How to Register for NATA

Introduction 
NATA 2014 registration forms can be filled online by making a payment of NATA fees of Rs 1000 (plus processing fees) using Netbanking / Credit Cards / ICICI Isure Bank Challan from 1st  March 2014 onwards.

This document gives a detailed procedure of filling up the NATA 2014 form online at www.nata.in.

Step 1: Register Yourself on NATA Student Portal To fill the NATA Registration form online, you need to generate a username and password at www.nata.in/register. If you have already generated your username and password for NATA Student Portal, you may skip this step.

1. In your browser, open www.nata.in/register

2. Click on the “Click here to register” button

3. You will be presented with a form to fill. Enter your desired username, password and your VALID email
address.

4. While choosing a password, please note that it should be atleast 8 characters long and MUST have
atleast 1 non alphanumeric character.

5. After filling the form, click “Create User” Button.

6. You will receive an email on the email address given by you at the time of registration. Follow the
instructions in the email to activate your account.

Step 2: Login to NATA Student Portal
After you have activated your account, click on the “Login” link at the top right corner of your page in the
browser.
Enter your Username, Password and Email address to login to the portal.

Step 3: Complete your profile on NATA Student Portal
After you login to the Student Portal, you need to complete your profile before you can pay the fees to get
NATA Registration form. In order to complete your profile, you will need following things ready:

a. Your SSC (Std X) Marksheet
b. A jpg file of your Photograph cum Signature. Please refer to Annexure A of this document to understand
the how to create a jpg file of your Photo cum Signature.
To complete your profile, follow the steps given below:
1. Click on “Candidate Profile” link in the header menu.
2. You will be presented with a form. Fill up all the information in the form by referring to your SSC (Std X)
Marksheet.
3. Click on the “Browse” button and select the jpg file of your Photo cum Signature on your computer.
4. Click on “Upload” button. You will see your photo cum signature on the form.
5. Click on “Save” Button.
If everything is okay, you will see a “Purchase Form” button at the bottom right corner of your screen. Before you click on the “Purchase Form” button, verify all the information you entered is correct.
You will never be able to change this information once you purchase a form. Therefore, you must
verify the information carefully. If you need to make any change in the information entered,
please make the changes and click on the “Save” button.
If the information entered is correct, you can click on the “Purchase form” button.

Step 4: Choosing a Payment Method 
Once you click on the “purchase form” button, you will be presented with the payment method options. There are two methods by which you can make a payment, namely Netbanking/Credit Cards and ICICI Bank Isure Pay Challan.

Netbanking and Credit Card 
When you choose this method, you will be taken to our payment gateway where you can make the payment for NATA Registration fee. Once the payment is successful, you can go to “My NATA Forms” section and download your Registration form.

ICICI Bank ISURE Pay 
When you choose this method, you will be asked to download a prefilled ICICI Bank Challan. You will have to approach the nearest ICICI Bank with the printed copies of this challan and pay the fees mentioned in it. Once the fees are paid, you will be able to download your form from “My NATA Forms” section.

Step 5: Taking Appointment for NATA Exam
After downloading and printing the form, you shall approach any activated test center convenient to you. The Test Center shall give you an appointment for exam based on the schedule and availability at the Test Center.
They will issue to you the Appointment Voucher for the given appointment.
The list of test centers is available at www.nata.in

Downloading your Scorecard
After you give the exam, your scorecard is normally generated at the end of 4th working day. You can login to the NATA Student Portal and go to the “Scorecard” Section and download your scorecard from there.
Helpdesk At any given point in time, if you have any query, you can raise a support ticket by visiting http://support.nata.in.

Please remember, you will have to generate a separate username and password at http://support.nata.in.
Your NATA Student Portal password will not work for Help Desk. Whenever you raise a support ticket, please mention your Candidate ID, Appointment Number and Username so that we can assist you faster.

Annexure A: How to generate a jpg file of your Photo cum Signature
To generate a jpg file of your Photo cum signature, you will need a scanner attached to a computer.
1. Take a plain white paper.
2. Paste your PASSPORT SIZE RECENT photograph on it.
3. Using a Transparency / OHP marker pen, sign on the lower side of your photograph in such a way that
half of your signature is on the photograph and half part of your signature is on the paper.
4. Now scan this page using a scanner and then crop the scanned image using a photo editor so that only
the Photo cum signature is visible. Save this file as jpg image.
The Photo cum Signature file must be less than 1
MB in size and file type must be jpg. Your
Photograph must be RECENT. Please do not use
older photographs. Your application may be
rejected if your identity cannot be established
from the scanned photo. 

CONTROLLED ARCHITECTURE

Kishan Sabi, 4^th Yr

How do the perfectionist and expressive architect choose the ground, rather than a platform to support their buildings? How do they advocate research in order to attain balance; only to upset it again? Why does the architect speak of the need for freedom, and seek to conquer it; defining a path underpinned by his own rules?

The world is going through a phase of change, a change with more concern, a change with a reason and a change looking toward to the future. Architecture too has had its fair track of this ‘change phase’. Contemporary architecture no longer pose the strong point in the current trend, and is over powered by a new form of architecture that controls the role of spaces, its definition and the placement. Controlled architecture by word means a practise of architecture that deals with defining spaces within limits and controls, ensuring a better environment to live in at the same time making sure that the sense of visual quality and freedom of circulation is maintained. It doesn’t outline a mode of designing where the users are forced to move through a maze, but describes a process by which each user is directly or indirectly channelled to use the defined circulation paths and spaces. This ensures better movement of people, goods and services to create a functional design.

Spaces in controlled architecture are designed to be a part of the whole and not random enclosures. The function and the location are taken as principal elements. Apart from all this the placement of the spaces coincides in accordance with the paths/corridors/streets. The openings and the visual apertures merge to the spaces in a way similar to solving a jigsaw, where perfection is the only possible elucidation. Each column and beam is considered and spaces to enclose accordingly designed, thus pronouncing a more profound mode of designing. This not just avoids the negative/inactive spaces but also ensures optimal space utilization. Controlled architecture for some reason stays hidden within other concepts. Planners and architects use a mixture of definition for ranging from depth of access to “form follows function”, the slogan that most architects pursue. What goes unnoticed is that each of these terms is just an additional to the whole and wide concept of controlled architecture. When one goes on to say “depth of access”, what one should perceive is how the designer is able to limit or control the paths taken by any individual to a certain point. In short controlled architecture cannot be confined to a box but rather is an elaborate and vast field of study, to which we add each day.

What architects value most are timeless projects. And in these classic works he values everything, but above all the connecting elements: from the material to the geometry. There is not only one way to reach a destination. There are many and this wealth of possibilities is what prolongs the process and makes evolution possible.  

The probability of impossibility is Zero. - Article By Anu Rahul Nandhan S

What is impossibility? Things we have not yet known to have happened. Impossibility is an idea. Not a pure science. I can state events that have happened that prove this statement right.

There was this extremely normal family in Germany. They had only one daughter. The daughter met with an accident and was under coma for a month. When she finally revived, she couldn’t speak German. She had acquired fluency in French instead. It wasn’t that the girl did not have prior exposure to French. Before the accident, she did have a couple of weeks in French training. Clearly, a couple of weeks weren’t enough to acquire fluency in French. But she spoke as if she were native French, rather than a secondary language. She found it difficult to read German anymore and she couldn’t even respond to her parents.

On investigation, it was found that the family did have a French root long ago, many generations away. So what we call a coma, did it influence her to bring back the long lost genetic memory? Or was it a blessing from the Gods? Research on Genetic memory is still a nascent subject. It deals with the ability of our DNA to save information through generations. This information is probably not memories in the form of people and incidents. This memory is in the form of skills and abilities. It is not impossible, as I have mentioned above. It is a possibility. A farmer’s son is naturally adept at farming. So is a King’s son at Kingship. This kind of memory is stored in our DNA.

The girl had inherited the ability to speak French. This is also explainable in terms of genetic memory. There has been a research paper in 1994 which suggests that our DNA actually translates to something. There is a language coded in our DNA which is nicknamed as the “language of the angels”. This supposedly angelic language is believed to be the origin of all human languages. The research concluded that this language encoded in our DNA is somehow related to the languages we speak but is too early to understand things yet.

So if this really is true, who has encoded the language in our DNA? Do three centuries of Darwinian evolution theory come to an end? If this theory is found authentic, it also suggests that mankind was not formed by mistake. Then who did create mankind? Aren’t we alone in this universe? Are there other intelligent species too advanced to be understood? Or is this the work of God?

I find the word “impossible” highly disturbing; especially knowing that anything is possible.

-Anu Rahul Nandhan S