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Online test for National Aptitude Test for Architecture

S. Sandeep Kumar

EducationPlus

Sparing little inconvenience, students are welcoming and getting aquatinted to the online pattern of National Aptitude Test for Architecture (NATA) that commenced last year. The Council of Architecture has made it a uniform entrance test for students seeking admission into Bachelor of Architecture course in private and unaided colleges through out the country.

The Planning and Architecture Common Entrance Test (PACET) was a written test exclusive for admission to JNTU School of Planning and Architecture and Department of Architecture, College of Engineering, Andhra University. The test consisted of two papers of Analytical ability, 3-Dimensional and other aspects followed by drawing and visualisation skills with 20 and 25 questions respectively, which the students had to answer in four hours.

Under the new format, students need to take a three-hour on-line test consisting two parts.

The first part is the drawing test, which is a free hand drawing and memory sketch for two hours followed by on-line test on aesthetic sensitivity and critical thinking.

Each part would be for 100 marks and score would be decided taking into account 50 per cent marks in qualifying examination of Intermediate or plus two. The drawing papers would be scanned and stored in the server for evaluation and total score along with the on-line test would be intimated to the student four or five days after the test.

The good thing about this online pattern is we get results very soon. One does not have to worry about the results and if not satisfied with the results, the student can apply for the examination within a week, which was not used to be case earlier with PACET.

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