'Carry Aadhaar card': NTA issues NIFT 2025 advisory on biometric verification, 'exception form'

NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has issued an advisory on biometric verification for students appearing for the National Institute of Fashion Technology Entrance Examination (NIFTEE) 2025. As per the NIFT 2025 advisory, candidates are required to bring their original Aadhar card to the exam centre for the verification process.

The biometrics verification will be done multiple times, however, for students whose thumb impression does not match, then biometrics will be carried through iris. If candidates do not carry their original Aadhar card their verification will be carried by other means and this will be recorded in the exception form.

All other IDs, photocopies of IDs even if attested or scanned in the mobile phone will not be accepted as valid ID proof.

Candidates will have to mandatorily carry their admit cards to the exam centres. The exam will be held on February 9, 2025, at around 91 centres in a computer-based test (CBT) mode.

Candidates will have to reach the exam centre at the reporting time mentioned on the admit card. If you reach late at the centre, your entrance will be cancelled.

“Candidates appearing for both bachelors of design (BDes) and master of design (M Des) programmes are required to bring two sets of admit cards to their respective examination centers,” the NTA notice reads.

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NIFT 2025: Exam day guidelines

The NIFT 2025 exam day guidelines for students are as follows.

• Candidates are not allowed to carry any other personal belongings including any electronic devices, or mobile phones to the exam centre. Moreover, there will be no facility for safekeeping personal belongings at the centre.
• Candidates should not be involved in any unfair means practises. The exam centres are under CCTV surveillance and are equipped with jammers.
• Candidates are advised to carefully read all the subject-specific instructions and other instructions mentioned in the NIFT question paper and abide by the instructions.
• Candidates will be provided with blank paper sheets for rough work in the exam hall. Candidates have to write their name, and roll number and also hand over the rough worksheet to the examiner before leaving the exam room.

NIFT 2025: Things to carry

Candidates are only allowed to carry the list of permitted items mentioned below to the NIFT 2025 exam centre.

• Original valid ID proof
• Personal transparent water bottle
• NIFT admit card 2025 along with self-declaration (undertaking) downloaded from the NTA website (a clear printout on A4 size paper) duly filled in.
• Additional passport-size photograph for pasting on the attendance sheet
• A simple transparent ball point pen, pencil, erasers, ruler in a transparent
• pouch and A-4 Transparent Acrylic Board for BDes, MDes candidates.