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NDA The National Defence Academy (NDA) is the cradle of leadership with the finest infrastructure for professional training. It is a prestigious inter-service institution that conducts training for unmarried male citizens who wish to serve the defence services in the Indian Army, Indian Navy air Indian Air Force. It provides phenomenal opportunities for candidates to develop their personalities and cultivate new interests as varied as aero-modelling, astronomy, golf, gliding, photography, sailing or wind-surfing. Pattern of Examination There is one common written examination for entry into Army, Air Force and Naval Wings of NDA and 10+2 (executive branch) of Naval Academy in the following pattern. ->Mathematics - 2 hrs - 300 marks ->GEneral Ability - 2 hrs - 600 marks Paper will consists of objective-type questions only set in English. The Mathematics Paper evaluates a candidate's knowledge of topics such as algebra, matrices and determinants, trinometry, analytical geometry of 2 and 3 dimensions, diffrential calcus, integral calcus and diffrentail eqautions, vector algebra, statistics and probability expected to be taught as part of the senior/higher secondary syllbus. The syllabus is given in the Employment News Weekly announcement. Consult textbooks in these areas of mathematics for preparation. Time bound practice after initial revision helps a candidate tackle the paper successfully. The General Ability Paper is divided into two parts: A and B. Part A has questions dealing with English grammer and usuage, vocabulary and comprehension. It carries 200 marks. Part B is a general Knowledge section carrying 400 marks. Questions in this section are intended to evaluate the knowledge of the candidate in physics, chemistry, general science, history, freedom movement, geography and current events. Out of the maximum marks - 400 assigeend to Part B of this paper, questions on physics carry approx. 25% weightage, chemistry carries 15% general science carries 10%, history, freedom movement carries 20% weightage and so does geography, while 10% weithage is given to questions on current events. ,br> Candidates who declared qualified in the written examination have to appear before a Service Selection Board (SSB) for intelligence and personality test to access the candidates for their potential for being officers and those for the Air Force in Pilot Aptitude Test for officer potentiality. Two State Selection
Service Selection Board and Air Force Selection Boards (AFSB) conduct a two stage selection procedure. All candidates are put to Stage I test on the first day of reporting at the Selection Centre/AFSB. only those candidates who qualify at stage I are admitted to the second stage or remaining tests. All those who fale to pass Stage I are returned. As part of Stage II, in addtion to the interview, candidates will be put through intelligence tests of a verbal and also of a non-verbalnature to help assess their basic ontelligence. Group discussions, group planning, outdoor tasks and short lectures on specified subjects are oncluded in Stage II. The SSB exercise is meant to assess the mental calibre of the candidates and thus looks into his intellectual qualities, as also his traits and interests. The Selection
The final selected candidates for the three services (Army, Aur Force and Navy) get their preliminary training- Academic as well as physical- for three years at the NDA. The first two and half years of training are common to cadets of the three wings. On passing out from NDA, cadets are awarded BA or BSc degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University. The cost of training including accomodation, books, uniforms, boarding and medical treatment are borne by the government. Parents would have to meet their private and pocket expenses which is unlikely to exceed Rs. 175 per month. After passing out from the NDA, the cadets proceed for specialised training. Army cadets go to the Indian Militry Acadmy at Dehradun, Naval cadets who are selected for the executives, engineering and electrical branches of the Navy are given sea training on the Cadets training ship and Air Force cadets go to AFA, Hydrabad /BFTS Allahabad. The NDA and Naval Academy examination (II) 2003 will be used to fill up 335 vacancies out of which 195 are for the army, 39 are for the Navy, 66 are for the Air Force, and 39 are for the Navy, 66 are for the Air Force and 35 are for the executive branch of the Naval Academy. for more information logon : www.upsc.gov.in, |