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National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) 2025 |
Category : Engineering Admissions 2025 |
Published : On April 8, 2025 By Webindia123 Editor |
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NATA 2025
National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) is being conducted by COA since 2006, to qualify for the admission to Bachelor of Architecture. The Council has prescribed CoA (Minimum Standards of Architectural Education) Regulations, 1983 and the CoA (Minimum Standards of Architectural Education) Regulations, 2020, with the approval of the Central Government in terms of Sections 21 & 45 of the Architects Act, 1972.
These Regulations prescribe that the candidate needs to qualify an Aptitude Test in Architecture conducted either by NTA (i.e. JEE) or NATA conducted by the Council for admission to the Architecture degree Programme.
The actual admissions shall be carried out only by the concerned competent authorities of the respective States / UTs etc., Institutions based on valid NATA score and eligibility criteria prescribed by CoA and concerned authorities from time to time.
NATA is an Aptitude test that assesses a candidates ability through a variety of testing formats.
NATA measures the aptitude of the applicant for the specific field of study, i.e. Architecture, through assessment of cognitive skills, visual perception and aesthetic sensitivity tests, logical reasoning and critical thinking ability etc., besides the learning that the candidate has acquired over the past years.
In order to provide opportunities to a large number of aspirants to join Architecture Programme, the Council will be conducting NATA-2025 Aptitude Test for admissions into approved Architectural Institutions for the academic session 2025-2026, on designated Fridays & Saturdays in two sessions starting from March 2025 to June, 2025.
Eligibility
Candidates fulfilling the below criteria prescribed by the Council can appear for NATA 2025
However, the admission to B.Arch., Course shall be made as per the
eligibility prescribed in the Council of Architecture.
Candidates may note
that NATA 2025 is the qualifier Aptitude Test for admission to B.Arch. program
offered by Universities / Institutions in the country, subject to the
fulfillment of eligibility criteria as prescribed by the Council.
Admission to First year of B.Arch. course
Only candidates who have the following credentials shall be eligible for admission to B.Arch. Course.
No direct lateral admission is allowed at any other year/stage of B.Arch. course based on any qualification.
Application Fee for NATA 2024
Application Fees | In India | Outside India | |||
General/OBC(NCL) | SC/ST/EWS/PwD | Transgender | |||
Per Test | 1750 | 1250 | 1000 | 15000 |
Application Procedure
The NATA test shall be held on designated Fridays and Saturdays starting from March 2025 to June, 2025 in one session on Fridays (Afternoon) and two sessions on Saturdays, in the notified cities at the allotted Centres and the online form filling shall start from 03.02.2025.
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
Application is to be filled up ONLINE at the NATA portal of www.nata.in. Candidates need to visit the portal, generate username & password by entering relevant details and then CLICK the requisite link ONLINE APPLICATION NATA 2025. Thereafter, candidate will be directed to the actual application form. The form is interactive in nature and the fields required to be filled up are categorized in different sub-sections. The fields super-scribed with *MUST be filled up as they are MANDATORY, otherwise the application will NOT get submitted.
The application form is broadly categorized into three steps: filling of PERSONAL DETAILS; DOCUMENT UPLOADING & FEE PAYMENT. Please see APPENDIX-III for detailed guidelines on information to be entered at the time of online form filling.
Candidates need to fill in the first part i.e., PERSONAL DETAILS and will thereafter be directed to DOCUMENT UPLOADING. Once the documents are successfully uploaded, the system enters into the FEE PAYMENT. Finally, the candidate must take a printout of CONFIRMATION PAGE generated upon successful fee payment for their own record. There is no need to send any document by post.
More details can be available from the institute website.
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