List of top Design Aptitude Questions asked in UCEED

The shoelace-tying steps (1–8) are jumbled. Choose the correct order from the options. Given steps:
1. Pass one end under the other.
2. Pull tight.
3. Hold one end in each hand.
4. Cross them, making an X.
5. Bend it into a flat loop and pull through, making a bow.
6. Fold one shoelace in half (make the first loop).
7. Grasp it in the middle after pulling it around the folded end.
8. Wrap the other end around the folded end.

Given below is a list of sixteen idioms that originated from sports. Each option contains four sports. Identify the option that has all its four sports represented in at least one of the idioms in the list. i. Back to square one
ii. Ball in his court
iii. Below par iv. Breaking one's duck
v. Down to the wire
vi. Full court press
vii. Going the distance
viii. Jump the gun
ix. Level playing field
x. On the back foot
xi. Play it close to one's chest
xii. Pole position
xiii. Saved by the bell
xiv. Stalemate
xv. Throw in the towel
xvi. Touché

Read the statements and decide which conclusions definitely follow.
Statements:
All Surrealists are melted clocks.
Some melted clocks are Dalis.
All Dalis are macabre works.
Conclusions:
(i) Some macabre works are Dalis.
(ii) Some macabre works are melted clocks.
(iii) Some Dalis are Surrealist.

Select the option that best explains how the two statements below are related.
(1) The fiction novel, Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn, was very popular.
(2) It was on several bestseller lists in the US for over 34 weeks in 2012, and later made into a movie.

Read the following statements related to the earth’s environment I. Water vapor, and not carbon dioxide, is the most prevalent greenhouse gas in the earth's atmosphere.
II. Besides China and the United States, India and Brazil are the highest greenhouse emitting countries.
III. Although about 70% of the Earth is covered by water, and there's more beneath the surface, only about 5% of earth’s water is fresh, liquid and found above ground.
IV. Globally birth rates are fluctuating, people are living longer and the total population is increasing.
Which of the above statements are TRUE?

Read the following statements related to the economy I. Rebuilding efforts in the wake of natural disasters can give a boost to the economy.
II. An increase in consumer spending is most likely to cause a decrease in employment.
III. Carbon trading helps reduce carbon emissions mainly because low polluters buy excess permits to pollute and high polluters are fined by the carbon regulator.
IV. Economic growth of a nation increases the demand for labour, thereby raising income levels.
Which of the above statements is/are TRUE?

Read the following design context: The city of Mumbai is facing a severe shortage of parking spaces. The problem is acute in south Mumbai where land is expensive and undeveloped land almost non-existent. A panel of experts consisting of city and town planners, transportation engineers and designers, economists, historians and policy makers has studied the problem carefully and has recommended a set of measures:
I. Start a free public bicycle program in which people are encouraged to use public transport for longer distances and shared common bicycles for shorter distances.
II. Allow people to download a mobile App which will allow vehicle owners to book parking spots up to one week in advance.
III. Ban vehicles with even registration numbers on the even days of the month, and odd registration numbers on odd days of the month.
IV. Make parking prohibitively expensive.
V. Build more multi-storied and underground parking complexes.
VI. Declare the whole of south Mumbai as a heritage district to prevent any further construction and limit vehicle entry by imposing toll.
VII. Design self-parking vehicles.
VIII. Create a car pooling mobile App that will connect people to share cars and reduce the number of cars on the road.
IX. Make the roads more pedestrian-friendly.
X. Institute a parking pricing mechanism which dynamically adjusts the cost of parking based on demand and supply.
Identify FOUR recommendations that will make the most impact in solving the parking problem.

Read the following paragraph and answer the question related to it. Anaximander, in the sixth century BCE, had a theory of evolution, and maintained that men are descended from fishes. This was philosophy because it was a speculation unsupported by detailed evidence, but Darwin's theory of evolution was science, because it was based on the succession of forms of life as found in fossils, and upon the distribution of animals and plants in many parts of the world. A man might say, with enough truth to justify a joke: ‘Science is what we know and philosophy is what we don't know.’ But it should be added that philosophical speculation as to what we do not yet know has shown itself a valuable preliminary to exact scientific knowledge. The guesses of the Pythagoreans in astronomy, of Anaximander and Empedocles in biological evolution, and of Democritus as to the atomic constitution of matter, provided the men of science in later times with hypotheses which, but for the philosophers, might never have entered their heads. We may say that, on its theoretical side, philosophy consists, at least in part, in the framing of large general hypotheses which science is not yet in a position to test; but when it becomes possible to test the hypotheses they become, if verified, a part of science, and cease to count as ‘philosophy’.
Which of the following statements is/are TRUE of the paragraph above?

Read the following paragraph and answer the question related to it. There are many subtleties to designing with audio in order to create useful, non-intrusive experiences that offer instruction, information, and feedback when users interact with everyday devices, such as mobile phones, cars, toys etc. If audio might play a part in your design, what are some considerations, with specific regard to cognitive loads on users and aesthetics of interaction that you must keep in mind? Pick all that apply.

Six robots $A,B,C,D,E,F$ can contact as follows (directed): $B\!\to\!E$, $C\!\to\!B$; $A\!\to\!D$, $E\!\to\!D$, $F\!\to\!D$; $F\!\to\!C$; $D\!\to\!C$, $D\!\to\!E$; $A\!\to\!F$. Robots can relay messages along allowed contacts. What is the {minimum number of robots between $A$ and $B$ to send a message from $A$ to $B$?}

In photography, f-numbers represent lens aperture. Write the missing f-number in the sequence:
f/2.8, f/3.2, f/3.5, f/____, f/4.5, f/5.0, f/5.6