CEED 2025
The Common Entrance Examination for Design (CEED) is the qualifier for the MDes programmes at IIT Bombay, IISc Bangalore, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Kanpur, IIT Roorkee and IIITDM Jabalpur. This is the official CEED 2025 Part A paper, rebuilt from the question paper released by IISc Bangalore.
CEED Part A is short (60 minutes) and dense. The pace is unforgiving and the visualisation questions reward candidates who have done their reps. Use this paper to calibrate where you stand against the latest cohort that sat the exam.
Best on a laptop. The test was built for a bigger screen.
What's inside
A look at what you'll take
What you'll learn
- Your real time-per-question pace on a 60-minute paper
- How the lighter CEED negative-marking (−0.5 on MCQ) shifts your guessing strategy vs UCEED
- Which subjects pull your score down: spatial reasoning, design observation, or art/design history
- How to attack image-heavy questions efficiently when every second counts
Format
44 questions, 60 minutes. NAT × 8, MSQ × 10, MCQ × 26.
Marking
NAT: +4 / 0. MSQ: +4 / +3 / +2 / +1 partial credit; −1 if any wrong option. MCQ: +3 / −0.5 / 0. Maximum 150 marks.