Latest Schedule of National Aptitude Test (NAT™) 2017

Latest Schedule of National Aptitude Test (NAT™) 2017

Applications should reach NTS™ office latest by last date of submission of Registration Form. NTS™ will not be responsible for late receiving of application through Courier / Pakistan Post etc.

Schedule 2017
Sr#	Test Date	Advertisement Dates	Last Date of Submission of Registration Form	Roll No. Slip Dispatch Date	Result Announcement Date on NTS Website	Result Card Dipatch Date
1	Sunday  29th January  2017	Sunday 1st January 2017	Wednesday 11th January 2017	Thursday 19th January 2017	Monday 6th February 2017	Friday 10th February 2017
2	Sunday  26th February 2017	Sunday 29th January 2017	Wednesday 8th February 2017	Thursday 16th February 2017	Monday 6th March 2017	Friday 10th March 2017
3	Sunday 26th March 2017	Sunday 26th February 2017	Wednesday 8th March 2017	Thursday 16th March 2017	Monday 3rd April 2017	Friday 7th April 2017
4	Sunday  23rd April 2017	Sunday 26th March 2017	Wednesday 5th April 2017	Thursday 13th April 2017	Tuesday 2nd May 2017	Friday 5th May 2017
5	Sunday 21st May 2017	Sunday 23rd April 2017	Wednesday 3rd May 2017	Thursday 11th May 2017	Monday 29th May 2017	Friday 2nd June 2017
6	Sunday 18th June 2017	Sunday 21st May 2017	Monday 5th June 2017	Thursday 8th June 2017	Friday 23rd June 2017	Wednesday 5th July 2017
7	Sunday 23rd July 2017	Sunday 18th June 2017	Monday 10th July 2017	Thursday 13th July 2017	Monday 31st July 2017	Friday 4th August 2017
8	Sunday 20th August 2017	Sunday 23rd July 2017	Wednesday 2nd August 2017	Thursday 10th August 2017	Monday 28th August 2017	Friday 1st September 2017
9	Sunday 17th September 2017	Sunday 20th August 2017	Wednesday 30th August 2017	Thursday 7th September 2017	Monday 25th September 2017	Friday 29th September 2017
10	Sunday 15th October  2017	Sunday 17th September 2017	Wednesday 27th September 2017	Thursday 5th October 2017	Monday 23rd October 2017	Friday 27th October 2017
11	Sunday 12th November  2017	Sunday 15th October 2017	Wednesday 25th October 2017	Thursday 2nd November 2017	Monday 20th November 2017	Friday 24th November 2017
12	Sunday 10th December 2017	Sunday 12th November 2017	Wednesday 22nd November 2017	Thursday 30th November 2017	Monday 18th December 2017	Friday 22nd December 2017

NTS - A Gateway or a Deadlock!

NTS - A Gateway or a Deadlock! 

Somebody, some place has said that "at whatever point I locate a key to achievement, somebody changes the bolt" such is the situation with our instruction framework where motivating admission to post graduate degree is winding up noticeably hard assignment to accomplish, once in a while evolving criteria, mind boggling IQ based practice guides, aptitude upgrading mottos by vast number of foundations, where one gets effortlessly lost in the midst of scholarly complexities of framework subsequently falling prey to pseudo organizations.

Today a passage test is thought to be a key to open different scholarly entryways prompting certain spaces. Already Pakistan had UGC (University Grants commission) keeping in mind the end goal to direct confirmations in whole colleges all over Pakistan that body was not working successfully.

At that point came insurgency in instruction situation of Pakistan alongside the appearance of Dr. Attaur Rehman, who totally changed and adjusted this framework under the mark of HEC (Higher Education Commission). Presently the circumstance is that around all colleges tail one scholastic date-book year so as to keep up the nature of training. To keep pace with the advanced world it was need of hour to offer admissions to those understudies who were sufficiently qualified and could contend at worldwide level.

For this reason HEC presented different outside and in addition indigenous grants, model of capability was to judge English perusing, composing, talking and listening aptitudes. To compare Pakistani understudies with worldwide understudies and to check their inclination in specific subjects, there was a measuring stick to gauge correspondence and investigative abilities alongside the choice power, the name of this universal test was GRE (Graduate Record Examination) directed by ETS (Educational Testing System).

On this example Pakistan likewise presented a passage test keeping in mind the end goal to provide food countless out there; a body was set up on the impressions of ETS called NTS (National Testing System).

Being new in the field and having absence of skill, NTS caved in the first place with a specific end goal to suit tremendous understudies looking for admission to ace degree, which a short time later brought about suppress this better approach for enlistment accordingly colleges led confirmation through the same conventional style.

While then again, yearning possibility for M.phil and PhD program were constrained so NTS done test, in light of universal GRE design. Following a year or so NTS created NAT for the graduates looking for admission to Master degree and GAT for those searching for M.phil and furthermore who were applying for association. In any case, real downside in this framework was that it needed in Subject test and just General test was accessible, this made the circumstance very many-sided for the individuals who were looking for admission to humanities gather and still, at the end of the day they needed to experience numerical and investigative bit. That included Verbal Ability half, Quantitative Ability 25%, and Analytical Ability 25%. The example was most appropriate for the understudies of sciences and sociologies, as of late NTS has presented subject tests yet the range is extremely restricted and particularly for the individuals who are going for PhD.

There is electronic checking framework for GAT and NAT, however the procedure of rechecking contains numerous provisos; besides numerous understudies are getting very surprising outcomes. Few college HODs don't consent to this framework inferable from its complexities, they are of the view that understudies of far-flung ranges stay absent of all such procedure for the most part wind up without confirmation notwithstanding holding great score in their individual subjects.

Another side of picture is that many establishments and foundations are controlling this circumstance. Get ready for such section tests involves an additional weight for understudies as far as time, cash and vitality alongside the sentiments of frailty and instability. Hopefuls from remote ranges remain at inns contiguous such institutes just to upgrade their aptitude of taking test, the entire bundle costs enough sum equivalent to one semester expense of a commendable degree at eminent college.

Despite the fact that this can be named a viable measuring stick to gauge ability of applicants, however the individuals who have no fitness for Quantitative and Analytical bits and whose standard is humanities gathering, confront desperate entanglements.

In short NTS ought to present subject test containing inquiries of related subject as it were. As of late Punjab Education Minister has proclaimed that there ought to be no compelling reason to hold passage test and understudies ought to be given confirmation on the premise of their outcome, additionally understudies are not all around arranged to show up in Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) based section test subsequent to qualifying their for the most part subjective examinations. Keeping in view these issues, Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool held a meeting with bad habit chancellors of open part colleges and chose that the National Testing System (NTS) would not be mandatory and particular colleges alongside their scholarly divisions could choose to acknowledge the NTS test or hold their own entrance tests so as to finish their confirmation measure. Likewise, he said the Education Department had additionally held a meeting with partners in regards to holding of section test and the sort of inquiries to be asked in the test.

Such is the training situation in Pakistan all untidy and jumbled, how might one yearns for gaining a smooth degree among all such mysteries and evolving parameters. By presenting this passage test our framework has obtained a piece from remote instruction framework rather taking entire foundation, understudies being without investigative approach at basic and optional school level can't tackle conundrums over daily, where as that requires particular ability. Unless we remove packing disorder, can't expect reasonable and systematic yield from youthful parcel, in addition it relies on upon training framework, semester framework is far superior than yearly framework. Through semester framework understudies figure out how to function in pieces methodicallly with intensive appreciation that would at last help them take such sort of IQ based tests skillfully.