NATA 2025: The Council of Architecture has released notification for the National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) 2025 and the Registrations were started on February 3, 2025 at the official website, nata.in. And the last Date will be in June 2025. The NATA Exam will be conducted on Friday and Saturday from 01-03-2025 onwards till June 2025. On Fridays, the examination will be conducted in a single shift from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM, while on Saturdays, it will be held in two shifts—from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM and from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM.
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Presently, about 370 Institutions are imparting architectural education in India leading to recognized qualifications.National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) is being conducted by COA since 2006, to qualify for the admission to Bachelor of Architecture. These Regulations prescribe that the candidate needs to qualify an Aptitude Test in Architecture conducted either by NTA (i.e. JEE) or NATA conducted by the Council for admission to the Architecture degree Programme.
NATA 2025 – Schedule of Examination
In order to provide opportunities to a large number of aspirants to join Architecture Programme, the Council will be conducting NATA-2025 Aptitude Test for admissions into approved Architectural Institutions for the academic session 2025-2026, on designated Fridays & Saturdays in two sessions starting from March 2025 to June, 2025.
| NATA 2025 commencing from: |
01-03-2025 onwards till June 2025
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| FRIDAYS No Morning Session |
Afternoon Session: 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm (180 mins / 3.0 hours)
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| SATURDAYS Morning Session: 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 pm (180 mins /3.0 hours) |
Afternoon Session: 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm (180 mins / 3.0 hours)
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Those candidates who have already appeared for NATA 2024 and availed of one, two, or three at- tempts and obtained a valid NATA 2024 score, may also apply for NATA 2025 but their NATA 2024 score shall be frozen. Their NATA 2025 score shall be calculated/determined as under, depending upon number of attempts.
| Appeared in NATA 2024 | Attempts in NATA 2025 | Final Score |
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Obtained a valid 2024 score
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1st Attempt |
Better of both scores of NATA 2024 & 2025
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| 1st & 2nd Attempt |
Best of three scores of NATA 2024 & 2025
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| 1st, 2nd & 3rd Attempt |
Best of three scores of NATA 2025 (NATA 2024 score shall be rendered invalid)
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NATA 2025 – Eligibility Criteria
Candidates fulfilling the below criteria prescribed by the Council can appear for NATA 2025:
- Passed or appearing in 10+1 Examination with PCM Subjects;
- Passed or appearing in 10+2 Examination with PCM subjects:
- Passed or appearing in 10+3 Diploma Examination with Mathematics as subjects:
NATA 2025 Application Fee Details
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Application Fees
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In India (in ₹) |
Outside India (in ₹)
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| General/ OBC (N-CL) | SC/ST/EWS/ PwD | Transgender | ||
| Per Test | 1750 | 1250 | 1000 | 15000 |
NATA 2025 Application Procedure
Application is to be filled up ONLINE at the NATA portal of www.nata.in. Candidates need to visit the portal, generate username & password by entering relevant details and then CLICK the requisite link ONLINE APPLICATION NATA–2025. Thereafter, candidate will be directed to the actual application form. The form is interactive in nature and the fields required to be filled up are categorized in different sub-sections. The fields super-scribed with *MUST be filled up as they are MANDATORY, otherwise the application will NOT get submitted.
NATA 2025 Qualifying Criteria
The Qualifying Marks for the NATA 2025 would be based on the following Rules:
- A minimum of 20 marks must be secured in PART A
- A minimum of 30 marks must be secured in PART B
Overall qualifying marks for NATA 2025 shall be 70 marks out of 200 as aggregate of Part A and Part B.
