National Institute of Fashion Technology Kolkata Salt Lake City Answered Questions

You can visit the following link to check the eligibility criteria for admission in B.Des. in Fashion Design from NIFT - National Institute of Fashion Technology
https://www.shiksha.com/design/fashion-design/course/b-des-in-fashion-design-national-institute-of-fashion-technology-kolkata-salt-lake-city-97541

Fashion and Clothing Technology course at NIFT, Kolkata is a one year duration course with a total intake of 30 seats. The course fee is about Rs 1,00,300 and the eligibility criteria is 10+2.
This is a short duration and part time evening/week end course designed for working professionals. Hence, there is no age limit.

Different designing colleges have different entrance exams. NIFT's entrance this year was in the month of January. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait for next year now. Usually the dates are declared in the month of October when the admission forms are out.

Hi,
You can apply for NIFT for the year 2019. You do not require to drop a year to appear for the NIFT entrance examination. However, the competition there is fierce and requires rigorous preparation. I'd suggest you open options for yourself and apply for other design programmes as well. I have curated a few options, where you can apply:
National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, offers B.Des in many disciplines including Exhibition Design, Film and Animation, Ceramic Design, Film & Communication Design, Interior Design, Space Design, Product Design and Textile Design, to mention some.
Claiming to be the first Design University of India, Anant National University offers B.Des in Interior, Space, Interaction, Product and Communication Design.
JK Lakshmipat University, the corporate university of the 125-year-old JK Organisation, offers B.Des programmes in Product, Interaction and interdisciplinary design.
I would especially recommend the B.Des programme in interdisciplinary design if you are still uncertain about your calling in design since it provides you with a holistic flavor of design as a concept, rather than just concentrating in one aspect of it.

Yes, you can, also you are supposed to be in 12th grade or have passed 12th grade to appear for the entrance exam (NIFT Under Graduate Programme).
Forms will be out in October 2019, you should start preparing, go through the prospectus of this year for an idea about how the exam will be.
Practice as much as you can, explore, read, write, draw, be patient and prepare yourself.
An exam is only tough if you are not prepared.

Yes you can get the scholarship but the problem you face there is inferiority complex as the students studying there are of highly rich family and hence there you can't be able to compete then in day to day life if you can manage these all then you would go ahead as this field is really worth for the money.