NDA Exam Detail

Will you please give me detail of National Defense Academy (NDA) Exam??

National Defense Academy (NDA) Exam can make career in the Air Force, Navy and Army. UPSC conducts NDA exam two times in a year.

Eligibility Criteria:

Age:
Your age limit should be in between 16.5 – 19.5 years

Education

For Army Wing:
You should have passed or appearing in the 12th Exam from the school recognized from any board.

For Navy and Air Force Wing:
You should have passed or appearing in the 12th (Mathemetics & Physics) from the school recognized from any board.

Nationality:

You must either be:
a citizen of India, or
a subject of Bhutan, or
a subject of Nepal, or
a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before the 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or
a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka and East African Countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire and Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.

Sex and Marital Status:
- You must be an unmarried male
- You must not marry until they complete their full training.
-A candidate who marries subsequent to the date of his application, though successful will not be selected for training.
- A candidate who marries during training shall be discharged and will be liable to refund all expenditure incurred on him by the Government.

Health Criteria
-Applicants must be of sound health and also meet the minimum criteria of Physical Standards specified by the NDA.
-In absence of these parameters, candidate’s admission to the Academy will not be considered.

Tentative Schedule (Examination held twice a year)
Notification of Examination Sept. - Oct. & May - June
Conduct of Examination March - April & Aug. - Sept.

Examination Centres

Ahmedabad Dharwar Kolkata Shillong
Aizwal Dispur Lucknow Shimla
Allahabad Gangtok Madurai Srinagar
Agartala Delhi Kohima Sambalpur
Bangalore Hyderabad Mumbai Thiruvanathapuram
Bareilly Imphal Nagpur Tirupati
Bhopal Itanagar Panaji (Goa) Udaipur
Chandigarh Jaipur Patna Vishakhapatnam
Chennai Jammu Port Blair
Cuttack Jorhat Raipur
Dehradun Kochi Ranchi

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Answered By StudyChaCha Member

sir,i want to know whether we can go for NDA exam if we have passed our 12th with biology stream and didn't have maths as a main subject in 11th and 12th?