# Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED) (UCEED) — Shishya exam context

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## Exam pattern
- Category: UNIVERSITY · national
- Questions: 60 · Total marks: 240 · Marks per question: 4
- Duration: 180 minutes
- Negative marking: −0.71 per wrong answer
- Languages offered: EN

## Eligibility & vacancies
- Age: ?–25 years (before category relaxation: OBC +3, SC/ST +5)
- Education: Passed 10+2 or equivalent in any stream (Science, Commerce, or Arts & Humanities)
- Approximate annual vacancies: 245
- Note: Maximum 2 attempts allowed in consecutive years; exam tests design aptitude including visualization, spatial reasoning, creativity, observation, and drawing skills
- Official portal: https://www.uceed.iitb.ac.in (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay))

## Key dates
- 2026-07-31 — UCEED 2026 scorecard download deadline
- 2026-07-31 — UCEED 2026 scorecard download deadline
- 2026-10-01 — UCEED 2027 Notification (expected)
- 2026-10-01 — UCEED 2027 Application start (expected)
- 2026-10-01 — UCEED 2027 notification release
- 2026-10-01 — UCEED 2027 registration opens
- 2026-10-01 — UCEED 2027 application portal opens
- 2026-10-01 — UCEED 2027 official notification and brochure release

## Declared results
- 2026-07-10 — Final Scorecard: UCEED 2026 scorecards available for download until July 31 → https://shishya.in/exams/UCEED/results/dd831e23-5e31-4a97-b960-be976e31cbaa

## Expected cutoffs (category-wise)
| Category | Expected Cutoff (indicative) |
|----------|------------------------------|
| General | 125–145 marks (52–60%) |
| EWS | 115–135 marks (48–56%) |
| OBC-NCL | 105–125 marks (44–52%) |
| SC | 75–95 marks (31–40%) |
| ST | 65–85 marks (27–35%) |
| PwD (across categories) | 55–75 marks (23–31%) |

**Guidance:**

- **Category differential**: General cutoffs typically run 8–12 percentage points above OBC-NCL, 18–22 points above SC, and 22–28 points above ST. EWS slots fall 3–5 points below General benchmarks.
- **Year-on-year shifts**: Cutoffs fluctuate with paper difficulty, total applicant pool strength, and seat matrix changes. Highly creative/abstract papers compress score distributions and may lower cutoffs by 3–6%; straightforward editions push them upward.
- **Qualifying vs. admission**: These figures reflect *admission cutoffs* for IIT Bombay B.Des programmes (primary UCEED destination). Mere qualification thresholds sit considerably lower; focus on the 50–60% band (General) for realistic IIT entry prospects.

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