NIFT Entrance Exam

NIFT Bangalore inducts students to its BDes programme via the NIFT Entrance Exam. For admission to the 2025 batch, this test was conducted by NTA on Feb 9, 2025. Moreover, NTA has also released the entrance exam results. Students who took the exam can check their results and download their scorecards by using their login details on the official website.

According to some candidates, the NIFT entrance test is challenging but not impossible to crack. You'll need to dedicatedly prepare for a few months to get your hands on the quantitative aptitude and reasoning abilities section. 

In an ideal situation, one year is a good enough time to cover the entire NIFT syllabus, solve sample papers, and take mock tests. But considering there is only 6 months or so left for the NIFT exam, the candidate can still prepare for the exam in that period. But for that to happen, the candidate needs to get hold of the best study material available, manage their time efficiently, follow a strict study routine, get familiar with the exam syllabus and pattern, and prepare in earnest.

When selecting study material for the NIFTEE Exam, candidate should make sure the books are as per the current syllabus and pattern, are well written, easy to follow, explains the concepts in detail, etc. 

Also go through articles and videos which have last year question papers. 

The candidate should focus on news of national and international importance; don't spend precious time reading up on local or even sometimes national (or international) news of little importance. For example, some times newspapers carry some news for the sake of entertainment. The candidate also needs to practice difficult words and meaning given in editorials and opinion pieces.

Read new relatd to the fashion industry, fashion events like Cannes, Met Gala, Lakme Fashion Week, Milan Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, Seoul Fashion Week, etc. Read fashion magazines for more trending updates.

For the Common Aptitude Test (CAT), the candidate needs to practice various forms of drawing, including - photorealism, cartoon, caricature, line drawing, figure, etc. The candidate must also know how to blend colors, do shading, etc. As for the GAT paper, NIFT preparation books by Arihant are pretty reliable. For additional reading, RS Aggarwal book is recommended. As for GK and Current Affairs section, read leading newspapers like The Hindu, The Indian Express, or the Times of India.

If you want a short and effective answer, then NIFT entrance preparation books by Arihant are considered to be reliable. They touch all the syllabus and are also recommended by toppers. Also, note that the GAT paper for B.Des carries only 30% weightage, so it is not wise to get bogged down by heavy-duty books.

NIFT Counselling Process has the following steps:

1. Registration and Choice filling by the candidates
2. Uploading of documents
3. Paying the Seat Acceptance Fee
4. Document Verification
5. Receiving of Allotment Letter.