AIFD WAT 2025: Application, Exam, Syllabus, Pattern, Admission Process, Courses 

AIFD WAT 2025 Exam Highlights

The table given below shows some of the key highlights of the AIFD WAT 2025 exam.

What is AIFD WAT?

AIFD was started in the year 2004 at Bangalore which is under the Army Welfare Education Society (AWES). Earlier, for its design programs, the college administered a written admission test (WAT), which is held once a year. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2021, AIFD introduced the Online Admission Test or OAT. The institute offers the following programs:: 

AIFD WAT 2025 Exam Dates

The table given below shows some of the key highlights of the AIFD WAT exam dates 2025.

AIFD WAT Eligibility Criteria

• Army Institute of Fashion and Design enrollment is only for candidates who are children of serving Army personnel, discharged Army personnel or wards of war victims/widows of Army personnel. 

• Applicants must belong to one of the following categories and submit relevant proof along with their Application Form: Applicants must belong to one of the following categories and submit relevant proof along with their Application Form: 

• Widows/divorcees/dependent daughters and sons of the serving Army personnel with a minimum of 10 years’ unbroken service. 

• Receiving pension and present age The respondents of the sample include the children of the ex-Army personnel who are receiving the regular pension, liberalised family pension, family pension, or disability pension at the time of retirement, death discharge, or medical discharge. This also encompasses cases of wards-of-recruits who were medically boarded out on disability pensions. 

Adopted and stepchildren:

• Adopted children must have been adopted at least five years before applying.

• Stepchildren are eligible if born from a marriage where one parent belonged to the Army and meets the eligibility criteria.

Special cases eligibility: 

• Wards of ex-Army Medical Corps/Army Dental Corps officers currently serving with the Indian Navy or Indian Air Force who have served 10 years with the Army.

Eligibility for children of APS/MNS/TA personnel:

• The dependents of APS personnel are defined as ex-servicemen under the Ministry of Defence. 

• Applicable to children of APS personnel on deputation with a service in the Army for a period of 10 years. 

• APS personnel children; Civilian personnel recruited to the APS; Persons retired from the APS; Civilian personnel who have retired from the army; Persons who have completed 10 years of service in the army. 

• Members of MNS who are children of a member of the Nigeria Armed forces with 10 years’ meritorious service or recipients of army pension. 

• Offspring of TA personnel with 10 years of Embodied Service. 

• The cardholders are the wards of serving and retired personnel of IN and IAF. 

• Dependants of serving Assam Rifles personnel. 

• Civilian wards with a valid NIFT/OAT score from AIFD. 

Educational Qualification:

• Any aspirant must have cleared his / her 11th and 12th standard with a similar set of subjects as the formal students/candidates and with a minimum of 35% marks in the aggregate from a board/university recognized by UGC / University. 

• Admission to the B. Sc. course is open to the regular candidates who cleared their 10+2 examination. (FAD) and B. Sc. Based on the norms of Bengaluru North University, the expenses incurred on the students and faculties by the institute during the study period will be called Internal Direct costs (IDD). 

• For candidates who did their distance education or NIOS, the respective subjects in both 11th and 12th must be the same. 

• The entrance is offered through the Online Admission Test (OAT). 

Physical Fitness:

• Candidates must be certified as physically and mentally fit to pursue the course by MH/RMO/Registered Medical Practitioner.