Course Contents National Aptitude Test in Architecture

Course Contents for NATA

Drawing Test

• FUNDAMENTALS OF ART/ARCHITECTURE/DESIGN
• ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPALS OF ART/DESIGN AND ITS APPLICATION
• VISUALIZING 2D-3D GEOMETRY
• VISUALIZATION OF 3 D OBJECTS
• RENDERING TECHNIQUES
• MEMORY DRAWING
• VISUALISING AND DRAWING THE EFFECTS OF LIGHT ON THE OBJECT AND SHADOWS CAST ON SURROUNDINGS
• SCIOGRAPHY
• PERSPECTIVE
• INDOOR AND OUTDOOR SKETCHING
• SPATIAL ORIENTATION
• COMPARATIVE RELATION
• SCALE AND PROPORTION
• FLORA AND FAUNA
• COLOUR PERCEPTION
• VISUAL PERCEPTION
• OBSERVATIONAL SKILLS
• COMPOSITION
• INNOVATIVE PRESENTATION
• CREATIVE WRITING
• LOGIC AND ORDERING PRINCIPALS
• CREATIVE PRESENTATION OF IDEAS

AESTHETIC SENSITIVITY TEST

• ARCHITECTURAL AWARENESS
• ARCHITECTURAL TERMINOLOGIES
• IDENTIFYING COMMONLY USED MATERIALS AND OBJECTS BASED ON THEIR TEXTURAL QUALITIES AND COLOUR
• ARCHITECTS AND THEIR WORK
• VISUALISING THREE DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS FROM TWO DIMENSIONAL DRAWINGS.
• VISUALISING DIFFERENT SIDES OF THREE DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS.
• ANALYTICAL REASONING.
• MENTAL ABILITY.
• IMAGINATIVE COMPREHENSION AND EXPRESSION.