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B.Tech in civil engineering is a 4-year course for 12th pass students and B.Arch is a 5-year course for 12th pass students.
B.Tech in civil engineering deals with planning, construction and maintenance of structures such as buildings, roads, stadiums, dams, etc. Aspirant learns about making and planning of structure for personal and social use. B.Arch deals with design, planning and construction of buildings and other physical structures.
Basically, both are doing the job of construction and planning but B.Arch pass outs think design in mind and design on paper and Civil engineers think how to make and make the design happen in reality.
Architects sees how the design works, care about colour, shape and civil engineers see how to make structure safe and strong for a long time.

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NID, an aptitude test conducted by National Institute of Design.
NID exam doesn't have any set syllabus. Questions are asked on the basics topics such as Communication Skills, Composition, Creativity, Drawing Skills, General Mental Ability, and Sensitivity to Environment and Subjects of Design.
It is conducted in two stages: Prelims and Mains.
Prelims consists of two parts:
Part I- having Multiple-choice questions marked out of 70 points. This part has questions with one or more than one correct answer. The responses of this part will be recorded on an OMR sheet and evaluated digitally.
Part II- having subjective questions marked out of 30 points, with responses to be provided in visual and/or written formats.
The Design Aptitude Test (Prelims) consists of an examination of 90 minutes duration and will be marked out of 100 points.
This is a pen-and-paper test conducted at the same time on the same day across all test centres.
The question paper is in English.
All questions are compulsory.
There is no negative marking.

EXAM PATTERN
The Council of Architecture determines the NATA exam pattern. NATA is conducted in an offline mode and it is a three-hour exam in which multiple choice questions are asked from maths and general aptitude. Candidates will have to undertake a drawing test which will be of 90 minutes.
2 marks are awarded for every correct answer and there is no negative marking.
Candidates have to select the correct answer by coloring the bubble in the OMR sheet by using a black and blue pen.
SYLLABUS
#) Drawing Test:
Creating 2D and 3D compositions using given shape and forms. Understanding scale and proportion of objects, geometric composition, shape, aesthetics, color texture, harmony and contrast. Drawing of patterns both geometrical and abstract. Common day-to-day life objects like furniture, equipment etc., from memory. Perspective drawing, sketching and landscape. Conceptualization and visualization through structuring objects in memory.
#) General Aptitude: Analytical reasoning, mental ability, Visualizing different sides of 3D objects, general awareness of national/international architects and famous architectural creations. Interpretation of pictorial compositions, visualizing three-dimensional objects from a two-dimensional drawing. Mathematical-reasoning and sets & relations.
#) Mathematics: Logarithms, Matrices, Trigonometry, Theory of Calculus, Application of Calculus, Probability, Permutation and combination, Statistics, Coordinate Geometry, 3-Dimensional Co-ordinate geometry, etc.

AAT also known as Architecture Aptitude Test is an offline conducted entrance exam for admission to the B.Arch programme offered by IIT Kharagpur and IIT Roorkee. A student who has qualified Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) can give AAT. AAT consists of one paper of three hours duration. The question paper for AAT will be available only in English language.
Candidates have to bring their own drawing and coloring aids like:
1) Pen
2) Pencil 10/12 Set
3) Sharpener
4) Eraser
5) Geometric instruments like a compass, ruler, etc.
6) Hall ticket for JEE Advanced.
The syllabus consists of these topics:
Freehand drawing: Common domestic or day-to-day life usable objects like furniture, equipment, etc. are required to be drawn without any guidance through memory.
Geometrical Drawing: Study of plan (top view), elevation (front or side views) of simple solid objects like prisms, cones, cylinders, cubes, splayed surface holders, etc.
Three-dimensional perception: Visualization through structuring objects in memory.
Imagination and aesthetic sensitivity: Creativity check through an innovative uncommon test with familiar objects. The sense of color grouping or application.
Architectural awareness: General interest and awareness of famous architectural creations both national and international, places and personalities (architects, designers, etc.) in the related domain.

Camera and light management skills are fruitful to get to the technical jobs into film making or professional videography or photography in India and abroad.
While thinking of jobs abroad check the two major concerns that may hurt your prospects outside India:
1. The certificate is recognised and acknowledged in that country.
2. You gain such skills that even if the certificate course is just an elementary level thing, still the course serves its purpose to convey your skills and expertise of the camera skills and the lighting skills as well.
These two domains are complementary to each other but are kept aside for the sake of specialisation.
In India, government jobs are there in documentary production with private channels or Doordarshan. It should be appreciated that a course titled as documentary production shall have limited offerings if the nomenclature does not match the approved requisites.
In other countries, the technician knowing camera and lighting has an ample number of jobs once the person is able to break the ice and is able to develop a trust with the employer.
A proper, impressive, as well as professional portfolio of the work is needed as an example.

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The institute has a dedicated placement cell working to get the best companies into the campus. The institute provides full placement to all the students.
Around 130-140 companies come in an academic year for college placements. Some of the renowned companies are: Goldman Sachs – 16 LPA, Amazon – 27 LPA, NVIDIA – 15 LPA, Morgan Stanley – 15 LPA, HSBC – 14 LPA, AVAYA – 11 LPA, SAP Labs – 10 LPA, Cadence - 9.5 LPA and Barclays – 8 LPA.
Vishwakarma Institute of Management is affiliated to university of Pune, approved by AICTE and recognised by Government of Maharashtra. The college's vision is to become a premier institution of excellence in management education that develops talented and proficient leaders with values of entrepreneurship, moral values and social responsibilities and mission is to be a vibrant institution of excellence in management education through training, research and development with rigorous and innovative teaching-learning methods focused on inculcating managerial skills, professional ethics and core human values in students as future managers - Yojakas - and thereby contribute to the economy and society at large.

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Sushant School of Design (SSD), Ansal's University has a fully-fledged corporate resource center (CRC). The CRC department of the college is managed by erudite professionals, which works very hard for placing each student in top notch firms. The department maintains fruitful relationship with various corporate houses and assist students in making their career. CRC invites top leading firms in their campus for the recruitment process.
The process is governed by the students' ability and performance, as well as the requirements and norms of the industries. The objective of the CRC department is to foster students not just in their field of choice but also developing a positive mindset and attitude in them The objective of the CRC department is to foster students not just in their field of choice but also developing a positive mindset and attitude in them, which makes them enable in tackling complicated situations of their organisation as well as society. 19 students from the first batch of SSD have been successfully placed for internships assigned this summer. The college recruited its students in firms like LOCO Design, Vallaya Home, Essential Environments and Iram Sultan.

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Many industries, firms and organizations come to IITs to recruit fresh students from IDC. IDCians are much in demand and it is quite common to get several job offers before the students complete their courses.
Here are the details of placement record for the year and session ending in/until June 2016 for IIT Bombay, for all departments and courses offered including the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay.
Placement details by range of salary offered:
Above 11 lacs: 96 Companies gave 435 offers.
Between 9.5 to 11 lacs: 48 Companies gave 177 offers.
Between 8 to 9.5 lacs: 52 Companies gave 181 offers.
Between 6.5 to 8 lacs: 50 Companies gave 155 offers.
Between 5 to 6.5 lacs: 50 Companies gave 139 offers.
Less than 5 lacs: 12 Companies gave 56 offers.
Total: 308 Companies gave 1143 Offers to various students overall.
Companies like Trident started offering 36 LPA to design students. But, it is also based on the performance of a student and how much budget the company has.

A course in camera handling/videography and light management (shooting and of stage) skills are one of the main components of film making careers.
I shall assume that the above course is an introductory level course where the person has learnt the basics and foundation have been created. It is also noteworthy that the course in camera shall involve - not all cameras - that are actually used in the field. To know all that one will certainly need one of the two:
1. A place to work where the skill and learning enhancement is an integral part of the working
2. A place to pursue higher degree where the previously learnt skills are enhanced via teaching, practice and live projects.
When available, the option 02 shall be kept as a priority. But unfortunately, we do not get many institutions that take the skills higher.
The professional course is done to start an occupation and earning. Hence, it is suggested that the camera and lighting course person should search for healthy opportunities to work in job. If that does not succeed then the time must be used to pursue higher studies in any field.