Nata 2025 National Aptitude Test in Architecture
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About NATA
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 / UT’s etc., Institutions based on valid NATA score and eligibility criteria prescribed by CoA and concerned authorities from time to time.
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.
Schedule of Examination
Those candidates who have already appeared for NATA2024 and availed of one, two, or three attempts and obtained a valid NATA2024 score, may also apply for NATA 2025 but their NATA 2024 score shall be frozen. Their NATA2025 score shall be calculated/determined as under, depending upon number of attempts:
The candidates need to indicate their preference of the city/region and date of the test while registering at NATA portal www.nata. in. The session during which the candidate will take the test as well as the Test Centers, shall be allotted by the Council, as far as possible, based on cities/ regions 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:
Syllabus
NATA 2025 will be conducted as a comprehensive aptitude test consisting of Part -A (Drawing and Composition) which will be in offline mode and Part B (MCQ – Multiple Choice Questions and NCQ – No Choice Questions) which will be in ONLINE adaptive mode.
The medium of Aptitude test shall be in English and Hindi.