Dear Aspirant

Only unmarried candidates are eligible for CDS exam. The age limit is as follows:

Indian Military Academy (IMA) - 19-24 years

Indian Naval Academy (INA) : 19-22 years

Air Force Academy : 19-23 years

Officers’ Training Academy (SSC Women Non-Technical Course) : 19-25 years

Officers’ Training Academy (SSC Course for Men) : 19-25  years

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Hey!

Yes, the candidates with bsc biology are eligible to apply for CDS exam. But you are not eligible to apply for defense services , however you can apply for IMA (Indian military academy ) and OTA (officers training academy).To know more, visit here:

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

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Yes. CDS provides an opportunity to Short service commission as well as permanent commission. You can get permanent commission by getting into AFA, IMA and INA. For that you need to appear in the Mathematics paper along with GK and English. The short service commission in Indian army is offered till the age of 25.

Hope it would be helpful.

Hi,

Under CDS, female candidates are only eligible for training in OTA(Officers Training Academy, Chennai). So, for OTA the female candidates need to be between 19-25 years of age. Also, the female candidates need to be either unmarried, widow or divorced. While, joining the academy, you must be 25 years of age. So, if during joining time, your age will be more than 25 years of age, you will be no longer eligible.

For AFCAT, female candidates age should be between 20-24 years for sitting into the AFCAT examination. If, you sit for AFCAT, next year, you will not be eligible for it.

Dear Aspirant,

as per the guidelines, the required eligibility for CDS Examination is that , all interested candidates will have to complete their graduation and only then can apply for the examination. The candidates applying will have to either have passed their final year examination or bet yet to pass their final year examination.

Hello,

Yes you will be eligible for CDS but only for OTA as the eligibility criteria for OTA is that the candidate should be between the 19 to 25 years and should have a bachelor's Degree from a recognised University or equivalent institute. The CDS 02/2021 application form will be released on August 04, 2021.   The CDS application 2021 will have to be filled in online mode from the official website, aspirants will also have to pay the application fee to validate their application.

Dear aspirant

CDS exam is conducted twice every year. The exam is held for two different courses for recruitment to the Indian defence Services, The officers Training Academy (OTA) course question paper has two sections whereas IMA and other services course has three sections.

The syllabus for written exam is:

English -  Fill in the Blanks, Sentence Correction, Jumbled Sentence, reading comprehension and finding errors and omissions, the right use of English word, tenses, verbs etc

General Knowledge - Current affairs, economics, history, geography, chemistry, physics, biology, books and authors, Indian politics etc

Elementary Mathematics - Arithmetic, Geometry, algebra, trigonometry, statistics, menstruation etc.

For more details use the link

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/cds-exam/amp

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Hi Jyoti!

No, it is not necessary! Combined Defence Services Exam is conducted twice a year mostly in February and November. The one coming in February is CDS 1 and the other coming in November is CDS 2.

Both are the same exam dated at different times of the year. So, writing anyone at your convience is enough!

Hope this is helpful!

All the best!

Hello,

To be eligible for CDS exam the age limit is of 19-25 years and the candidate needs to be a graduate to be eligible  to give CDS exam. There is no age relaxation for reserved category candidates in the CDS examination. So if you satisfy the above eligibility criteria only then you will be eligible. Two years gap has nothing to do with the eligibility for CDS exam. Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is the exam conducting body for the Combined Defence Services (CDS) examination.