CEED
CEED for working professionals: a 4-month plan that fits around a job
You do not need to quit your job or learn to paint. You need ninety focused minutes a day and a weekly mock. Here is the plan.
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A large share of CEED toppers are engineers with jobs who decided they wanted to design things instead. If that is you, the good news is that CEED preparation is very compatible with a working week, as long as it is structured.
What CEED needs from you
Part A (100 marks) is aptitude — visualisation, spatial reasoning, observation, analytical and language questions. Engineers usually do well here with a few weeks of practice. Part B (100 marks) is drawing and design thinking, and this is where you need to invest.
The weekly structure
Weekdays: 60 minutes of sketching (perspective, objects, people) plus 30 minutes of Part A practice.
Saturday: one full‑length mock under exam conditions.
Sunday: review the mock, redo the Part B answers properly, note one thing to fix.
Month by month
Month 1: drawing fundamentals and Part A concepts. Month 2: product sketching, storyboarding, design‑thinking questions. Month 3: mocks every week, review every mock. Month 4: revision, speed, and rest before the exam.
After CEED
Each IIT holds its own interview or test after the CEED result. Start collecting work for a small portfolio from month two — photographs of things you have made, sketches, any side projects. It does not need to be big; it needs to be yours.
Our CEED mock series is built for exactly this schedule: ten papers, Part B evaluated, so your Sunday review has real feedback in it.
Want this as a plan for you?
Fifteen minutes with a mentor. We’ll tell you what to do this month.