As you want to know the about the eligibility criteria for the National Institute of Design, DAT for Bachelor of Design so here I am telling you about this:

CRITERION 1 - AGE LIMIT

- Upper age limit for candidates is 20 years of age (relaxable by three years for reserved category)


CRITERION 2 - EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

- Applicant who have passed or will appear for the qualifying examinations under the higher secondary (10+2) from any recognized Board of Education such as AISSCE/IB/ICSE, or equivalents

Examinations considered as equivalent to class XII are:

- The final examination of the 10+2 system, conducted by a Central or State Board recognized by the Association of Indian Universities

- Final examination of the two-year course of the Joint Services Wing of the National Defense Academy.

- Senior Secondary School Examination conducted by the National Institute of Open Schooling with a minimum of five subjects.

- Any Public School, Board or University examination in India or in a foreign country recognized as equivalent to the 10+2 system by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU).

- H.S.C. vocational examination.

- General Certificate Education (GCE) examination (London, Cambridge or Sri Lanka) at the Advanced (A) level.

- High School Certificate Examination of the Cambridge University or International Baccalaureate Diploma of the International Baccalaureate Office, Geneva.

- Candidates who have completed Class XII (or equivalent) examination outside India or from a Board not specified above should produce a certificate from the Association of Indian Universities to the effect that the examination they have passed is equivalent to the Class XII examination.

Paper Pattern:-

Design Aptitude Test (DAT) seeks evidence of Knowledge, Comprehension, Analysis, Reasoning, Problem Solving and Creativity in the applicant.

There will be ONE question paper of 3 hours duration.
The question paper will be in English.
The question paper will carry a total of 100 marks, out of which Section A carrying 70 marks will be of multiple choice objective type questions and Section B carrying 30 marks will be of subjective type questions.
All questions are compulsory.
There will be no negative marking.

Section A

Total: 70 marks

Multiple choice objective type questions varying from 0.5 marks to 4 marks each.

Section B

Total: 30 marks

Subjective Type questions

Problem solving and Creativity based questions test the candidates’ ability to judge, evaluate, integrate, hypothesize, design or construct.