Part B · Adaptive · One way
The mock that will not let you go back
Every other mock you have taken lets you sweep the paper, bank the easy marks and return to the hard ones. NATA Part B does not — and a practice tool that pretends otherwise is training the wrong exam. This one is built to the constraint the Council actually describes: one question at a time, 108 seconds, and no way back.
Mixed adaptive set
12 questions. 108 seconds each. No going back.
This deliberately refuses to let you skip, flag or return, because the real Part B does. A mock that let you sweep and come back would train the exact habit that costs marks on a one-way adaptive test.
The clock
108s per question, then it advances without you.
Commitment
Answering is final. There is no review screen.
Difficulty
Moves with your answers, as the real engine does.
What this is not
These questions are original. No official NATA past paper, sample paper or mock exists — COA publishes none and destroys the exam record after 90 days, so every “previous year paper” in circulation is a coaching reconstruction. Marks per question and negative marking are unpublished, so this scores 1 mark per question flat rather than inventing a weighting. The difficulty stepping mimics the feel of an adaptive engine; COA's actual algorithm is not published. You will get a raw score, never a percentile — a real percentile needs the whole cohort, and a made-up one is worse than none.
Choose your set
What this is built on
Sourced to the official brochure rather than asserted here — including the two things the Council has simply not published, which is why this tool scores the way it does.
Part B allows 108 seconds per question, presented one after another, on an adaptive engine.
90 minutes across 50 questions. The adaptive structure dates to NATA 2025 per the President's foreword in V2.0, which states that NATA 2026 continues it.
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Part B questions appear one after another at 108 seconds each. There is no evidence of a review screen.
The skip-flag-and-return habit that works in JEE does not transfer. Budget the 108 seconds and commit.
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Whether Part B carries negative marking is not stated in any official document.
The widely-repeated "no negative marking" claim appears only on coaching sites. We could not source it to COA.
Read this carefully: This one matters for strategy — whether to guess depends on it. Since it is unpublished, do not build a guessing policy on the assumption that wrong answers are free.
No official NATA mock test or sample paper exists. COA has published none.
Neither nata.in nor coa.gov.in hosts one, and neither brochure version mentions mocks or sample papers. Every 'NATA sample paper' in circulation is reconstructed by a coaching institute. Official papers are unlikely ever to be released: §12.0 Weeding Out Rules preserves the examination record for only 90 days after results.
Read this carefully: Claims that "COA releases the NATA mock test on nata.in" appear only on coaching sites and could not be verified on either official domain.
Source · verified 2026-07-16
The six areas
The areas the current bulletin actually names — not the Cognitive / Diagrammatic / Inductive / Situational-Judgement list most sites still print, which belongs to the retired 2023-24 format. No weighting is published for any of them, so this bank does not pretend to know the split.
Visual Reasoning
10 questions“Understand and reconstruct 2D and 3D composition, technical concepts”
Rotation, mirrors, folding, sections. The most trainable area in Part B.
Logical Derivation
8 questions“Decode a situation/composition/context and draw conclusions”
Sequences, rules, deduction — and not overreaching past the evidence.
General Knowledge, Architecture & Design
7 questions“Current issues, important buildings, historical progression, innovation in materials and construction technology”
Unbounded by syllabus. The least tractable area to prepare, and the one to accept losses on.
Language Interpretation
8 questions“Meaning of words/sentences, English grammar”
The area most often skipped and most cheaply improved.
Design Sensitivity and Thinking
8 questions“Observe/record/analyse people, space, product, environment; semantics, metaphors, problem identification”
Observation as a trainable skill, not a personality trait.
Numerical Ability
9 questions“Basic Mathematics and its association with creative thinking. To unfold a space with use of geometry.”
Examined without a calculator. Estimation and proportion, not heavy computation.
The bank now holds 50 questions — a full Part B paper's worth — every one written from scratch against the real syllabus. That is worth more than four hundred scraped from reconstructions of an exam that no longer exists, and the full-length option lets you sit all 50 in one one-way pass, which is the stamina the real thing asks for.