Taking donation money depends on how many seats are available. The donation fee will be high for the streams that have a lot of demand.

However, if there are seats that are vacant, you can try spot counseling and you will not be charged at all for this except for the fee required for admission.

The money that you might be asked to pay can vary depending on the financial situation of the candidates. Getting in touch with the management facility will help you in getting a clear idea. Keep in mind, however, that people who opted for the management quota had to pay huge amounts of money.

Almost 10% of the seats were kept aside for management quota candidates and they are given on the basis of ‘first come first’. Some people got admitted without paying anything at all except for the admission fee and some had to pay huge amounts of money to get in.

Another thing about getting admission through quota is you may lag behind your peers. Even if you do get admission, a lot depends on you as well.

The ranks keep getting fluctuate every year and there is no surety about the exact ranks. 

It is suggested to wait until the third round of counseling if you are unable to secure a seat.

However, you can absolutely get a seat in Applied Electronics with this rank. In fact, you will get it in the 1st round itself. For 2021, the opening and closing rank of this course is 9490 and 21759 respectively.

You can proceed with further admission process very easily.

To clear the NIMHANS entrance exam for M. Phil in clinical psychology, you need to be thorough with the basics of the syllabus of a PG in psychology either be MA in psychology or MSc in psychology, especially cognitive psychology, biological basis of behavior, abnormal psychology, social psychology research methodology, and all the different branches of psychology from PG level.

My friend is currently pursuing the M.Phil course in clinical psychology at NIMHANS. According to his experience, clearing M.Phil entrance is just one part of the game.

You will have to be passionate enough to take the pressures of having to report to different people, being able to work together with people from different disciplines, and being able to be resilient with minor or major put-offs.

Getting used to the work hours is very exhausting, including Saturdays and at the same time there are no holidays or you cannot leave clinical work while preparing for exams, so the clinical work and patients have the highest priority at this place.

In exchange, you will have the best people guiding you and the day-to-day privilege of working with the best people in the field, so you should be able to manage both academics and clinical work. Not to repeat but you should be mentally strong and constantly enthusiastic about what you are doing and be able to reach out to people when you have difficulties.

My brother did PGPDE from NTTF, so I have some idea about both courses.

PGDE:

• It is a two-year program that includes Industrial Design (ID), but engineering is also taught alongside ID.
• Design studios, labs, model shops, and tools are all in poor condition.
• There will be only one experienced faculty, others will give you assignments only.
• The emphasis is primarily on engineering, with little or no emphasis on ID.
• There is no research going on there, and you will not get as much exposure as you would at a Tier II college.

PGTE:

• PGPDE is a two-year program that focuses on tool and die design, engineering, and analysis.
• Workshops are available, but the availability of machines does not match the strength of the students, making it difficult to complete projects.
• There are experienced staff members available, and the teaching is comparatively good. A lot of CAD assignments must be submitted for each semester (which is good for learning in the beginning), but one major disadvantage is that you will never receive feedback on the assignments you submit.
• AutoCAD and Creo software have been taught. However, in the industry, UG NX and Catia are widely used.
• Last but not least, many students enroll in PG school NTTF because of placements. To tell you the truth, only a few companies come to campus. Many companies advertised in advertisements visited the campus last decade, but they still keep it in the ad.
• Nowadays, placements are very poor, either because service-based companies do not visit campus or because the salary offered by them is too low. For the PG programs, the median and maximum CTC offered in current years is 2.5 lakhs and 3.4 lakhs. 

I will advise you to take all these factors into consideration, before choosing PGDE or PGTE at NTTF.