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Organization : Footwear Design & Development Institute
Announcement : All India Selection Test

Apply Online : fddiindia.com/admissions/pg/fddi_application/fddi.aspx
Application Form : https://www.entrance.net.in/uploads/903-FDDI_AF_AIST2015.PDF
Prospectus : https://www.entrance.net.in/uploads/903-Prospectus.pdf
Home Page : https://fddiindia.com/

The cost of Prospectus along with Admission Form is Rs. 500/-.
Prospectus along with the Admission Form can be purchased from:
FDDI Campus at NOIDA, Fursatganj, Chennai, Kolkata, Chhindwara, Rohtak, Jodhpur & Guna.
You can send a Demand Draft of Rs. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred only) in favour of “FDDI” payable at New Delhi to FDDI, NOIDA and it will be sent through courier. Do not forget to mention your complete address at the back of the DD also.

Last date for issue and submission of admission form is 15th May 2015.
Date of Computer based Entrance Examination (AIST 2015): 12th, 13th, & 14th June 2015.

Examination Centers will be allotted on First-Come-First-Serve basis. Aspiring candidates are advised to fill in the Application Form and submit the same at the address given below at the earliest.
You may also download the soft copy of Prospectus 2015 available online. Please read the prospectus carefully before making any payment.

ADMISSION PROCEDURE – Indian Applicants :
SELECTION CRITERIA FOR UNDER GRADUATE & POST GRADUATE PROGRAMMES:
Eligible candidate is required to undertake an All India Selection Test (AIST) comprising of Computer based Multiple Choice Examination. AIST will be conducted on 12, 13 & 14 June, 2015 at various centres. Candidate has an option to choose the date according to his convenience. AIST will be conducted at the following location PAN India:
1. Agra
2. Allahabad
3. Bangalore
4. Bareilly
5. Bhubaneswar
6. Chandigarh
7. Chennai
8. Chhindwara
9. Chittorgarh
10. Dehradun
11. Delhi
12. Faridabad
13. Fursatganj
14. Ghaziabad
15. Gorakhpur
16.Gurgaon
17. Guwahati
18. Gwalior
19.Hyderabad
20. Indore
21. Jabalpur
22. jaipur
23. Jalandhar
24. Jammu
25. Jamshedpur
26. Jodhpur
27. Kanpur
28. Kolkata
29. Lucknow
30. Meerut
31. Mumbai
32. Noida
33. Patna
34. Ranchi
35. Rohtak
36. Kochi
37. Shimla

Candidate is required to give (4) choices in the application form in order of his/her preference for examination centre from the above mentioned list. FDDI would allot exam centre as per availability. No request for change of date and exam centre would be entertained. The allotment of centre of examination and date will be given on first come first serve basis. While deciding the centre and date of examination the choice written in the form will be given preference. FDDI reserves right to add or cancel the exam centres listed above without assigning any reason.

Admit Card bearing the address of exam centre and date of exam for online examination will be sent to the candidate in the fourth week of May 2015.z Candidate not receiving the admit card by 1st June, 2015 may get in touch with the Admission Cell, FDDI or download it from www.fddiindia.com The Examination is conducted in Hindi/English medium only.

An All India Merit List will be prepared on the basis of the result of AIST by last week of June 2015.

NOTE: Candidate appearing in final year exam would be provisionally allowed to appear in entrance examination. However, such candidate is required to submit mark sheet of the final year at the time of admission. In case candidate fails in the final year exams, his/her admission would be cancelled.

All results will be published in FDDI website, www.fddiindia.com.

Procedure for Admission Through Counselling :
The programme and the campus will be allotted to the candidate on the basis of his/her rank and preference. Successful candidate will be called for the counseling in the order of his rank. Admissions will be made strictly on merit basis (Rank-wise) and counseling/admissions will continue till all the seats get filled.

Students will be called for the counseling in excess of the seats to cater for some students opting out during counseling.

Therefore, there are possibilities that all the seats are filled before the counseling of all called candidates is over. Candidate will be called in the counseling room as per his rank on the basis of aggregate score in the AIST.

Institute will not take any responsibility for any inconvenience caused to parents/candidates due to closure of the counseling prior to their turn.

A candidate who is allotted a seat will be required to pay an initial amount of Rs. 25000/- at the time of counseling to reserve the seat. The amount submitted shall not be refunded in case of withdrawal of admission. The candidate will be given seven working days to deposit the balance fee

ADMISSION PROCEDURE – Reservation & Exemption :
RESERVATION FOR SC/ST, OBC (Non-creamy) & PH CANDIDATES :
Institute reserves 15% seats for Scheduled Caste (SC) and 7.5% seats for Scheduled Tribe (ST) and 27% seats for OBC (Non Creamy) candidates respectively in each programme in both sponsored as well as non-sponsored category.

3% seats are reserved for physically handicapped students in each programme as per the persons with Disability Act 1995. Such candidates should submit the disability certificate issued by medical board notified by State/Central authority certifying their disability as 40% or more.

Candidates applying under OBC quota would have to satisfy the caste and creamy layer requirement details. National commission for backward classes (NCBC) websites may be seen for reference :
(a) https://www.ncbc.nic.in/Home.aspx
(b) https://www.ncbc.nic.in/Home.aspx

Candidates applying under this quota would have to produce a caste certificate from the Competent Authorities of the respective States/Union Territories certifying that they don’t belong to the creamy layer.

EXEMPTION : Candidates who have attempted in any of the below mentioned entrance test are eligible for exemption from appearing in the written test of FDDI (AIST).
Master Degree Programmes:- CAT/XAT/MAT /AIMA/JMET/NMAT/ AMCAT/ SNAP/ GMAT/ AIM-CAT / or any other equivalent entrance test
Bachelor Degree Programmes:-AI EEE/BITSAT/lITJEE/GGSIPU/VIT/SR M/BCECE/UPSEE/MPCET/GUJCET/EAMCET/COMEDK / MH CET/ODISHA JEE or any other equivalent entrance test

However score secured by them in these examinations shall be considered as per the following criteria – the aggregate percentile of said examination will be equated at par with FDDI percentile. Marks corresponding to the nearest percentile of the candidate who has appeared in the FDDI examination will be allotted and the candidate having percentile in other examinations will be positioned just below such candidate.

For example the candidate having 92.84 percentile in MAT will be equated to the nearest percentile of the candidate appeared in FDDI entrance examination, which is 92.75 and the marks corresponding to the percentile is 160/300 in case the MAT student with 92.84 percentile will also be allotted 160 marks. However, in case of MAT students who have also appeared in FDDI examination, the better of two marks as per the above method shall be allotted. Similar formula will be applied in case of any other entrance test as well.

The scores prior to September 2014 in above mentioned examination shall not be considered.

The common merit list of examination will be prepared for candidate appeared in the AIST and applied under exempted categories. On the basis of their aggregate marks, the FDDI rank will be awarded to the candidate. In case of some of the entrance examinations, where only rank is awarded but no score is available, the suitable decision will be taken by the admission committee and the suitable FDDI rank will be awarded to such candidate.

The decision of admission committee will be final in this regard.

Important dates:
Last date for issue of prospectus / application form 15/05/2015
Last date for submission / receipt of application form 15/05/2015
Date of Entrance Test 12/06/2015, 13/06/2015 & 14/06/2015
Declaration Of Result 30/06/2015
Date for Counselling
PG PROGRAMMES 08/07/2015, 09/07/2015 & 10/07/2015
UG PROGRAMMES 13/07/2015, 14/07/2015, 15/07/2015 & 16/07/2015