NATA 2024 Syllabus (Out): PCM, General Aptitude and Drawing Test

NATA Syllabus 2024: Section Wise

Part A is a drawing test of 2 hours 15 minutes. It will test the sketching and visualization ability of a candidate. As it is a drawing exam, hence there is no well-defined syllabus for it. Candidates can practice for the test from NATA Practice Papers to improve their skills and score well in the test.

Part B of NATA is General Aptitude and PCM Test. Through this section candidate’s aptitude and mental ability is tested. PCM section questions will be asked from class 10 and 12. One must make sure to brush up all the basic formulas and concepts of Mathematics. 

NATA Drawing Syllabus

NATA syllabus consists of various topics from Drawing, General Aptitude, Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry. The drawing test aims at judging the sketching, creativity and innovation of the candidate. Candidates are advised to practice questions keeping in mind the following criteria:

• Understanding the important visual principles in a composition (2D & 3D) such as rhythm, balance, directions, hierarchy, etc.
• Understanding Geometry and the ability to visualize the shape and solve geometrical puzzles to test special intelligence.
• Understanding the color theory and the various terminologies to test color scheme awareness and knowledge.
• Visual system interpretation, and perception to test graphical similarities and other properties; Ability to understand the spatial relationship between objects and to visualize images and scenarios; Tests for cognitive ability perception, attention, recognition, memory, etc.

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NATA Syllabus 2024 for General Aptitude

General Aptitude test measures perception, imagination and observation, creativity and communication along with architectural awareness. Given below is the criteria on which the candidates will be tested:

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

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NATA Maths Syllabus

It will test a candidate’s level of understanding in Mathematics Subject. Given below is a detailed information of NATA Mathematics Syllabus:

Algebra 

Definitions of A. P. and G.P.; General term; Summation of first n-terms of series ∑n, ∑n²,∑n3 ; Arithmetic/Geometric series, A.M., G.M. and their 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 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 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 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. 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 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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NATA Physics Syllabus

• Questions on 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 alternmating currents, electromagnetic induction and alternating current
• Optics, ray optics and optical instruments and wave optics
• dual nature of radiation and matter
• atoms and nuclie-atoms and nuclie
• Electronic devises-semiconductor electronics, materials, devises and simple circuits 

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NATA Syllabus 2024 for Chemistry

Questions will be mostly asked from basic concepts of Chemistry, structure of atoms, classification of elements and periodicity in properties. Another important chapter that is covered is chemical bonding and molecular, states of matter: gases and liquids.

Chemical thermodynamics, equilibrium, redox reaction, hydrogen, s-block elements, p block elements too are covered. Importantly organic chemistry questions will be asked comsisting of basic principles and techniques, hydrocarbons, enviromental chemistry.)

NATA Exam Pattern 2024

NATA 2024 Exam Pattern consists various details like Mode of the exam, Duration, Marking scheme, number of questions, etc. NATA Aspirants are advised to check NATA Exam Pattern along with the syllabus.

• NATA 2024 comprises two papers- Paper 1 and Paper 2
• Questions for Paper 1 are set from- General Aptitude, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry whereas, Paper 2 includes questions from drawing only.
• As per the marking scheme, 1.5 marks will be allotted for each correct answer. There is no negative marking for unattempted/incorrect answers.
• Candidates need to attempt all the questions of Part 1 and Part 2 in a duration of 3 hours 15 minutes.

NATA 2024 Schedule of Examination