CDS Exam coaching for April 25th, 2025

In defence exam, the age is calculated from the date of joining, not from date of exam date / application date. candidates are advised to add 10 to 12 months to their age to reach min & max of for cds. However, every time upsc release cds notification, they mention min & max dates also. Candidates are advised to visit official website & read the notification carefully before filling the online form.

Candidates with bachelor degree can apply for cds exam. Education qualification varies according to the post -

For Indian Military Academy - Degree of a recognized university or equivalent is required.

For Air Force Academy - Degree of a recognized University with Physics & Mathematics at 10+2 or Bachelor of Engg. is required.

For Officer Training Academy - Degree of a recognized university or equivalent is required.

For Naval Academy - Bachelor of Engineering is required.

Candidates with graduation degree from any stream can apply for cds exam. But candidates holding degree from Arts/Humanity can only apply for Army & OTA.

Yes, Candidates who are appearing last year of their graduation can apply for cds exam.

Yes, Female (unmarried) candidates can apply for CDS only for the post of Officers Training Academy (OTA).

There is no such no. of attempts is mentioned in CDS notification or on UPSC website. Students can attempt till they fulfil the age criteria of CDS application.

No. As per the CDS notification & UPSC website, there is no such criteria is mentioned. Candidates only have to secure passing marks to apply cds exam.

The candidate must either be:

A citizen of India,

A subject of Bhutan,

A subject of Nepal,

A Tibetan refugee who came over to India before the first July, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India.

A person of Indian origin migrated from outside country with the intention of permanently settling in India.

There is variation of marital status for cds exam -

For IMA & INA - Unmarried male candidates only are eligible.

For Air Force Academy - Unmarried male candidates only are eligible.

For Officers' Training Academy (SSC Course for men) - Unmarried male candidates only are eligible. Male divorcee/widower candidates are not eligible.

For Officers' Training Academy (SSC Women Non-Technical Course) - Unmarried women, issueless widows who have not remarried and issueless divorcees (in possession of divorce documents) who have not remarried are eligible

Note - Marriage is not permitted during training.

Relaxation in Age for Commercial Pilot Licence Holder (issued by DGCA) - Upper age limit for candidates holding valid Commercial Pilot Licence issued by DGCA (India) is relaxable upto 26 yrs. Candidate below 25 years of age must be unmarried. Marriage is not permitted during training. Married candidates above 25 years of age are eligible to apply but during training period they will neither be provided married

accommodation nor can they live with family out of the premises.

Medical & Physical

Candidates must be physically and mentally fit according to the given standards.

vision standard for Naval and Airforce

For Male:

Candidate must able to read 6/6 in a distant vision chart with each eye with or without glasses (For Navy and Air Force without glasses only).

Myopia should not be more than 3.5D

Hypermetropia should not be more than 3.5D including Astigmatism.

For Female:

Aspirant must able to read 6/6 (better eye) and 6/8 (worse eye) in a distant vision chart with or without glasses

Myopia should not be more than minus 5.5 including Astogination.

Internal examination of the eye will be done by means of ophthalmoscope to rule out any disease of the eye.

A candidate must have a good binocular vision.

The color vision standard will be CP-III.

A candidate should be able to recognize red and green colors.

Teeth, Ear, Nose and Throat Conditions :

CDS Physical Qualification also covers your conditions of teeth, ear Nose, Throat etc. Check the standards given below.

The applicants ought to have an adequate number of normal and sound teeth.

At least 14 dental focuses will be satisfactory.

A hopeful ought not to be experiencing serious pyorrhea.

The listening must be ordinary.

A hopeful ought to have the capacity to hear a constrained whisper with every ear at a separation of 610 cms in a very room.

There ought to be no confirmation of present or past disease of the ear, nose, and throat.

A sound metric test will be ruined AF. Sound metric misfortune ought not to exceed+20 db in frequencies somewhere around 250Hz and 4000 Hz.

Candidates are advised to go to official notification of cds exam which is released by UPSC.

First of all, the participants should take care that they are physically & mentally fit and fine and free from any type of disease/disability.

Participant does not have any type of mental breakdown record in past.

The aspirant must undergo a preliminary medical check-up for wax in ears, refractory error of eyes, a fungal infection of skin before reporting for the SSB interview.

Candidate must be under a standard weight

The chest should be in fine condition. An x-ray of the candidate will be carried out for figuring out any disease in his chest.

The minimum range of expansion after full inspiration should be 5 cms.

There should be no disease of bones and joints of the body.

There are height/weight standards for male & female candidates. Please refer cds official notification.

CDS is a written exam which consists of only Multiple Choice Questions. For getting into Indian Military Academy, Naval Academy, and Air Force Academy, candidates are required to appear for all the 3 papers- English, General Knowledge and Elementary Mathematics. However, For Officers Training Academy, candidates must take two papers only- English and GK. Each paper carries 100 marks. The question paper will also consist of questions involving the metric system of Weights and Measures only will be set. Those who qualify in the written test are called for the second stage i.e., Intelligence and Personality Test.

Candidates should note that there will be penalty (Negative Marking) for wrong answers marked by a candidate in the Objective Type Question Papers.

All admitted candidates can download e-Admit Card with details of centre address around three weeks ahead of Examination Date once Admit Card are uploaded on https://www.upsc.gov.in/

After clearing the written test in CDSE, the candidates have to go through a series of personality tests, which is called the Service Selection Board. This interview commonly known as SSB has different types of tests to judge a person's personality. . SSB consists of three types of tests.

The Screening Test

The Psychological Tests

The Interview

In case a candidate is in final year & awaiting for his/her mark-sheet or he/she is submitted his/her certificate in college/universities for higher studies, he/she will be required to submit an application which will be signed by the principal/university registrar (Application formation can be downloaded along with call letter for ssb).

Where the NDA examinations recruit for the Army, Navy and Air Force after 12th whereas the CDS examinations are conducted for recruitment for IMA, Naval Academy, Air Force Academy and OTA after graduation.