Eligibility Criteria and NATA Admission Process

National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) is a national level entrance exam conducted by Council of Architecture (CoA) for admission into B.Arch. courses offered by various colleges and institutions in India.  The Council of Architecture is a statutory body established under the Architects Act, 1972 (legislated by the Indian Parliament) to lay down and supervise the principles required to be maintained by the Architectural institutions for imparting accepted architectural qualifications in India.

The NATA Eligibility criteria consist of 4 segments i.e., age, qualifications, subjects and minimum marks required. The aspiring candidate has to fulfil the eligibility criteria in all the four segments in order to sit for the exam. NATA eligibility criteria are formulated by CoA, New Delhi. CoA has not mention any age limit for NATA exam. The candidates must pass class 12 (10+2) exam from any recognized board with 50% marks in aggregate, and 50% marks in PCM. Besides, mathematics, physics and chemistry must be the compulsory subjects in the qualifying exam. Those appearing for 10+2 exam with PCM subjects may also temporarily appear in the exam, however, their result in NATA will be declared valid subject to satisfying the above conditions. In addition, if you are from Arts stream, you are also eligible to apply, if you qualify mathematics, physics and chemistry exam conducted by CBSE.

For Admission process, after qualifying NATA, candidates need to apply with their scorecards to various institutions approved by the Council for imparting 5-year B.Arch. degree course. The final admissions would be carried out only by the concerned experienced admission or counselling authorities of the respective states, universities, institutions, as per eligibly criteria set by the Council. Besides, as per Council norms, the institution or college may award a maximum weightage of 50% to marks obtained in NATA and a maximum weightage of 50% to marks obtained in 10+2 exam. In addition, a candidate has to secure minimum of 25% in MCQ section (30 out of 120) and minimum of 25% in Drawing section (20 out of 80). Overall qualifying marks (out of 200) would be based on post-exam numbers and at the decision of the Council.

An experienced coaching institute plays a significant role in preparing candidates to crack entrance exam for taking admission into B.Arch. courses. So, if you wish to become a professional architect, you must register in established coaching institute like Bhanwar Rathore Design Studio (BRDS), where students are guided by skilled faculties from renowned institutes for NATA Admission tests. Visit here: https://brdsindia.com/nataadmission2018/ for detailed information.

BRDS has over 5000 students and has the maximum number of selection of students in NATA every year as equated to other coaching institutes in India. It is the leading design and architecture coaching institute with highest result producer for NATA entrance exam. BRDS provides outstanding infrastructures to fulfil the all-rounded educational needs of the students. Such as lecture halls, audio-visual hall with 500 educational videos and short videos on numerous subjects, theatre hall, art and crafts workshop, library with over 500 national and international books, magazines of design subjects, teaching materials, technical videos etc. The institute has fully Wi-Fi campus, and provides hostel accommodations for outstation students as well. Visit the website: http://brdsindia.com/ for NATA in-depth coaching classes.

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