CEED

It is very much possible to prepare for CEED without coaching. If you prepare for the exam on your own, you need to be serious and plan the preparation smartly. After going through the syllabus, you must be able to decide the difficulty level, the time it will take to cover the syllabus, and revise. 

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

The CEED 2026 exam was held on Jan 18, 2026. So, aspiring candidates can start preparing for the exam.

1. Focus on the following resources to prepare for CEED:
2. Make sure that you get the best books to prepare the CEED.
3. If the study material is good, they will contain few to no errors, will cover the entire syllabus, contain practice problems, etc.
4. Solve sample and previous year's question and sample papers
5. Take mock tests.
6. When studying make it a point to take notes. These notes will help you jot down all the important points.
7. Do timely revision. 

The CEED test consists of 41 questions that students must answer correctly. NAT, MCQ, and MSQ questions are all included in Part A of the CEED exam. In the CEED Part A exam, candidates can receive up to 100 marks. It has a 25% weight. Part A will consist of a one-hour computer-based test. Take note that there are two parts to the CEED exam: Part A and Part B. It is required to complete both sections. A candidate will not be considered for admission if they attempt Part A but not Part B.

IIT Bombay conducted CEED 2026 exam on January 18, 2026 from 9 AM to 12 PM. It was conducted at 27 centres. Candidates had to report at 7 AM with admit card and ID proof.

For undergraduate and postgraduate programmes qualifying scores from national entrance exams such as UCEED and JEE are necessary and for other programmes, students must appear for the University Level Entrance Examinations. Hence, candidates must prepare well for the UCEED exam according to the UCEED exam pattern. 

The candidate doesn’t need a log-in ID to download the question papers for CEED 2025. In fact, the question papers will be uploaded on the CEED admission portal in downloadable PDF format. To download the question paper, one simply needs to click on the relevant link and then select download.

Note that IIT Bombay will also release the answer key along with the question paper. The candidate can thus use the official keys to calculate the number of correct attempts and calculate expected scores.

IIT Bombay will release question paper for the CEED 2026 exam within a day or two or conduct of entrance exam. Question paper will be released alongside the draft CEED answer key.

It can be downloaded online at ceed.iitb.ac.in. Note that no log-in is required to download the question paper; simply click on the download link and you can download the paper in pdf form.

The question paper, in conjunction with the answer key, can be used to calculate probable scores and thus access one's chances of admission.

IIT Bombay will declare results of CEED exam on March 4, 2026. It will be declared online at ceed.iitb.ac.in. To check results, candidate needs to log in to Candidate portals using their login id. 

The CEED syllabus was revised in the previous edition.

It is very important for the candidate to solve previous years’ question papers. The reason being the question papers will help the candidate identify the types of questions asked, marking scheme, difficult level, etc.

Considering the syllabus for CEED has been revised, the candidate may solve only those questions that are still included in the topic. Carefully go through the revised syllabus and check out the topics; identify the topcis that are same as last year. You can use the question papers and solve questions for the common topics.