Pearl Academy B.Des Admissions 2026
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UCEED Admit Card Date:08 Jan' 26 - 08 Jan' 26
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has closed the UCEED 2026 application form on November 10, 2025. Candidates can no longer apply for the UCEED 2026 entrance exam. The next important detail that candidates need to focus on is the date for the release of the UCEED 2026 Admit Card. Candidates can access their UCEED Admit Card 2026 from January 2, 2026 onwards. The last date to rectify any discrepancies in the Admit card for the UCEED exam is January 8, 2026. UCEED 2026 will be held on January 18, 2025.
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Aspirants had to fill the UCEED 2026 application form completely and pay the UCEED registration fees to complete the online application process. UCEED is the entrance exam for B.Des admission in IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Roorkee, IIT Indore, and IIITDM Jabalpur.
The UCEED 2026 application form had to be filled online by following the steps given below:
Visit the official UCEED website
Click on the 'Registration Portal' button and register for the exam
Fill in the essential UCEED registration details
Upload documents
Pay the application fee
Take a printout of the acknowledgement page to complete the UCEED exam registration 2026 application submission process.
Aspirants need to track the UCEED exam dates to avoid missing any crucial events. The important dates for the UCEED 2026 exam registration are as follows.
Events | UCEED Dates |
Release of UCEED application form 2026 | October 1, 2025 |
UCEED 2026 registration last date without the late fees | October 5, 2025 |
Dates to fill the UCEED 2026 registration form with a late fee of Rs 500 | November 10, 2025 |
UCEED 2026 exam date | January 18, 2026 |
Aspirants willing to seek design admission had to keep the required documents before filling in the UCEED registration form 2026. The list of the required documents and details to be kept beforehand are as follows.
A recent passport photograph taken within the last six months with the head in the center covering the frame 70% to 80% of the photograph.
Scanned copy of the candidate’s signature.
Qualifying exam certificate if appeared in 2025.
For the candidates who will appear in the qualifying exam in 2026 - A certificate from the school/ college principal in the specified format is mentioned (UCEED Appendix 1) in the official brochure.
A gazette notification showing the change of name if the candidate's name is not the same in the class 10+2 certificate.
OBC - NCl, ST, SC, EWS, or PwD certificates, if applicable
PwD candidates who will require scribe and/or compensatory time - A request letter in accordance with the specified format in UCEED Appendix 10 of the UCEED official brochure.
Applicants had to upload the required documents in the specified format and size that was mentioned in the UCEED 2026 application form. Candidates can check the format and size of the document that was to be uploaded in the UCEED application form from the table below.
Dimension and the specification in which the document was to be uploaded
Document | Size | Format |
Scanned Image of the photograph | 5 kb to 100 kb | JPEG (file extension .jpg) |
Scanned Image of the signature | 5 kb to 100 kb | JPEG (file extension .jpg) |
Scanned image of the qualifying exam certificate | 30 kb to 500 kb | PDF format |
Scanned Image of the Certification from the Principal of the School/ College for the candidates who will appear for board exam of 2026 | 30 kb to 500 kb | PDF format |
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Aspirants eligible had to fill out the application form for UCEED 2026 in online mode. If candidates failed to submit the form before UCEED 2026 registration last date of November 5, 2025, then they had to fill the UCEED application form 2026 by paying a late fee (Rs 500) within November 10, 2025. The steps to fill out the UCEED application form was as follows.
Visit the official website - uceed.iitb.ac.in for UCEED exam registration and fill out the UCEED application form 2026. For a new UCEED registration, candidates will have to click on the ‘Register button’ and provide the following details.
Name
Email Id
Mobile Number
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After entering the email id, click on the ‘Submit’ button. A notification will pop up on the screen stating that ‘An email with activation URL will be sent to the email address provided by the candidates’. Students have to visit the provided email address and then click on the activation URL within 12 hours and fill in the details as directed.
Candidates must note that they must provide a valid email Id at the time of UCEED registration 2026 as important information regarding the UCEED design entrance test will be sent on the same email id.
After clicking on the activation link received on the registered email id, candidates would be redirected to the new window where they have to fill in the following details according to the specification.
Registered email ID (It will be auto-filled)
Salutation
Candidate's full name
First Name
Middle Name
Last Name
Date of Birth
Mobile Number
Address
Nationality
Country
State
District
Pin code
Question
Secret Answer
Password
Confirm Password
Enter Captcha
After providing the requisite information, click on the ‘Proceed’ button.
Note that the entered date of birth and the secret answer will be required later if candidates forget their password and want to reset it. After completing the first step of email registration on the IIT Bombay external user registration portal, candidates will have to visit the official website of UCEED to fill out the UCEED 2026 registration form.
Click on the ‘Go to UCEED Home Page’ button. Candidates will be redirected to the home page of UCEED.
After clicking on the login button enter the following credentials.
Email Id
Password
Then click on the ‘login’ button. After this, provide the following details in the given space.
Physical disability - Yes or No
Birth Category
Date of Birth
Qualifying year
Mobile number
Then click on the ‘Mobile Verification’ button. Candidates will receive the OTP number on their registered mobile number. Enter the OTP number in the provided space then click on the ‘Mobile Verification’ button again.
In the UCEED 2026 application form, candidates need to fill out the following information. However, the information that has been already provided during the registration process will be auto-filled in the application form for UCEED 2026.
First name
Middle name
Last name
Name
Have you ever changed your name - Yes or No
Gender
Birth Category
Do you belong to the economically weaker section - Yes or No
A person with Disability - Yes or No
Date of birth
Mobile number
Alternate mobile number (Optional)
Indian National - Yes or No
Correspondence Address
Address
Country
State
District
City/Town/Village
Pin code
Details of Educational Qualification
Qualifying examination
Year of passing the exam
Select Board
Stream
Name of the School or College
School/College Address
Examination Cities
In the UCEED registration form 2026, candidates need to select the UCEED exam centres. Candidates got the liberty to select a maximum of three UCEED exam centres.
Exam City Choice 1
Exam City Choice 2
Exam City Choice 3
Answer Yes or No to the question ‘I authorize IIT Bombay to share my personal information with other result-sharing institutes (even if I do not qualify)?’
After entering the aforementioned details in the UCEED application form 2026, candidates need to click on the ‘Save’ button. Then they needed to review the details that have been provided in the UCEED registration form and then click on the ‘Confirm’ button’.
In the process of filling the UCEED application form 2026, candidates have to upload the following documents.
Scanned image of the candidate’s photograph
Scanned image of the candidate’s signature
Birth of certificate
Qualifying exam certificate
After which they had to click on the ‘Upload document’ button. And then check the tick on the declaration box where they were certified that the documents that were uploaded and furnished are correct. After this they had to click on the ‘Save and Proceed For Payment’ button.
The candidates need to pay the UCEED registration fees as per their category while filling the UCEED 2026 application form. Students have to note that after the payment of the application fee, they won't be able to rectify the UCEED registration form. Students could rectify the UCEED registration form 2026 before the payment is made.
The application fee for UCEED will vary for different categories. Candidates can pay the application fee in online mode through net banking/ debit card/ credit card/ wallet/ UPI/ Google Pay/ Scan and Pay.
To pay the UCEED registration fees, candidates needed to click on the ‘Make Payment and Submit’ button
NOTE: Candidates had to pay Rs 500 more if they pay the fee after the stipulated time.
Payment details would be reflected on the screen. Candidates can to select the payment mode and click on the ‘Proceed’ button and then click on the ‘Make Payment’ button.
After clicking the payment button, students would be redirected to the Payment gateway. They can select the payment mode and provide the required information. After which they have to click on the ‘Pay’ option.
The UCEED application fee varied for different categories. Students can check the application fee in the UCEED registration details with respect to their categories from the table mentioned below.
UCEED application fee
Type of Candidate | Category | Fees |
Indian Nationals | Female candidates (all categories) | Rs 2000 |
SC, ST, PwD candidates | Rs 2000 | |
All Other Candidates | Rs 4000 | |
Foreign Nationals (holders of OCI/PIO cards issued before March 4, 2021) | Female candidates and PwD candidates | Rs 2000 |
All other candidates | Rs 4000 | |
Foreign Nationals (including holders of OCI/PIO cards issued on or after March 4, 2021) | Candidates from SAARC countries | USD 200 |
Candidates from Non-SAARC Countries | USD 250 |
Step 8 - Download the UCEED application form 2026
After the successful payment of the UCEED registration fees, candidates can to download the UCEED 2026 application form and take a printout of the same for future reference.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
IIT Bombay released the UCEED application form 2026 on October 1, 2025.
UCEED registration form 2026 will be made available in online mode only at uceed.iitb.ac.in.
UCEED 2026 entrance exam will be conducted on January 18, 2026.
Candidates needed to pay the UCEED application fee in online mode through net banking/ debit card/ credit card/ wallet/ UPI/ Google Pay/ Scan and Pay.
Applicants will not be able to rectify the UCEED 2026 registration form after they make payment of the application fee. Rectification in the UCEED 2026 application form can only be made before paying the registration fee.
The UCEED 2026 application fee for the entrance exam vary for different categories. General and reserved category candidates had to pay Rs 4000 and Rs 2000 respectively as registration fees.
The late fee to submit the UCEED 2026 application form was Rs 500.
The steps to fill the application form of UCEED 2026 are as follows.
Registration
Fill the application form
Upload the documents
Pay the application fee
Students who have passed Class 12 (or equivalent) in 2025, or appearing in 2026, in any stream in Science, Commerce, or Arts & Humanities would have been eligible to appear for UCEED 2026.
UCEED application form 2026 needed to be filled and submitted online at the official website - uceed.iitb.ac.in.
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NIFT 2026 admission - Applications release around November–December 2025.
UCEED 2026- Registrations open around September–October 2025.
Pearl Academy - They have multiple admission cycles (Jan, April, June). Applications usually open by October 2025 for Jan cycle.
Keep checking official sites regularly since dates shift slightly every year.
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UCEED is a competitive exam for design aspirants, testing design aptitude, logical thinking, creativity, and visualisation skills. To improve your score out of 300, start by understanding the exam pattern—Part A (objective) and Part B (subjective). For Part A, practice reasoning, numerical aptitude, and environmental & social awareness questions. For Part B, focus on drawing, sketching, and presenting your ideas clearly. Solve past year UCEED papers and join online mock test series. Spend at least 2–3 hours daily practising creative problem-solving and sketching. Also, work on time management because the exam requires quick thinking.
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