Last Minute Preparation Tips for UCEED 2025 Exam

Last Minute Preparation Tips for UCEED 2025 Exam

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Ritika JonwalUpdated on 24 Mar 2025, 03:15 PM IST

The Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED) requires both creative and logical thinking. The UCEED 2025 question paper's objective is to evaluate the candidate's ability to visualize, have design aptitude, and create designs in order to meet the problem. Therefore, candidates for UCEED 2025 should invest sufficient time in preparing for the entrance exam. UCEED exam was conducted on January, 19th, 2025.

Last Minute Preparation Tips for UCEED 2025 Exam
Last Minute Preparation Tips for UCEED 2025 Exam

Preparing at the last minute may appear impossible, yet with the appropriate approaches, one can ace it.

UCEED 2025 Exam Pattern

UCEED 2025 exam pattern includes all the parameters of the entrance test such as question format, exam mode, marking scheme, maximum marks, and many more. The UCEED exam pattern is mentioned below.

Particular
Details

Mode of the exam

  • Part A - Online

  • Part B - Pen and paper mode

Exam duration

3 hours

Exam duration was given for each part

  • Part A - 2 hours

  • Part B - 1 hour

Medium of the language

English

Maximum marks allotted

300 marks

Last Minute Preparation Tips for UCEED 2025

Given below are the last-minute tips for students to go through and ace the UCEED preparation.

1. UCEED Exam Pattern

It is important for students to go through and completely understand the UCEED 2025 exam pattern one last time to check on the type of questions and allocated marks for different sections that are present in the exam. Students can make sure that they have prepared for all the important topics.

2. Avoid New Topics

  • Lots of learners make the rookie mistake of beginning fresh subjects in the final couple of weeks before the UCEED exam. This only leads to last minute hurry and frustration. Firstly, it will cut into your revision period.
  • Secondly, tackling an unfamiliar subject near to the examination may cause undue stress if you get overwhelmed or fail to make headway.

3. Practice in Exam Mode

Repetition creates trust and confidence. Recreate the examination circumstances when solving any papers.

  • Set a timer to simulate real examination limits.
  • Use previous year UCEED sample papers to imitate section jumps.
  • Avoid distractions and maintain focus and discipline during these mock rounds.
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4. Develop Your Problem-Solving Skills

A balanced approach to creativity and rationality is required by UCEED. Here's how to improve your ability to solve problems:

  • Elimination Method: To increase your chances of answering a multiple-choice question correctly, cross out any answers that are blatantly incorrect.
  • Logical Breakdown: Divide difficult issues into manageable chunks for methodical resolution.
  • Approximation and Estimation: To save time on quantitative aptitude problems, apply these strategies.
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5. Do quick revisions

You can make rapid modifications without needing to skim through long paragraphs if you have a diary. As a result, candidates are encouraged to keep their notes from the start of their preparation for the test. For instance, take note of all the main concepts and topics as you hear it for the initial time or even the second time.

6. Practice your sketching abilities.

Developing your sketching and visualization skills is crucial for design questions because your designs are an obvious reflection of your technical proficiency and creativity.

Practice depicting everyday objects, composing dramatic scenes, and sketching human figures with accurate proportions and perspective. Try experimenting with shading, hatching, and line quality to add depth and dimension to your work to make it more realistic. Keep in mind that simplicity is essential; keep your drawings tidy and eye-catching because a well-drawn concept frequently has a greater impact than one that is too complex.

7. Sample Papers and Previous year's Question Papers

It is one of the most important exercises for students preparing for the UCEED 2025 exam to solve UCEED sample papers and previous years question papers. Students can go through the questions from sample papers they had difficulty in solving the first time and revise for last minute preparation. Students can refer to UCEED 2025 question paper for a clear understanding.

8. High-Weightage Topics

By this time aspiring students have a through understanding of important and high-weightage topics for UCEED 2025. Students can go through their important notes and solutions for drawing sections and revise with help of them. This will cover most of their topics and questions for the exam.

9. Physical Wellbeing

With the last minute preparation for the UCEED 2025 Exam, it is very important for aspiring candidates to take care of their physical wellbeing. It is advised for students to take adequate rest, and have proper sleep. It is also important to eat healthy and prevent undue strain.

10. Mental Wellbeing

With physical wellbeing, it is also important for students to take care of their mental wellbeing and not take so much stress and anxiety. Students can leave studying one evening before the exam and rest.

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Questions related to UCEED

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Have a question related to UCEED ?

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