Candidates who are writing NDA 1 2017 Exam will be competing with other candidates over 400+ seats for Indian army, navy and air force. Between 1.5 to 2 lakh student attempt this exam every year. So the candidates who are writing this exam must know about every details regarding this exam, one of which is  Exam Pattern of NDA 1 2017 Entry. You must know about it the exam pattern if you are preparing for this exam.

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What is the Exam Pattern of NDA 1 2017 Entry

NDA 1 2017 Exam Pattern in detail.

The NDA written exam comprises of 2 papers [Mathematics and general ability test].

Each paper is held for a duration of two and a half hour, so a candidate has to be mentally prepared to write the exam for 5 hours in a day.

These papers are objective in nature, You will have to make a choice out of four or three given choices. Each questions has only one correct answer and choosing more than 1 option will be regarded as wrong answer.

Paper 1: Mathematics

This paper has questions on mathematical [10+2 level] topics  like Trigonometry, Arithmetic’s, 3D Geometry, statistics, calculus, permutation and combination etc.

Number of questions: 120

Time allocated: 2 and 1/2 hours.

Total marks: 300.

Negative marks for wrong answer: one-third marks of the mark assigned to that particular question.

Paper 2:  General Ability Test

Number of question: 150

Time allocated: 2 and 1/2 hours.

Total marks: 600

Negative marks for wrong answer: one-third marks of the mark assigned to that particular question.

General Ability Test is divided into two parts:

Part A: English

English part has 50 questions [200 marks] on topics like spotting error, passage, jumbled sentences, fill in the blanks etc.

Part B: General knowledge and awareness

Part B contains 100 questions [400 marks], has topics divided in following manner.

• Physics – This topic will carry 100 marks.
• Chemistry – This topic will carry 60 marks.
• General section – This topic will carry 40 marks.
• History, Freedom Movement – This topic will carry 80 marks.
• Geography – This topic will carry 80 marks.
• Current Events – This topic will carry 40 marks.

The questions asked in Physics and chemistry are very basic in nature. One has to keep in mind that in paper 2 one has to do 150 questions in 150 minutes, so time is an important entity here.

Questions asked in current affair are related to sports, science, awards etc.

There are few things that has to be kept in mind, like in Mathematics paper all questions are not allocated same marks, some questions are allocated more marks, some are allocated less. The questions asked in Physics are  based on the 11th and 12th standard, though very few numerical type question are asked in Physics. All aspirants should be clear about NDA exam pattern because the number of questions asked in NDA exam is high and if you don’t have a strategy, you can fall short of time and miss out on the easier questions. In order to clear NDA exam one should have strong basics in Maths, physics and chemistry and should take a number of mock or online test series to get ready for the exam.