NID Entrance Exam

The details of the NID DAT 2025 exam centre, including the name, address, and reporting time will be notified to the candidate through the NID DAT 2025 admit card.The DAT Prelims admit card will be available for download from December 24, 2024 (onward). The candidate after downloading the admit card needs to carefully go through the information mentioned in it, including the allotted exam center, exam timings, reporting time, etc. Note that candidates who arrive at the exam center after the reporting time mentioned in the admit card may face undue difficulties. On exam day, the candidate must also remember to carry the admit card and id proof.

The National Institite of Design (NID) has released the list of exam centres for the DAT Prelims exam on September 3, 2024.The list of exam centers have been published in the respective admission brochures for the B.Des and M.Des programs. The DAT Prelims exam will be conducted in 22 cities across the country - Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Kurukshetra, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Thiruvananthapuram, Vijayawada.Note that each of these cities may have one or more exam centres. The candidate can select their choice of exam centre at the time of filling out the application form. The NID DAT 2025 application form opened on September 3, 2024.

The candidate will be given the option to select NID DAT 2024 exam centres soon after the results of DAT Prelims exam is announced. The test centres will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. In the case of candidates who don't select test cities, the system will automatically allocat test cities based on the availability of seats in respective test centres. The details of the test centre allocated to the candidate will be mentioned in the NID DAT 2024 admit card. The NID DAT Mains 2024 Studio Test for B. Des will be held on April 27-28, 2024. On the day of the exam, the candidate had to report to the exam centre as per the timings mentioned in the admit card.

The NID DAT Mains 2025 exam for the B. Des programme will be conducted in the following cities - Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Gandhinagar, Kolkata & Kurukshetra. The candidate will be given the option to select the exam city after results are declared for DAT Mains.The details of the exam centre, including name and address and reporting time will be mentioned on the NID DAT 2025 admit card. The NID DAT 2025 (Prelims) exam will be conducted in 22 cities across India. The NID DAT 2025 (Mains) exam for B.Des will be conducted around the last week of April 2025. Meanwhile, the DAT Mains exam for M.Des will be conducted starting March 2025.