Summary: Are you someone with an inclination towards creativity and design? Dive into UCEED entrance exam 2025 by IIT Bombay for admission into Design programs offered by top IITs across India. Explore the UCEED exam syllabus, eligibility criteria and other important details for securing a spot in the design industry.

The Undergraduate Common Entrance Exam for Design (UCEED) is an annual entrance examination conducted by IIT Bombay, for admissions into B.Des programs offered by prestigious IITS, such as Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad and IITDM Jabalpur.

But the list doesn't stop there, UCEED scores are also accepted by top universities ofering Design programs across India. Let us have a comprehensive look at what is the UCEED entrance exam 2025.

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Table of Contents

• UCEED 2025 Exam Dates
• Eligibility Criteria for UCEED 2025
• UCEED 2025 Application Process
• UCEED Admit Card 2025 
• Exam Pattern of UCEED 2025
• UCEED Sample Question Paper
• UCEED Syllabus 2025

UCEED Entrance Exam Dates 2025

The table below shows all the essential UCEED dates for all events:

Events	UCEED Exam Dates
Start date for Online Registration	October 2024 (Expected)
The last date for Online Registration with a regular fee	November 2nd Week 2024 (Expected)
Last date for Online Registration with a late fee	November 3rd Week 2024 (Expected)
Start date for Admit Card downloading	January 1st Week 2025 (Expected)
Last date for rectification of discrepancies in the Admit card	January 2nd Week 2025 (Expected)
UCEED 2025 exam date and time	January 3rd Week 2025 (Expected)
Release of Draft Answer Key and candidates’ response for Part-A	January 3rd Week 2025 (Expected)
Last date for uploading comments (if any) on the Draft Answer Key in the candidate’s portal	January 3rd Week 2025 (Expected)
Release of Final Answer Key for Part-A	January Last Week 2025 (Expected)
Announcement of cut-off marks for Part A	February 2025 (Expected)
Declaration of results	March 2025 (Expected)
Start date for Score Card Downloading	March 2025 (Expected)
Last date for Score Card Downloading	June 2025 (Expected)
Submission of Online Application for BDes Programme	March 3rd Week (Expected)
Seat allotment round 1	April 2025 (Expected)
Seat allotment round 2	May 2025 (Expected)
Seat allotment round 3	June 2025 (Expected)

UCEED 2025 Eligibility Criteria

Let's look at all about UCEED Eligibility Criteria 2025 set by IIT Bombay for the B.Des program:

Age Limit

If you are in the OPEN/EWS/OBC-NCL category, you must have been born on or after October 1, 2000, and if you are in the SC, ST, or PwD category, you must have been born on or after October 1, 1995.

Number of Attempts

A candidate can attempt UCEED entrance exam a maximum of two times in consecutive years. Note that the UCEED score is valid for one year and only for admissions in the same corresponding academic year.

Qualifying Examination

The candidate must have passed all subjects in the qualifying examination (Class XII or equivalent) in 2024 OR should be appearing for the qualifying examination for the first time in 2025 for UCEED exam eligibility. Students from ALL STREAMS (Science, Commerce, and Arts & Humanities) are eligible.

Those who appeared for the first time in their qualifying examination (Class XII) in 2023 or earlier are NOT eligible to appear in UCEED entrance exam.

UCEED Entrance Exam 2025 Registration

UCEED registration 2025 can begin in September and closed by November 2024 according to previous year trends.

You can complete the UCEED application form on the official website for UCEED (www.uceed.iitb.ac.in).

Steps to apply for the UCEED 2025 Exam

• Visit the official website of the exam 
• Click on the registration link
• Enter details such as name, mobile number, date of birth, and email ID
• Submit the details
• Note down the application number and password
• Login to the registered account using the application number and password
• Fill in all details asked in the application form
• Give preference for three exam cities and enter them
• Upload the scanned copies of all the prescribed documents
• Pay the application fee

Read more: UCEED vs CEED [Difference Between UCEED and CEED]

UCEED Entrance Exam 2025 Application Form

• You can only apply for the UCEED entrance exam 2025 through the official website. 
• As mentioned above, you must meet all three qualifying requirements.
• The registration will be cancelled if it is later discovered that you do NOT fulfil either of the three qualifying conditions.
• You must submit accurate information about the qualifying test and category and upload VALID documents in the required format.
• The admitting institutes have the authority to cancel your admission at any point if it is discovered that any information provided by you is inaccurate or the registration is incomplete, in line with the rules and regulations in effect.
• The registration fee is NEITHER refundable NOR transferable.

UCEED Exam Application Fees 2025

Indian Nationals	Female Candidates (all categories)	₹1900
	SC, ST, PwD Candidates	₹1900
	All Other Candidates	₹3800
Foreign Nationals (holders of OCI/PIO cards issued On or BEFORE 4th March 2021)	All candidates	₹3800
Foreign Nationals (including holders of OCI/PIO cards issued AFTER 4th March 2021)	Candidates from SAARC countries	US $400
	Candidates from non-SAARC countries	US $500

Documents required for UCEED 2025 Application Process

Keep the following documents ready while filling out the UCEED entrance exam application form:

• Recent coloured passport-sized photograph
• A scanned copy of the full signature on the white sheet/paper 
• Qualifying examination certificate if appeared in 2024 or before 
• Certificate from school/college principal, if they appear in 2025
• Date of birth proof, such as passport, SSC certificate, or birth certificate

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UCEED 2025 Admit Card

Candidates whose registration is complete in all aspects can download the Admit Card for UCEED 2025 from the registration portal (www.uceed.iitb.ac.in) once the conducting body releases the admit card for UCEED entrance exam. A printed copy of the downloaded Admit Card MUST be produced during the examination.

How to download the UCEED 2025 Admit Card?

• Visit the online registration portal.
• Find and click the direct link to download the admit card   
• Enter the registered login ID and password
• After submitting the details, admit card appears on the screen
• Verify the details and then download the admit card 

Details Mentioned in the UCEED Admit Card 2025

The UCEED entrance exam Admit Card will bear the following details of the candidate -

• Name
• UCEED Registration ID
• Roll Number
• Date of Birth
• Category
• photograph
• signature
• examination schedule
• examination centre details
• instructions to candidates

Candidates should carefully examine all the entries in the Admit Card, and in case of any discrepancy or if the Admit Card is unavailable for downloading, the candidates should contact the UCEED Office at IIT Bombay immediately via email or phone -

• Email: uceed@iitb.ac.in
• Phone: +91-22-2576 4063/9093/9094

UCEED Entrance Exam Centers List 2025

UCEED 2025 examination will be held in 24 cities in India. You must mention three exam cities from the list of UCEED Exam centres in order of preference.

The city allocation depends on the number of candidates applying from each location. The exam conducting authority may add a new city or remove an existing one.

The table below gives the list of Exam centres:

Ahmedabad	Jaipur	Lucknow	Bengaluru
Bhopal	Kolkata	Kozhikode	Bhubaneshwar
Chandigarh	Mumbai	Nagpur	Chennai
Dehradun	Patna	Pune	Delhi
Ernakulam	Raipur	Thiruvananthapuram	Panaji
Guwahati	Thrissur	Vishakhapatnam	Hyderabad

UCEED Exam Pattern 2025

The UCEED entrance exam is conducted as a computer based test, and last a total of 3 hours. 

UCEED 2025 Exam Pattern carries a total of 300 marks, and consists of Part A and Part B, and it is compulsory to attempt both parts.

UCEED Part A Written Paper Pattern

Mode of Exam	Online
Medium of Exam	English
Duration	2 Hours
Types of Questions	Numerical Answer Type (NAT)
	Multiple Select Questions (MSQ)
	Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)
Total Questions	59
Total Marks	200

UCEED Drawing Paper Pattern 2025

Part B will be a drawing test for 60 marks to be completed in 30 mins. The table below gives the details of the exam pattern for the UCEED Drawing Test:

Mode of Exam	Offline
Medium of Exam	English
Duration	1 Hour
Total Questions Asked	2
Total Marks	100

UCEED Entrance Exam Question Paper Overview

The UCEED question paper consists of a 3-hour duration and is divided into two sections: 

• Part-A is computer-based, while Part B is pen-and-paper-based.
• Part A will consist of numerical-answer, multiple-choice, and multiple-select questions, whereas Part B will include sketching/drawing-type problems. 

UCEED Question Paper Structure

Following is the question paper structure for UCEED 2025:

Part A (2 hours)

Section	Type of Questions	Number of Questions	Marks for Correct Answer	Marks for Wrong Answer	Marks for questions not attempted	Total Marks for the Section
1	Numerical Answer Type (NAT)	14	4	0	0	56
2	Multiple Select Questions (MSQ)	15	Partial Marking	-1	0	60
3	Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)	28	3	-0.71	0	84
Total	-	57	-	-	-	200

Part B (1 Hour)

Type of Questions	Number of Questions	Total Marks
Sketching	1	50
Design	1	50

UCEED Exam Syllabus 2025

As per the official UCEED notification, UCEED Entrance Exam 2025 Syllabus has 2 parts.

UCEED Part A

Part A of the UCEED entrance exam will have questions on the following topics:

Topics	Description
Visualization and spatial ability	Pictorial and diagrammatic questions are used to test understanding of transformation and/or manipulation of 2D shapes and 3D objects and their spatial relationships.
	knowledge of practical and everyday mechanical and scientific concepts.
Observation and design sensitivity	Ability to detect concealed properties in ordinary things, people, situations, and events and think critically about them.
	Attention to certain details, analysing, reasoning, classifying, inferring and predicting.
	Ability to discern subtle differences in visual properties and aesthetic outcomes.
Environmental and social awareness	General awareness of environmental factors such as climate, population, water, vegetation, pollution, weather, natural resources etc., and their implications on the design of products, images, infrastructure and environment.
	Awareness of social and cultural connection with the design, history of the designed artefact, and socially responsible and environmentally sustainable design responses.
Analytical and logical reasoning	Ability to look at qualitative or quantitative information and discern patterns within the information. Ability to weigh opinions, arguments or solutions against appropriate criteria.
	Ability to check for hidden bias or assumptions and whether evidence and argument support conclusions.
	Ability to use logic and structured thinking to deduce from a short passage which of several statements is the most accurate response to a posed question.
Language and creativity	Ability to understand and use Standard English. Reading comprehension and knowledge of English grammar.
	Ability to think creatively in terms of alternatives, ability to distinguish innovative options, and ability to think out of the box.
Design thinking and problem-solving	Ability to use visual analogies, metaphors, signs and symbols.
	Ability to understand complexity, identify problems, generate alternatives, evaluate options and select solutions.

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UCEED Part-B

Part-B of the UCEED entrance exam will have questions on the following topics:

Topic	Description
Drawing	Ability to draw products, people or scenes in proportion with good line quality, composition, proportion, perspective and shading.
Design aptitude	Capability to practically and appropriately respond to problems/situations with ingenuity and empathy.

Note: The topics listed above are exhaustive and indicative of the nature of the questions. However, the UCEED 2025 may not cover all the topics.

UCEED 2025 Answer Key

UCEED entrance exam 2025 Question Paper and Draft Answer Key will be released on the UCEED website on January 2025, based on previous years.

Any comments or objections to the draft answer key must be submitted only through the candidates’ portal within a period of two days from the release of the UCEED answer key 2025. Comments/objections sent via email or in any mode other than through the candidate’s portal will not be considered.

The order in which a question appears may differ for each candidate. Hence, the candidates are advised to use the Master Question Paper uploaded on the official UCEED website as a reference to upload their comments/queries.

This would help the committee to map the candidates’ comments/queries to the right question.

The UCI Committee will make the final decision on the contested answer keys after reviewing and considering all feedback from candidates and the exam-setting team. This decision will be final and obligatory for all candidates.

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UCEED 2025 Result

UCEED results will be available on the official website (www.uceed.iitb.ac.in) once the conducting body releases the result for 2025.

Candidates can use their user login and password (created during registration) to view the results on the webpage.

Here are some important things to remember for your UCEED entrance exam results -

• All candidates who appeared in UCEED 2025 can download their Score Card from the official UCEED 2025 website.
• All shortlisted candidates will get a common merit rank (All India Rank). All shortlisted candidates are considered as qualified candidates in UCEED 2024.
• Obtaining a rank in UCEED 2025 does NOT guarantee admission to the B.Des program.
• Hard copies of the UCEED Score Card will not be available. and won't be sent to qualified candidates by post or email.

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UCEED Entrance Exam Rank List 2025

All shortlisted candidates will get a rank. All shortlisted candidates are considered as qualified candidates in UCEED 2025. Rank list will be prepared based on the total marks (Part-A marks and Part-B marks combined) in UCEED 2024.

UCEED Entrance Exam Tie Breaking Policy 2025

If the total marks scored by two or more candidates are the same in UCEED entrance exam, then the following tie-break policy will be used for awarding ranks:

• (i) A higher rank will be assigned to the candidate who has obtained higher marks in Part-B.
• If the criterion given in (ii) does not break the tie, higher rank will be assigned to the candidate who has obtained higher marks in Section 2 of Part-A.
• If the criteria (i) and (ii) do not break the tie, higher rank will be assigned to the candidate who has obtained higher marks in Section 1 of Part-A.
• If there is a tie even after this, the candidates will be assigned the same rank.

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UCEED 2025 Cut-Off

UCEED Cut-off marks are the minimum marks to be scored to be eligible for admission.

All shortlisted candidates are considered qualified. Marks obtained in Part-A will be used to shortlist candidates.

Based on this, the rank list will be prepared based on the total marks (Part-A and Part-B combined) in UCEED 2025.

• However, the UCEED Committee reserves the right to decrease the minimum % of marks in each section and the minimum total marks such that 10×N ranks can be announced, where N is the total number of available seats.
• The cut-offs (A) for Part-A marks to shortlist candidates in the OPEN category will be B + (C/2) =A, where B is the average marks and C is the standard deviation of distribution of marks obtained by all the candidates in Part-A of UCEED 2025.
• The candidates belonging to the reserved categories shall have to fulfil a relaxed cut-off mark, which will be 0.9A for OBC-NCL/EWS, 0.5A for SC/ST/PwD, where A is the cut-off mark for OPEN category.

Read more: UCEED Reservation Policy

UCEED Entrance Exam Admission Process 2025

Only UCEED 2025 qualified students can apply for admission to the B.Des program at IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Roorkee and IIITDM Jabalpur for the academic year 2025-26.

There will be a common application form for UCEED admissions 2025 to respective B.Des programs. The common application form will be available through the IIT Bombay Admissions Portal.

IIT Bombay, will process the common application form and conduct the joint seat allocation process.

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UCEED 2025 Seat Allotment Rounds

UCEED entrance exam seat allocation will be conducted in five rounds. The seat allocation will be closed once the seats are filled.

A seat will be provisionally allotted based on the applicant’s All India Rank (AIR) in UCEED 2025, category and choice of institutes.

The tentative schedule for UCEED seat allotment is given below -

Seat Allotment Round	Date of Announcement (Tentative)
Round 1	April 2025
Round 2	May 2025
Round 3	June 2025
Round 4	June 2025
Round 5	July 2025

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UCEED Seat Acceptance Fees 2025

Selected candidates will be sent provisional allotment letters via their registered email, and they will be directed to an online payment system to remit the Seat Acceptance Fee.

Here's the category-wise seat acceptance fee for UCEED entrance exam 2025 -

Reservation Category	Seat Acceptance Fee
GEN/EWS/OBC-NCL	₹60000
SC/ST/PwD	₹15000

Important Points for UCEED Entrance Exam Seat Allotment 2025

• If the selected candidates DO NOT remit the seat acceptance fee before the deadline or DECLINE the admission, their application will stand cancelled.
• If applicants are allotted their FIRST choice of institute, they can either ACCEPT (‘freeze’) the offer or DECLINE it.
• If the candidates choose the ‘freeze’ option, it means they have accepted the offer and do not wish to participate in further rounds of seat allocation. Such candidates will NOT be considered in subsequent round(s) of seat allocation
• If they choose to DECLINE the offer, they will not be considered for subsequent rounds, and their current seat allocation shall be cancelled. 
• If applicants are allotted their SECOND/THIRD/FOURTH/FIFTH choice of institute. In that case, they can opt to either ACCEPT (‘freeze’) the choice or ACCEPT with the option to be considered for upward movement (‘float’) choice for subsequent rounds (if any) of the joint seat allocation.

Read more: UCEED Admission Process 2025

UCEED Entrance Exam 2025 Seat Matrix

Five institutes will take part in the test to admit students to their B. Des programs. Below is a list of UCEED participating institutes in 2025, together with the category-wise seat matrix:

Category	IITB	IITD	IITG	IITH	IITR	IIITDMJ
OPEN	14	7	23	10	7	26
OPEN-PwD	1	1	0	0	1	1
EWS	4	2	5	3	2	6
EWS-PwD	0	0	1	0	0	0
OBC-NCL	9	5	15	6	5	17
OBC-NCL-PwD	1	0	0	1	0	1
SC	5	3	7	4	3	10
SC-PwD	0	0	1	0	0	0
ST	3	2	3	2	2	4
ST-PwD	0	0	1	0	0	1

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Conclusion

In the realm of IITs, UCEED entrance exam 2025 offers a unique opportunity for aspiring designers. With a blend of creative challenges and problem-solving, the UCEED exam offers a path to renowned design programs in top universities.

Embark on this journey to unleash your creativity and secure a coveted spot in the vibrant world of design at esteemed institutes.

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