, such seats will be offered to the candidate next in the order of merit.

IIT Bombay will release UCEED 2025 seat allotment for Round I on April 21, 2025.

The seat allotment will be released online at the UCEED 2025 - IIT Bombay admission portal UCEED.iitb.ac.in.

To download the seat allotment result, the candidate needs to click on the "Click Here" button given under B. Des 1st Round of Seat Allotment heading. Note that no log-in is required to download the seat allotment results pdf. Candidates who are allotted seats had to accept the seat and pay the fees within the given schedule for confirmation of their seats.

Note that if the payment is not made within the given date, the allotment will be cancelled.

The counseling for UCEED 2025 will be conducted online as a Joint Seat Allocation process. The counseling will be conducted in a centralized manner.

IIT Bombay will conduct counseling registration from the March 14-31, 2025; all candidates who qualify in the UCEED 2025 exam will be eligible to register for counseling.

The allotment of seats for admission to the B.Des programme offered by participating colleges is based on following parameters:

• UCEED 2025 merit rank of the candidate
• College option selected during registration.

The counseling process for UCEED 2025 will be conducted by IIT Bombay as a Joint Seat Allocation process.

To participate in UCEED 2024 counseling, the candidate must have qualfied in the UCEED 2025 entrance exam and been allocated a merit rank.

This means, if the candidate has failed to qualify Part A exam, he or she will not be allocated a merit rank, and therefore are not eligible to take part in the counseling process.

Note that the seat allotment for the B.Des program is done in five rounds.

IIT Bombay release the cut-off marks for Part A in the 2nd week of February 2025.

The cut-off will be released in the form of standard and mean deviations. The mean and standard deviation for Part-A (CEED 2024) was 41.90 and 16.72, respectively. In comparision, the mean deviation was 22.59, while the standard deviation was 11.82 for CEED 2023.

The cut-off is used to the shortest candidates; note that Part B answer booklets will be evaluated only for shortlisted candidates.

Additionally, all shortlisted candidates will be issued a merit rank, and so will be eligible to participate in the seat allotment process.

If you have six months to prepare for UCEED and not an year, you need to be smart. Here are a few tips to prepare for the exam in six months: Make a study time table. Consult the exam pattern and get isights. Also, refer to the exam syllabus. Another point to note is the difficulty level of the exam. Start your preparation without any delay. Take notes during study. Solve sample papers and take mock tests.

On the day of the UCEED 2025 exam, the candidate must bring with them the admit card and a valid photo id proof. Without these documents, the candidate will not be allowed to sit in the exam. To take the exam, the candidate must bring the following items: pens, pencils, sketch pens and colours for the examination. However, the candidate is not allowed to bring any electronic divide inside the exam hall, including mobile phones, smart phones, digital/smart watches, calculators, and tablets. Other items that are on the barred-items list include abacus, slide rule, log books, study material of any type, geometry box, and so on to the examination hall. IIT Bomaby will release the detailed list of forbidden items on its website before the exam.

To be considered for seat allocation, foreign national candidates must meet all the eligibility requirements.

UCEED seat allotment for foreign nationals will be held online. Eligible candidates may apply 

The candidate is urged to go through the admission process carefully. Read the details given in the admission brochure.

Yes, there will be biometric verification at the UCEED 2025 exam centre. The biometric information (thumb impression and photograph) will be collected from the candidate before the commencement of the exam. On exam day, the candidate needs to bring with them a valid photo id proof and the admit card. Note that the photo id proof must be in the original; photocopies will not be accepted. Note that the candidate needs to report at the UCEED 2025 exam centre at least 2 hours before the commencement of the exam.

UCEED 2026 Application is expected to open by October 01, 2025, on the official website. The last date to apply with regular fees will be in the second week of November 2025. Candidates who met the prescribed eligibility criteria were able to apply for admission.

UCEED consists of two parts:

• Part A (Computer-based): Objective questions (NAT, MSQ, MCQ)

• Part B (Pen-and-paper): Drawing and design aptitude questions

UCEED 2026 Applications for the B.Des programme will be released by IIT Bombay in the last week of September 2025 or in the first week of October 2025. The application form will be available on the official website of UCEEED. The UCEED Entrance Exam 2026 will be conducted on January 18, 2026 (Sunday).

UCEED Exam 2026 will be conducted on January 18, 2026 (Sunday), from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. The details will be released by October 01, 2025, on the official website.

IIT Bombay will conduct the UCEED 2026 Entrance Exam for B.Des programmes on January 18, 2026. The notification will be out in the first week of October 2025.

No, candidates will not be given a refund for UCEED 2025 application fee under any circumstance. UCEED application fee is non-refundable and non-transferable. So, before paying the application fee, the candidate needs to make up their minds whether they want to appear in the UCEED 2025 exam or not. The UCEED 2025 application fee is INR 4000 for open, and INR 2000 for female and reserved category candidates.

Candidates can report any issue faced while filling the UCEED application form by clicking the 'Report Problem' tab that is present on the right side of the application window. The tab is highlighted in yellow colour. On clicking the tab, candidates have to elaborate on the problem that they are experiencing and also mention their registration number. It is recommended that the candidate don't wait for the dying hour to fill the form. It is because in the last few hours of the application window, there is a chance the server may crash or there may be a lag due to heavy traffic.

Candidates from any academic stream are eligible to apply for UCEED exam. However, for admission to IIT Guwahati it is mandatory for candidates to have passed Class 12 from Science stream. The candidate needs to carefully go through the eligibiity criteria before they apply. It is because the candidate will not be considered for admission to the B. Des programme even if they get a rank in UCEED 2025 if they don't meet the prescribed eligibility criteria. Also, any candidate who is found to be using incorrect information about their eliigibity stands to be disqualified if caught.

The UCEED 2025 application form may be filled by candidates seeking admission to the B. Des programme. Also, UCEED 2025 scores is not considered for admission to the M.Des programme. So, the candidates must instead fill out the application form for CEED 2025. Note that both the CEED and UCEED exams are conducted by IIT Bombay.

The application form for UCEED 2025 is open from October 1-31, 2024 (regular fees). Note that the CEED 2025 application form is also open and has the same schedule.

If you are appearing in the qualifying examination (Class XII or equivalent) in 2025 you must ensure the following:

• (a) all parts of their final examination are completed by the date of application for admission, and
• (b) submit proof of having passed the qualifying examination with required eligibility by September 30, 2025 to the admitting institute

UCEED 2025 counseling will be conducted by IIT Bombay. The counseling process will have five rounds.

The Joint Admission Process will not have any spot rounds.

However, IITDM Jabalpur may conduct a spot round of admissions at the institutional level if there are any vacant seats after completion of the counselling.