Design Aptitude Test (DAT) Prelims will be conducted at various test centers across India. Candidates should note that appearing for the DAT Prelims or being shortlisted for the second stage of the admission process does NOT guarantee automatic entitlement to admission.

Candidates shortlisted after the DAT Prelims will be invited to appear for the Stage 2 DAT Mains. The exact details of the Test Centre will be mentioned in the DAT Mains Admit Card.

These dates are for 2021-22 session, for 2023-24 sessions students can take reference from these dates

• AICTE-approved three-year Full time Diploma after Class X offered by Board of Technical Education of any state in India or Union Territories as mentioned on http://www.aicte- india.org.
• Candidates who have completed final examinations for class XII (or equivalent) outside India or from a Board not specified above should produce an equivalence certificate from the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) confirming that the examination they have passed is equivalent to the Class XII examination conducted in India. This certificate is required to be submitted at the time of document verification.

Visit http://www.aiu.ac.in for more details about how to obtain an equivalence certificate.

1. Overseas Category (Supernumerary) candidates:

Foreign citizens—candidates holding citizenship of a country other than the Republic of India—are eligible to apply only under the Overseas (supernumerary) category, provided they fulfill all the eligibility criteria mentioned in Section 3.1.

In addition to the seats available for the B.Des. Programme, an additional 15% supernumerary seats are available for Overseas candidates. The number of seats available in Overseas (supernumerary) category is as under:

+ Amendments to the change in the number of seats in Overseas (supernumerary) category for each NID, if any, will be updated on the official website https://admissions.nid.edu only in the Amendment Section of this Handbook.

In accordance with the guidelines of the Government of India, the prescribed number of seats reserved for each of these categories is as follows:

+ Amendments to the change in the number of seats for each NID, if any, will be updated on the official website https://admissions.nid.edu only in the Amendment Section of this Handbook.

1. Reservation of seats for Economically Weaker Section (EWS):

The general category belonging to the Economically Weaker Section (GEN-EWS) will be a reserved category in which the percentage of reservations is 10%. The benefit of reservation will be given only to those General category candidates who satisfy the condition given in the OM No. 20013/01/2018-BC-II dated 17 January 2019 issued by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education, and Government of India.

The verification of the category certificate will be carried out after the DAT Prelims. During verification, if it is found that the GEN-EWS certificate of the candidate is not valid, then the candidate will be moved to General category, and he/she will be considered a General category candidate for the further admissions process.

On verification, even after admissions, if the information/document/ category certificate is found to be incorrect/invalid, the candidature of such candidate will summarily stand canceled.

NID’s decision will be final and binding. No further communication in this regard will be entertained.

For all updated information visit website https://admissions.nid.edu

Read and familiarize yourself with the eligibility criteria, the number of seats, test centers, reservation policy and other relevant information related to admissions to the B.Des. programmes in Admissions Handbook, and confirm that you have read and agreed on the same.

Note: The Design Aptitude Tests – DAT Prelims and DAT Mains–are common to candidates to all institutes, NID Ahmedabad, NID Andhra Pradesh, NID Haryana, NID Madhya Pradesh & NID Assam.

Candidates will have to visit the official admissions website at https://admissions.nid.edu and follow the steps below:

Due to the current pandemic situation prevailing in the country, the information regarding the DAT Mains will be announced later.

5. Weightages of DAT Prelims & DAT Mains for Final Result

The final marks of the candidate appearing for the B.Des programme of the National Institute of Design will be calculated based on the weightage of the marks obtained in the DAT Prelims and DAT Mains, which will be announced later.

Note: Only those candidates who have appeared for all the tests in both stages will be considered eligible for the Merit List.

In order to be considered for the merit list, a candidate must have appeared for all the tests in both the DAT Prelims and the DAT Mains exams.

1. Results for DAT Prelims:

Based on the scores obtained in the DAT Prelims, separate merit lists shall be prepared for each category as applied for by the candidate (GENERAL, GENERAL-EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST, PwD & OVERSEAS). Results for admission to NID for the Academic Year 2022 -23 for the B.Des. (including Overseas candidates) will be declared only on the official admissions website (https://admissions.nid.edu).

The candidates’ scores will also be available for viewing at this time.

Separate result scorecards (digital or hard copy) will NOT be provided to the candidates.

2. Candidates Shortlisted for DAT Mains:

Based on the Merit list of DAT Prelims, eligible candidates will get to appear for DAT Mains. The number of candidates shortlisted will be no less than three times in each category applied for by the candidate (GENERAL, GENERAL-EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST, PwD & OVERSEAS). Please refer to Section 4 of this handbook to see the total number of seats available. If the total scores of two or more candidates in the DAT Prelims are the same after applying the tie-break policy, they will be assigned the same rank.

3. Final Merit List:

The final common merit lists will be generated category wise (Open, GEN-EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST, and PwD), based on the sum total of the weighted scores obtained by the candidate, viz. the DAT Prelims and DAT Mains. Separate merit list will be prepared for Overseas candidates for B.Des. programme.

A common merit list will be generated based on the percentile score.

The candidates’ scores and ranks will be available for viewing on the website and candidates will have to log in to the website to view their final results. Separate result scorecards (digital or hard copy) will NOT be sent/provided to the candidates.

The scores obtained during the application process in the 2023-24 cycle are valid only for admission for the academic year 2023-24.

Scores obtained in NID’s DAT exam cannot be used by any person/institution without prior permission of the National Institute of Design.

Note: Obtaining a rank in the merit list does NOT guarantee admission to the programme of your choice.

4. Minimum Qualifying Criteria

Candidates from the various categories will be considered eligible for admission only if their final percentile score exceeds the minimum qualifying criteria* which will be announced later.

On verification, even after admissions, if the information/document/ category certificate are found to be incorrect / invalid, the candidature of such candidate will summarily stand cancelled.

* Amendments to the minimum qualifying criteria if any, will be updated on the official website https://admissions.nid.edu only in the Amendment Section of this Handbook.

Allotment of seat

The procedure of allotment of seats for the B.Des. programme will be conducted at Ahmedabad. Each candidate will be required to remain present in a person with the requisite documents as per the schedule (which will be announced at a later date). Failing to report with the requisite documents as per the schedule will lead to forfeiting the candidate’s seat and their seat will be allotted to the next eligible candidate in the order of merit in the respective category.

Depending on the prevailing pandemic situation of COVID-19, the candidate may be asked to pay the partial fees online for the confirmation of admission and the physical verification of documents may take place at the time of reporting at the campus.