dear student,

For NDA 1, 2026, the age limit requires candidates to be born between July 2, 2007, and July 1, 2010 . Since your date of birth is January 8, 2007 , you fall just outside the lower cutoff , making you ineligible for this attempt. Even though you may be within the general age range (16.5 to 19.5 years), UPSC goes strictly by the exact dates mentioned in the notification.