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CEED Cut Off 2026: Check Category-Wise Expected Cut Off

Paras Attri
Paras Attri

Updated on - Aug 6, 2025

The CEED (Common Entrance Examination for Design) 2026 cutoff will be announced by IIT Bombay in the first week of February 2026. It will be released as the mean and standard deviation for Part A. You must meet or exceed these cutoff marks in Part A for your Part B responses to be evaluated.

If a candidate scores beyond the condition, they can move further in the selection process of the CEED 2026 examination. The CEED Results 2026 will be released in March 2026.

CEED Cut Off 2026 Highlights

Every exam has its own benchmark of the cutoff. An aspirant of CEED has to clear the set benchmark to enrol in the desired college. CEED 2026 cut off will be announced by different institutes after the declaration of CEED results 2026.

Few competitive exams require the normalisation process for shortlisting the candidates. This procedure helps the institutions to narrow down the selection process. The CEED 2026 cutoff for IISc follows the same calculation.  For more understanding of the CEED cutoff 2026, go through the process explained below.

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CEED 2026 Cut Off (Expected)

Take a look at the table below to check the expected cut off for CEED 2026. The cutoff varies by program, category, and CEED 2026 participating institute.

Category Mean (Part A) Standard Deviation Expected Cutoff (Part A)
General (OPEN) 38 11 49
OBC-NCL 34 11 45
EWS 34 11 45
SC/ST 19 11 30
PwD 19 11 30

Also Check: What After CEED Results 2026?

Calculation of CEED Score 2026

The CEED 2026 Score is calculated by taking 25% of marks of Part A and 75% of marks of Part B.

CEED 2026 Score Calculation
CEED 2026 Part Weightage Given
A 25%
B 75%
Total 100%

Factors Determining CEED 2026 Cut Off

The Cut-off will be calculated based on the score secured in CEED 2026 which will be released by IIT Bombay on the official website. CEED cut off for IIT Delhi follows the same as the one set by the CEED Board. The factors that help set the CEED Cutoffs remain constant and are discussed below.

  • The CEED 2026 cutoff is set to choose the deserving candidate out of the big competition for admission to affiliated colleges of CEED.
  • Candidates who can secure the cutoff marks will be eligible for admission.
  • Candidates who fail to secure the minimum cutoff get rejected.
  • Cutoff marks for different categories such as general and sc/st are released.
  • The cutoff will be available according to the different colleges and courses and the available seats.
  • CEED cutoff for Part A and CEED cutoff for Part B remain different from each other due to the variation in exam pattern and marking scheme.
  • The cutoff will be published online on the official site of IIT Bombay.
  • Some factors affect the cutoff list, a few of them are the difficulty level of the exam, the total number of seats, total number of candidates who have been given the exam.

The CEED Cutoff will be released on the official website. The cutoff will be divided into different categories and the qualifying scores required will be, as per the category mentioned. 

CEED Previous Years Cut Offs

Read more to check the previous year cut off for the CEED exam.

CEED 2025 Mean and Standard Deviation

CEED Cut Off 2026 for Part A was announced by the conducting authority i.e. IIT Bombay. The CEED cutoff for 2025 depends on certain parameters. To qualify for Part A and gain admission, students need to secure the minimum CEED cutoff mark. 

The CEED exam has two parts: Part A and Part B. Only candidates who score above the Part A cutoff are evaluated in Part B. The final CEED score is calculated by giving 25% and 75% weight to marks obtained in Part A and Part B, respectively.  CEED Cutoff 2025 has not been released by the authorities yet, however, the candidates can check the official cutoff for CEED 2024 Part A in the table below.

CEED Cutoff 2025
Particulars Value
Mean 45.48
Standard Deviation 16.98

CEED Cut Off Part A 2025

CEED 2026 Part B will be evaluated only if the candidate qualifies for Part A. The admission cut off will be released separately. Some important points about CEED Cut Off 2026 for Part A are given below.

  • Marks obtained by the candidates in Part A will be used to shortlist them.
  • Cut-off for Part A marks for shortlisting candidates in the Open category will be X + ½ Σ, where X is the average marks obtained by all candidates in Part A, and Σ is the standard deviation.
  • The cut-offs for shortlisting candidates of the OBC-NCL category will be 90% of the Open category.
  • The cut-offs for shortlisting candidates of SC, ST, and PWD categories will be 50% of the Open category.

The minimum percentage of marks required in Part A for shortlisting is given below.

CEED Part A Cut off Marks 
Category Minimum %
Open 10%
OBC-NCL 9%
SC / ST / PWD 5%

CEED Cut Off Part B

Candidates must check the CEED 2026 expected cut off details for Part B shared in the pointers below.

  • In Part B, there will be a total of 5 questions of 100 marks. Of these, questions 1-5 is discipline-specific, which will have 20 marks each and the candidates have a choice to attempt any one of these questions.
  • After the manual evaluation of these questions, the raw scores for each discipline will be tested for normality.
  • If the raw scores are found to be not normal, then the scores for each question will be transformed using the Box-cox transformation.
  • These transformed scores will then be normalized by the formula given below:

S = {(m − μi) Σ / σi} + A

where m is the raw marks obtained by the person in question I, μi is the average of the raw marks obtained by all candidates who attempted question I, σi is the standard deviation of the raw marks obtained by all candidates who attempted question I, and A = 20 and Σ = 5 are chosen to be the average and the standard deviation, respectively, of the distribution of scores ‘S’.

  • If the calculated ‘S’ score for any candidate falls below 0, all such scores will be capped at 0, and if the calculated ‘S’ score for any candidate falls above 40, all such scores will be capped at 40.
  • Marks obtained in other questions in Part B will be added to ‘S’ above to obtain the Part B score for the candidate.

Note: The final CEED score will be calculated by giving 25% weight to marks obtained in Part A and 75% weight to scores obtained in Part B after the above calculation.

CEED 2023 Cut Off

The CEED Cut Off 2023 was declared by IIT Bombay on the official website. The mean and standard deviation for Part A were 22.59 and 11.82 respectively.

CEED Cut Off Part A 2023
Categories CEED 2023 Cut Off
Open 27.30
OBC-NCL/EWS 24.57
SC/ST 13.65
PwD 13.65

CEED 2022 Cut Off Trends

The CEED 2022 cut off for various categories is given below.

CEED Cut Off Part A 2022
Categories CEED 2022 Cut Off
Open 24.58
OBC-NCL/EWS 22.12
SC/ST 12.29
PwD 12.29

CEED 2020 Cut Off Trends

The 2020 cut off trend for CEED is listed in the table below.

CEED Cut Off Part A 2020
Categories CEED 2020 Cut Off
Open 38
OBC-NCL/EWS 34.2
SC/ST 19
PwD 19

FAQs on CEED Cut Off

Q: When will the CEED cut off 2026 be released?

A:

The CEED cut off will be announced on the official website in February 2026. The cut off will be the total of mean and standard deviation.

Q: What is the CEED cut off for 2026?

A:

The expected cut off for the CEED 2026 exam is as follows 27.30 marks for the Open category, 24.57 marks for the OBC and EWS categories, and 13.65 for the SC, ST, and PwD categories.

Q: What is the weightage for score calculation of CEED Part A and Part B?

A:

The CEED 2026 score is calculated by taking 25% of the marks of Part A and 75% of the marks of Part B.

Q: Which matters more, CEED Cut off 2026 Part or Part B?

A:

Students need to secure the minimum cut off marks for Part A to be considered further for CEED cut off Part B.

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