Hello,

NDA stands for National Defence Academy and NA stands for Naval Academy. Candidates must attempt the NDA exam to be eligible to join The NDA or NA.

There is a bit of difference in the NDA eligibility criteria between them.  While candidates who ave completed 12th standard in any stream are eligible to join other branches of the NDA, the Navy branch requires candidates to have studied maths and physics in 12th standard.

Hello Altaf Kh,

NDA stands for National Defence Academy. 12th class pass student of the 10+2 pattern of School Education can apply for Army Wing of National Defence Academy.

NA stands for Naval Academy. Only 12th Pass students of the 10+2 pattern of School Education with subjects Physics and Mathematics can apply for Naval Wing. Same conditions of educational qualifications apply for Air Force Wing.

Hope this will help.

Thanku.

Dear Student,

The fullform of NDA is National Defence Academy and NA stands for Naval Academy. Both the exams are conducted by U.P.S.C. For NDA, the candidate must have passed 10+2 from a recognised university with any stream but for NA, the candidate should pass 10+2 with science stream only. Rest of the criterias are same for both the fields. After NDA, the candidate can work in Air Force Academy,Naval Academy, Indian Military Academy but after NA one cn work in Indian Navy only.