u/rad_anon_art

As someone who dove into this deep and dark ocean without a damn clue, I faced a lot of challenges preparing for this exam. NID exam is as unpredictable as the weather. I gave NID last year, and boy was it a turbulent phase of my life.

I prepared for this exam for almost 2 years. 1 and a half year of my preparation, I was fully focused on sketching and compositions, hoping that in 40% that was allotted for DAT prelims, I could somehow pull it off since my biggest weakness was material handling which was the situation test and had a 60% weightage. But, things took a wild turn when NID threw the ultimate bomb just 2-3 months before the prelims. The damn elimination. NID made a new change that there would only be a selection of 600-650 students to the NID mains. I am not lying when I say, that scared me. The exam was in December and this whole change was honestly very stressful for me. You would ask, why are you scared? Well that is because even if I cleared the Prelims, what if I fluke the mains? That was what scared me the most, because to be honest. I had 0 interest in UCEED (which I reluctantly did give) and NIFT (which thank god I didn’t give). And since I had no interest in those 2, I had to get into NID no matter what. But…on the day of the prelims was the other surprise bomb. NID made the whole paper a 100% drawing paper, removing GAT (honestly a phew for me cuz my GAT was pretty awful okay!) but yeah that took everyone by surprise, but the questions. God, those mind boggling questions just were. I can’t even get explain how they were and how I felt solving it.

How I approached this challenge? Well being scared, was one part, but you have to just accept it and take it with the stride (even though I knew if I failed I was gonna be cooked ULTRA PRO MAX by both my parents) but yeh. I tried to improve my hands on skills (now they are way wayyyyy better than the trainwreck I was) and put my best foot forward. I gave NID like my life depended on it, which honestly it did because, I kinda rebelled against my parents by doing bad in UCEED and not appearing for NIFT altogether, so yeah, and also NID has always been my dream college to get into.

But from my experience, here are my takeaways:
- sketch EVERYDAY!! Like seriously sketch or scribble, just do it!
- explore variety of materials and go back to those old craft videos you used to do as kids, it really helps!!
- research and explore about the different disciplines, it helps you know which exam you want to give.
- for NID please don’t focus much on your colouring, just good sketching and shading really helps you a lot.
- TIME MANAGEMENT, I kid you not, in this exam in a blink of an eye 3 hours fly by, so you gotta manage your time and speed.

Hope you all find this helpful!! Wish to see a lot of yall in NID and be your senior ◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜
(P.S if yall wondering if I got into NID, yes I did, otherwise I wouldn’t be writing to yall here.)

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