Some details about the examination
There are many interesting questions in the CEED exam paper which you may know a lot, or you think you can do much better. Time is the real key, so you need to make sure you give only required weight in your answer based on the marks allocated to the questions.
Looking at the paper there are very few questions which you will think you cannot answer, and that’s the trick, as CEED is based on judging people based on their creative skills, observations, thinking, extrapolation, etc skills the questions here are pretty common to the world we see, and that’s why it’s hard to get a question which you may not think you cannot solve. If I say design a screw driver to open screws which are deep inside like you may have seen in old radios, every one can think of some solution or at least you will not say I cannot do it, some may take time, some may come quickly, so the real key is how differently can you solve this problem and how much your solution is feasible on various aspects of design (which I will cover later)…
Some possible answers for this could be –
- Recommend changing the design of such screws and fixtures itself for which you need a special tools
- Think of a lighted pointer screw driver
- Attach some magnifier to the handle of the screw driver to enlarge the whole picture
- Think of some way to get the screw driver and the screw visibility on top, say you can think of models like if you see water filled tank the bottom looks much closer, so if you fill it with water you may see the screw little upwards etc.
Again you may think some of these are crazy, but it really matters how you solve this issue and how different and creative it is than an average. Just designing a screw driver for this with long neck may not fly!.
Ideally if you can bring some known concepts at some other place (like say using water filled tank kind of models) can fetch you really a good boost. But again it’s not easy to get upto the mark to think like an Archimedes to use bucket of water in the bathroom to solve some volume and wt problem of irregular shapes and that with a time constraint of few hours, but yes the good thing is in the competitive world you have to get your best within those few hours and every one is given the same, so it’s quite fair!...
I would say take out complete knowledge from you – technical, subjects you have learnt, skills which you have got, tricks which you may have used to win GALLI games, all and try to see how to solve a given problem and given people know diff things from their backgrounds you can also solve the same problem differently. An architect may put lots of his skills to solve the issues from structural, artistic, drawings, think big-mega, etc skills where as an electronic engg may solve it based on his know how of the tools and methods in his area and both has equal opportunity to flourish.
Have fun....
