NIFT B.Des and M.Des - Free study materials

Fortunately, the syllabus and exam pattern for both BDes and MDes are same except for the difficulty level. Here, I'm including common study materials that will be applicable for both the NIFT exams. I will update this page whenever I find relevant materials worth to be shareable. 

In general, NIFT paper has the following sections

GAT, CAT, Analytical Ability, GK and Creative Ability test.

This page will try to cover all the parts except for Creative Ability which will be dealt in a separate post.

Disclaimer: The materials and the syllabus that I included are purely based on my analysis of the previous paper, intended to give you materials for self-study without the need for you to spend on purchase of costly materials. I might not have covered everything related to the exam and at the same time the materials included are related to some extent to your exam.

GAT and Analytical Ability study Materials

Additional Practice:

Online practice - Quantitaive aptitude practice
Quantitative aptitude online practice - here >>
Go through Arithmetic reasoning and venn diagrams - here >>

Logical Reasoning online practice -

CAT study Materials

Vocabulary Study Materials 

A good PDF on Vocabulary (Synonyms, Antonyms, Analogies, Reading comprehension, sentence completion, right word etc.) 

501 word analogy questions - 

Idioms and phrases - online study 1 

Sentetnce Correction and Completions

Sentence completion pdf exercises

Free time study on sentence correction prepared for GMAT

Exercise on correct statement selection 


Inference from Paragraph and pictures

• Paragraph inference Material - 1
• Paragraph inference Material - 2
• Paragraph inference Material - 3
• Paragraph inference Material - 4 (briefly go through this)
• Paragraph inference Material - 5

Verbal Reasoning

• A very good file on types of reasoning (Imp)
• Verbal Reasoning Test 1  
• Solutions for VR Test1 
• Verbal Reasoning Test 2 
• Solutions to Verbal Reasoning Test 2  
• Cause and Effect test samples

Data Interpretation

• Data Interpretation test 1 
• Data Interpretation test 2
• Answers to Data Interpretation test 2 - 
• Data Interpretation test 3
• Answers to Data Interpretation test 2

Paragraph summary

Para summary material - 1

Para summary material - 2

Leisure time study - material 3

English comprehension

Comprehension material 1

Very good exercise with answer key

leisure time study - TOEFL material

Deductive and Verbal Reasoning

• Deductive reasoning material - 1
• Deductive reasoning material - 2
• Verbal Reasoning Test 1  
• Solutions for VR Test1 
• Verbal Reasoning Test 2 
• Solutions to Verbal Reasoning Test 2  
• Cause and Effect test samples

Analytical Ability study materials

Direction sense test

A Good worksheet with explanations

Additional worksheet with in depth questions

Online practice exercise

Leisure time practice

Leisure time exercises for your practice - 1

Leisure time exercises for your practice - 2

Odd man out series exercises

Online practice test - 1
Prcatice test - 2 Numerical (downloadable)
Online practice test - 3 (Word)
Find the odd picture - warmup worksheet

Leisure time exercises
Exercise - 1
Exercise - 2
With good explanations and procedure

Data Sufficiency (Free PDFs from different sources) -
Practice 1 
Practice 2 
Practice 3 
Practice 4
Practice 5
Practice 6 

Reasoning questions  

Practice 1 PDF

Free time practice 

Alphabetic Reasoning  

Series Alphabetic reasoning 

Guide on Alphabet Test 

Another Pdf 

Online Practice  

Another online practice website

General Knowledge

Indian Authors and their books

List of Indian Autobiographies pdf 

List of famous personalities (Just overview)

List of Indian Olympic winners

Another list of Olympic winners 

(just give a glance)

List of Ancient Indian authors and their books

List of Flag bearers in Olympics

List of Indian silent films

Cultural tour of India - Art, crafts, traditional wear etc (2017 update)

Indian History

Online GK on Indian Literature 

Famous Historical Temple and monuments 

List of World Heritage Sites in India

Indian Administration


Indian Rulers

Additional

A list of famous Indian authors - here
All about Prime ministers of India - here

Categories of Nobel prizes (given for) - Peace, Literature, Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Economics

List of  Indian Noble prize winners -

• RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1913) -for literature
• C. V. RAMAN (1930) - Nobel Prize for Physics
• HARGOBIND KHORANA (1968) - The Nobel Prize for Medicine
• MOTHER TERESA (1979) - The Nobel Peace Prize
• SUBRAMANIAN CHANDRASHEKAR (1983) - The Nobel Prize for Physics
• AMARTYA SEN (1998) -  Nobel Prize for Economics
• Venkatraman Ramakrishnan(2009) - Nobel Prize for chemistry
• Kailash Satyarthi - 2014 - Nobel Prize For Peace

List of Indian Nobel laureates

A complete list of noble prize 

List of Indian Independence activist - wiki page

Famous Indian Freedom Fighters - LiveIndia

List of Indians who won Oscar awards

• Bhanu Athaiyya (1983) - Best costume design, for the film 'Gandhi'
• Satyajit Roy (1992) - Honarary award
• Resul Pookutty (2009) - Best sound score for Slumdog Millionaire movie
• A.R.Rahman (2009) - Best original score for Slumdog Millionaire movie
• A.R.Rahman (2009) - Best original score for Slumdog Millionaire movie

List of some famous writers in 21st century

Kiran Desai, Chetan Bhagat, Arundhati Roy, Preeti Shenoy, Aravind Adiga, R.K.Narayan, Anita Desai, Amish Tripathi

Famous Indian writers

Another list

List of ancient Indian writers, medicinist, mathematicians etc