NID Entrance Exam Pattern

NID Entrance Exam is considered to be one of the toughest design entrance exam conducted in the country. In NID DAT, more weightage is given to subjective, drawing related questions. Thus, candidates need to be extremely creative and have a clear understanding of their concepts when appearing for the NID exam. In NID DAT for the B. Des programme, the that Prelims carried 40% weightage, while that Mains carried 60% weightage. During the that Mains, which comprises a Studio Test, the candidate will be tested hand-on and have to show their drawing abilities, creativity, innovativeness, and material-handling ability.

NID DAT Prelims exam will be conducted offline and will be of 3 hours duration.

• Test will be conducted in the English language and include a maximum of 26 questions.
• Question paper will include both subjective and objective-type questions.
• Paper will be for 100 marks.
• Candidates who qualify in DAT Prelims have to next appear in DAT Mains.

The Studio Test for the M.Des programme will be conducted in offline mode at various NID campuses - NID Bangalore, NID Gandhinagar and NID Ahmedabad. The Studio Test will be conducted programme-wise and the schedule will be released soon.

The details of the campus allotted to the candidate will be mentioned on the NID DAT Mains 2027 admit card.

NID DAT Mains exam for M.Des will be tentatively conducted on March 08, 2027. Personal Interview will be tentatively from March 21, 2027, to April 01, 2027. NID Admit card for M.Des Mains will be tentatively out on February 24, 2027.