UCEED Answer Key 2026 : Part A Final Answer Key PDF Link, Response Sheet, Score Calculation

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.

IIT Bombay conducted the UCEED 2026 exam on January 18, 2026 (9 am - 12 noon). IIT Bombay will release the detailed admission schedule, including exam dates and the application process. The exam is expected to be conducted in 27 cities across India. Part A will be offline-based, while Part B will be conducted offline. The application process commences in October, generally.

The answer key download link will be updated on the official website of UCEED 2025 on January 21, 2025.

Go to the portal, and clikc on the answer key download link. The answer key will be displayed in downloadable pdf-format. Download the key.

Note no log-in is required to download the answer key.

In UCEED 2025 answer key, aspirants can go through the question number and the corresponding correct answers for the questions asked in NAT, MSQ, and MCQ section of Part A of the exam.

Note that the answer key will be released only for Part A. No keys will be released for Part A. This is because there are no model solutions for the objective-based Part B question paper.

Here are a few reasons why the UCEED answer key is important:

• By viewing UCEED answer key and question paper, aspirants can determine their score in the design entrance exam.
• The answer key brings credebility to the examination process
• Since the candidate is also given the option to challenge an answer key, wrong scoring will be elimiated to a large extent.

UCEED 2025 question paper will be released along with the draft answer key on January 21, 2025. The candidate has to download the question paper from the IIT Bombay - UCEED 2025 admission portal.

The candidate can use the question paper in tandem with the answer key to calculate the number of correct attempts. Finally, the candidate can caluclate the probable scores and thus chances of admission.

Objections/ comments against the draft UCEED 2025 answer key can be submitted from January 21-23, 2025.

The objections have to be made through the candidate portal.

To file an objection, select the question number or answer key, and upload supproting documents. 

Note that there will be no option to challenge the final answer key.

Aspirants can download the question paper for UCEED exam by clicking on 'UCEED question paper' link available on the official website of the exam.

The question paper will be available for downloaded in pdf format.

Also, note that no log in is required to download the question paper.

The counseling process for UCEED 2026 will be conducted by IIT Bombay as a Joint Seat Allocation process.

To participate in UCEED 2026 counseling, the candidate must have qualfied in the UCEED 2026 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.

UCEED 2025 final answer key will be released by exam authorities around the last week of January 2025. The final key has been released after considering complaints filed by candidates against the draft key. Note that there is no option to challenge the final key. Also, the keys mentioned in the final key are considered the correct answers to questions asked in the exam.

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.