NID DAT Cutoff 2018 for MDes Admissions

National Institute of Design (NID) declared the final results for MDes course on May 2, 2018 and the result for BDes & GDPD course admissions was declared on May 31, 2018. Candidates need to meet NID cutoffs 2018 in order to get shortlisted for admission in design programmes offered at the colleges that accept NID DAT scores for admissions.

NID admission process is such that aspirants need to first appear for NID DAT (Prelims) which is a written entrance exam whereas NID DAT Mains admission round comprises of a Studio Test and Personal Interview round. NID declares separate cut-offs for NID DAT (Prelims) and NID DAT (Mains). Aspirants who meet the cutoffs for NID DAT Prelims are only eligible to appear for the Mains exam.

National Institute of Design releases separate cutoffs for each design discipline. Also, cutoffs for admission in this design school are released category-wise.

NID Entrance Exam is the medium through which aspirants are shortlisted for admission in Bachelor of Design (BDes), Graduate Diploma Programme in Design (GDPD) as well as Master of Design (MDes) programmes offered at the various NID campuses.

In order to secure admissions in design programmes on offer at NID, aspirants need to clear two stages which are - NID DAT (Prelims) and NID DAT (Mains). The Design Aptitude Test (DAT) conducted by NID is a three hour duration exam and the total weightage of the test is 100 marks. This is a pen and paper based test. The medium of instruction of NID DAT 2018 is English and the test paper comprises of both objective as well as subjective questions. The studio test for NID admissions may comprise of questions which aspirants will have to solve in different formats like drawing/sketching, hands-on model making, group discussions, presentations, etc.