How to Prepare for B.Des Entrance Exams in 2025: Tips and Strategies

Published by Shikha Kumari on May 23, 2025

Welcome back, future designers! If you wish to pursue designing as a course, Bachelor’s of Design entrance exams can be a highly sought-after way to enter this field. While most of the exams for Bachelor’s of Designing in 2025 are over, you can still use this blog for preparation for the 2026 exams. In this blog, we are going to discuss the entrance exam 2026, its syllabus, UCEED, NID DAT exams, and will also share the PDF of previous year questions.

B.Des. Entrance Exam 2026

B. Design salary can range from Rs 4 LPA to a whopping 20+ LPA. The starting salary as a fresher is highly dependent on the college and the course you will pursue. B Design course details for various specialisations can vary. However, the entrance exam for all courses remains the same and unique, where the candidate is assessed based on special skills, drawing real-life objects, lighting, mock tests, etc.

B Des Entrance Exam Syllabus

As a general entrance exam, candidates can expect to cover five sections, namely: quantitative ability, communication ability, analytical ability, and current affairs related to the art field. The quantitative ability section, candidates are assessed based on simple mathematical questions along with visual interpretation using pie charts, bar charts, etc.

In the communication ability section, candidates should expect to rearrange sentences and learn about idioms and synonyms. Many exams, such as NID, also include passage comprehension in this section.

To test candidates’ logical thinking and problem-identification skills, the analytical ability section is designed to assess their awareness of their surroundings and how well they can apply it to their art.

The final section is general knowledge about art and its patrons. Candidates should study popular painters such as Raja Ravi Varma and stay updated on recent trends in the design field.

If a candidate clears the first level of the exam, they move on to the second stage—project making. In this round, the candidate’s ability to create something out of limited resources is assessed. Decision-making skills, along with environmental awareness and analysis, are evaluated at this stage.

UCEED Previous Year Question Papers

You can prepare for the entrance exams using the B Des Entrance Exam Question Papers. We have listed some of the UCEED Previous Year Question Papers for your aid:

How to prepare for NID DAT Prelims

Alongside UCEED, NID DAT Prelims is a very popular exam. In the following table, you can find the latest NID B.Des Sample Paper PDFs:

Preparation Books for B.Des Entrance Exams

Many books can help reshape and reframe your learning structure. Below are some of the UCEED Preparation Books alongside the NID Preparation Books. Writers such as Robert, Arihan Experts, and Ashok Goyal have a way of presenting the complex structure of art in very simplistic ways.