Architecture Entrance Exam

Architecture Exams

The major significant feature of the AIEEE that is conducted for the architecture stream is that it consists of questions to evaluate the knowledge of the students, besides their attitude towards the values and architecture perspectives. Nowadays, architecture has become one of the most significant streams in the professional degrees. The trend has started to boost, say some 5 to 10 years ago, though it exists in practice right from the ancient times, but recently the craze for architecture has increased tremendously, as equal to streams like engineering and medicine.

AIEEE

The AIEEE is an all India level entrance examination for both engineering/architecture streams. Hence, it comprises of separate question patterns and structure for both the streams. The AIEEE pattern for B. Arch/B. Planning comprises of three important parts, part 1 consists of questions from mathematics and part 2 consists of aptitude type questions and part3 consists of engineering drawing questions. It includes questions in testing the students’ attitudes regarding people, place and environment. This has to be praised, because architecture is all about the value of the creative and constructional output, thereby placing the customers and their values in the first place, because architecture doesn’t deal with bricks and cements, rather it is more to do with the layout of a place/city/country. It is a 3 hours examination and it is usually conducted at the end of 12th standard examination. It is conducted by CBSE in India. It is also said that the AIEEE is going to get established online form the year 2011 onwards, which means the students can attend the exam online, rather attending a paper-pencil examination. The method of implementation is yet to get confirmed by the CBSE.

NATA (National Aptitude Test in Architecture)

This test comprises of two parts, comprising a paper based drawing test and a computer based online test. Both the tests are evaluated separately and the results are stored in the NATA server, which is then displayed to the students. Both the tests are considered to be clearly designed and also executed in the same way.

Drawing Test

The paper based drawing test is conducted for 2 hours and it consists of two questions, each with two sub questions. The drawing test would be provided with scores, based on the observation skills of the candidates and their drawing ability, their perspectives about color, proportion, etc… This drawing test evaluates the following:

  • Depth of knowledge in the three dimensional and two dimensional drawings.
  • Students’ ability and capability to draw proportionately and to produce the same as an effective output.
  • Creative attitude of the students.
  • Logical reasoning of the students regarding the scale and proportions and many more.

Aesthetic Sensitivity Test

In this test, the candidates are supposed to answer 40 multiple choice questions, which are based on the vision to evaluate the mental ability, architectural comprehensive skills, creative capability, architectural awareness, etc… This test is conducted in an interesting manner, meaning, if a student provides a correct answer to one question, then the immediate question would be tough (next difficult level), otherwise it would be vice versa. Thus, the difficulty level of the questions would be chosen by the computer itself, depending on the performance of the students and the marks would also be based on the average level of difficult questions that are asked in the examination and there are no negative markings in this test.


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