National Institute of Design (NID) conducts Design Aptitude Test (DAT) for admission to two and a half year Master of Design (M.Des) programme offered at NID Ahmedabad, Bengaluru and Gandhinagar.
M.Des Programme -
Duration:- The two-and-a-half year
Faculty of Communication Design -
Discipline - Offered at - No. of Seats-
Animation Film Design - Ahmedabad - 15 seats
Film & Video Communication - Ahmedabad - 15 seats
Graphic Design - Ahmedabad - 15 seats
Photography Design - Gandhinagar - 15 seats
Faculty of Industrial Design -
Discipline - Offered at - No. of Seats -
Ceramic & Glass Design - Ahmedabad - 10 seats
Furniture &Interior Design - Ahmedabad - 15 seats
Product Design - Ahmedabad - 15 seats
Toy & Game Design - Gandhinagar - 10 seats
Transportation & Automobile Design - Gandhinagar - 15 seats
Universal Design - Bengaluru - 15 seats
Faculty of Information Technology-Integrated Programmes
Discipline - Offered at - No. of Seats -
Digital Game Design - Bengaluru - 15 seats
Information Design - Bengaluru - 15 seats
Interaction Design - Bengaluru - 15 seats
New Media Design - Gandhinagar - 15 seats
Faculty of Inter-Disciplinary Design Studies
Discipline - Offered at - No. of Seats -
Design for Retail Experience - Bengaluru - 15 seats
Strategic Design Management - Gandhinagar - 15 seats
NID DAT (M.Des) Eligibility:-
Age Limit -
For Indian Nationals in General Category & General EWS Category: Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1990 are eligible to apply for admission.
For Indian Nationals in Reserved Category (Other Backward Class-Non Creamy Layer (OBC- NCL), Scheduled Caste (SC) & Scheduled Tribe (ST): Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1987 are eligible to apply for admission.
For Indian Nationals in Person with Disabilities (PwD) Reserved Category: Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1985 are eligible to apply for admission.
For Foreign Nationals in Overseas (Supernumerary) Category: Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1990 are eligible to apply for admission.
Educational Qualification -
In addition to satisfying the above age criteria, the candidate must possess at least one of the following minimum qualifications to be considered eligible for admissions:
Bachelor Degree of minimum 4-year duration in any specialization, after 12th standard or equivalent to 12th standard from any university or institute recognised by law in India.
Condition: Candidate must have passed the Bachelor Degree examinations at the time of document verification tentatively scheduled in April/May 2020*.
OR
Bachelor Degree of minimum 3-year duration in any specialization, after 12th standard or equivalent to 12th standard.
Condition: Candidates must have passed the Bachelor Degree examinations before June 2019.
OR
Full-time Diploma of minimum 4-year duration in Design/Fine Arts/Applied Arts/ Architecture, after 12th standard or equivalent to 12th standard, from any university or institute recognised by law in India.
Condition: Candidates must have passed the Diploma examinations at the time of document verification tentatively scheduled in April/May 2020*.
Candidates in the final year of their Bachelor degree/ Full-time Diploma programme whose universities may not have issued the final degree certificate by the date of application to NID, are eligible to apply, subject to passing all subjects without any backlog. Such candidate will have to submit/produce Provisional Degree certificate at the time of counseling.
NID DAT (MDes) Registration / Application Form
NID DAT (MDes) 2020 Application Form / Registration:-
Apply online at website - http://admissions.nid.edu from 01 October 2019 to 07 November 2019
Upload a scanned recent passport size photograph as per the instructions. The photograph must be in JPG/JPEG format, should be of minimum 60 KB and maximum 100 KB in size. It must be a coloured photograph taken at a professional studio. Photographs with self-composed portraits will not be accepted.
Upload your scanned signature as per the instructions. The signature file must be in JPG/JPEG format and not exceed 100 KB in size. You should have your signature digitally photographed or scanned and cropped to the required size.
Category-wise Application Fees for Academic Year 2020-21 are as under:
Category - 1 Discipline only - 2 Disciplines -
General - Rs.2000 - Rs.4000
General EWS - Rs.2000 - Rs.4000
OBC-NCL - Rs.2000 - Rs.4000
SC - Rs.1000 - Rs.2000
ST - Rs.1000 -Rs.2000
General PwD - Rs.1000 - Rs.2000
General EWS-PwD - Rs.1000 - Rs.2000
OBC-NCL-PwD - Rs.1000 - Rs.2000
SC-PwD - Rs.1000 - Rs.2000
ST-PwD - Rs.1000 - Rs.2000
Overseas - Rs.3000 - Rs.6000
Mode of Payment -
ONLINE (via Debit/Credit Card) or (b) OFFLINE only By Demand Draft. Enter the required details as specified.
For candidates paying ONLINE: You will be directed to the payment gateway. After completing the payment process, you will be redirected to the ‘Print’ section where you can save your form as a PDF file and print it. You are NOT required to send the print-out of your application form if you are paying online via Debit/Credit Card.
For candidates paying OFFLINE: Prepare a Demand draft of the amount in favour of ‘All India Management Association’ payable at New Delhi. Fill in the details of the Demand Draft online to complete the submission process. Save the Application Form as a PDF File and print it. This should be done before 1400 hrs on Thursday, 07 November 2019.
To complete the application process, you must send the Demand Draft and a printout of your application form in a single envelope to the following address (via Speed Post/Courier only ), so as to reach before 1400 hrs on Wednesday, 13 November, 2019: The Project Manager–CMS
All India Management Association Management House,
15 Link Road, Lajpat Nagar Part 3, New Delhi 110 024.
NID DAT (MDes) Exam Dates
NID DAT (MDes) 2020 Date:-
DAT Prelims Exam (including Overseas candidates)- 29 December 2019, Sunday.
DAT Mains Schedule - Will be announced later.
Paper Pattern
NID DAT (MDes) 2020 Pattern:-
The Design Aptitude Tests will be conducted in two stages:
Stage 1: Design Aptitude Test (DAT) Prelims
Stage 2: Design Aptitude Test (DAT) Mains
DAT Prelims -
The M.Des. DAT prelims paper is of 100 marks, comprising of a Common Design Aptitude Test and a discipline-specific Test, which together will evaluate the Design Aptitude of the candidate. The DAT Prelims paper comprises of a mix of objective and subjective questions.
The question paper will be in English language ONLY.
For candidates applying in only one discipline of M.Des Programme:
Such candidates are required to appear in DAT Prelims comprising of the CDAT [Common Design Aptitude Test] and discipline-specific test of the discipline selected by them. The total duration of DAT Prelim will be 2.5 hrs.
For candidates applying in two disciplines of M.Des. Programme:
Such candidates are required to appear in DAT Prelims comprising of the CDAT [Common Design Aptitude Test] and TWO discipline-specific tests. The total duration of DAT Prelim will be 4.5 hrs. (30 minutes for CDAT and 2 hrs. each for discipline specific test).
Based on the DAT Prelims scores, separate merit lists shall be prepared for each category applied for by the candidate. Only shortlisted candidates will be eligible to appear for the DAT Mains exam as per the schedule announced.
Separate merit list will be prepared for Overseas candidates.
Test Centres for DAT Prelims:
The DAT Prelims will be conducted in the following cities in India:
Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Patna, Raipur and Thiruvananthapuram. A city may have more than one test centre.
NID reserves the right to add or remove any test centre and allot to a candidate a test centre that may not be of the candidate’s choice. Any request for change of test centre will not be entertained.
DAT Mains for M.Des -
Based on the scores obtained in the DAT Prelims, candidates will be shortlisted for the DAT Mains. Admit Cards for shortlisted candidates will be available for download only on the official NID admissions website (http://admissions.nid.edu).
The DAT Mains for M.Des. programmes consists of two parts:
Studio Test:
This may consist of tests in different formats. Total marks of the test will be 100 and the duration will be of three hours. The DAT Mains will be conducted in English ONLY.
Interviews:
The interviews will be conducted separately for each discipline, immediately after the Studio Test, and at the same centre as the Studio Test.
Weightages of DAT Prelims & DAT Mains for Final Result
The final marks of the candidate appearing for the M.Des. programme of the National Institute of Design, will be calculated based on the weightages of the marks obtained in the DAT Prelims and DAT Mains as follows:
Programme/Test - M.Des. (all disciplines)
DAT Prelims - 30%
DAT Mains - 70%
NID DAT (MDes) Notification
NID DAT (MDes) 2020 Notification:-
Apply online at website - http://admissions.nid.edu from 01 October 2019 to 07 November 2019
Download Admit Cards for DAT Prelim starts - 20 December 2019, 1600 hrs
DAT Prelims Exam (including Overseas candidates) - 29 December 2019, Sunday
DAT Prelim results for M.Des. - 18 February 2020, 1600 hrs
DAT Mains Schedule - Will be announced later
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