UCEED
The Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED) is a national-level exam conducted by IIT Bombay for admission to the BDes program at the following participating institutes: IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Hyderabad, and IIITDM Jabalpur. Admission is done on the basis of UCEED scores through a Joint Seat Allotment Process conducted by IIT Bombay. Candidates who are issued a UCEED merit rank are eligible to participate in the seat allotment or counseling process. Note that UCEED scores are also used by result-sharing institutes. The result-sharing institutes, unlike participating colleges, however, will not participate in the Joint Seat Allotment process. Further, result-sharing institutes will only fill some of the available seats based on UCEED scores. This means they may also use scores of other entrance exam scores to fill out the remaining seats. The UCEED exam is conducted once every year, typically in the month of January. In the previous edition of the exam, i.e. UCEED 2023, more than 15,000 candidates registered for the exam, out of which around 13,500 candidates appeared in the exam.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR APPEARING IN UCEED 2023
A candidate, including a foreign national, must simultaneously fulfill each and every one of the following three criteria to appear in UCEED 2023.
CRITERION 1 – AGE LIMIT:
The candidate should have been born on or after October 1, 1998 if belonging to the OPEN/EWS/OBC-NCL category and born on or after October 1, 1993 if belonging to the SC, ST or PwD category.
CRITERION 2 – NUMBER OF ATTEMPTS:
A candidate can attempt UCEED for a maximum of two times and that too in consecutive years. Note that UCEED score is valid for one year, and only for admissions in the same corresponding academic year.
CRITERION 3 – QUALIFYING EXAMINATION:
The candidate should have passed in all subjects in the qualifying examination (Class XII or equivalent) in 2022, OR should be appearing for the qualifying examination for the first time in 2023 in order to be eligible for attempting UCEED 2023. Students from ALL STREAMS (Science, Commerce, and Arts and humanities) are eligible.
Those who appeared for the first time in their qualifying examination (Class XII) in 2021 or earlier are NOT eligible to appear in UCEED 2023.
UCEED 2024 Exam Pattern
Given below is UCEED 2024 Exam Pattern covering details on Part-A and Part- B along with its marking scheme. The students are advised to go through the following before preparing for UCEED 2024.
- Exam Division: Two parts- Part A and Part B
- Mode to Exam: Part A as a computer-based test while Part B as a drawing test
- Total Duration: 3 hours
- Total Number of Questions: 69 questions
- Types of Questions: MCQs, MSQs, NATs and Drawing Test
