Pearl Academy B.Des Admissions 2025
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UCEED Exam Date:18 Jan' 26 - 18 Jan' 26
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 will be held tentatively in January. 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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
The UCEED 2026 exam will be held in both online (Part-A) and offline (Part-B) modes.
As Part-A will be based on analytical and logical reasoning, visualisation, english grammar and more etc, this section will be in online mode.
Aspirants can check the UCEED exam modes - offline and online in the brochure that will be officially released at - uceed.iitb.ac.in.
Every year, the official brochure will be released by the conducting authority IIT Bombay at the official website where the UCEED exam modes will be specified.
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.
On Question asked by student community
Hello,
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.
Thank you!
Hello!
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.
Thank you for reading, and I wish you the best
Hello Akanksha,
For NID DAT 2026, your eligibility is established based on your born date as you are born on or after July 1st 2005. For UCEED 2026, your eligibility is dependent on your born date by category. You are eligible if you are OPEN/EWS/OBC-NCL category and born on or after October 1, 2001. If you are SC/ST/PwD category you must be born on or after October 1, 1996 in order to be eligible. Based on your born date of December 20th, 2006 for both NID DAT 2026 and UCEED 2026; you will be eligible.
The UCEED exam is conducted by IIT Bombay, and the previous year’s question papers you can download the papers along with answer keys directly from the link given below :
https://design.careers360.com/articles/uceed-previous-year-question-papers
Thank you and all the best!
Currently, NSUT does not offer a B.Des. program. However, other institutes like IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, and IIITDM Jabalpur offer B.Des. through UCEED.
Expected UCEED Cutoffs (General Category):
IIT Bombay: Around Rank 14
IIT Delhi: Around Rank 35
IIITDM Jabalpur: Around Rank 165
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