UCEED 2026: Notification, Exam Date, Application Form, Syllabus, Pattern, Question Paper & Preparation Tips

To apply for UCEED 2025, candidate must the following THREE criteria:

Criterion 1 – Age limit: The candidate must be born on or after October 1, 2000, if belonging to the OPEN/EWS/OBC-NCL category and born on or after October 1, 1995, if belonging to the SC, ST or PwD category.

Criterion 2 – Number of attempts: The candidate is allowed to attempt UCEED a maximum of two times, and that too in consecutive years.

Note that the UCEED score is valid for one year and only for admissions in the same corresponding academic year.

Criterion 3 – Qualifying examination: The candidate should have passed all subjects in the qualifying examination (Class XII or
equivalent) in 2024 or should be appearing for the qualifying examination for the first time in 2025. Students from ALL STREAMS (Science, Commerce, and Arts & Humanities) are eligible.

Those who appeared for the first time in their qualifying examination (Class XII) in 2023 or earlier are NOT eligible to appear in UCEED 2025.

IIT Bombay will conduct the UCEED 2025 exam on January 19, 2025 (9 am - 12 noon). 

IIT Bombay has released the detailed admission schedule, including exam dates and application process.

The exam will be conducted in 27 cities aross India. Part A will be offline-based, while Part B will be conducted offline.

The application form commences on October 1, 2024. 

The UCEED 2025 question paper will have two parts - 1) the computer-based Part A and 2) drawing and aptitude-based Part B. To prepare for Part A, the candidate needs to focus on the following topics: Visualization and spatial reasoning: Ability to visualise and transform 2D shapes and 3D objects and their spatial relationships. Practical and scientific knowledge: Know-how of scientific principles and everyday objects. Observation and design sensitivity: Capacity to detect concealed properties in day-to-day life and think critically about them. Attention to details, classification, analysis, inference and prediction. Environment and society: General awareness of environmental, social and cultural connections with design. Analytical and logical reasoning: Ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative information. Language: Proficiency in reading and comprehending Standard English . Creativity: Grasp of verbal and non-verbal analogies, metaphors, signs and symbols.

The application form for UCEED 2025 is now closed.

The last date to apply with regular fee was October 31; with late fees, applications were accepted till November 18, 2024.

IIT Bombay opened the application form for UCEED 2025 on October 1, 2024.  Candidates who met the prescribed eligibility criteria were able to apply for admission.

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.

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.

Foreign national or candidates are outside the ambit of reservation of seats under the GENEWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST, and PwD categories / sub-categories. So, they will be considered for admission to the B.Des program under open category.

Also, foreign nationals will only be considered for admission to supernumerary with a cap of 10% of total seats in each course.

Applicants under this category need to verify their eligibility before applying.

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.

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.

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.

The application form for UCEED 2025 has opened. As per the official notification, the application fee has been revised.

Here we provide the category-wise UCEED application fee.

• Female candidates (all categories) and SC/ST/PwD candidates had to pay INR 2,000.
• All other candidates needed to pay INR 4,000 as the application fee.

Mode of fee payment

The fee has to be paid online using credit card/ debit card/ internet banking. Note that the UCEED application fee is no-refundable. This means, once the fee is paid, it will not be refunded whether you appear in the UCEED 2025 exam or not.

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.

There are no separate supernumerary seats or sub-category for females in the foreign national supernumerary seats. So, female and male candidates will be treated as the same. 

The candidate is urged to consult the UCEED 2025 information brochure for the detailed admission process for foreign nationals. Note that the eligibility criteria for UCEED 2025 will be different for foreign nationals from Indian applicants.

IIT Bombay released the admission notification for UCEED 2025 on October 1, 2024. 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 2025 exam will be conducted on January 19, 2025.

There is no option to edit the UCEED application form once it is submitted. IIT Bombay has released the application schedule for UCEED 2025 exam; there is no application edit window.

So, it is recommended that when filling out the application form, you can the necessary precaution.

The UCEED 2025 application form opened on October 1, 2024. With regular fees, the application can be filled till October 31, 2024. However, with late fees, you can submit applications till the November 8, 2024.

The UCEED 2025 exam will be conducted on January 19, 2025.

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.

The admission cut-off for UCEED 2025 will be released 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-cum-cutoff, you need to click on the seat allotment download 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 have to accept the seat and pay the fees. Note that candidates were also given the option to withdraw their seats.

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.

Here are some of the top colleges that offer undergraduate design programs and where you may have a good chance of getting admission with your UCEED score: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) Indian Institute of Technology Jabalpur (IITJ) Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKgp) Indian Institute of Technology Lucknow (IITL) Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IITMandi) Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IITP) Apart from IITs, there are also several other reputed design colleges in India, such as the National Institute of Design (NID), Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, MIT Institute of Design, and many more. You can research these colleges and their admission criteria to see which ones match your interests and preferences. Good luck with your admissions process! An upvote would be appreciated!

The participating institutes of UCEED 2025 will take part in the Joint Admission Process (or counseling) conducted by IIT Bombay. These institutes will offer admission to the B. Des programs strictly based on UCEED scores. Currently, there are six UCEED 2025 participating institutes that has a combined intake capacity of 225 seats.

On the other hand, the result-sharing institutes will not participate in the Joint Admission Process conducted by IIT Bombay. These institutes will instead conduct counseling at an institute level; candidates need to apply directly to these institutes based on their UCEED scores.

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.

Yes, the scorecard will contain the qualifying status of the candidate. Note that all candidates who have qualified in the exam will be issued common merit ranks (All India Rank). 

The scorecard will be issued to all candidates who have appeared in the UCEED 2025 exam.

However, merit ranks will be released only for shortlisted candidates.

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.

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.

The candidate can contact UCEED 2025 admission officials at the following address:

Chairperson,
UCEED-CEED Office,
IIT Bombay,
Powai, Mumbai – 400 076.
Website: www.uceed.iitb.ac.in
Email: uceed@iitb.ac.in
Phone: +91-22-2576 4063/9093/9094

The candidate may use any of the contact options provided here.  

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.

The candidate is not allowed to select their own scribes for UCEED 2025 exam. Instead, the exam conducting body will arrange for a panel of scribes. The panel will be prepared in coordination with the test centre administrator (TCA) of the examination centre.

The candidate has to select a scribe from the given list.

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.

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.

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.

The candidate will receive a compensatory time of 20 minutes per hour in Part A and 20 minutes for Part B. The compensatory time for Part-A cannot be transferred
to Part-B and vice versa.

The candidate must go through the detailed guidelines for using a scribe services given in the information brochure. 

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.

You can download candidate responses for Part-A of UCEED 2025 only till the declaration of the UCEED result. The download option will be disabled once the UCEED results are declared. No further requests will be entertained in this regard.

Using the candidate responses, the candidate can check their answers with those given in the answer key. This will help to calculate probable scores and thus chances of admission.

Yes, IIT Bombay has revised the syllabus for UCEED exam that is applicable from 2024 onwards. 

As per the revised syllabus for the UCEED exam, the question paper continues to have two parts - Part A and Part B. Also, Part A will be conducted in a computer-based test (CBT) mode and will have three sections NAT MSQ, and MCQ). However, Part B now has two sections - 1) the Drawing-based section, and 2) the Design Aptitude Section.

Note that Part A will include 57 questions, while Part A will have two questions.

The candidate needs to refer to the detailed syllabus and pattern when preparing for the UCEED 2025 exam.

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.

The UCEED 2025 question paper will have two parts - 1) the computer-based Part A and 2) drawing and aptitude-based Part B. To prepare for Part A, the candidate needs to focus on the following topics: Visualization and spatial reasoning: Ability to visualise and transform 2D shapes and 3D objects and their spatial relationships. Practical and scientific knowledge: Know-how of scientific principles and everyday objects. Observation and design sensitivity: Capacity to detect concealed properties in day-to-day life and think critically about them. Attention to details, classification, analysis, inference and prediction. Environment and society: General awareness of environmental, social and cultural connections with design. Analytical and logical reasoning: Ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative information. Language: Proficiency in reading and comprehending Standard English . Creativity: Grasp of verbal and non-verbal analogies, metaphors, signs and symbols.

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 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.

The candidate has to pay the seat-acceptance fee only once. If the candidate is allotted another seat (because they chose the ‘float’ option), they aren't required to pay the fee again.

However, the seat-acceptance fee will have to be paid within the given deadline. Or else, the allotment will be cancelled.

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.

Yes, there is partial marking in UCEED 2025 exam for MSQ and MCQ based questions. 

For instance, for MSQ questions, If all the four options are correct but ONLY three options are chosen and NONE of the incorrect options is chosen, the candidate will be awarded 3 marks (out of 4). Meanwhile, if only (all) the correct option(s) is(are) chosen and NONE of the incorrect options is chosen, the candidate will be allocated the full 4 marks.

The identity of the candidates will be verified by invigilators as well as IIT representatives. If the identity of any candidate is in doubt, the candidate may not be
allowed to appear for the examination. 

However, at their discretion, the authorities may permit the candidate to appear in UCEED 2025 after completing certain formalities. However, No extra time will be allowed for time lost to complete these formalities. If candidates with doubtful identities are permitted to appear, their candidature will be subject to the decision of UCI Committee, which will be final and binding.

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

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.

The counseling for UCEED 2025 will commence on March 14, 2025. The counseling process will have five seat allotment rounds.

The candidate is allowed to withdraw seats till the 4th round of counseling. However, after the announcement of the last round of seat allocation, an option to withdraw/decline an accepted/allotted seat is not allowed.

To appear in the UCEED 2025 exam, the candidate needs to meet the following criteria:

• Age limit: The candidate must be born on or after October 1, 2000. In the case of candidates belonging to SC, ST, and PwD categories, there is a relaxation of 5 years.

• Number of attempts - A candidate is allowed to appear in UCEED exam for a maximum of two times and that too in consecutive years.

• Academic requirements - The candidate must have passed 10+2 exam in 2024 or 2025. Those who appeared for the first time in their qualifying examination in 2023 or earlier are NOT eligible.

The application form for UCEED 2025 is now closed.

The last date to apply with regular fee was October 31; with late fees, applications were accepted till November 18, 2024.

IIT Bombay opened the application form for UCEED 2025 on October 1, 2024.  Candidates who met the prescribed eligibility criteria were able to apply for admission.

IIT Bombay usually doesn't make any arrangements like baggage counters. So, it is a good idea for candidates not be bring any unnecessary stuff with them to the exam centre. Also, if the candidate has any doubts, he or she must go through the exam-day guidelines published by exam officials to check if any special arrangements are being made. Since it is unlikely that there will be a baggage counter, the candidate can not afford to bring valuable items and leave it unattended outside the exam hall. It is because if any valuable item is lost, IIT Bombay will not take any responsibility.

The admission cut-off for Round I of UCEED 2025 will be released alongside the seat allotment results on April 21, 2025.

This will be followed by 2nd allotment on May 19, 2025. The 3rd round of allotment will be declared on June 10, 2025.

The cut-off has been released in the form of category-wise opening and closing ranks. Also, the cut-off is released for all the participating institutes. Candidates who meet the cut-off criteria will get admission to the B. Des programme. However, if the candidate fails to meet the cut-off criteria, he or she will be considered for admission in subsequent rounds. Note that UCEED 2025 counseling will have FIVE seat allotment rounds, and for each round a separate cut-off would be released.

Note that the Part A cut-off will be released on February 6, 2024.

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.

As per instructions given on the admission portal, the candidate is not allowed to leave the exam hall until the exam is over. So, if you are planning to leave the exam hall even before the exam is over, you need to junk them now.

The UCEED 2025 exam will be conducted from 9 am - 12 noon.

Once the exam gets over, the invigilator will collect the answer sheets and compete any other formalities that may be there. Once the process is over, the candidate can come out of the exam hall.

The application form for UCEED 2025 has opened. As per the official notification, the application fee has been revised.

Here we provide the category-wise UCEED application fee.

• Female candidates (all categories) and SC/ST/PwD candidates had to pay INR 2,000.
• All other candidates needed to pay INR 4,000 as the application fee.

Mode of fee payment

The fee has to be paid online using credit card/ debit card/ internet banking. Note that the UCEED application fee is no-refundable. This means, once the fee is paid, it will not be refunded whether you appear in the UCEED 2025 exam or not.

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.