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The exams that gate design

Every exam in this catalogue that leads into this field, with the figures each one publishes. A field with several gates is not a field with several chances — read what each one actually opens before preparing for all of them.

Nothing is written about this field yet beyond the exams themselves — what the work is like, and whether the thinking suits you, are still to come. The figures below are sourced and current regardless; they come from the catalogue rather than from anyone's judgement.

NIFT Entrance

National Institute of Fashion Technology · aptitude, creative ability, interview.

Any streamPortfolio roundSituation test Light prep · ≈ 250 h

1 in 6.4 Highly competitive 31,061 appeared for 4,837 seats across all NIFT campuses

NATA

Architecture aptitude — drawing, reasoning and maths.

Maths compulsoryUp to 3 attempts a yearDrawing tested Light prep · ≈ 210 h

≈ 20,000 B.Arch seats nationally · applicant count not sourced yet

Only exams this site has sourced appear here. Others exist — the route page names the ones it knows of — and they will appear once their figures come from a document rather than from an aggregator. The full exam finder covers every field.