ADMISSIONS GUIDELINES
Guidelines of the entrance tests for admission into the Bachelor of Design and the Master of Design offered by MIT Institute of Design, Pune.
Design is a very challenging but rewarding profession for any person aspiring to become a practising professional in this field. It promises to offer profound insights into behaviourial patterns of people, their culture, values and preferences; technologies – both established and emerging and insights into using processes leading to thoughtful and pathbreaking creations which enrich our lives and which make sense in our society and to the environment.
Each one of us is a designer. Everyday, we constantly use some of the fundamental processes of design in our day to day lives, e.g., problem solving. However, to become professional designers, it is essential that aspiring candidates have the right attitude and aptitude to function efficiently and competently in the eco space of design.
Towards this, MIT Institute of Design very carefully designs the center level tests, the materials tests, and the personal interviews to ensure that candidates who have the best potential to become designers are given a preference for admission into our world class educational programme.
Candidates who have the following abilities will be given preference for admission into the professional courses on offer at MIT Institute of Design.
- Sharp ability to analyse things, situations, contexts and to map the situation
- Sharp ability to identify the constitutent elements of a given thing or a situation and an overall assessment of the same(internalisation)
- Sharp ability to synthesise, i.e., having an ability to interpret, plan and evolve directions or strategies to address any given situation or set of issues(attitude towards problem solving)
- Ability to "learn" as opposed to bookish knowledge. Capacity for learnabilty by being mentally agile and flexible(learning to learn)
- From the above, capacity to generate knowledge and its application
- Ability to handle different materials and media which may or may not be familiar
- Ability to emphatise – being sensitive towards feelings, needs and emotions of others and to have an ability to relate oneself with others in various contexts, specific situations, events etc.
- Having unbounded curiosity towards things, people, situations etc,. A sense of wonderment, having a constant urge to ask questions and an urge to find out the what's, whys, how's, when's about the world and beyond.
- Being individualistic i.e., having independent viewpoints and convictions (as opposed to stubborness)
- Being very much aware about what is going on in the world and beyond and having a "worldview"
- Good ability to communicate – both verbal communication and non verbal communication(may be through drawing, sketching and other media)
- Ability to function or work as a good team member
- Having an ability to be tenacious – not "giving up" easily
- Attitude towards neatness, precision and production of quality work
MITID DET (Design Entrance Test) is a combination of online & pen-paper questions taken at assigned centres across India.
DET written exam is based on the following parameters. The weightage of each parameter is subject to change as per the discretion of the paper setting committee.
· Design Inclination questions based on visual clues & general awareness.
· Analytical questions based on scientific understanding (PCM).
· Logical Thinking skills
· Communication Skills – verbal & nonverbal abilities of expression.
· Personality Trends – test of individual stand point.
Format of DET Examination:
DET examination includes computer-based MCQ (objective) test, subjective test and offline drawing test.
Objective Exam – Computer Based Test
Questions would be appearing on the computer screen on a random basis with options shuffled for each candidate. Candidates to respond on the computer screen.
Descriptive Exam – Computer Based Test
The subjective question will appear in a different section on the computer screen.
A text box will be enabled for each candidate to write their responses on the computer.
Drawing Exam – Offline Test
The drawing question will appear in a different section on the computer screen.
Candidates will be provided A4 size drawing sheets for this section
Candidates need to draw using Pens / Pencils / Colours on the sheets provided.
These answer sheets will be collected, scanned and uploaded for evaluation at the test centre.
