NID Entrance Exam Dates

On August 3, 2023, the conducting authority published the NID DAT Cut Off 2023 on its official website. The percentile of most recent applicants accepted into the B.Des/M.Des programmes at various NID campuses is the NID DAT 2023 cut off. The DAT cut off is usually given separately at each level of the NID 2023 selection process. The NID DAT 2023 deadline for the B.Des and M.Des programmes has been made public by the National Institute of Design. The cut-off for each participating institute's programme would be made available category-by-category. The NID cutoff is the minimal score applicants must meet to be taken into consideration for a design course. There are B. Des and M. Des courses available at the NIDs participating institutes.

The NID Entrance Exam is considered among the toughest design entrance exam conducted in the country. In NID DAT, more weightage is given to subjective, drawing related questions. 

Experts and test takers state that the overall difficulty level of the NID DAT 2022 exam was moderately difficult.As per NID DAT 2021 exam analysis, the level of difficulty of the question paper for the BDes course was easy to moderate. There was a small change in the NID exam pattern this year with respect to the marking distribution.

In the Objective section, a majority of questions are asked on subjects such as Logical Reasoning, English, General Knowledge, and Current Affairs which have a medium difficulty level.

The National Institute of Design (NID) conducts NID Counselling for admission to BDes and MDes programmes. Firstly, NID declares MDes results on the official website. The candidates can view their results by entering the login credentials online though the official website at admissions.nid.edu. The next step is NID DAT Counselling Round 1 Seat Allotment for admission to MDes programme, selected candidates are to give the confirmation of the seat, payment of non-refundable fees, and uploading of documents for the MDes course in a given time period. Going as per the last year trend, the forst round of couselling is expected to be held in the last week of May.