Category: B Arch Exam

Architecture as social commentary holds a mirror to society, reflecting its glory and challenges. From stylistic evolution to radical visions, architecture not only responds to society but actively helps to shape it. Architecture plays a significant role in shaping cultural identity and also acts as a medium to express creativity. Buildings and structures act as symbols of a community’s values, beliefs; heritage and their design reflect the unique identity of the place.

Architecture is a noble profession which deals with the well-being of human beings and Society. Its routes are as ancient as the civilization. Popularly defined as combination of Arts and Technology, it ensures creation of built environment ensuring health, hygiene, safety and happiness of the occupants as well as visitors.

The career of an Architect is very promising and satisfying, being a ‘Professional’, one is capable of starting the practice, in the modern terms ‘start-up’ at the earlier stage of life with minimal investment. Hence, Architects are popularly known as ‘Job Givers’ rather than ‘Job Seekers’.

As aptly described by Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi Ji, this is the ‘Amrit Kal’of Indian Civilisation and in the days to come, we would be the biggest service providers of the world. The construction and infrastructure activities across India are at its peak and the Architects have to positively contribute to the development of Nation as never before. The Council is making all efforts to ensure that the Architectural Education and Profession in the country meets the challenges posed by globalisation, scarcity of natural resources and energy along with threat posed by natural and man-made disasters.

NATA is the first step towards this glorious career and those who wish to join Architecture profession will have to qualify NATA, a test especially designed to assess the aptitude of the candidate towards architecture profession.

SCHDEULE OF EXAMINATION

The candidates can appear for a maximum of 3 attempts in NATA 2024 in one academic year. The best score out of all the attempts shall be considered for the declaration of results. The score of NATA Test would be valid for a period of 2 academic years. Examination shall be valid for a period of 2 academic years.

Examination shall be conducted on all weekends starting from April to July. 2024 in two sessions, subject to a number of candidates registered for the session. The candidates need to indicate their preference for session & city of examination while registering at NATA portal www.nata.in. The session during which the candidate will take the test as well as the Test Centres, shall be allotted by the Council, as far as possible, on the basis of cities and sessions preferred by the candidate in the application form. However, the decision of the Council in allotting the Test Centre and session to candidates shall be final.

The Tests shall be conducted as per the schedule as given below:

NATA Coaching SYLLABUS 2025

The medium of Aptitude test shall be in English and Hindi. The aptitude of the candidate will be assessed using some or all of the following:

PART-A

Drawing and Composition Test

This is one and a half-hour (90 minutes) – 80 Marks Test where the candidate has to attempt three questions. The content of the PART A Test is as follows:

• Al – Composition and Colour -25 Marks: Creating suitable compositions for various situations and colouring them appropriately. Re-arranging various shapes in a visually appealing manner and colouring it suitably.
• A2 -Sketching & Composition (Black and White)-25 Marks: Ability to draw, visualize, depict a situation, involving buildings / its components, people, environment, products with an understanding of scale, proportions, textures, shades, and shadow, etc.
• A3 – 3D Composition-30 Marks: Creating interesting 3D composition for the given situation using the provided kit.

PART-B

This is one and a half-hours (90 minutes), 120 Marks Test where the candidate has to appear for an online test. It shall have two type of Questions viz., B1 – 30 Questions of 2 Marks and B2 – 15 Questions of 4 Marks from the following topics:

• Visual Reasoning Ability to understand and reconstruct 2D and 3D composition, knowledge about its composition, and technical concepts.
• Logical Derivation Ability to decode a situation, composition, and context and generate meaning. Understanding the minute information hidden in a particular situation and drawing conclusions.
• K., Architecture & Design General awareness of architecture and design, current issues, recent episodes, etc., Knowledge about important buildings, historical progression, innovation in materials, and construction technology.
• Language Interpretation Ability to correctly & logically generate the meaning of words, and sentences, and understand about English grammar.
• Design Sensitivity Ability to observe record and analyse, people, space, products,
• Critical thinking, reasoning, and ability to identify subtle communications.
• Design Thinking Ability to understand semantics, metaphors, problem identification and definition, and analysis of a given situation.
• Numerical Ability Basic Mathematics and its association with creative thinking. To unfold a
• space with the use of geometry.

Appearing in second or third test is not mandatory and is purely at the discretion of the applicants. Candidates can register themselves for one test or maximum of three Tests in one academic year by filling in the application form appropriately.

Qualifying Criteria
The Qualifying Marks for the NATA 2024 would be based on the following Rules:

1. A minimum of 20 marks must be secured in PART A
2. A minimum of 30 marks must be secured in PART B
3. Overall qualifying marks for NATA 2024 shall be 70 marks out of 200 as aggregate of Part A and Part B.

JEE PAPER – 2 SYLLABUS

Part – I MATHEMATICS

UNIT 1: SETS, RELATIONS, AND FUNCTIONS:

UNIT 2: COMPLEX NUMBERS AND QUADRATIC EQUATIONS:

UNIT3: MATRICES AND DETERMINANTS:

UNIT 4: PERMUTATIONS AND COMBINATIONS:

UNIT 5: BINOMIAL THEOREM AND ITS SIMPLE APPLICATIONS:

UNIT 6: SEQUENCE AND SERIES:

UNIT 7: LIMIT, CONTINUITY, AND DIFFERENTIABILITY:

UNIT 8: INTEGRAL CALCULAS:

UNIT 9: DIFFRENTIAL EQUATIONS

UNIT 10: CO-ORDINATE GEOMETRY

• Straight line
• Circle, conic sections

UNIT 11: THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY

UNIT 12: VECTOR ALGEBRA

UNIT 13: STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

UNIT 14: TRIGONOMETRY

Part –II APTITUDE TEST

UNIT – 1 Awareness of persons. Buildings, Materials.

Objects, Texture related to Architecture and Build-environment, Visualizing three- dimensional objects from two-dimensional drawings. Visualizing. Different sides of three- dimensional objects. Analytical Reasoning Mental Ability (Visual. Numerical and Verbal)

UNIT – 2 Three dimensional- perception: Understanding and appreciation of scale and proportions of objects, building forms and elements, colour texture harmony and contrast Design and drawing of geometrical or abstract shapes and patterns in pencil. Transformation of forms both 2D and 3D union, subtraction rotation, development of surfaces and volumes, Generation of plans, elevations, and 3D views of objects, creating two-dimensional and three-dimensional compositions using given shapes and forms.

Part – III DRAWING TEST

Sketching of scenes and activities from memory of urban scape (public space, market, festivals, street scenes, monuments, recreational spaces, etc.). landscape (riverfronts. Jungle. Gardens, trees. Plants, etc.) and rural life.

To be conducted in a Drawing sheet.

Note: Candidates are advised to bring pencils. Own geometry box set, crasets and colour pencils, and crayons for the Drawing Test

JEE Main Paper 2 Syllabus Planning Part III

IMPORTANT LINKS

• Why Architecture? | A Film by Council of Architecture
• NATA 2024 Registration
• NATA Score accepting Colleges
• NATA Exam Papers 2024

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