7 Important Updates not to miss in NID Prospectus 2016

Anu Handa

1. NID Registration Process goes online

Before: Till last year, students had to download the application forms from the website & send the completed forms to NID along with the fees and required documents.
Now: NID Application Forms 2016 can be filled online. Visit admissions.nid.edu.

2. DAT for NID B.Design, NID M.Design & GDPD at NID Vijayawada – All on the same date

Before: DAT for NID B.Design & NID M.Design usually never shared the same date of examination.
Now: For NID Admissions 2016 – 17, DAT for NID B.Design, NID M.Design & GDPD at NID Vijayawada, all will be held on January 10, 2016

3. Results for DAT

Before: Results for DAT B.Design and M.Design were usually declared in the month of March
Now: For the coming admission season, results will be declared as following

DAT for NID B.Design and GDPD - Feb 22, 2016

DAT for NID M.Design - Feb 5, 2016

4. Admit Cards

Before: Hall Tickets / Call Letters for DAT were posted to students in the month of December.
Now: Admit Cards for DAT will be available online to students on December 24, 2015.

5. New Test Centres Added

Before: 12 Test Centres existed in India for conducting NID DAT.
Now: Five more Test Centres added: Bhuvaneshwar, Dehradun, Ranchi, Thiruvananthapuram and Vijayawada added to the initial list.

6.Eligibility Criteria – Age

For B.Design
Before: For NID Admissions 2015-16 - Upper Age limit of Candidates– 20 years

( relaxable by 3 years for reserved categories ) as on June 1, 2015

Now: For NID Admissions 2016-17 - Upper Age limit of Candidates - 20 years

( relaxable by 3 years for reserved categories ) on or before July 1, 2016

For M.Design
Before: For NID Admissions 2015-16 - Upper Age limit of Candidates– 30 years

( relaxable by 3 years for reserved categories ) as on June 1, 2015

Now: For NID Admissions 2016-17 - Upper Age limit of Candidates - 30 years

( relaxable by 3 years for reserved categories ) on or before July 1, 2016

7. Eligibility Criteria – Educational Qualification

For M.Design
Before: For NID Admissions 2015-16 - Educational Qualification varies for all 19 streams.
Now: For NID Admissions 2016-17 - Educational Qualification is common for all 19 streams. For more details Click here

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About the Author: Anu Handa is an Interior Designer, DIY Artist, Co-Founder and Educator at Mosaic Institute of Design. She has been the lead blogpost writer at www.mosaicdesigns.in since 2009. Her educational background in Interior Design, Urban Planning and the English Language has given her a broad base to cover a range of topics in her articles. Anu has spent 15+ years training Design & B.Arch Aspirants for entrance exams.

Passionate about Design Education, she’s briefly worked with Annamalai University as a paper setter for Design Exams. Likes to write about Design, Architecture and related fields, on online platforms like Quora. Aims at challenging the conventional & age old teaching methodology.

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