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NATA EXAM SYLLABUS

“THE TEST IS IN TWO PARTS”

PART A
 TYPE OF TEST: Papper Based Drawind Test

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 TIME DURATION: 135 Min
 NO OF QUESTIONS: 3 Questions (35+35+55=125 Marks)
 MODE OF TEST: Mannual C
SYLLABUS OF PART A
DRAWING TEST
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Understanding of scale and proportion of objects, geometric composition, shape,
building forms and elements, aesthetics, colour texture, harmony and contrast.
Conceptualization and Visualization through structuring objects in memory.
Drawing of patterns - both geometrical and abstract. Form transformations in 2D and
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3D like union, subtraction, rotation, surfaces and volumes. Generating plan,

elevation and 3D views of objects. Creating 2D and 3D compositions using given
shape and forms. Perspective drawing, Sketching of urbanscape and landscape,
Common day-to-day life objects like furniture, equipment etc., from memory.

PART B
 TYPE OF TEST: Scientific Ability And General Aptitude
 TIME DURATION: 45 Min
 NO OF QUESTIONS: 1.PCM: 15*1.5=22.5 Marks
2.General Aptitude: 35*1.5=52.5 Marks
 MODE OF TEST: Computer Based Test (CBT)
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SYLLABUS OF PART B
PHYSICS
 Electrostatics- Electric charges and Fields; Electrostatic Potential and Clearance
 Current Electricity; Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism; Moving
Charges and magnetism; Magnetism and Matter
 Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating currents- Electromagnetic Induction;
Alternating Current
 Optics- Ray optics and optical instruments, Wave Optics
 Dual nature of radiation and Matter
 Atoms and Nuclei- Atoms, Nuclei
 Electronic devices- Semiconductor Electronics, Materials, Devices and Simple
circuits

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CHEMISTRY
 Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry; Structure of Atom; Classification of
Elements and Periodicity in Properties
 Chemical Bonding and Molecular; States of Matter: Gases and Liquids
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 Chemical Thermodynamics; Equilibrium; Redox Reactions; Hydrogen; s- Block
Elements p -Block Elements
 Organic Chemistry: Some basic Principles and Techniques; Hydrocarbons;
Environmental Chemistry
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MATHEMATICS
 Algebra: Definitions of A. P. and G.P.; General term; Summation of first n-terms
of series Σn, Σn²,Σn3 ; Arithmetic/Geometric series, A.M., G.M. and their
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relation; Infinite G.P. series and its sum.

 Logarithms: Definition; General properties; Change of base.
 Matrices: Concepts of m x n (m ≤ 3, n ≤ 3) real matrices, operations of addition,
scalar multiplication and multiplication of matrices. Transpose of a matrix.
Determinant of a square matrix. Properties of determinants (statement only).
Minor, cofactor and adjoint of a matrix. Nonsingular matrix. Inverse of a matrix.
Finding area of a triangle. Solutions of system of linear equations. (Not more
than 3 variables).
 Trigonometry: Trigonometric functions, addition and subtraction formulae,
formulae involving multiple and submultiple angles, general solution of
trigonometric equations. Properties of triangles, inverse trigonometric functions
and their properties.
 Coordinate geometry: Distance formula, section formula, area of a triangle,
condition of collinearity of three points in a plane. Polar coordinates,
transformation from Cartesian to polar coordinates and vice versa. Parallel
transformation of axes, concept of locus, elementary locus problems. Slope of a
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line. Equation of lines in different forms, angle between two lines. Condition of
perpendicularity and parallelism of two lines. Distance of a point from a line.
Distance between two parallel lines. Lines through the point of intersection of
two lines. Equation of a circle with a given center and radius. Condition that a
general equation of second degree in x, y may represent a circle. Equation of a
circle in terms of endpoints of a diameter . Equation of tangent, normal and
chord. Parametric equation of a circle. Intersection of a line with a circle.
Equation of common chord of two intersecting circles.
 3-Dimensional Co-ordinate geometry: Direction cosines and direction ratios,
distance between two points and section formula, equation of a straight line,
equation of a plane, distance of a point from a plane.
 Theory of Calculus: Functions, composition of two functions and inverse of a

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function, limit, continuity, derivative, chain rule, derivative of implicit functions
and functions defined parametrically. Integration as a reverse process of
differentiation, indefinite integral of standard functions. Integration by parts.
Integration by substitution and partial fraction. Definite integral as a limit of a
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sum with equal subdivisions. Fundamental theorem of integral calculus and its
applications. Properties of definite integrals. Formation of ordinary differential
equations, solution of homogeneous differential equations, separation of variables
method, linear first order differential equations.
 Application of Calculus: Tangents and normals, conditions of tangency.
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Determination of monotonicity, maxima and minima. Differential coefficient as a
measure of rate. Motion in a straight line with constant acceleration. Geometric
interpretation of definite integral as area, calculation of area bounded by
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elementary curves and Straight lines. Area of the region included between two
elementary curves.
 Permutation and combination: Permutation of n different things taken r at a
time (r ≤ n). Permutation of n things not all different. Permutation with
repetitions (circular permutation excluded). Combinations of n different things
taken r at a time (r ≤ n). Combination of n things not all different. Basic
properties. Problems involving both permutations and combinations.
 Statistics and Probability: Measure of dispersion, mean, variance and standard
deviation, frequency distribution. Addition and multiplication rules of
probability, conditional probability and Bayes’ Theorem, independence of events,
repeated independent trails and Binomial distribution.
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GENERAL APTITUDE
 Objects, texture related to architecture and built environment. Interpretation of
pictorial compositions, Visualizing three-dimensional objects from two-
dimensional drawing. Visualizing different sides of 3D objects. Analytical
reasoning, mental ability (visual, numerical and verbal), General awareness of
national/ international architects and famous architectural creations.
 Mathematical reasoning: Statements, logical operations like and, or, if and only
if, implies, implied by. Understanding of tautology, converse, contradiction and
contrapositive.
 Sets and Relations: Idea of sets, subsets, power set, complement, union,
intersection and difference of sets, Venn diagram, De Morgan's Laws, Relation

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and its properties. Equivalence relation — definition and elementary examples.

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