Industrial / Product Design

Candidates can request for a change in the test city and the same will be accommodated by authorities provided there is a valid reason. To change the CEED 2025 exam city, candidates need to make a request to the office of the Chairperson, IIT Bombay within the stipulated time. The CEED 2025 exam will be conducted in 27 cities  across the country. Each of these cities can have one or more exam centres. The name of the exam centre allocated to the candidate will be mentioned in the admit card.

Candidates can know the status of their CEED 2026 application form on the official registration portals of the exam. In a situation wherein any more information or document is required then the CEED office gets in touch with aspirants through their registered email. It may be note that complete applications will be rejected.

The candidate must carefully go through the step-wise process to fill out the form.

IIT Bombay released the admission schedule for the CEED 2026 exam, including the application start and last dates, at the time of the release of the application form. The CEED application form was open from October 01, 2025 till November 05, 2025 with regular fees. 

Late fee window was open from November 06, 2025 to November 07, 2025.

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.

UCEED notification carries updates about the exam, like when the exam will be conducted, deadlines to fill out the application form, etc. 

IIT Bombay revised syllabus for the UCEED exam in the previous edition. As per the revised syllabus, the exam conducting released the part-wise topics that candidates needed to prepare for the exam. It also released some information related to the new exam pattern, for instance the Part B now includes two questions (instead of one), while the test duration for the part was increased to 60 minutes (from 30 minutes). IIT Bombay released the full details about the UCEED  in its information brochure. Note that the information brochure was released on its official website.

UCEED Part A question paper will include three sections. Of these three sections, Section 3 will include 28 multiple choice questions. Each of these questions will carry 3 marks. 0.71 marks will be deducted for each incorrect answer. The total marks for this section is  96. Each MCQ will have four options. Out of these four options, only one is correct.

It is of paramount importance that the candidate follows the official exam pattern to prepare for UCEED 2026. It is because the exam pattern will provide insights into the types of questions asked, sections covered, marking scheme, mode of the exam, etc. Unless the candidates has any knowledge of these subjects, it will be like searching for a needle in a haystack. Also, note that IIT Bombay has revised the syllabus for UCEED 2026. As per the exam pattern, the Part B question paper will include a drawing and an Design Aptitude question. Also, the test duration for Part B is 60 minutes.

UCEED 2026 exam will have two parts - Part A and Part B. Part A will be conducted in a computer-based mode at various test centres. Question paper for Part A will include three types of questions NAT, MSQ and MCQ type questions. Test duration for Part A will be 2 hours. Part B will now include two questions - Design-based question and Design Aptitude question. Duration for Part B is 60 minutes. Exam pattern is given on the webiste of UCEED.