NID MDes 2021 SDM stream specific questions

 
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Many thanks to Mr. Arya Harshvardhan for coming forward and for share the questions related to SDM (Strategic Design Management) stream specific questions. He wish to share this for the benefit of everyone. Let us all appreciate him and wish him good luck for his good nature.

1.
Differentiate between Red Ocean and Blue Ocean Strategy with examples.

2.

There were 2 figures - First figure was a clear jar filler with some grains and a mouse on top of it with no lid, the next figure was the same jar but this time the mouse had consumed a lot of grains inside the jar and the overall level of the grains had gone down with only some left. Now the question was to summarise this situation in a business sense. 

• (a) What do you think about this, 
• (b) Give a suitable tagline to the situation which should also be in line with what you have written or explained in the previous part. 
• (c) Give suitable examples. 

3. 

According to the UN a lot of kids defecate outside in the open which leads to health and sanitation problems, Make a poster for a solution for school going kids and how would you communicate to them to discourage such activities and how will they use an enclosed space to defecate.

4. 

There was a data set of pictorial diagrams in the form of Pie charts of students in a university and their respective course choices like one of the pie charts was distributed with the percentage of number of students taking up various streams like jurnalism, design, IT, banking etc. then the other pie charts were of the number of boys and girls in each of such streams.

• (a)(i-v) Were objective questions which asked how many students were in a specific stream, number of boys or girls in a stream, the ratios of boys:girls in various streams.
• (b) Here we had to interpret and share our insights on the given pie charts and what conclusions could we take out from the information given and then show it pictorially as well.

5.

This question had multiple parts where we had to draw signs for various situations like - an escalator for elderly, traffic rush hour etc. 

NID-DAT Subjective Practice questions (PG)

Here is a set of practice questions that I prepared for your NID-DAT Subjective (PG) practice after I analysed some previous papers. Please practice only which you feel relevant to your preparation. I will update this page with more example soon. If you have any specific requirement on subjective questions type, drop in the comment and let me know or if you feel some other topic could be added, feel free to update me. Note that some of the questions have been taken from this blog's BDes subjective post.

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1. Complete the drawings

Part of the images will be given to you. Complete the remaining part with pencil/pen. Also, draw the background. No need to give details, line drawing should be enough but give importance to size, proportion, 

(Sorry for the blog name (watermark) on the images. I came to know that some coaching centres are just copying this blog's content as it is, and so I had to do this) 

Q1. Complete the scene of an ice cream parlour front, with a set of chairs and tables and also illustrate the ice cream shop. Draw a couple sitting on chairs relishing ice cream.

Q2. Complete the scene of a grandmother with her grandson sitting on a chair in a park feeding birds. Also, draw squirrels in the scene.

Q3. Complete the scene of a living room with windows, tables, racks etc. Draw a kid on the floor playing with his/her toys, and a music player on top of the table.

Q4. Complete the scene with a bunch of kids being outdoor and about to relish their food as part of their picnic. Show birds and animals in the scene and also cloud with sun and some trees.

Q5. Complete the scene of a living room with sofa, chairs, tv AC and wall mountings. Also, draw a vacuum cleaner lying on the floor

2. Story Framing and Writing Exercises

a. Part of the story will be given. Complete the story in not more than 7 lines and illustrate them in 5 frames

1. There lived a mise under a tree, above which a crow .........
2. One day, I went to playground along with my cousin ......
3. A golden swan which used to be pride once visited a pond where .........
4.  Long ago, snakes don't have a home until one day a snake saw ants ..........
5. Once upon a time, an elephant king used to rule the forest when .......
6. Once, a miser trader .......

b. 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 for the above,  (pick any scene of your choice from the chosen story), which you've written. 


c. Story narration for a given image

You will be given a scenario based on which you need to narrate a story in not more than 10 lines. This exercise will help you in enhancing your story framing and scene analysis skills. The first two questions appeared in CEED previous papers and the third example was taken from the internet.

Q1.  The illustration above is an artist’s impression of an incident in a club house. Narrate the incident in your own words, based on your creative imagination. Limit your description to less than 250 words.

Solution to the above scenario with tips on how to deal with such questions in this post

Q2. Check the below messy picture and write a story related to the situation depicted in not less than 200 words.

Solution to the above scenario with some tips 

Q3. Check the below scenario and narrate a story

3. Situation analysis questions

1. A monkey got into a mall somehow and wants to get out without anyone’s notice. A 10-year-old boy helps him - state at least three problems/challenges faced by him in helping the monkey. Also, suggest solutions to the problems identified.
2. A self-aware intelligent robot was lost in a forest and its battery was draining, state at least three challenges the robot will face and also suggest some solutions to the identified problems
3. An alien was lost from its ship which got landed on the outskirts of your city and you decided to help it reach its ship. State at least three challenges/problems that you might encounter will take it to the ship safely. State also the transport you prefers to use and also give solutions
4. A turtle somehow got into the city and is now in a lane filled with Non-veg shops, state the challenges it needs to face in order to cross and also reach the sea at the outskirts. Also, state solutions to that problems.
5. A mosquito was inside a hall and it wants to get out. But the whole windows and doors were protected with mosquito catchers and repellants. State three challenges on how he can escape from the room. Also, give the solutions to the mosquito

4. Drawing/sketching exercises

A. General Drawing questions

1. Draw a teen (only upper half portion sufficient) sipping coffee/tea and/or eating ice cream 
2. Draw the scene of a school-boy studying a book, intensively, with no power but only candlelight in the room, being seated on the floor
3. Draw the scene of yourself sitting on your rooms sofa and taking selfie
4. Draw the scene of a mother, feeding her 2 year child with a milk bottle
5. 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.
6. Draw a creature, upper half human and lower half a tree trunk with some branches, watering itself. 
7. Assume you are sitting in front of a laptop or a desktop PC adjacent to a wall, draw how your eyes see the scene
8. Draw different facial emotions of a human (boy or girl) - only face/portrait is sufficient. Maintain the same person in all the scenes
9. Draw the scene of an artist making art in his/her living room.
10. Draw the scene of a manager in his office room, in front of a system (Computer) with files piled on his desk.
11. Draw the scenario of two kids competing for one another on video game
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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 made mud stove, burning using wood/twigs. 
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. Draw yourself with head over phones on, enjoying the music like anything
18. Draw yourself in a superhero costume 
19. Draw yourself sitting on a sofa exhibiting ur happiness in watching the winning match on TV

B. Same-Scale drawing sample questions (just line drawing sufficient, no need of details)

• Draw a bolt-nut (used for bolting, consider 1cm diameter of the bolt) and a pencil alongside in correct proportion
• Draw a laptop and a pressure cooker in correct proportion, alongside
• Draw a cat and a 5-year boy in, correct size
• Draw a mobile phone and a big sized Ant next to it, in correct proportion.
• Draw an elephant, a tiger and a monkey

C. Different-Scale drawing sample questions (just line drawing sufficient, no need of details) 

• Draw a rat, thrice its usual size and a human (25+)  in his original size. 
• Roughly draw a crow of 4 times its usual size, sitting above a bicycle.
• Draw a 10 years cheerful girl, holding the tail of a real tiger which is of the size of a rat. Illustrate as if the girl is holding the tail in air

D. Human or 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. 

E. 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.

5. 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 

Hope above practice questions helps you. All the best :)

NID DAT Subjective sample practice questions (B.Des)

Hi there,

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.  

Downloadable PDF - A complete list of SYL links for NID-DAT exam (sitemap) 

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. 

NID DAT - Resources and study materials

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This blog (stuff you look) is basically started for CEED, later UCEED topics were added. Now that I went through NID DAT syllabus and analysed the pattern, I found that fortunately most of the CEED/UCEED topics are similar to that of NID DAT pattern. So, in this page, I have gathered all those useful topics which are relevant to NID under separate headings as listed in the sample paper (A1,A2 and A3). Also, I have included all those mock tests, which are directly helpful to your preparation. Although bit late, but hopefully you will find these page useful.

Although bit late, but hopefully you will find these page useful. Please note that since the entire syllabus is not known, these collections are based on my pure observation/analysis and need not necessarily covers everything or might cover topics that may/may not appear directly in your exam. So, please co-operate.

This page serves as a collection of links from around the web pages that helps you study relevant topics; including topics and guide materials that I prepared. As of know, I'm just including those topics/NID-related resources that I have with me. I will update with newly found topics whenever time permits. So, keep watching ......


Downloadable PDF - A complete list of SYL links for NID-DAT exam (sitemap) 

NID-DAT Syllabus - a comprehensive list of topics

If your exam is very near, then here are My Last minute tips for NID-DAT aspirants

Also check - JEE Mains Paper-2 (Arch) resource and study materials

A1. Knowledge-based questions test the candidate's ability to remember and recall factual/general knowledge.

Indian cultural GA

Cultural tour of India - Art, crafts, traditional wear etc

Indian state paintings and painters

Indian musical instruments

Something about India and time

Cultural and complete Architectural collection of India  

More Painting Resources : on wiki page, most popular painting styles

Check more - 20 famous architectures of the world

Also for reference - 100 greatest paintings of all time 

Artistic Media used - Artistic media on Wikipedia

Here's - a good guide for art movements

Check more about famous designers - famous designers here 

A very good facts blog about famous persons around the world

Go through this wiki page in free time about Art movement

• A list of famous Indian authors - here

• All about Prime ministers of India - here

• A very good list of Indian Bank Logo's - here

• Past to present logo evolution for some famous brands - here

List of famous personalities, designers 


More Topics

• Photography terms and guide
• Animation study
• Typography
• Video and color technology
• Illustrations
• Indian Automotive awareness
• Useful websites 

Free time reference study

• Artistic tools, drawing terms and sculpture material
• Logo's of Indian Govt. undertakings - 1
• Logo's of Indian Govt. Undertakings - 2
• List of logos - here>>

Materials and manufacturing related

I had detailed and categorized materials as well as manufacturing process with examples of day-to-day products. Don't spend much time on this topic ! Just give a brief overview.

You may check - Material and manufacturing process >>

1. Every day materials - here >>
2. Plastic materials and manufacturing process - A very good guide for household plastic materials and their manufacturing process. You may not go through manufacturing process, just note for what material, what particular manufacturing process is employed - here >>
3. Tips for selecting plastic materials - here >>
4. Top Indian stone and rock carvings - here >>

Color Selection

Let us now see some pdf files, which may help you choose color at different occasions

• Psychology of color by Painters of Louisville from - nowsorcing.com
• Colors by gender from blog.kissmetrics.com
• Check the shades of Red color - wiki page

  Check this Infograph to get more details about - color selection principles 
• Learn about shades of other colors - wiki page

Signs, symbols and their interpretations

• Signs, symbols - their meaning - 1
• Signs, symbols - their meaning - 2
• Health and safety symbols list 1  
• Health and safety symbols list 2
• Imp - List of all Eco Labels use in India 

A very lengthy but useful pdf file about signs in design context. Just have a quick glance for now. Later, if you are interest you may go deeply into this book - Signs and symbols with design

A2. Comprehension based questions test the candidates’ ability to understand, explain, compare, infer, summarize, classify, exemplify or interpret.

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 

Word/Pictogram puzzles (Rebus puzzles)

• Pictogram puzzle - material 1
• Pictogram puzzle - material 1
• Pictogram puzzle - material 1
• Visual analogue guide
• Simile, metaphors guide
• Introduction to Figurative Language terms
• Online figurative test 

Leisure time study - material 1

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

A3. Analytical and Reasoning based questions test the candidates’ ability to select, compare, separate, distinguish or differentiate, de construct.

General, Mechanical and Verbal Reasoning questions

Here is a very good online website, where several free PDF files for practicing verbal, non verbal and psychometric tests are available in each page  that you can download and use for your practice - Free PDF's from assessmentday.com

(Detailed Reasoning topics will be added soon)
Most of the sample test papers (PDF files) that I've included here (below) has been taken from Job Test Prep website. Big thanks to the web owner for including free PDF files!

• Practice with explanations - Spatial Reasoning test 1
• Psychometric Practice test - 1, and Answer for test - 1
• Verbal Reasoning Practice test - 3, and Answer for test - 3
• Situation Reasoning Practice test - 4, and Answer for test - 4
• Logical Reasoning Practice test - 5, and Answer for test - 5

Free time study

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

Here is my guide on - How to solve Reasoning and Logical questions with ans example

A very good website for practising unfolded views of solids - Practice unfolded views of solids >>

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
Figurative exercise but with no solutions

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


More Reasoning Topics

Check the details in downloadable (Pdf) from working with geometry objects >>

Learn a way of Solving number of faces on complex objects >>

My solution for tetrahedron tessellation problem - Tetrahedron Tessellation problem solving here>>

Geometry representations by Malati - here>>

Leisure time works

• A detailed instructions on how to draw a tessellation by David B Sullivan -  here

• Best tessellations work by Escher from teacherweb - here

General Topics

Standard ISO paper sizes

Learn about - Indian epigraphy history

Learn about - Famous inscription in India
Check here - List of Indian Folk dances (state-wise)
A complete list of - Indian Folk dance (wiki page)

Go through this link to learn about famous books and others

Check all the image formats list

Learn more about - Pica in wiki page
Learn more drawing terminology here - quizlet blog for drawing terminology
Very good collection of - perspective and non-perspective images

Relevant Mock tests

Although these practice tests are designed for UCEED, practising them is helpful for NID to the fullest. Like I said, the pattern matches to a greater extent to UCEED. So, take time in taking these questions. Also solving CEED Part-A mock tests and previous papers are very helpful. Remember NID subjective questions matches some what to CEED Part-B questions. I will try to group those questions and guide materials too ...... soon.

Sample Mock test practice - 3
Official UCEED 2015 sample test Answer key
UCEED Sample Mock test practice - 2 
Sample questions for UCEED 2015, Model test - 1

NID Subjective help

NID-DAT 2015 Prelims Subjective ideas

- Superb book for learning sketching techniques and different facets of design (including perspective, shadowing, shading, texture, architectural facts etc) - Design drawing by Francis D.K.Ching

- A (very famous) complete pdf book "Basic Rendering" from Robert W.Gill, which covers most of the rendering topics including perspective projections (For those wishing to learn sketching/rendering)

Latest update: Tips for Exploded view drawing

You can find more materials related to sketching/rendering - Resources/materials for CEED 

Also:

Answers to 2015 NID-DAT subjective sample paper by Vaishnavi Boradwar

Ideas for NID Strategic Design Management 

The above pdf file is just an attempt (of questions) to give you an idea of the type of questions that could possibly be asked in NID subjective part for SDM stream. Although I don't have idea, hopefully this is worth sharing for your reference. 

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