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National Institute of Design Entrance Exam (NID) 2018
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                                       National Institute of Design (NID) offers admissions to aspirants in Bachelor of Design (BDes), Graduate Diploma Programme in Design (GDPD) as well as Master of Design (MDes) programmes on the basis of their performance in NID Design Aptitude Test. In order to secure admission in design programmes offered at National Institute of Design (NID) aspirants need to take part in NID DAT (Prelims) and NID DAT (Mains). Only candidates who are shortlisted in NID DAT (Prelims) can appear for NID DAT (Mains) admission round.
Important Dates
Events Date
Applications: Start Date 25-Sep-17
Applications: End Date 30-Sep-17
Receipt of Printed Applications: End Date 09-Nov-17
Applications: End Date (with late fee) 09-Nov-17
Application Form Edit: Start Date 14-Nov-17
Application Form Edit: End Date 16-Nov-17
Admit Card Download (NID DAT Prelims) 20-Dec-17
NID DAT Prelims Exam 07-Jan-18
Provisional Answer Key 12-Jan-18
Answer Key Challenge: Start Date 18-Jan-18
Answer Key Challenge: End Date 19-Jan-18
Final Answer Key 30-Jan-18
NID DAT Prelims Result (BDes, GDPD) 13-Mar-18
NID DAT Mains Admit Card (BDes, GDPD) 22-Mar-18
NID DAT Mains (BDes, GDPD): Start Date 15-May-18
NID DAT Mains (BDes, GDPD): End Date 22-May-18
Merit List (BDes, GDPD) 31-May-18
Eligibility
                                   NID offers Bachelor of Design (BDes) course at NID Ahmedabad as well asGraduate Diploma Programme in Design (GDPD) course at NID Vijayawada and NID Kurukshetra. The GDPD course is of four year duration. Candidates can view below NID Entrance Exam 2018 eligibility criteria for BDes & GDPD course admissions. The eligibility criteria for NID entrance exam for BDes/GDPD course admissions states that candidates who have cleared or who will be appearing for their higher secondary (10+2) qualifying examination from any stream (Science, Arts, Commerce, etc.) from any recognised board such as CBSE, IB, ICSE or their equivalent in the year 2017-2018 can apply for the exam.
NID Entrance Exam 2018 Exam Centers
                               NID entrance exam 2018 test centres are out. The design entrance exam (NID DAT Prelims) for BDes and MDes admissions is scheduled to be conducted at 23 test centres in India. The test cities for NID DAT 2018 are as follows:  Ahmedabad , Bengaluru , Bhopal , Bhubaneshwar , Chandigarh , Chennai , Dehradun , Guwahati , Hyderabad , Jaipur , Jammu , Kolkata , Kurukshetra , Lucknow , Mumbai , Nagpur , New Delhi , Patna , Panjim , Raipur , Ranchi , Thiruvananthapuram , Vijayawada
NID Entrance Exam Result 2018
                                  NID Entrance Exam 2018 result for BDes and GDPD programmes has been declared at 4 pm on March 13, 2018. National Institute of Design (NID) has already declared the results for DAT (Prelims) for MDes admissions on February 15, 2018. NID result for BDes and MDes entrance exams is declared on NID’s official website. To check NID DAT 2018 result, candidates need to fill details like their registered email address, date of birth and roll number/application number on the official website of NID entrance exam. NID DAT merit list is prepared category-wise, that is, different lists are released for General, OBC-NCL, SC, ST and PH category candidates. NID’s official website informs: “From the total number of applicants who have appeared for DAT, the number of candidates to be called for Stage 2 and Stage 3 of the exam will be calculated as no less than 3 X N where ‘N’ stands for number of seats in that category for that programme or discipline”.
NID Entrance Exam 2018 Admit Card
                                    NID admit card is released by officials of National Institute of Design (NID) on the official website of the entrance exam. Aspirants can download NID DAT admit card online from NID entrance exam’s official website. Candidates need to note that NID Entrance Exam admit card would only be issued to them if they have successfully completed and duly submitted NID application form. NID admission process comprises of three rounds that aspirants need to clear – NID DAT, Studio Test and Interview round. Here, NID Design Aptitude Test is known as NID DAT Prelims and the Studio Test as well as the interview round is collectively referred to as NID DAT Mains exam. Thus, candidates are informed that separate admit cards would be issued to them for NID DAT (Prelims) and NID DAT (Mains) examinations.
NID Entrance Exam Cut Off 2018
                                    National Institute of Design has released the NID DAT (Prelims) 2018 cut off for MDes course. The cut off for NID DAT (Prelims) is the score of the last candidate in order of the merit who is shortlisted for DAT Mains. The official website also informs: "Based on the categroy-wise merit lits of DAT (Pelims), the number of candidates shortlisted for DAT (mains) in each category, in each discipline is five times the number of available seats in each category, in the respective discipline". All candidates need to meet NID DAT cutoff in order to secure admission in design courses offered at National Institute of Design (NID). Separate NID entrance exam cut-offs are released for NID DAT Prelims and NID DAT Mains exam. NID DAT Prelims result for BDes, MDes and GDPD course is usually declared in the month of February each year. Only candidates who meet NID DAT Prelims cut-off are eligible to take part in Studio Test and Interview round for NID admissions. Separate cut-offs for NID entrance exam are released for candidates belonging to different categories, such as – General, Other Backward Classes- Non Creamy Layer (OBC-NCL), Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Persons with Disability (PwD) and Supernumerary.