NDA exam is conducted by UPSC. This exam is for those candidates who are looking forward to join national defense academy of defense forces ,I.e., Indian Army, Indian Navy and Indian airforce.

You can give NDA exam as you're appearing for 12th class examination. Following criteria you should have  for being eligible for the examination. The eligibility criteria for girls appearing in the examination is same as the eligibility  for boys. As you know in 2021 Suprem Court of India allows girls to appear in the examination. So eligibility,separate hostel,bathroom etc are going to be  in the Academy strictly for girls only. But till then these are the criteria for both male and female candidates.

Eligibility:-

1. A citizen of India

2. A subject of Nepal or Bhutan

3. A Tibetan refugee who moved to India, before January 1, 1962, with the intention of settling here permanently

4. PIO (Person of Indian origin) is someone who has migrated from the countries specified below, with the intention of permanently settling in India. The nationals from the following countries would fall under this category such as Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African Countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania (Formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar ), Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia, Vietnam.

Age Limit:- Minimum 16 years of age

Maximum 19 years of age

Educational qualification:-

(i) For Army Wing of National Defence Academy :—12th Class pass of the 10+2 pattern of School Education or equivalent  examination conducted by a State Education Board or a university.

(ii) For Air Force and Naval Wings of National Defence Academy and for the 10+2 Cadet Entry Scheme at the Indian Naval Academy :— 12th Class pass with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics of the 10+2 pattern of School Education or equivalent  conducted by a State Education Board or a University.

Candidates who are appearing in the 12th Class under the 10+2 pattern of School Education or equivalent examination can also apply for this examination.

Such candidates who qualify the SSB interview but could not Produce Matriculation/10+2 or equivalent certificate in original at the time of SSB interview should forward duly self attested Photocopies to ‘Directorate General of Recruiting, Army HQ, West Block.III, R.K. Puram, New Delhi-110066’ and for Naval Academy Candidates to ‘Naval Headquarters, DMPR, OI&R Section, Room No. 204, ‘C’ Wing, Sena Bhavan, New Delhi-110011.

NOTE 1 : Candidates appearing in the 11th class exam are not eligible for this examination.

NOTE 2 : Those candidates who have yet to qualify in the 12th Class or equivalent examination and are allowed to appear in the UPSC Examination should note that this is only a special concession given to them. They are required to submit proof of Passing the 12th class or equivalent examination by the prescribed Date which is given in the NDA exam notification and no request for extending this date will be entertained on the grounds of late conduct of Board/University Examination, delay in declaration of results or any other ground.

Hi,

Yes you are eligible to appear for the exam and the age limit is from 16.5 -19.5 years. good luck!

Hi Shubham!

Sorry to say that, but it is clearly mentioned in the eligibility criteria for NDA 2023 that the candidate must have passed 10+2 from a recognized board or equivalent. And for Air force and Naval wing, Candidates must have passed 10+2 with Physics and Mathematics from a recognized Board/University.

Also, candiadtes' age must be between 16.5 to 19.5 years.

=> So, you are not eligible to write NDA 2023 but definitely you can appear for NDA 2024.

Thankyou!

Hi Shubham,

Yes, you are eligible for NDA in 2024. Candidates between 16.5 years to 19.5 years are eligible for NDA. Candidates must have completed 12 th standard or equivalent exam from a recognised Board for Indian Army and Physics and Mathematics is compulsory subjects for Indian Air Force and Naval.

For NDA 2 - 2024, candidates must have born not earlier than January 2, 2006, and not later than January 1, 2009.

For NDA 1, candidates should be born not earlier than July 2, 2005 and not later than July 1, 2008.

You'll be eligible for NDA - I and NDA - II in 2024 and NDA - I in 2025. In total you are left with three attempts once you complete your 12 th standard.

You can check below given link, for more information about NDA eligibility criteria.

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

Hope this helps you.

Good Luck!!

Hello,

The age limit at the time of commencement of NDA course is 16.5 to 19.5 years. Considering the given date of birth you will be eligible to apply for NDA 1 2022, NDA 2, 2022. So you have two attempts left provided you must have passed or appearing in 10+2 examination at the time of filling NDA application and you must have applied for NDA 1 2022 because the application for NDA 1 2022 is closed. If you haven't applied for NDA 1 2022 then you have only one attempt left. If you have studied Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry in 10+2 level you are eligible to select Indian Navy Academy, Indian Air Force Academy and Indian Military Academy. If you haven't studied Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry in 10+2 level but passed from any other stream then you are eligible to apply for Indian Military Academy only.

Hello Aspirant,

As per your DoB you are eligible for following attempts of NDA :-

NDA 1 2022

NDA 2 2022

For your reference the complete eligibility criteria for NDA 2022 is mentioned below :-

>>> Either you should be an Indian National or a subject of Nepal or a subject of Bhutan or people of Indian origin migrated from Zaire, Ethiopia, East African Countries of Kenya, the United Republic of Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, Burma, Pakistan, Zambia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam to settle in India or Tibetan refugees came to India, to settle in India before January 1, 1962

>>> For NDA 1 2022 the age should be 15.5-18.5 years old and should have born in between July 2, 2003 to July 1, 2006.

>>> For NDA 2 2022 the age should be 16.5-19.5 years old and should have born in between January 2, 2004 to January 1, 2007.

>>> Indian Army - Should have passed 12th standard from valid State Education Board or a University.

>>> Indian Air Force and Naval - Should have passed 12th standard with Physics and Mathematics from valid State Education Board or a University.

>>> The candidate should be unmarried.

You can check out the official notification from the link given below :-

https://www.upsc.gov.in/sites/default/files/Notif-NDANA-I-2022-engl-221221.pdf

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

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

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!

Hello Suresh,

To appear for NDA there is a definite eligibility criteria.

First of which is age criteria.

If your age falls between 16.5 to 19.5 years then only you can apply for NDA.

Please let us know if you come under this or not. Then we can further give you some more  clarifications.

Hello hello !!

So , basically NDA is stands for National Defence Academy . NDA conducts it's exam twice in a year first exam already done in april and the other one will be conducted in September .  NDA 1 has already conducted on 10th of April in offline mode and Union Public Service Comission has already released the official NDA 1 question paper 2022 on 12th of april on official website.

The eligibility criteria of NDA exam is :

• It's nationality should be indian.
• Candidates must have passed their class 12th with maths and physics.
• Applicants born between 2nd of july , 2003 to july 1 ,2006.

For more detailing kindly go through the given link:

https://competition.careers360.com/exams/nda

I hope you will be clear now.

Revert back for further query.

Thank you !!

Hi,

NCERT is the Geeta, Bible, Quran of all the UPSC exams and is a good source to clear NDA 2022 exam with least difficulty, especially for the maths is more than enough. Remember that an aspirant major focus should be on clearing the maths paper first as only on clearing the maths one’s general aptitude will get checked. So one must ensure that he/she must be very much comfortable with class 10 ^th , 11 ^th , and 12 ^th NCERT maths . The major focus must be on the trigonometry & calculus part. The Algebra questions are comparatively easier in the paper.

For the physics, chemistry & biology, 9 ^th and 10 ^th class NCERT are quite sufficient, but maybe there could be few questions of the SHM or kinematics so it is better to read the 11 ^th class NCERT as well to score even better.

The current affairs part majorly comprises questions related to awards, sports, and important deals, etc.

History and geography come majorly as compared to civics and economics. The history part comprises of questions from the time of British India or even before that. Geography comprises of the general knowledge questions related to the crops, seasons, rivers, population, national parks, etc. of the different states either in the form of the match the column type/direct multiple choice.

If any aspirant wants to learn more in order to qualify NDA exam, one can follow the below books:

Hope this helps.

All the best.

Hi,

As per the NDA’s  age eligibility criteria, the candidate who is applying for the NDA exam must be of 16.5 to 19.5 years of age. Choose your stream in 11th and 12th based on the eligibility criteria. I would suggest you use the available chances to appear for the exam with proper guidance from e-learning platforms like Unacademy.

All the best !