Design Entrance Exam

Sometimes you can apply late to school with a small fine. Check if there is anything else you can do. If NID is the only school you want to get in to you're only option is taking a gap year.
Don't allow yourself to think that its a waste of your time. Instead, try to think of this as an opportunity to prepare for the exam and work on your portfolio and your skills.
Schools like NID look for students who are ambitious and have leadership skills. Students who care deeply about a cause and go out of their way to make a change are some of the things these colleges appreciate.
Take up some internship in the field you're truly interested in. You can commit to it for a whole year. In a field like design, field work is important and make a huge difference on your application. Its also a plus if it pays.
You can also take up a few courses online or look for other college that are still accepting applications.

Hi,
I am listing down the NIFT centres according to their overall ranks:
1-New Delhi
2-Mumbai
3-Bangalore
4-Gandhinagar
5-Chennai
6-Hyderabad
7-Kolkata
8-Patna
9-Kangra
10-Bhopal
11-Kannur
12-Shillong
13-Jodhpur
14-Raebareli
15-Srinagar
You can't really judge the NIFT centres because all the centres follow the same syllabus and system. All of their faculty members and the staff is highly qualified. Yes, the infrastructure of centres like New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore is much better than the centres like Raebareli, Srinagar and Jodhpur. Also, all the resources and exposure one gets at NIFT-Delhi is much more than what you get at those small centres, but not because those small centers don't provide their students anything, but it's because Delhi is a metropolitan city and there are fabric and material markets like Nehru Place, Lajpat Nagar, Chandni Chowk, Palam, etc., and one can easily go out for market research and sourcing and also there is Amazon Fashion Week, Indian Couture Week, where students can go and look for the latest designers collection.
The complete education doesn't depend on all these things, it's just a part of design education and it all depends on the student that how much they are keen about learning things because of many a times students from the small centres for the better placements than the Delhi or Mumbai centre students, but on an average, more people of NIFT-Delhi, Bangalore or Mumbai get better placement offers than the other centers, not because they are more talented, but because the industry has the wrong thinking about the NIFT centers.
Anyways, it's better if you get a seat at NIFT-Delhi centre.
I hope this list will help you out.
All the best.

We have subjects like Visualisation & Representation (basically sketching), Art & Design Aesthetics (history of art and painting in India), Fashion Orientation, Digital Design (CorelDraw), Geometry, Material Studies, Elements of Design and in some cases, Basic English (1st semester).
In 2nd semester we have, again Art and Design Aesthetics, Visualisation, and Representation, Elements of Design (now both in colour medium), Digital Design (Photoshop and Excel), Field Studies (the study of craft clusters), Professional Practices.
Yes, the syllabus is in sync with the global market. You may refer to the link below for more details:
https://www.shiksha.com/design/fashion-design/articles/what-to-expect-in-bdes-course-at-nift-blogId-10855

The Exam pattern of CEED exam is mentioned below:
CEED exam uses English as a medium of instruction. The CEED exam pattern is such that the test consists of two parts, which are, Part A and Part B. Both the parts are conducted on the same day and aspirants need to appear for both the exams on the given date and time.
CEED Part A Test Pattern
Part A of CEED exam consists of objective type questions MCQ, MSQ and NAT. Candidates need to attempt CEED Part A exam on a computer. Questions asked in this section of CEED exam are from topics such as visual and spatial ability, environmental and social awareness, analytical and logical reasoning, language, observation and design sensitivity.
CEED Part B Test Pattern
Part B of CEED paper comprises of questions to test an aspirant's design, drawing and writing skills. In CEED Part B exam questions are displayed on a computer screen and candidates need to solve them on an answer booklet provided by the invigilator.
There are 8 questions in CEED Part B exam. The marking scheme is such that question number 1-5 in CEED exam are of 50 marks each and candidates have a choice to attempt any one of these questions.
Note: Part A of CEED 2018 will be considered as a screening exam. Thus, students who have been shortlisted in this test will be evaluated for Part B of the exam. However, only the scores of candidates in Part B will be used to prepare the merit list for CEED 2018.
CEED Score
The final CEED score of candidates is determined by giving 25% weightage to marks obtained by candidates in Part A and the remaining 75% weightage is determined basis scores obtained in CEED Part B exam.
For the syllabus, you may refer to the link below:
https://www.shiksha.com/design/industrial-product-design/exams/ceed/syllabus