Hello,

NIFT Situation Test is conducted for two hours. Your performance will be assessed based on the following parameters

• Colour scheme

• Space visualization

• Construction skill

• Innovative and creative use of given material

• Finesse of the model

• Composition of elements

• Overall presentation

You will given a question to design a model with the materials provided and you will be allowed to use any additional or outside material at the time of making the model. After the model is finished you need to explain it in English language. Here are few tips that can help you to perform well in Situation Test

• You can practice for the situation test of NIFT by making different models at home.

• Improve your observation skills by analyzing different objects.

• You must use different kinds of materials while experimenting with various models.

• List of materials that students can use for practice are:

1. Glaze Papers

2. Plasticine Clay

3. Copper Wire

4. Ivory Sheets,

5. Cardboard

6. Thermocol (thick And Thin)

7. Kite Papers

8. Handmade Sheet

9. Coloured Clay

10. Cellophane

11. Fabric

12. Thread

13. Ribbon

14. Straw

15. Aluminum Foil

16. Aluminum Sheet

17. Rubber Band

18. Thumb Pins

• Practice demonstrating what you have made in English

Hi,

The thing with the situation test is that, we don't have any hard and fast rule to crack it. I feel it is mostly about your presence of mind, material handling skills and creativity.

Here are some useful tips that must works for you :-

• Prepare a tool kit with all utilities like a geometry box, foot ruler in metal & plastic, paper knife, scissors big & small, cello tape, glue stick, fevicol, all pins, markers etc.
• Practice handling of all types of craft materials. You could work on the following given materials by trying to practice how to cut and attach within the same material category & also across the material category.
• Some materials to practice with are – card board, thermocol (thick & thin), glaze papers, kite papers, handmade sheet, cellophane, fabric, coloured clay, aluminium foil, aluminium sheet, sun pack, foam, straw pipe, mouldable aluminium wire, transparency sheet, cotton, rubber sheet, gift wrapping sheet, beads & sequences etc.
• Always Work Time Bound. It is pointless to keep sitting with a single assignment for more than 2 hours as that is the time limit you have.
• Explore the possibilities with the materials at hand.
• Work through a contact session through an experienced and trusted mentor, following a video can only help in developing your skill and  that too for only that one model you watch being made. But a mentor nurtures and develops you into an independent thinker and explorer with heightened creative quotient, which helps you handle any question variety.

Hope this helps get a direction for maximising your 20% of your situation test contribution to your merit.  Do remember, nothing replaces a mentor, so find a good one.

Good luck.

Hello,

Yes you are eligible for Design course and the NIFT exam as the eligibility criteria states that the candidate should have completed their 10+2 level exam to be eligible for the design course there is no criteria that you are supposed to complete your 10+2 level in a specific stream for B.Des course. The authority has released the NIFT 2022 application form on December 3, 2021, in online mode - nift.ac.in and it was available till January 17. NIFT Entrance Exam for UG & PG course was conducted on February 6, 2022.

Hello Warukatta

It totally depends on you interest what is more important for you do that thing.

And if you think that by Skipping PT Unit test you will not get affected by anything then you should go for NIFT Entrance test. and as I said Its only you who can take decision for yourself in kind of situation because its only you who knows that what is good for your life.

So Be patience and Do what you really care for.

Thanks

Hello Hitesh,

Hope you are doing good.

The question paper for NIFT Entrance exam will be  in both English & Hindi language.

For more relevant information related to the NIFT exam pattern, please visit the link provided below:

https://design.careers360.com/articles/nift-exam-pattern

Hope this helps. All the best!

Hello,

It is quite difficult to predict the cut off as it depends on the total number of candidates appeared, difficulty level of examination and total number of seats available etc. Every year the cut off changes. The cut off for NIFT 2021 will be released after NIFT counselling is concluded. So we can predict the institutes in which you may get seat based on previous year cut off. Here is the cut off in 2020 for admission to Accessory Design under general category

• NIFT, Bengaluru: 559
• NIFT, Mumbai: 473
• NIFT, Gandhinagar:868

Considering the previous year cut off you do not have chances of getting seat in any of the preferred campuses because the cut off was lower than the rank you have secured. However, you have chances of getting seat in the following institutes in the preferred course

• NIFT, Kolkata: 1674
• NIFT, Patna: 3172
• NIFT, Hyderabad: 1204 (Slight chances)
• NIFT, Bhopal: 2447

As said the cut off is subjected to change in the year 2021 based on the above mentioned factors. To check the previous year cut off click on the link below

https://design.careers360.com/articles/nift-cutoff