UCEED 2026 Part A question paper

57 questions · 200 marks · 120 minutes · each section marked as below

Numerical answer: +4 for a correct answer, no negative marking.
Multiple select: +4 when you tick every correct option and no wrong one; +1 for each correct option ticked when some are missing and none is wrong; -1 otherwise.
Multiple choice: +3 for a correct answer, -0.71 for a wrong one.

Every question in the order it was set, free to read. Tap an option to check it, or open the answer and worked solution. Answers open as you go; sign in free to keep opening them.

Sit it as a timed mock

Numerical answer

14 questions

1 $How many times does the most used black coloured shape appear in the composition shown below?$
2 $In the image shown below, PQ = QR = QS = 2 units. Also, QT = TS = QU = UR. The points T and U are the centre points of the semicircles. What is the total area of shaded portions in square units?$
3 $What is the number that you get when you divide the difference between the number of triangles and number of circles by the number of rectangles for the image shown below?$
4 $Shown below is the front and top views of two cubes. The red and blue cubes are made up of metal and wax respectively. Red cube is heated and is hot enough to melt wax in the blue cube. As shown in the front and top views, the red cube is moved along the path PQRS creating sharp edges and flat surfaces on the blue cube. What is the total number of surfaces the blue cube will have after the red cube reaches the point S?$
5 $One of the pots does not belong to the group of pots shown below. What is the number written on that pot?$
6 $What is the number of different patterns on the capsules shown below?$
7 $A composition made of letters is shown below. What is the total number of letters used to create this image?$
8 $A sharpened pencil with eraser is shown in image P. How many sharpened pencils with erasers are in image Q?$
9 $Several kettles are shown below. What is the total number of usable kettles that are designed to store and pour hot water?$
10 $Given below are 8 triangular pieces of a puzzle made from the shape P. What is the three-digit number formed when these pieces are arranged correctly?$
11 $Given below is a drawing on a sheet of paper. Make a cut along the solid arcs and fold the resulting semicircular rings at 90 degrees along the dotted lines. What is the number of raised semicircular rings after following these steps?$
12 $A mobile screen has a dimension of 10 cm x 4 cm (height x width). A mobile user is viewing a picture in portrait mode and it occupies the entire screen. The user rotates the screen to landscape mode. After rotation, the height of the picture is now the width of the screen and its width gets reduced proportionately, leaving equal blank spaces on both sides of the picture. What is the area (in square centimeters) of the blank space on the left-hand side of the picture?$
13 $What number will replace the question mark?$
14 $A tank with internal dimension 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm (length x width x height) is fully filled with spherical marbles, each marble having a diameter of 1 cm. Each layer of marbles should have equal number of marbles. Water is then poured into the tank. What is the volume of water in cubic centimeters required to fill the voids? (Use π=22/7)$

Multiple select

15 questions

15 $Image P shows an object as seen from the top. Which of the objects given below will appear as shown in image P when viewed from the top? Consider all the objects are made with opaque solids.$
Tap an option to check your answer.
16 $Q, R, S and T are cut-out shapes used to create a composition shown in image P. These cut-out shapes could be rotated and combined without overlapping to create the composition. These cut-out shapes can also be repeated. What is/are the correct combination(s) that can be used to create the composition shown in image P?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
17 $Given below is a pattern P, composed of three different shapes 1, 2, and 3. Which options show the pattern(s) that is/are possible if the shape 2 is cut in half along the vertical axis, the shape 3 is rotated clockwise at the center by 45 degrees, and the shape 1 remains unchanged? Overlapping of shapes is not allowed.$
Tap an option to check your answer.
18 $Given below are five images P, Q, R, S and T. Each of these is rotated about its center. Which of the following statement(s) is/are TRUE? (Ignore minor variations due to pixelated appearance)$
Tap an option to check your answer.
19 $In the image below, a combination of gears (1-5), pulley (6), weight (W), belts (connecting 1&2, 4&6) and a shaft drive is shown. The shaft rotates in the direction of the arrow without any horizontal translation. Which of the following statement is /are CORRECT?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
20 $Which of the following statements are TRUE for Ajrakh, Paithani, Kalamkari, Phulkari, Khes and Bandhani?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
21 $Which of the options is/are paintings by the artist M. F. Hussain?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
22 $Which of the below is a/are cinema camera maker(s)?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
23 $Which Indian city/cities is/are designated by UNESCO as a Creative City, until 2024?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
24 $Shown below are Indian vehicle number plates with colour codes. Which of the option/s is/are correct?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
25 $1, 2, 3 and 4 are photographs captured using a camera with a lens set at aperture P, Q, R or S. Which of the options is/are correct?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
26 $Which of the following image(s) can be created by the nib type illustrated below?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
27 $Which of these photographs follow the Rule of Thirds?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
28 $A continuous strip with a pattern is shown below. Which of the options given below is/are part of the continuous strip?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
29 $A composition made using letters from a specific font is shown below. Some letters are repeated but there is no distortion, rotation, flip or any change in orientation. Letters are used in the original form as seen in the font. Which of the following words can be formed using the letters shown in the image below?$
Tap an option to check your answer.

Multiple choice

28 questions

30 $Which of the following statements is correct for a longitudinal marking provided at the centre of a road?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
31 $Four lines of text from a poem by E. E. Cummings is given below. may come home with smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone for whatever we may lose (like a you or a me) its always ourselves we find at sea One of the four lines is depicted in the images below. Identify the image which correctly represents one line of the poem.$
Tap an option to check your answer.
32 $Samantha, Reema and Payal went late at night to visit an adventure place called The Mystery Spot. The place has a strange window-less room with white walls. One of the walls has a blue triangle and a red circle painted on it. The girls entered the room in turns. First, Samantha entered the room and came out telling that there were two shapes painted on the wall—one triangle and one circle. Then, Reema entered the same room and came out surprised as she saw only a triangle on the wall. Lastly, Payal entered the room and claimed that she saw only a circle on the wall. Which of the four statements is correct?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
33 $Which of the options will replace the question mark?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
34 $Given below are four letterboxes, three of them are written in the same font. Find the one which is written in a different font.$
Tap an option to check your answer.
35 $Who is the first Indian to receive an Academy Award (Oscar)?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
36 $Shown below are four options, each showing consecutive frames representing the movement of a pendulum of an old-style wall clock for an animation movie. Which is the correct option?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
37 $Match the animals (1, 2, 3, 4) with their respective footprints (P,Q, R, S).$
Tap an option to check your answer.
38 $Identify the final image created if a circular transparent plastic sheet P printed with opaque shapes is folded in the sequence shown below.$
Tap an option to check your answer.
39 $ChatGPT is an extremely popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot from OpenAI. Which of the following options is the correct symbol/logo of ChatGPT?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
40 $The word “HOME” was printed on a circular disc and a smaller disc from the center was cut and removed from it. Later, another disc was cut from the smaller disc in the same manner. Find the correct set of discs, if the discs were rotated.$
Tap an option to check your answer.
41 $P is a completed puzzle made of four-square pieces. If the four pieces are removed to play the puzzle again, which piece shown below will NOT fit into the final image?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
42 $A delicious triangular shaped chocolate was left open at night. A mouse could smell the yummy chocolate and could not resist but eat some of it. The remaining chocolate is shown below. How many triangles (including partial) have been eaten?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
43 $Closely observe the effect of light and shadow caused by the Sun on the spheres P, Q, R and S. Which is the correct option?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
44 $The little ones of parents A, B, C, and D were separated by a 2D maze. Only one parent could find its baby. Identify the parent.$
Tap an option to check your answer.
45 $What is the total number of capital letter ‘T’ shown in the image below?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
46 $If delulu = 010101, skibidi = 0010101, bussin = 010010, and ghosted = 0010010, then what is 010100?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
47 $Which of the options fits with the black solid figure and makes it a square?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
48 $The following images show cave paintings from India. Which of the options is correct?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
49 $The following image shows a set of letters in different fonts. Which of the options is the word formed by letters of the same font?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
50 $P is a transparent glass filled with water as shown below. Q is a white cylinder with parallel lines printed around it. If the cylinder is viewed through the glass from the direction of the arrow, find the correct pattern observed.$
Tap an option to check your answer.
51 $A toy is made with cardboard and rivets. As shown below, the two car cut-outs are attached on top of the parallel cardboard strips which should move when the child pushes or pulls the horizontal cardboard strip. Different linkage mechanisms are made with cardboard strips (rectangles) and connector pivots (circles). Black circles are fixed pivots (attached to the grey base) and white circles are moving pivots (not attached to the grey base). Which option will show a collision between the two cars?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
52 $What is the total number of musical instruments in the image below?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
53 $Shown below are letters ‘e’ taken from four popular logos, arranged in a sequence. Which of the options is the correct sequence?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
54 $Shown below are the key frames of a bird flying. Which of the following options is the correct order?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
55 $Shown below is a traditional metal artefact made using the lost-wax casting technique. What is this craft called?$
Tap an option to check your answer.
56 $A lever mechanism has Effort (E), Fulcrum (F) and Load (L). For example, a pair of scissors will have an order ‘EFL’ as shown in the image below. Similarly, choose the correct order for a Tweezer and a Nutcracker.$
Tap an option to check your answer.
57 $What is the main purpose for the presence of water in a toilet bowl (Western Commode/ Water Closet)?$
Tap an option to check your answer.

Want the real exam feel? Sit this paper with a 120-minute timer and get your score straight away.

Sit it as a timed mock