To pursue a course on design, require a lot of creativity and skills. If you are creative enough you are ready to crack NID DAT. you just only have to work on written part in order to qualify any entrance exam for design. But the must thing for every candidates is to make a portfolio for themselves. 

What is portfolio? 

Portfolio is showcasing the collection of one's best creative work. For any creative field, portfolio is important whether it is for academic level or for official level. College administrator or recruiters give admission or hire you seeing your portfolio which reflects your previous work and experiences. 
Popular design colleges such as NID, IIT, IISc, NIFT etc, determine student’s portfolio primarily because they want to know more about how much creative skills the candidates have. It also help the understand if the student has a natural inclination towards the course they have applied for.

Portfolio for NID DAT

NID, National Institute of design is undoubtedly the leading Institute of design in India. NID organise a two stage national level Entrance examination every year for admission of students for B. Des and M. Des courses provided by NID. The entrance examination of NID is being called NID-DAT. DAT stands for design aptitude test. Every part of this examination is based on the candidate's visualisation skills, creative & observation skills, knowledge, comprehension, analytical ability, et cetera. Experts have shared that this NID's design aptitude test is one of the most challenging design entrance exams conducted in India.
NID DAT has two stages of exam which are NID DAT prelims and NID DAT mains. Candidates need to qualify both of the exams in order to get admission at NID. NID prelims is the first stage of the exam and is the written test. After qualifying prelims candidates can sit for mains. NID DAT mains consist two parts such as: NID Studio test and personal Interview.
Portfolio is required in order to qualify the personal interview round. 

Portfolio will include following things:

• List of content number wise 
• A brief description about each contents. 
• Brief description of candidates and their career prospective
• Candidate's education qualifications, work experience and achievements. 
• Best but limited previous works candidates have done. 
• Awards and honours they have received
• Workshops if they have done any. 
• Positive reviews candidates have received for his/her work. 
• Portfolio should always be in a shape of hard copy so that it will look more formal. 

So, if your are thinking of pursuing any design courses, you need to build a portfolio for yourself which will also secure your artwork and will make your creative skills proud. 

All the best for your future!