List of top Questions asked in National Aptitude test in Architecture

Choose any four most appropriate principles/ elements of design which can be commonly observed in the given image
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Identify the four most important visual principles in the given two dimensional black and white composition (Marks will be awarded only if all answers are right)

Choose the four most appropriate design attributes which are NOT suitable to the given composition
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Identify the four most appropriate building components/descriptions that you find in the image of a vernacular African settlement.
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Identify the four most important visual principles/ elements in the given black and white photograph given below. (Marks will be awarded only if all answers are right)

Identify the four most appropriate architectural/building components in the apartment illustrated below:
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Identify the four most important visual elements/principles in the colour composition given below.
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The image given below is that of Villa Savoye designed by Le Corbusier. Identify four architectural components from the choices given below:
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Identify four architectural components in the interior image of a pharmacy given below:
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Identify four architectural components that you find in the interior image of a hotel.
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Choose any four most appropriate visual/design attributes that can be commonly observed in the given image.
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Identify the four most important visual principles in the given two dimensional black and white compositions
(Marks will be awarded only if all answers are correct)

Identify the four most important visual principles/elements in the given black and white photograph given below.
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Choose any four most appropriate principles/elements of design which can be commonly observed in the given image.
(Marks will be awarded only if all answers are right)

Choose any four most appropriate visual/design attributes that can be commonly observed in the given image.
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1. Distortion
2. Analogous 
3. Depth 
4. Asymmetry 
5. Repetition 
6. Verticality 
7. Lightness 
8. Emphasis

After reading the given TEXT answer the 4 questions based on the text by choosing the appropriate option.
TEXT:
The human body can tolerate only a small range of temperature, especially when the person is engaged in vigorous activity. Heat reactions usually occur when large amounts of water and/or salt are lost through excessive sweating following strenuous exercise. When the body becomes overheated and cannot eliminate this excess heat, heat exhaustion and heat stroke are possible. Heat exhaustion is generally characterized by clammy skin, fatigue, nausea, dizziness, profuse perspiration, and sometimes fainting, resulting from an inadequate intake of water and the loss of fluids.
First aid treatment for this condition includes having the victim lie down, raising the feet 8 to 12 inches, applying cool, wet cloths to the skin, and giving the victim sips of salt water (1 teaspoon per glass, half a glass every 15 minutes) over a 1-hour period. Heat stroke is much more serious; it is an immediate life-threatening situation. The characteristics of heat stroke are a high body temperature (which may reach 106° F or more); a rapid pulse; hot, dry skin; and a blocked sweating mechanism. Victims of this condition may be unconscious, and first-aid measures should be directed at quickly cooling the body. The victim should be placed in a tub of cold water or repeatedly sponged with cool water until his or her temperature is sufficiently lowered. Fans or air conditioners will also help with the cooling process. Care should be taken, however, not to over-chill the victim once the temperature is below 102° F.

After reading the given TEXT answer the 4 questions based on the text by choosing the appropriate option.
TEXT:
Holi celebrations start on the night before Holi with a Holika Dahan where people gather, perform religious rituals in front of the bonfire, and pray that their internal evil be destroyed the way Holika, the sister of the demon king Hiranyakashipu, was killed in the fire. The next morning is celebrated as Rangwali Holi - a free-for- all festival of colours, where people smear each other with colours and drench each other. Water guns and water-filled balloons are also used to play and colour each other. Anyone and everyone is fair game, friend or stranger, rich or poor, man or woman, children and elders. The frolic and fight with colours occurs in the open streets, open parks, outside temples and buildings. Groups carry drums and other musical instruments, go from place to place, sing and dance. People visit family, friends and foes to throw coloured powders on each other, laugh and gossip, then share Holi delicacies, food and drinks. Some customary drinks include bhang (made from cannabis), which is intoxicating. In the evening, after sobering up, people dress up and visit friends and family.

After reading the given TEXT carefully answer the 4 questions based on the text by choosing the appropriate option.
TEXT:
"A principal fruit of friendship," Francis Bacon wrote in his timeless meditation on the subject, "is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce." For Thoreau, friendship was one of life's great rewards. But in today's cultural landscape of muddled relationships scattered across various platforms for connecting, amidst constant debates about whether our Face book "friendships" are making us more or less happy, it pays to consider what friendship actually is. That's precisely what CUNY philosophy professor Massimo Pigliucci explores in Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to A More Meaningful Life (public library), which also gave us this provocative read on the science of what we call "intuition."
Philosophers and cognitive scientists agree that friendship is an essential ingredient of human happiness. But beyond the dry academic definitions like, say, "voluntary interdependence between two persons over time, which is intended to facilitate socio-emotional goals of the participants, and may involve varying types and degrees of companionship, intimacy, affection and mutual assistance" - lies a body of compelling research that sheds light on how, precisely, friendship augments happiness.
The way friendship enhances well-being, it turns out, has nothing to do with quantity and everything to do with quality researchers confirm that it isn't the number of friends.

After reading the given TEXT answer the 4 questions based on the text by choosing the appropriate option.
TEXT 
Madame Curie was born Maria Sklodowski in Warsaw, Poland in 1867, the youngest of five children. When she was born, Poland was controlled by Russia. Her parents were teachers, and she learned at an early age, the importance of education and later succeeded brilliantly. 
Marie studied physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne University, Paris and quickly received her masters' degrees in both subjects. She remained in Paris after graduation and started research on magnetism. 
Working together, it took Marie and her husband Pierre four years to isolate the radioactive source in the pitch-blend. Marie named it radium which was the greatest discovery in the field of science. She went on to build and design X-ray machines during World War I. During her work, Marie discovered radiation could kill human cells. She received two Nobel Prizes for her discoveries, and was the first woman to win even one. She and her husband Pierre shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with their friend and researcher A. Henri Becquerel. 
On July 4, 1934, Marie Curie died in Paris, killed by her own experiments. She died of radiation poisoning and may have been the first person to do so. 

After reading the given TEXT answer the 4 questions based on the text by choosing the appropriate option.
TEXT 
Even though there have been truly significant advances in modern medicine, health problems still abound and cause untold misery. Although heart disease and cancer were rare at the beginning of the 20th century, today these two diseases strike with increasing frequency, in spite of billions of dollars in research to combat them, and in spite of tremendous advances in diagnostic and surgical techniques. 
In America, one person in three suffers from allergies, one in ten has ulcers and one in five is mentally ill. Every year, a quarter of a million infants are born with a birth defect and undergo expensive surgery, or are hidden away in institutions. Other degenerative diseases such as arthritis, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and chronic fatigue afflict a significant majority of Americans. Further learning disabilities make life miserable for seven million young people and their parents. These diseases were extremely rare only a generation or two ago. Today, chronic illness afflicts nearly half of all Americans and causes three out of four deaths in the United States. 

After reading the given TEXT answer the 4 questions based on the text by choosing the appropriate option.
TEXT 
My name is Kamala Patel. I live on a farm with my mother and father. I like it but I work very hard. Every morning I wake up at five o'clock and feed the horses. Then I can go back to the house. Mum makes breakfast at 6:00 and I'm not late for breakfast because I don't like cold eggs. After breakfast I help dad for an hour. Then I have a shower and get ready for school. The school bus leaves at 8:15. I leave home at 8:00. After school I can watch TV for an hour. Then we have our dinner. We have chicken for dinner but I hate it. I eat it because mum gets angry. After dinner I do my homework. Then I go out and feed the horses. I go to bed early because I'm always very tired at the end of the day. 

After reading the given TEXT answer the 4 questions based on the text by choosing the appropriate option.
TEXT 
Capitalism is an economic system in which private people, not the government, own and run companies. These companies compete with other companies for business. They decide what products they want to produce, how much they should cost and where to sell them. Companies do all these things in order to make profits for their owners. People who use their money to start companies or run companies are called capitalists. Even though a pure form of capitalism does not exist and governments control the economy in some ways it remains the world's most popular economic system. In the United States the government keeps itself out of the economy as far as possible but in some European countries economic control is much larger. Other names for capitalism are free-market economy or free enterprise. 

After reading the given TEXT answer the 4 questions by choosing the appropriate option.
TEXT 
Researchers in Kenya have found that a fish could be an effective weapon in the fight to reduce the spread of malaria. A fish that is normally eaten was introduced to several places in the west of the country. The fish eats mosquito larvae, which are young mosquitoes before they have wings.
People have known for a long time that this fish eats mosquito larvae, but this was the first time that researchers had looked at how the fish could be used to control malaria. This disease made 300 million people ill and caused a million deaths worldwide every year. 

From a pack of 52 cards, one card is drawn at random. What is the probability that the card drawn is a ten or a spade?

Carefully observe the given image set comprising of a number of materials.
You can view the image for 45 seconds after which it will disappear. You will then answer two questions based on the image. 
Caution: The image once viewed cannot be viewed again.