NID DAT (MDes)
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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) 2023 Eligibility:-
 
Age Limit -
 
For Indian Nationals in General Category & General EWS Category: Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1993 are eligible to apply for admission.
 
For Indian Nationals in Reserved Category (Other Backward Class-Non Creamy Layer (OBCNCL), Scheduled Caste (SC) & Scheduled Tribe (ST): Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1990 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 1988 are eligible to apply for admission.
 
For Foreign Nationals in Overseas (Supernumerary) Category: Only those candidates born on or after 1 July 1993 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 May/June 2023*.
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 May/June 2023*.
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 3-year Bachelor degree examinations by August 2021.
 
Candidates in the final year of their Bachelor degree/ Full-time Diploma programme whose universities may not have issued the final degree certificate before that last date of application to NID, are eligible to apply, subject to passing all subjects without any backlog. Such candidates will have to submit/produce Provisional Degree certificates at the time of document verification.
 
Note -
 
In case the degree/certificate has been obtained from a University/Board of any country other than India, an equivalence certificate must be submitted to Admissions Office by the candidate from the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), New Delhi, at the time of document verification tentatively scheduled in May/June 2023. Visit http://www.aiu.ac.in for more details about how to obtain an equivalence certificate.
 

 

NID DAT (MDes) 2023 Application Form / Registration:-

 
Apply online at website - https://admissions.nid.edu from 21st October 2022 to 22nd December 2022

Upload a color scanned copy of recent passport-size photograph

The photograph must be in JPG/JPEG format, should be of minimum 75 KB and maximum 100 KB in size.

Upload your scanned signature as per the instructions. All signature files must be in JPG/JPEG format and should be of minimum 75 KB and maximum 100 KB in size. You should have your signature digitally photographed or scanned and cropped to the required size.

Pay Application Fee - 1 Discipline - 2 Disciplines -

General - Rs.3000/- Rs.6000/-
General- EWS - Rs.3000/- Rs.6000/-
OBC-NCL - Rs.3000/- Rs.6000/-
SC - Rs.1500/- Rs.3000/-
ST - Rs.1500/- Rs.3000/-
General-PwD - Rs.1500/- Rs.3000/-
General-EWS-PwD - Rs.1500/- Rs.3000/-
OBC-NCL-PwD - Rs.1500/- Rs.3000/-
SC-PwD - Rs.1500/- Rs.3000/-
ST-PwD - Rs.1500/- Rs.3000/-
Overseas (Supernumerary) - Rs.5000/- Rs.10000/-

The fees for the application can be paid only through Debit/Credit Card.

 


NID DAT (MDes) 2023 Date:-

 

DAT Prelims Exam - 8 January 2023, Sunday

DAT Mains Exam - 20 March 2023 to 23 April 2023.

 

NID DAT (MDes) 2023 Syllabus:-

 

NID DAT (MDes) 2023 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) 2023 Preparation:-

 

M.Des Sample Test Paper

NID DAT (MDes) Preparation -

NID DAT (MDes) 2023 Notification:-

 
Apply online at website - https://admissions.nid.edu from 21 October 2022 to 22 December 2022

Download Admit Cards for DAT Prelims - 30 December 2022

DAT Prelims Exam - 8 January 2023, Sunday

DAT Prelims Result - 28 February 2023

Download Admit Card for DAT Mains - 09 March 2023

DAT Mains Exam - 20 March 2023 to 23 April 2023

DAT Mains Result - 16 May 2023

Payment of Token Fees & Uploading of Documents - 16 May 2023 to 19 May 2023

Provisional Offer Letter of Admissions - First week of June 2023
 
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