An Examination will be conducted by the Union Public Service Commission, for admission to the
Army, Navy and Air Force wings of the NDA for the 137th Course and for the 99th Indian
Naval Academy
The candidates Joining
Indian Naval
Academy
Army: 208 posts (tentative)
Navy: 42 posts (tentative)
Air
Force: 70
posts (tentative)
Naval Academy [10+2 Cadet Entry Scheme): 55posts
Total: 375 Posts (tentative)
Vacancies are provisional and may be changed depending on
the availability of training capacity of National Defence
Academy
Eligibility
Nationality: A candidate must either be (i) a citizen of India, or (ii) a subject of Bhutan, or (iii) a subject of Nepal, or (iv) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before the 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or (v) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka and East African Countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire and Ethiopia or Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India. Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Govt of India. Certificate of eligibility will not, however, be necessary in the case of candidates who are Gorkha subjects ofNepal
Nationality: A candidate must either be (i) a citizen of India, or (ii) a subject of Bhutan, or (iii) a subject of Nepal, or (iv) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before the 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or (v) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka and East African Countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire and Ethiopia or Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India. Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Govt of India. Certificate of eligibility will not, however, be necessary in the case of candidates who are Gorkha subjects of
Age
Limit, Sex and Marital Status: Only unmarried male candidates
born not earlier than 02nd July
1997 and not later than 01st July 2000 are eligible
Educational
Qualifications
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
Air Force and Naval
Wing of National Defence Academy and 10+2 Cadet Entry Scheme at the Indian
Naval Academy: 12th
class pass of the 10+2 pattern of school education or equivalent with Physics
and Mathematics 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
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 exam by the prescribed date 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 whatsoever
Candidates must be physically fit according to physical
standards for admission to National
Defence Academy
A candidate who has resigned or withdrawn on disciplinary
grounds from any of the training academies of Armed Forces is not eligible to
apply
Exam
Centres: Agartala,
Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Allahabad, Bangalore, Bareilly, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai,
Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi, Dharwad, Dispur, Gangtok, Hyderabad, Imphal,
Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Jorhat, Kochi, Kohima, Kolkata, Lucknow, Madurai,
Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji (Goa), Patna, Port Blair, Raipur, Ranchi, Sambalpur,
Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati, Udaipur,
Vishakhapatnam
Fee: Candidates (excepting female
SC, ST, PH candidates, Sons of JCOs, NCOs, ORs specified in Note 2 in the
notification who are exempted from payment of fee) are required to pay a fee of
Rs.100/- (Rupees one hundred only) either by depositing the money in any Branch
of SBI by cash, or by using net banking facility of State Bank of India, State
Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, Sate Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank of Mysore, State
Bank of Patiala, State Bank of Travancore or by using Visa, Master Credit, Debit
Card
Applicants who opt for "Pay by Cash" mode,
should print the system generated Pay-in-slip during Part- II registration and
deposit the fee at the counter of SBI Branch on the next working day only.
"Pay by Cash" mode option will be deactived at 23.59
hours of 28th January
2016 (Tentative) i.e. one day before the closing date; however,
applicants who have generated their Pay-in-slip before it is de-activated may
pay at the counter of SBI Branch during banking hours on the closing date
Such applicants who are unable to pay by cash on the
closing date i.e. during banking hours at SBI Branch, for reason whatsever,
even if holding a valid Pay-in-Slip, will have no other offline option but to
opt for online Debit, Credit Card or Internet Banking Payment mode on the
closing date i.e. till 23.59 hours of 29th January 2016
For the applicants in whose case payments details have not
been received from the bank they will be treated as fictitious payment cases
and a list of all such applicants shall be made available on the commission
website within two weeks after the last day of submission of online application
The applicants shall be required to submit the proof of
their fee payment within 10 days from the date of such communication either by
hand or by speed post to the commission
On receipt of documentary proof, genuine fee payment cases
will be considered and their applications will be revived, if they are
otherwise eligible
Candidates are required to apply online by using the
website Detailed instructions are available on the above mentioned website
Penalty
for wrong answers: Candidates
should note that there will be penalty (negative marking) for wrong answers
marked by a candidate in the objective type question papers
Selection
Procedure: The Union Public Service
Commission shall prepare a list of candidates who obtain the minimum
qualifying marks in the written examination as fixed by the commission at their
discretion
Such candidates shall appear before a Services Selection
Board for Intelligence and Personality Test where candidates for the Army, Navy
wings of the NDA and 10+2 Cadet Entry Scheme of Indian Naval
Academy
PABT applicable to candidates with Air Force as first
choice would also be conducted for all SSB qualified candidates with one of the
choice as Air Force subject to their eligibility and if they are so willing
Two-stage selection procedure based on Psychological
Aptitude Test and Intelligence Test has been introduced at Selection Centers, Air
Force Selection Boards
All the candidates will be put to stage one test on first
day of reporting at Selection Centers, Air Force Selection Boards
Only those candidates who qualify at stage one will be
admitted to the second stage, remaining tests
Those candidates who qualify stage II will be required to
submit the original certificates along with one photocopy each of (I) original
matriculation pass certificate or equivalent in support of date of birth, (ii)
original 10+2 pass certificate or equivalent in support of educational
qualification
The candidates applying for the examination should ensure
that they fulfil all eligibility conditions for admission to the examination
Their admission at all the stages of the examination will
be purely provisional subject to satisfying the prescribed eligibility
conditions
1.
Facilitation
Counter: In case of any guidance, Information,
clarification regarding their applications, candidature etc candidates can
contact UPSC’s facilitation counter near gate ‘C’ of its campus in person or
over Tel 011-23385271,011-23381125,011-23098543 on working days between 10.00
hrs and 17.00 hr
Scheme of
NDA Entrance Examination
The subjects of the
written examination, the time allowed and the maximum marks allotted to each
subject will be as follows:–
Subject Code Duration Maximum Marks
Mathematics 01 2-½ Hours 300
General Ability Test 02 2-½ Hours 600
Total
900
2.
The papers in all the subjects will consist of objective type
questions only. The question papers (Test Booklets) OF MATHEMATICS AND PART
"b" OF GENERAL ABILITY TESTS WILL BE SET BILINGUALLY IN HINDI AS WELL
AS English.
3.
In the question papers, wherever necessary, questions involving the
metric system of Weights and Measures only will be set.
4.
Candidates must write the papers in their own hand. In no
circumstances will they be allowed the help of a scribe to write answers for
them.
5.
The Commission have discretion to fix qualifying marks in any or all
the subjects at the examination.
6.
The candidates are not permitted to use calculator or Mathematical or
logirithmic table for answering objective type papers (Test Booklets). They
should not therefore, bring the same inside the Examination Hall.
Announcement of the
Results of NDA (I) 2016 Written Examination, Interview of qualified candidates,
announcement of final results and admission to the training courses of the
finally qualified candidates:
The Union Public Service Commission shall prepare a list
of candidates who obtain the minimum qualifying marks in the written
examination as fixed by the Commission in their discretion. Such candidates
shall appear before a Services Selection Board for intelligence and Personality
Test where candidates for the Army, Navy wings of the NDA and 10+2 Executive
branch of Naval Academy
Two stage selection procedure based on Psychological Aptitude Test and
Intelligence Test has been introduced at Selection Centres, Air Force
Selection Boards. All the candidates will be put to stage one test on
first day of reporting at Selection Centres, Air Force Selection Boards.
Only those candidates who qualify at stage one will be admitted to the second
stage, remaining tests. Those candidates who qualify stage II will be
required to submit the original Certificates along with one photocopy each of:
(i) original Matriculation pass certificate or equivalent in support of date of
birth; (ii) Original 10+2 pass certificate or equivalent in support of
educational qualification.
Candidates who appear before the Services Selection Board
and undergo the test there will do so at their own risk and will not be
entitled to claim any compensation or other relief from Government in respect
of any injury which they may sustain in the course of or as a result of any of
the tests given to them at the Services Selection Board whether due to the
negligence of any person or otherwise. Parents or guardians of the candidates
will be required to sign a certificate to this effect.
To be acceptable, candidates for the Army, Navy and Naval
Academy should secure the minimum qualifying marks separately in (i) Written
examination and (ii) Officer potentiality test, as fixed by the Commission in
their discretion, and candidates for the Air Force should secure the minimum
qualifying marks separately in (i) Written examination (ii) Officer
potentiality test, and (iii) Pilot Aptitude Test as fixed by the Commission in
their discretion.
Subject to these conditions the qualified candidates will
then be placed in the final order of merit on the basis of total marks secured
by them in the Written examination, and the Services Selection Board Tests in
three separate lists-one for the Army and the Navy, the second one for the Air
Force and the third for the Course at the Naval Academy. The names of
candidates who qualify for all the Services of NDA and the Naval Academy
N.B.: Every candidate for the Air
Force is given Pilot Aptitude Test only once. The Grade secured by him at the
first test will there-fore hold good for every subsequent interview he has with
the Air Force Selection Board. A candidate who fails in the first Pilot
Aptitude Test cannot apply for admission to the National Defence Academy
Examination for the Air Force wing or General Duties (Pilot) Branch or Naval
Air Arm.
Candidates who have been given the Pilot Aptitude Test for
any previous N.D.A. course should submit their application for this examination
for the Air Force Wing only if they have been notified as having qualified in
the Pilot Aptitude Test.
The form and manner of communication of the result of the
examination to individual candidates shall be decided by the Commission at
their discretion and the Commission will not enter into correspondence with
them regarding the result.
Success in the examination confers no right of admission
to the Academy. A candidate must satisfy the appointing authority that he is
suitable in all respects for admission to the Academy.
Important Dates
Date of Notification: 2nd January 2016
The Online Applications (Part I and II) can be filled
from 2nd January 2016 to29th
January 2016 till 11.59 p.m.
Last date for Payment of fee through Offline: 28th January 2016 by 23.59 hrs.
Last date for Payment of Fee through Online: 29th January 2016 by 23.59 hrs.
Availability of e-Admit Cards: 3 Weeks before the commencement of Exam
Last
date for submission of application: 29th January 2016
Date of
NDA (I) Examination: 17th
April 2016
Written Exam Results will be declared in: July-August 2016
INAC commencing from: 02nd January 2017 (Tentative)
SSB Interview for the candidates qualified
in Written Exam will be held during: July 2016 to Sept-Oct 2016
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