Pearl Academy B.Des Admissions 2025
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UCEED Exam Date:18 Jan' 26 - 18 Jan' 26
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay) will publish all the UCEED 2026 latest news and updates on its official website - uceed.iitb.ac.in. The UCEED 2026 notification will be released on October 1, 2025 along with an information brochure providing complete details of UCEED 2026, including the UCEED 2026 application form window, exam date, pattern, syllabus, and admission process. The UCEED exam date is on January 18, 2026. In this article, get all the UCEET 2026 news and updates, including important dates, admission process, and more.
Through the Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design, candidates will be admitted into the B.Des programme of participating IITs. Part A of UCEED 2026 will be conducted online, while Part B of the exam will be conducted in offline mode. Candidates who are shortlisted in the PART A will be evaluated for Part B of the exam. The UCEED admissions will be done based on the consolidated score of the candidate in both parts of the exam.
IIT Bombay will notify the complete UCEED 2026 exam schedule on its website. The table below provides the tentative dates for various events about the exam based on the trends seen last year.
Events | Dates |
Release of UCEED 2026 notification | October 1, 2025 |
UCEED 2026 application form start date | First week of October 2025 |
UCEED 2026 application form last date without late fee | Last week of October 2025 |
UCEED 2026 application form last date with a late fee of Rs 500 | Third week of November 2025 |
UCEED admit card 2026 date | Two weeks before the exam |
Date to modify the discrepancies in the admit card | Ten days before the exam |
UCEED exam date 2026 | January 18, 2026 |
Release of UCEED 2026 draft answer key | Two days after the exam |
Availability of UCEED final answer Key 2026 | Ten days after the exam |
Release of UCEED cutoff 2026 for Part A | February 2026 |
UCEED result 2026 date | First week of March 2026 |
Downloading of the UCEED scorecard 2026 | Second week of March 2026 |
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All the latest news and updates on UCEED 2026 will be updated in this section. The UCEED 2026 latest updates will include information about the registration window, exam date,
IIT Bombay will publish the UCEED notification 2026 on its official website - uceed.iitb.ac.in on October 1, 2025. The information brochure containing complete details about the exam will also be available on the official website. IIT Bombay will tentatively open the UCEED 2026 application form in October 2025. Interested candidates will be able to complete registrations online. Through UCEED 2026, candidates will be admitted into the B.Des programme of participating institutes.
IIT Bombay will conduct UCEED 2026 on January 18, 2026, from 9 am to 12 noon. The exam will be conducted simultaneously across all the test centres in India.
Sl. no | IIT Name |
1 | IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay |
2 | Department of Design, IIT Delhi |
3 | Department of Design, IIT Guwahati |
4 | Department of Design, IIT Hyderabad |
5 | Department of Design, IIT Roorkee |
6 | Design Discipline, IIITDM Jabalpur |
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
UCEED 2026 will be conducted on January 18, 2026.
UCEED application form 2026 will tentatively open in October 2025.
IIT Bombay will tentatively declare the UCEED result 2026 in March 2026.
The IIT Bombay UCEED official website is uceed.iitb.ac.in.
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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