UCEED 2025 Sketching Sample Questions & Preparation Tips

The Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED) is organized by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay. This entrance test is for admission to the Bachelor of Design (B. Des) program offered by participating colleges. The UCEED 2025 exam will be held on January 19, 2025. 

IIT Bombay will conduct the UCEED 2025 exam on January 19, 2025 (9 am - 12 noon). The exam will be conducted in a center-based mode. The question paper of UCEED 2025 will have two sections - Part A will be 2 hours and include 57 questions, while Part B will be 60 minutes and include 2 questions. Part B will include one drawing-based question and one design-aptitude-based question. Part A will contain questions related to Visualization and spatial reasoning, Observation and design sensitivity, Environment and Society, Analytical and logical reasoning, Language and creativity, and Practical and scientific knowledge. On the day of the UCEED 2025 exam, the candidate must reach the UCEED 2025 exam center on time. The candidate must bring with them the UCEED 2025 admit card and a photo ID proof. The application form for UCEED 2025 is now closed.

UCEED Sample Papers 2025 - Why solve them?

If you are preparing for the UCEED 2025 exam, you need to solve enough sample questions. Here is why:

1. The sample questions are similar to the questions that will be asked in the actual exam. 
2. So, if you are able to solve these questions, it literally means that you will be able to successfully attempt the questions in the UCEED 2025 question paper.
3. It is recommended to solve as many sample questions as possible.
4. The sample papers will also help the candidate understand the underlying concepts linked to various concepts. The sample papers will help the candidate solve problems using these concepts as once you understand the concepts, you will be better able to use them for solving problems. 
5. Time management and problem-solving skills can be developed by attempting the sample questions.

Sketching Questions for UCEED 2025 Exam:

Shiksha has collected some important sketching questions relevant to the UCEED drawing test to crack the exam in the last 2 months. Scroll down and add them to your UCEED study material.

Question 1. You are a pen of a bank employee for a day. Draw rough sketches of 5 activities you will observe around you on a working day at the bank.

Question 2. Write down and sketch 5 creative uses of any one of the following: - Old clothes - Delivery cartoon boxes - Plastic soft drink bottles.

Question 3. Draw any one of the following scenes:

• The view of the traffic signal from inside the car.
• A street play being organized
• A community festival celebration

Question 4. Draw the scene at a children’s park at noon. Visualize that it is a local council park with appropriate equipment. You have to imagine the type of people and the state of the park while sketching. Do not color.

Question 5. Write a short story using the principal characters of a Circle, Square, and Triangle. The story should have the following emotions- Anger, Love, Happiness, Frustration. Show the story in the form of a comic strip in 6 boxes. Do not color.

Question 6. If birds were frogs and frogs were birds. Draw how the frog and bird would look. Use dry colors.

Question 7. Write and explain how speakers work. Design a new speaker using only environmentally friendly speakers work. Show your design through sketches and notes.

Question 8. Imagine that you are a wish-granting genie, living inside a lamp for years. Identify at least 4 problems associated with this and come up with creative solutions to address them. Present it through sketches and notes.

Question 9. Assume that a famous historic event or fact had never happened or happened differently. For example, what if the British never ruled India or what if Hitler was killed in his childhood. Imagine 4 ways in which the world around would have been different. Show through sketches and notes.

Question 10. Draw a top view of a super market with necessary details.

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• Complete syllabus for UCEED 2025

Question 11. Draw your hand holding a pencil, draw a person sitting on a chair, still life drawings of bottles, etc. This mainly tests your basic fine art skills for perspective, human, animal, textures, shade, and shadow, etc.

Question 12. Design a poster for social campaigns of the Government of India- Inclusion of LGBTQ - Communal Harmony. Use dry colors.

Question 13. Imagine you are sitting in stadium watching ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2022 between India and Pakistan. India is batting and Pakistani team is bowling. Draw the perspective image keeping the necessary details in mind.

Question 14. You have been teleported to the Mughal Era from 2019. Imagine and explain through sketches and notes: - one product you would take from this year with you to the past and why. - one product you would bring back from the Mughal era and why.

Question 15. The United Nation member states have agreed upon Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Take any one goal agreed by them and prepare a poster to promote that goal. Use dry colors.

Tips for UCEED 2025 Sketching Part:

• Try to sketch almost anything and everything you come across. Practice is the key to success.
• Browse through various newspapers, magazines and online sites and draw situational view from them.
• Always take ideas from various advertisements, posters, banners etc., you come across.
• Avoid or use eraser minimum while practicing. It’ll help your lines become bolder and confident.
• Detailing is very important. Add every minimal detail to your sketch.
• Try to work of human figures and illustration. Concentrate more in proportions, form etc.

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