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    UCEED 2026 Exam Mode, Is UCEED Exam Online or Offline?

    UCEED 2026 Exam Mode, Is UCEED Exam Online or Offline?

    Achyuth NambiarUpdated on 26 Dec 2025, 05:30 PM IST

    The Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED) is one of the most prominent exam conducted by IIT Bombay. Students, after their 12th are eligible to appear for the UCEED exam. IIT Bombay conducts the UCEED entrance examination annually to offer design admissions into various IITs and design colleges. The UCEED 2026 is scheduled to be held on January 18, 2026. But most of the aspirants often have a question “Is the UCEED exam online or offline? “. Read the full article as this gives you the clarification and lets you know the mode of the UCEED exam.

    UCEED 2026 Exam Mode, Is UCEED Exam Online or Offline?
    UCEED 2026 Exam Mode

    Is the UCEED exam online or offline?

    The UCEED exam will be conducted as partial online and partial offline modes. The UCEED Part-A will be conducted in online mode whereas the Part-B will be in offline mode. The details of UCEED Part A & B are as follows.

    UCEED Exam Mode for Part-A

    • The UCEED 2026 Part-A will be a computer-based test (CBT) which is an online mode.
    • The students need to give the examination at the allotted exam centres on the computers.
    • For this it is mandatory for the candidates to be present at the UCEED exam centres as per the schedule given.

    UCEED Exam Mode for Part-B

    • The UCEED 2026 Part-B section will be in pen and paper-based mode.
    • As the candidates need to resolve the question paper of part-B on an answer sheet, hence this will be in an offline mode.
    • In this section, the candidates are assessed on creativity skills, sketching and drawing skills which have to be drawn physically on the answer sheet.
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    Advantages of UCEED Exam Mode

    Conducting the UCEED exam in online and offline modes have several advantages for the students and the authorities. Some of the advantages are listed below.

    Part-A

    • As the UCEED Part-A will be online, it is easy for the authorities to evaluate the paper of objective questions.
    • This in turn reduces the effort of manual correction and also there will be less chances of evaluation mistakes.
    • Time saving process with less manual effort.
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    Part-B

    • As the Part-B section of UCEED will be held in offline mode, assessing the creativity and drawing skills of the candidates will be easy for the jury members in the panel.
    • Candidates need to explain the model of the drawing pattern, hence it would be easy in offline mode rather than in online mode.
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    Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

    Q: Will the UCEED exam modes be offline and online every year or will they change?
    A:

    The official brochure has been released on October 1, 2026  by the UCEED conducting authority of IIT Bombay at the official website . THe exam modes still have two Parts; Part A with the online mode and Part B, being offline.

    Q: Where can we check the UCEED exam modes?
    A:

    Aspirants can check the UCEED exam modes - offline and online in the brochure that has been officially released at - uceed.iitb.ac.in.

    Q: Is the UCEED exam online or offline?
    A:

    The UCEED 2026 exam will be held in both online (Part-A) and offline (Part-B) modes.

    Q: What all sections are covered in the online mode?
    A:

    As Part-A will be based on analytical and logical reasoning, visualisation, english grammar and more etc, this section will be in online mode.

    Q: What will be the candidates assessed in offline mode?
    A:

    Candidates will be assessed on their creative and innovative skills, and drawing skills in offline mode which is the Part-B section of UCEED exam.

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    With an SC category rank of 92 in UCEED, you may be eligible for admission to some IITs, depending on the cutoff and seat availability during the counselling process. The cutoff varies each year, so you can check the details for the previous year's cutoff here: UCEED Previous Years

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