Combined Defence Services Examination
Hello,
The age limit to be eligible to join Indian Military Academy through Combined Defence Service Examination is 19 to 24 years. Considering the age criteria you are eligible for CDS 2 2021, CDS 1 2022 and CDS 2 2022 if you are in final year of the qualifying examination or passed in the qualifying examination. Your last attempt would be CDS 2 2022 considering the given age criteria.
Hi aspirant,
According to the current age guidelines set up by UPSC, the body which conducts the CDS examination a candidate needs to age between 20 to 24 years to be eligible for CDS Indian military services. The minimum educational requirements for the same is to be a graduate from a recognised university or college. You can see the complete details for the eligibility criteria for the various posts through CDS in the table below:
CDS age limit criteria for UR candidates
CDS 2021 Courses
CDS Age Limit 2021
Marital Status
Indian Military Academy
19 to 24 years
Unmarried
Indian Naval Academy
Air Force Academy
20 to 24 years
Officers' Training Academy (Men)
19 to 25 years
Unmarried & Married
Officers Training Academy (Women, Non-Technical)
Unmarried, Widow & Divorcee
As per the age mentioned by you you are eligible to write the examination for 3 mod x including this year until you are 24.
Hope it helps!!
Hello
, https://competition.careers360.com/articles/cds-question-papers
through this link you can download previous year question papers
You car refer to the video in youtube where previous year question paper is solved , these are better than online pdfs available in online
Through CDS COMBINED DEFENCE STAFF examination you can get into INDIAN DEFENCE FORCE ( ARMY , NAVY , AIRFORCE )
Hope this helps to fulfill your dream
Jai hind !
Dear aspirant!
Hope you are doing great! If you want to prepare for CDS OTA exam from your home then it is easy however nowadays most of the students prefer to study from home and take online classes rather than going to coaching centres where have to pay a large amount of fees ,if you want to prepare from home then you can take online lectures with best content quality which is available easily everywhere, also if you want to be physically fit then daily go for walk or jogging early in the morning ,go to gym if possible , do yoga and Pranayam and avoid junk and fatty food,eat fresh food.
If you want to know more about CDs ota exam then please visit the link given below;
https://competition.careers360.com/exams/cds .
Thanking you!
To clear CDS, you must earn at least 20 marks in all subjects, which is the sectional cutoff, and 115 points in all three papers combined, which are English, General Knowledge/Studies/Awareness, and Maths. Of course, if you want to join the Air Force, you should aim for a score of roughly 145/300. However, for Army and Navy, a score of 115/300 should sufficient, though the higher the number, the better.
English - Solve all Previous years papers of CDS
GK - Lucent’s or Arihant's General Knowledge and Study Capsules for Polity and Geography should do the trick if you’re lazy, otherwise I’d recommend NCERT (Classes 9–12) + Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth also The Hindu Newspaper for Current Affairs and Editorials.
Mathematics: Quantitative Aptitude by R S Aggarwal and M Tyra for high speed shortcuts will work best.
For TGS you just have to prepare for ssb.
Afcat- exam is more static Knowledge based.
Maths (18 ques): basic 10th level Maths is asked
Gk: static gk based on current affairs
English : solve previous year papers
Reasoning : You can solve any book for reasoning as practice is the key here.
Hello Ishu,
Hope you are doing well.
The Age eligibility criteria for CDS IMA 2022 as per the UPSC guidelines is that the candidate willing to appear should be graduate and between the age group of 19 to 24 years.
Since you'll be turning 23 in the year 2022, therefore you're eligible to give the exam.
UPSC conducts CDS exams Twice a year and therefore you'll have total of 4 attempts.
For further Details related to CDS exams, please visit the link provided below:
https://competition.careers360.com/articles/cds-eligibility-criteria
Hope this helps. All the best!
First of all the eligibility criteria of various posts in Indian Defence Services is as follows-
Indian Military Academy :
Air Force Academy :
Indian Naval Academy :
Officer's Training Academy(Men) :
Officer's Training Academy(Women):
Candidates in final year of graduation too are eligible for all of the abovementioned posts provided there is no backlogs at the time of applying,
now, coming to your question, depending upon the stream you choose, there are still three to four years left to appear for CDS, and exam patterns differs in case of OTA and IMA/INA/AFA as mentioned below-
You can check out the detailed syllabus at https://competition.careers360.com/articles/cds-syllabus,
In order to start your preparation, you need to be well acquainted with the exam pattern, and syllabus as the details provided above , now you have to make a proper time table, and accordingly assign number of hours to each subjects, and go through recommended books as follows-
Go through previous year papers at https://competition.careers360.com/articles/cds-question-papers to get acquainted with exam pattern. marking scheme, important topics etc, through regular practice you can analyze your level of preparation, and improve your speed, calculation, and time management skills.
Also, check out our page at https://competition.careers360.com/articles/how-to-prepare-for-cds to know more details regarding the preparation process.
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