NID DAT Subjective sample practice questions (B.Des)

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In this post, I've covered some sample questions that might be useful for your subjective practice. This is in specific to BDes paper and according to 2017 official sample paper available in NID official website. Please note that the questions are purely based on my analysis and have been shared with the intention that some of them might actually turn useful for your practice. Please also note that some of the questions may not fit well to the exam.  

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1. Drawing exercises of scenarios

1. Draw the scene of a school-boy studying a book, intensively, with no power but only candle light in the room, being seated on the floor
2. Draw the scene of yourself sitting on your rooms sofa and taking selfie
3. Draw the scene of a mother, feeding her 2 year child with a milk bottle
4. Draw the scene of a grandfather narrating a story from a book to his grand-daughter of 9-12 years old during bedtime. Show the excited state of the grand-daughter.
5. Draw a creature, upper half human and lower half a tree trunk with some branches, watering itself. 
6. Assume you are sitting in front of a laptop or a desktop PC adjacent to a wall, draw how your eyes see the scene
7. Draw different facial emotions of a human (boy or girl) - only face/portrait is sufficient. Maintain the same person in all the scenes
8. Draw the scene of an artist making art in his/her living room.
9. Draw the scene of a manager in his office room, in front of a system (Computer) with files piled on his desk.
10. Draw the scenario of two kids competing for one another on video game
11. raw the scene of a room with at least one person, dating back to early 40's, 1940-1950 time. The very look of the image should give the perception that the scene dates back to 40's
12. Draw a gadget tab (iPad or big sized mobile phone) showing that video was running on the screen. No background, only the gadget and the view of the video
13. Draw a villager preparing chappatis/rotis, sitting on the floor, rolling the dough while a pan/tava with a chappatis on top of a natural mud made stove, burning using wood/twigs. 
14. Illustrate the last scene of the thirsty crow-pebbles story, the scene of crow drinking water while it had already dropped some pebbles up to the half of the jar.
15. There was a power cut. Draw the scene of your father fanning you, while you're fast asleep at the comfort of the fanning. Your father being happy at that moment.
16. Draw yourself with head over phones on, enjoying the music like anything
17. Draw yourself in a superhero costume 
18. Draw yourself sitting on a sofa exhibiting ur happiness in watching the winning match on TV

2. Human/Object sketching exercises

1. Draw a portrait of a pretty girl with curly hairs, cheering up, with appropriate details in the background.
2. Draw a 6 years kid weeping on his/her study table with some books. Show appropriate details including the background.
3. Draw a 2-3 years child, just learnt to walk using the support of the adjacent wall. Show appropriate details including the background.
4. Draw a portrait of a cheerful farmer with a turban and moustache, holding a plough. Show appropriate details including the background.
5. Draw a girl kid (6-10 years old) with a puppy in her hand.
6. Draw the sketch of a basket of vegetables on top of a table, visible in the dimness of a candle light. Show appropriate details, shades etc. 

Choose two Homonym of your choice and draw them. 

Note: Homonym is a word that is spelt the same or sounds the same as another word but is different in meaning.

Ex: 

(pray, prey), 

(sell ,cell)

this page has a very long list of Homonym

1. Draw the two meanings of the word "Spring" and write a one-line explanation for the sketch.
2. Draw the two meanings of the word "tire" and write a one-line explanation for the sketch.
3. Draw the two meanings of the word "desert" and write a one-line explanation for the sketch.

3. Story writing exercise

Frame stories using the following set of words, don't exceed 7 lines 

1. Iron box, doll, shirt, table
2. Tiffen box, stove, wall clock, mother, cat
3. grandma, shoes, car horn, TV
4. Ants, Laptop, cookies, Sleep
5. Water bottle, monkey, window grills, fridge
6. Doctor, sweets, salt, grandma, 
7. Bulb, plant, carpet, glass jar

If possible illustrate one frame of the story (pick any scene of your choice from the chosen story), which you've written. 

4. Poster making exercise

(you may use colours, rulers or other media)

1. Population reduction - a theme poster that shows the downside of population growth. Give appropriate title and caption
2. Make a poster for avoiding food wastage showing at least one kid in hungry or starving mode
3. Create a poster advertisement to promote 'Swachh Bharat' campaign, showing at least a kid involved in the activity, 
4. Make a poster for bringing awareness of digital India. Include the key elements like e-payments, govt. apps, digishala, govt. digital services, prevention of corruption, reduction of documents, hence papers, fast services/processes, 
5. Your college is organising a cultural festival, make a poster showing the details of events or diff. kind of cultural.
6. Create a poster advertising men to join Indian armed forces for a minimum of one year. Use Indian flag, Indian emblem, a Soldier. Use the form of them (texture, pattern, outline etc) 
7. Design a poster to bring awareness about education focused on the rural parts of India. Illustrate visually the benefits 

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(Below is a Supplementary Exercise)

5. Replicate exercises

Exactly redraw/replicate the below images, giving form and details - as much as possible

(just replicate the front girl and the table, no need to draw other kid in the backdrop)

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P.S.: I will update this page with more exercise and other variants of questions as soon as I finish next phase of previous paper analysis. Until then I hope the above exercise practice questions would come handy to during your preparation.