The UPSC carries out the National Defence Academy examination two times in a year. NDA exam is conducted to recruit candidates into the Army, Air Force and Naval Wings of the NDA.
The National Defence Academy (NDA) is the Joint Services academy of the Indian Armed Forces, where cadets of the three services, the Army, the Navy and the Air Force train together before they go on to pre-commissioning training in their respective service academies. The NDA is located in Khadakwasla near Pune, Maharashtra.
NDA 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.
