Communication Design

You don't need to have maths.
NID exam includes multiple choice questions and drawing related questions and is designed to evaluate the following abilities of the candidate.
1. Visualization and Spatial ability: It is the potential to detect, imagine and visualize shapes. It is the ability to interpret 2D, 3D shapes and other similar objects.
2. Observation and Design sensitivity: It includes the ability to detect concealed properties in ordinary things, people, situations, events and thinking critically about them.
3. Environmental and Social awareness: It includes the awareness of environmental factors such as climate, population, water, vegetation, pollution, weather, natural resources etc., and their implications on the design of products, images, infrastructure and environment. It also includes the awareness of history, architecture, artists, paintings, dance forms, symbols, history of the designed artifact, socially responsible and environmentally sustainable design, art, sculpture and literature.
4. Analytical and Logical reasoning: It assesses the ability to consider a group of facts and rules, and, given those facts and rules, determine what could or must be true. It is the ability to follow the rules and work as per the instructions without an error. It tests your ability to look at information, be it qualitative or quantitative in nature and discern patterns within the information.
5. Drawing skills: It is not necessary to be a pure artist but you should be aware of basic elements in design sketching like proportion, perspective, lights and shadows, composition and spaces.