Design Entrance Exam

If the fee payment window is closed by the institute, you will not able to pay the seat-acceptance fee. Your seat will then be allocated to the next candidate in the order of merit. The token fees have to be paid within the given deadline. 

The provisional seat allotment letters for candidates who have paid the fees will be available around May 2025 (M.Des) and June 2025 (B.Des).

The NID DAT 2026 counseling process for the B.Des process will START in the third week of May 2026. Candidates who are allotted seats have to pay the seat-confirmation fees and upload documents.

Seats that are left vacant after completion of the 1st round of allotment will be allocated in Round 2. Allotments will be made to the candidate next in the order of merit.

Also, the candidate will be notified about seat allotted in a Round via their registered email IDs.  So, it is recommended that the candidate keeps checking their mail IDs frequently.

If the candidate had any objections against the DAT Prelims results, they could ask for a recheck.

The NID DAT 2024 (Prelims) recheck for the M.Des programme covered the following items:

1. Whether all answers have been marked

2. Whether there has been any mistakes in totalling the marks in Part II and transferring the marks to the 1st cover page of the answer booklet.

The rechecking didn't evaluate any other part of the answer booklet. Also, the candidate is not allowed to claim re-evaluation, disclosure, or inspection of the answer scripts.

The DAT Prelims result covered the following items:

1. Whether all answers have been marked

2. Whether there has been any mistakes in totalling the marks in Part II and transferring the marks to the 1st cover page of the answer booklet.

This means, the recheck didn't check whether the your answer is correct or incorrect. Further, the answer booklets were not made available.

The re-check window for the DAT Prelims was opened soon after the results were out. The candidate had to apply for re-check online. 

If after the re-check, it is found that there are totalling errors or some answers have not been marked, the correction was done. In that case, the candidate was issued a new scorecard.

The candidate had to download the new scorecard online from the download portal.

The participating institutes of NID DAT 2025 offers B. Des and M.Des courses. The B. Des programme is available at five participating NIDs and has an intake capacity of 425 seats. Meanwhile, the M.Des programme is three NIDs and has a combined intake of 347 seats.

Admission to both B. Des and M.Des courses will be through the NID DAT 2025 entrance exam. The seat allotment to the above courses wlll be based on respective merit lists which will be prepared considering weighted scores of DAT Prelims and DAT Mains.

DAT Prelims results for the M.Des program will be announced on February 17, 2025. Meanwhile, results for the B. Des programme will be declared on April 1, 2025. The direct link to check DAT Prelims results will be given on this page.

To check your results, you have to log in by entering your email id and date of birth. Note that results of DAT Prelims will be used to shortlist candidates for DAT Mains.

The National Institute of Desgin (NID) will conduct the NID DAT 2025 (Prelims) exam on January 5, 2024.

DAT Prelims results for the M.Des programme will be announced on February 16, 2024. Meanwhile, results for the B. Des programme will be declared on March 28. The direct link to check DAT Prelims results will be given on this page.

To check your results, log in by entering your email id and date of birth. Note that results of DAT Prelims will be used to shortlist candidates for DAT Mains.

The National Institute of Desgin (NID) will conduct the NID DAT 2024 (Prelims) exam on December 24, 2023.