UCEED Entrance Exam Coaching: AKAD Coaching Leading the Way
Are you aspiring to pursue a career in design? Are you looking to crack the UCEED entrance exam with flying colors? Look no further than AKAD Coaching, your ultimate destination for comprehensive and effective UCEED preparation.
Unleash Your Potential with UCEED
The Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED) is the gateway to some of the most prestigious design institutes in India. Conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, UCEED evaluates a candidate's aptitude for design, creativity, visualization skills, logical reasoning, and problem-solving abilities. With an increasing number of candidates vying for limited seats, it has become imperative to seek expert guidance and coaching to ace this competitive exam.
Why Choose AKAD Coaching?
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Proven Success Rate
AKAD Coaching has a proven track record of success in UCEED. Our students consistently achieve top ranks and secure admissions to premier design institutes across the country. With years of experience and a team of dedicated faculty, we have honed our teaching methods to ensure optimal results for our students.
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Comprehensive Curriculum
Our curriculum is designed to cover all aspects of the UCEED syllabus comprehensively. We focus on providing in-depth knowledge and conceptual clarity to our students. From fundamental concepts to advanced problem-solving techniques, we equip our students with the skills and confidence needed to excel in the exam.
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Experienced Faculty
At AKAD Coaching, we believe that the quality of education is directly proportional to the quality of faculty. That's why we have assembled a team of experienced educators who are experts in their respective fields. Our faculty members are dedicated to providing personalized attention and guidance to each student, ensuring their academic success.
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WHOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT
Beyond academic excellence, AKAD Coaching focuses on the holistic development of students. We emphasize the importance of soft skills such as communication, teamwork, and critical thinking. Through workshops, seminars, and extracurricular activities, we prepare our students to excel not just in UCEED but in their future careers as well.
About UCEED
Part-A will have questions from the following topics:
- Visualization and spatial reasoning: Ability to visualise and transform 2D shapes and 3D objects and their spatial relationships.
- Practical and scientific knowledge: Know-how of scientific principles and everyday objects.
- Observation and design sensitivity: The capacity to detect concealed properties in daily life and think critically about them. Attention to detail, classification, analysis, inference and prediction.
- Environment and society: General awareness of environmental, social and cultural connections with design.
- Analytical and logical reasoning: Ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative information.
- Language: Proficiency in reading and comprehending Standard English.
- Creativity: Grasp of verbal and non-verbal analogies, metaphors, signs and symbols.
Part-B will have questions on the following topics:
- 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.
Question Paper Structure for UCEED 2024
- There will be ONE question paper of total THREE hours duration.
- The question paper will be in English only
- The question paper will carry a total of 300 marks.
- The question paper will consist of two parts: Part-A and Part-B. It is compulsory to attempt questions from both the parts.
- Utmost care is taken to prepare an error free question paper. However, if an error is detected in the question paper, the UCI Committee shall take an appropriate decision after the examination, which shall be final.
Details of the two parts of the question paper are given below:
Part-A (Total marks: 200; Maximum time: 2 hours)
- This part will be administered through a computer-based test.
- This part will consist of three sections.
Section 1
NAT (Numerical Answer Type): 14 questions (4 marks each; no negative marks).
For these questions, the answer is a number that needs to be entered using a virtual keyboard on the computer screen. No choices will be shown for these questions.
Section 2
MSQ (Multiple Select Question): 15 questions. Each MSQ may have one or more than one correct choice(s) out of the four given. The following is the marking scheme:
- Full Marks: + 4 If only (all) the correct option(s) is(are) chosen and NONE of the incorrect options is chosen.
- Partial Marks: + 3 If all the four options are correct but ONLY three options are chosen and NONE of the incorrect options is chosen.
- Partial Marks: + 2 If three or more options are correct but ONLY two options are chosen, both of which are correct and NONE of the incorrect options is chosen.
- Partial Marks: + 1 If two or more options are correct but ONLY one option is chosen and it is a correct option and NONE of the incorrect options is chosen.
- Zero Marks: 0 If none of the options is chosen (i.e., the question is unanswered).
- Negative Marks: -1 In all other cases.
Section 3
MCQ (Multiple Choice Question): 28 questions (3 marks each for the correct answer; 0.71 negative marks for incorrect answers). Each MCQ will have four choices, out of which only one is the correct answer..
Part-B (Total marks: 100; Maximum time: 1 hour)
- Part-B consists of TWO questions to test the candidates' drawing skills and design aptitude. This will require subjective evaluation. The questions in Part-B will be displayed on the computer screen, and the answer must be written/drawn in the answer book provided by the invigilator. In the case of PwD candidates availing the use of a scribe, assistance in attempting Part-B is not permitted, as the question is aimed at evaluating their drawing skill.
- Part-B answer booklets will be collected at the end of the examination.
- Part-B question is mandatory.
- The entire paper (Part-A and Part-B) must be finished within the stipulated time for each part.
Part A (2 Hours)
| 1 | Numerical Answer Type (NAT | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 56 |
| 2 | Multiple Select Question (MSQ) | 15 | Partial Marking* | -1 | 0 | 60 |
| 3 | Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) | 28 | 3 | -0.71 | 0 | 84 |
Part B (1 Hours)
| Type of question | Number of questions | Total marks |
|---|---|---|
| Sketching | 1 | 50 |
| Design Aptitude | 1 | 50 |
Eligibility Criteria for appearing for the Exam
A candidate, including a foreign national, must simultaneously fulfil each and every one of the following three criteria to appear in UCEED 2024.
Criterion 1 – Age limit:
The candidate should have been born on or after October 1, 1999 if belonging to the OPEN/EWS/OBC-NCL category and born on or after October 1, 1994 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 2023, OR should be appearing for the qualifying examination for the first time in 2024 in order to be eligible for attempting UCEED 2024. 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 2022 or earlier are NOT eligible to appear in UCEED 2024.
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