Quick tips for last minute preparation of CEED

Crash the CEED

With just a few days remaining for CEED, how do you feel? Do you feel that, you have just spent too much time in sketching those pretty girls? Or that you don’t have sufficient knowledge yet? You don’t have to worry; this post tells you how to crash the CEED.

Pick up the last years paper. If you still haven’t picked up the last years CEED paper please do it at once. If you don’t find anything worth just hit this IIT Bombay link for CEED 2008 paper. It was one of the toughest.

1. Rapid sketching crash. Just pick up that pencil and start with the following exercise. Its just a warm up and give about 15 minutes for it.

Now, try your hand at some of these

Don’t forget the perspective view

And finally, draw a few sketches quickly from your imagination. Don’t take reference of a real object. Remember as you can and draw fast.
1. A bicycle
2. A man drinking coffee
3. A 3-pin plug (like one used for clothes iron)
4. An office chair
These four sketches should take no more than an hour.

2. Creativity crash.
Try to list 20 uses of the following and sketch any 10 of them.
1. An old CD
2. An old plastic bottle
3. An old cell phone
Give each exercise about 20 minutes.

3. Materials brush up.
Can you tell which all materials are used in your cell phone? Perhaps a quick answer will be transparent plastic, black plastic and some really shiny plastic. Maybe a little more depth will be helpful. Please take a quick look at the following link from How Stuff Works. It’s simple enough for a layman. and a quick info on metals here.

4. A quick brush up on manufacturing processes:
1. Casting – Make a cavity in a material not affected by heat and pour molten stuff into it
2. Molding – Make a cavity in an inert material and pour liquid into it (similar to casting except the material is not always molten or too hot)
3. Forming – Take a piece of metal and hit it really hard between two stronger pieces of metal. to change its shape. If you force it though an opening, then its called extrusion. If you press it between two bodies it is called ‘Pressing’. If those two pieces are revolving then it is called ‘Rolling’.
4. Bending – As the word says its bending. Fix one end and hit the other.
5. Shearing – A process very similar to using your scissors
6. Milling – Removes layers off the material piece. Can generate flat surface or slots
7. Turning – A process that revolves the material piece about an axis to create an axi-symmetric surface
8. Grinding – removes thin layers of material to make a surface smooth
9. Welding – Joins two pieces of metal by melting them, then allowing the melt to mix and allowing them to cool.
10. Coating – covers a surface of a material with another material (typically paint or powdered metal)

5. Don’t forget the simplicity. 
As the Occam razor goes ‘the simplest answer is often correct’. So try to keep your answers simple as possible, yet clear to be understood.

6. Finally, remember the 4 C:

1. Creativity: CEED is all about it! Its not GATE, where you are offered 4 choices. Therefore more creative answer, more you score!! So just think of the possible solutions no one will think of!

2. Clarity: How clearly you articulate an idea. For example, if you want to convey a plane flying in the sky, the best view perhaps will be the view from the ground!

3. Communication: How well you communicate the concept. This directly counts on your ability to sketch! So practice it well.

4. Coherence: While presenting a sequence of events how well is the last frame relevant to the next frame. This directly points to the "read the comic strip" in the post

There you have 4 'C's of CEED :)


Hope that helps.
Best of luck