Industrial / Product Design

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 will release the admission schedule for the CEED 2027 exam, including the application start and last dates, at the time of the release of the application form. The CEED application form will open from October 01, 2026 till November 05, 2026 with regular fees.

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.

Candidate needs to remember following points about Part B question paper of UCEED.

• Part B will include TWO questions. Question for section will be shown on the computer monitor.
•  Candidate, after reading the question, has to write/ draw the answer option in the answer booklet provided by the invigilator.
• Part B test will evaluate the drawing ability and Design Aptitude of the candidate.
• Part B is mandatory and will only be evaluated if the candidate qualifies for Part A.
• The cut-off marks for Part A will be declared by IIT Bombay before the declaration of results.

Only such candidates who belong to the PwD category are allowed to use the services of a scribe. The candidate can use scribe services only for Part A. However, using the services of a scribe is not allowed for Part B. It is because Part B of the question paper is used to evaluate the candidates drawing skill. The candidate can select their category (PwD in this case) at the time of filling out the UCEED 2026 application form. In case of candidates belonging to any other category than PwD, scribe services is not allowed.

UCEED question paper will have questions from Numerical Answer Type (NAT) in Section 1. There will be 18 questions of 4 marks each. There will be no negative marking for incorrect answers. 

Candidates can report any issue faced while filling UCEED 2026 application form by clicking Report Problem tab that is present on the right side of UCEED application window. 

On clicking tab, candidates will have to explain problem that they are facing. They are also required to mention their registration number. It is advised that candidate not wait until the last minute to fill the form.

IIT Hyderbad cutoff 2024 for the BDes course is out. UCEED exam is the basis on which IIT Hyderabad offers admission to the BDes course. Candidates with a valid UCEED cutoff are called for the round-wise UCEED Counselling. Tabulated below is the IIT Hyderabad cutoff 2024 as per the UCEED 2024 Round 1 Seat Allotment for OPEN All India category candidates: