Important Dates

+ Examination Cities

CEED 2022 examination will be conducted in the following cities:
Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Delhi, Ernakulam, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur and Visakhapatnam.

Candidates should compulsorily choose THREE cities in the order of preference at the time of online registration. Once the registration form is submitted, request for a change of city will NOT be entertained.

If sufficient number of candidates are not available in a city, then that city may be dropped from the final list and candidates will be allotted to a city of their second or third choice. The UCEED-CEED Implementation Committee (UCIC) reserves the right to add a new city or remove an existing one and allot a city that may not be among any of the choices of a candidate.

Any request for change of a centre will NOT be entertained.

+ Programmes

CEED qualified students are eligible to apply for the MDes and PhD programmes in various institutes with the specializations as mentioned in the table below. Details of these programmes may be obtained from the websites of these respective institutes:
Institute and programme(s)	Contact information
Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, IISc Bangalore: MDes in Product Design and Engineering PhD in Design	Institute website: http://www.iisc.ernet.in Department website: http://cpdm.iisc.ac.in/cpdm/ Email: chairman@cpdm.iisc.ernet.in, office@cpdm.iisc.ernet.in Phone: +91-80-2293 2359
Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay: MDes in Industrial Design, Communication Design, Animation, Interaction Design, Mobility and Vehicle Design PhD in Design	Institute website: http://www.iitb.ac.in Department website: http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in Email: head.idc@iitb.ac.in, office.idc@iitb.ac.in Phone: +91-22-2576 7801, 2576 7802
Department of Design, IIT Delhi: MDes in Industrial Design PhD in Design	Institute website: http://www.iitd.ac.in Department website: http://design.iitd.ac.in Email: hoddod@admin.iitd.ac.in Phone: +91-11-2659 1431, 2659 6729
Department of Design, IIT Guwahati: MDes in Design PhD in Design	Institute website: http://www.iitg.ac.in Department website: http://www.iitg.ac.in/design Email: dodoff@iitg.ernet.in Phone: +91-361-258 2500, 258 2451
Department of Design, IIT Hyderabad: MDes in Visual Design PhD in Design	Institute website: http://www.iith.ac.in Department website: http://www.design.iith.ac.in Email: head@des.iith.ac.in Phone: +91-40-2301 7120
Design Programme, IIT Kanpur: MDes in Design PhD in Design	Institute website: http://www.iitk.ac.in Programme website: http://www.iitk.ac.in/design Email: head_des@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-512-259 7509, 259 6617
Department of Design, IIT Roorkee: MDes in Industrial Design	Institute website: https://www.iitr.ac.in Programme website: http:// http://dod.iitr.ac.in/ Email: head@design.iitr.ac.in Phone: +91-1332-284 872
Design Discipline, IIITDM Jabalpur: MDes in Design PhD in Design	Institute website: http://www.iiitdmj.ac.in Discipline website: http://design.iiitdmj.ac.in/ Email: design@iiitdmj.ac.in Phone: +91-761-2632 664 Extn.: 150, 113
Note that qualifying in CEED does NOT guarantee admission to any programme. After qualifying, candidates must apply to the respective institutes for admission and fulfil other requirements such as tests and/or interviews of the respective institutes to become eligible for admission. The announcement for admission to the postgraduate programmes in design will be notified separately by these institutes. Candidates are advised to visit the websites of the respective institutes for information and application procedure for their programmes.

The UCEED-CEED Office, IIT Bombay does not provide information about the criteria for postgraduate admission and award of scholarship/assistance at different institutes. This information may be obtained from the websites of the respective institutes. For any specific queries on admission and programmes, the candidate should contact the head/convener/coordinator of design programme at the concerned institute. Any queries in this matter to the UCEED-CEED Office, IIT Bombay will NOT be entertained. This office will be sharing the candidate information with the result sharing institutes. The updated list of result sharing institutes will be available on the official CEED 2022 website.

+ Eligibility

Candidates must have completed a degree/diploma/post graduate degree programme of minimum THREE years (after 10+2 level), or must be appearing for the final examination of such a program by July 2022, or must have passed the GD Arts diploma programme (10+5 level) by July 2022.

Note that the eligibility criteria for admission to various institutes may differ from the eligibility criteria for appearing for CEED. Before applying for CEED, candidates are advised to check whether they meet the required eligibility criteria for admission to various institutes.

There is no age limit to appear for CEED. Also, a candidate can appear for CEED any number of times.

+ Syllabus

CEED 2022 will be in two parts (A & B). Part-A will have questions related to these topics:
• Visualization and spatial ability: Pictorial and diagrammatic questions to test the understanding of transformation and/or manipulation of 2D shapes and 3D objects and their spatial relationships.
• Environmental and social awareness: General awareness of environmental factors (such as climate, population, water, vegetation, pollution, weather, natural resources) and their implications on the design of products, images, infrastructure and environment. Awareness of design terminologies, social and cultural connection with design, history of the designed artefact, and socially responsible and environmentally sustainable design responses. History of art, sculpture and literature.
• Analytical and logical reasoning: Ability to analyse given information logically and select the most appropriate solutions; ability to weigh opinions, arguments or solutions against appropriate criteria; ability to use logic and structured thinking to deduce from a short passage, which of a number of statements is the most accurate response to a posed question.
• Language and creativity: Ability to understand passages in commonly used English language; ability to think creatively in terms of alternatives; ability to distinguish innovative options and think out-of-the-box.
• Design thinking and problem solving: Ability to understand the context, the users and the constraints and select the most appropriate solution for a given design problem.
• Observation and design sensitivity: Ability to detect concealed properties in day-to-day life and think critically about them. Ability to discern subtle differences in visual properties and aesthetic outcomes.
Note: The suggested topics are exhaustive and indicative of the nature of questions. However, the CEED 2022 may not cover all the topics.

Part-B of CEED 2022 will have questions related to these topics:
• Drawing: Ability to draw products, people or scenes in proportion with good line quality, composition, proportion, perspective, and shading.
• Creativity: Ability to think out-of-the-box and come-up with unique as well as diverse solutions.
• Communication skills: Ability to communicate concepts and ideas clearly with the help of text and visuals.
• Problem identification skills: Ability to understand the user and the context, knowledge of properties of materials and their appropriate use in design.
CEED 2022 is an aptitude test and hence, no specific text book or guide is recommended for its preparation. Candidates may however practise their drawing, rendering and visualization skills. Question papers of some of the previous years are available on the official CEED website.

+ Registration

CEED registration form must be submitted ONLINE ONLY through the official website, http://www.ceed.iitb.ac.in.
Registration fee:
Rs. 1600/- for all women candidates
Rs. 1600/- for (SC/ST/PwD) candidates
Rs. 3200/- for all other candidates

Note that this registration fee is non-refundable and non-transferable. The registration fee has to be paid through the payment option provided on the website, while submitting the registration form. Detailed instructions related to the payment of registration fee are given on the online registration portal. Credit card, debit card and net-banking options are available. The registration fee shown above does NOT include service and other charges and the processing fees that the banks may levy.

The normal registration fee shown above is applicable till the regular closing date of registration. A late fee of Rs. 500/- is applicable to ALL candidates for registrations submitted after the regular closing date. Please refer to the dates in section 1.2 of this brochure.

+ Question Paper and Evaluation

CEED 2022 will be conducted on Sunday, January 23, 2022 from 9:00 am - 12:00 noon. This examination will consist of two parts, Part-A and Part-B. Candidates must attempt questions from both the parts. Part-A will be conducted from 9:00 am to 10:00 am followed by Part-B from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon.

Part-A contains objective questions of three types: Numerical Answer Type (NAT), Multiple Choice Question (MCQ), and Multiple Select Question (MSQ). Answers to Part-A have to be given on the computer. These will be design aptitude type questions that evaluate visual and spatial ability, environmental and social awareness, analytical and logical reasoning, language, observation and design sensitivity of the candidates. Part-B consists of five questions that are aimed at testing design, drawing and writing skills. The questions in Part-B will be displayed on the computer screen and the answers are to be written in the answer book provided by the invigilator (NOT into the Computer). However, you need to tick the appropriate box on the computer screen to indicate that you have answered the same. Part-B answer books will be collected at the end of the examination.

Question Paper Structure
Part-A
Section	Number of Questions	Question Number	Marks if Correc	Marks if Wrong	Marks if Not Attempted	Total Marks
NAT	8	1-8	3	0	0	24
MSQ	10	9-18	3	-0.2	0	30
MCQ	23	19-41	2	-0.5	0	46
Total	41	1-41				100


Part-B
Section	Number of Questions	Question Number	Marks
Sketching	1	1	20
Creativity	1	2	20
Form Sensitivity	1	3	20
Visual Sensitivity	1	4	20
Problem Identification	1	5	20
Total	5	1-5	100

Shortlisting: Marks obtained in Part-A will be used to shortlist candidates. The cut-off marks (d) for Part-A for shortlist candidates in the GEN category will be µ + (s/2) = d, where µ and s are the average mark and standard deviation of distribution of marks obtained by ALL the candidates in Part-A of CEED 2022. The µ and s will be rounded-off to two decimal places. Candidates belonging to the reserved categories shall have to fulfil a relaxed cut-off mark, which will be 0.9d for OBC-NCL/EWS and 0.5d for SC/ST/PwD.

Part-B answer books will be evaluated manually ONLY for those candidates who are shortlisted from Part-A. Part-B of CEED contains subjective questions and there are no model solutions for the same. It will be evaluated holistically on a set of criteria given in the question. There is NO provision for RE-EVALUATION or RE-TOTALLING in CEED. Request for re-evaluation or re-totalling will NOT be entertained under any circumstances.

The final CEED score will be calculated by giving 25% weightage to marks obtained in Part-A and 75% weightage to marks obtained in Part-B, after the above calculation.

For more information about the result declaration, refer to section 1.11 in this brochure.

Day of the Examination

Contact Information