Hello,

Candidates who are pursuing 3 year or 4 year Bachelor's Degree from recognized Open University are eligible to apply for Air Force Common Admission Test (AFCAT) and Combined Defence Service (CDS) Entrance Examination. You will be eligible to apply for Flying Branch and Ground Duty Non-Technical through AFCAT and through Combined Defence Service you will be eligible to select Indian Military Academy and Officers Training Academy if you are male candidate. If you are female candidate then you will be eligible to select Officers Training Academy. Candidates who are in the final year of the qualifying examination are also eligible to apply for AFCAT and CDS provisionally if they fulfill the eligibility criteria.

Hi.

According to CDS Exam eligibility criteria, for Education Qualifications, it states that

Candidates who are studying in the final year/semester Degree course and have yet to pass the final year degree examination can also apply provided candidate should not have any present backlog upto the last semester / year for which results have been declared upto the time of submission of application and they will be required to submit proof of passing the degree examination at the time of commencement of course to reach the IHQ of MoD (Army)

Therefore, if you have backlog of a whole semester then you will not be eligible, only after clearing the backlog you can apply for the exam.

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Hello Aspirant,

By 2025 you will be of approx. 22-23 years old and according to your age you will be eligible for all the CDS 2025 courses so you can appear for CDS 2025 and for your reference the age criteria for different courses is mentioned below :-

>> Indian Military Academy - 19 to 24 years

>> Indian Naval Academy - 19 to 24 years

>> Air Force Academy - 20 to 24 years

>> Officers' Training Academy (Men) - 19 to 25 years

>> Officers Training Academy (Women, Non-Technical) - 19 to 25 years

Apart from the age criteria there are some other parameters upon which your eligibility will be determined like your educational qualification which goes like :-

** Indian Military Academy - Bachelor's Degree from a recognised University or equivalent institute

** Indian Naval Academy - Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from a recognised University/ College

** Air Force Academy - Bachelor's Degree from a recognised University (with Physics and Mathematics at 10+2 level) or Bachelor degree in engineering

** OTA (Men) - Bachelor's Degree from a recognised University or equivalent institute

** OTA (Women - Non-Technical) - Bachelor's Degree from a recognised University or equivalent institute

For detailed eligibility criteria kindly check out the link given below :-

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/cds-eligibility-criteria

I hope this information helps you.

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Hello sir,

25 years age is the limit for cds exam in india, you can have opportunity in ncc and its limit is upto 55 years.

Hello,

You can appear for the CDS Examination multiple times provided you fulfil the eligibility criteria everytime .

It won't matter if you got screened out during the SSB or were not recommended after the preparation of merit list or due to physical reason(your rejection should be due to temporary cause and not permanent rejection). You can apply for the CDS examination and appear for the same.

The CDS I 2022 Notification has been released by UPSC . Interested candidates can apply for the examination by registering themselves and completing the application process.

CDS 1 2022 Application Beginning Date - 22 December 2021.

Last date for submitting the full application is 11 January 2022.

The CDS 2022 examination will be conducted on April 10, 2022.

Given below are the eligibility criteria that you must fulfil if you wish to apply for the aforementioned examination-

The age wise criteria is different for different academies that one will join after SSB.

• INDIAN MILITARY ACADEMY - Age between 19-24 - DOB between 02 Jan 1999 to 01 Jan 2004

INDIAN NAVAL ACADEMY19-2402- DOB between Jan 1999 to 01 Jan 2004

• AIR FORCE ACADEMY- Age between 20-24 - DOB between - 02 Jan 1999 to 01 Jan 2003

• OFFICERS’ TRAINING ACADEMY (MEN)- Age Between 19-25 - DOB Between- 02 Jan 1998 to 01 Jan 2004

• OFFICERS’ TRAINING ACADEMY (WOMEN) - Age Between 19-25 - DOB Between 02 Jan 1998 to 01 Jan 2004.

I hope you find the answer helpful.

Thank you.

hello there, if we talk about the minimum eligibility criteria for who can give cds exam, you require atleast bachelors degree. also Candidates should be less than 25 years of age & must be unmarried. Marriage is not permitted during your training period. Married candidates who are above 25 years of age can also apply but during their training period, they will not be provided with the accommodation of their partner.

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Hello Jonnada,

Hope you are doing well.

The Combined Defence Services Examination (CDS) is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission for recruitment of Commissioned Officers in the Indian Military Academy, Officers Training Academy, Indian Naval Academy and Indian Air Force Academy.

Qualification after this exam goes like --> Written Test- Interview- Medical Examination

It is an offline mode exam and language preferred is Bilingual.

The examination fee for CDS Exam is Rs. 200/- for all categories except SC/ST/Females (exempted from fee payment).

Eligibility criteria for CDS:

Generally , graduation from any recognised University is required. But for Indian Naval academy and Air force academy in graduation  engineering is required.

Nationality-- Indian

age limit: as of the year you are applying you should be between 20-24 years. So, according to your DOB you'll be 24 years and eligible for the exam. Remember 24 is the limit.

in general you can have a look into the details required for 2021 CDS exam in the link below:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://competition.careers360.com/articles/cds-eligibility-criteria/amp&ved=2ahUKEwjT8Zzd9PTzAhVC4zgGHaemAQUQFnoECDUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw14kUrr6HUwo40TcS4-N6sc&ampcf=1

I hope I'm clear to you.

BEST wishes for future endeavours.