Before applying for the NDA 2024 exam, be it NDA1 or NDA2, you must know the criteria as it is more than age and educational qualifications. Starting from physical health to mental health, everything is examined in a candidate before selection. 

You would be surprised to know that there are candidates who get rejected even after passing the exams because of issues like eyesight, height, inability to handle psychological questions, etc.

Therefore, candidates should only apply after reading the eligibility criteria thoroughly.

The step-by-step application is mentioned below. Following these steps will lead to smoother application submission eliminating all the mistakes. 

Before candidates appear for the exam, there is a process that needs to be followed. Moreover, this process follows a schedule and one needs to follow the same to complete the process successfully. The dates are as follows: 

The NDA exam happens in 2 papers. The first one is Maths and the second one is the GAT which means General Ability Test. Here are the marks and topic divisions for you for better understanding.

The syllabus covers all the basic Math and General knowledge questions. The detailed syllabus will be uploaded by UPSC. However, it does not change each year. So, you can refer to the 2023 syllabus as of now. You need to click on the link mentioned above in the eligibility section to get the same. 

• Vishakhapatnam

• Gautam Buddh Nagar

• Navi Mumbai

• Warangal

• Panaji (Goa)

• Agra

• Gorakhpur

• Patna

• Ajmer

• Gurgaon

• Agartala

• Ghaziabad

• Port Blair

• Prayagraj (Allahabad)

• Aizawl

• Hyderabad

• Puducherry

• Aligarh

• Imphal

• Pune

• Ahmedabad

• Gwalior

• Almora (Uttarakhand)

• Indore

• Jabalpur

• Ranchi

• Bengaluru

• Jaipur

• Sambalpur

• Bareilly

• Jammu

• Raipur

• Andhra Pradesh

• Itanagar

• Rajkot

• Aurangabad

• Shillong

• Bhopal

• Jodhpur

• Shimla

• Bilaspur

• Jorhat

• Ludhiana

• Udaipur

• Dispur

• Madurai

• Srinagar

• Chennai

• Kohima

• Srinagar (Uttarakhand)

• Coimbatore

• Kolkata

• Thane

• Cuttack

• Calicut

• Siligudi

• Chandigarh

• Kochi

• Thiruvananthapuram

• Dehradun

• Leh

• Tiruchirapalli

• Delhi

• Lucknow

• Tirupati

• Dharwad

• Varanasi

• Faridabad

• Mumbai

• Vellore

• Gangtok

• Mysore

• Vijayawada

• Gaya

• Nagpur

NDA  CUT-OFF FOR WRITTEN EXAMS:

NDA CUT-OFF FOR FINAL SELECTIONS

The final selection cutoff for the NDA exam is made out of 1800 marks.

The NDA 2024 response sheet helps candidates to know the right answers to the questions and calculate how many questions they have done right leading to predicting the marks. However, students can go through the unofficial answer sheets as the official one can take longer to be released.

NDA candidates can only challenge the answer key of the group C examination. To do the same, they need to log in to the official site and challenge the answer key by providing proof that justifies their answers by giving a certain amount of fee.

If you talk about 2021, around 5,75,854 people applied for the NDA exams, and the vacancies that year were only 400. In 2023, More than 6 lakh candidates took the NDA examination for 395 vacancies. 

• Shubham Parmar

• Nikhil Tiwari

• Anurag Sangwan

• Yashika

• Ashim Das

• Amandeep Singh

• Aryan Thakur

• Neehal Sunil Mehroliya

• Ujjawal Ranjan

• Arjit SinghChinmay Anand

• Prince Thory

• Abhishek Singh Bhadouria

• Nakshatra Kanchan

• Anagh Bisht

• Raghav Gupta

• Aditya Gupta

• Gaurav Yadav

• Uttam Sharma

• Arpan Saini

• Shivraj Singh Pachhai

• Ishan Tripathi

• Devansh Sharma

• Bhavika

To prepare effectively for the NDA exam 2024, you need a valuable and effective study plan. See, preparing for an exam conducted by UPSC is not a joke. The candidates need to be very specific about their priorities. Every second counts but that does not mean you will study 24 hours, but yes, you should learn 24 hours. Below-mentioned steps will help you:

• Start by Analyzing the Syllabus. The more you analyze, the better preparation strategy you can create. By analyzing the syllabus you can shortlist the chapters you have good command over and which chapters you need to work hard on. This way, you can save a lot of time.

• After that, solve previous years’ question papers. This is one of the most effective ways of scoring high as you are making yourself aware of question patterns, chapters that are being focused, etc. 

• After you complete the syllabus, you immediately start giving mock tests. You can find them in any study app. Mock tests are the game changers for your preparation. You can not only solve more and more questions but also learn how to manage your time and complete the exam paper efficiently. 

• Lastly, keep revising your chapters. You will be learning and keep forgetting. Therefore, revision is significant for not forgetting anything at the last minute. 

• You can read books like NCERT 11 and 12th, Wren & Martin English, Objective GK by Shashi Kumar, Pratiyogita Darpan, etc. 

Remember not to limit yourself to books, You can watch lectures, clear concepts through YouTube videos, read the newspapers, etc. 

Well, it depends on whether you have your concepts clear or not. If you have clear concepts, you can crack the examination without coaching. But getting coaching is always better because you will get guidance and some special updates from teachers. 

Moreover, you get exposure to premium quality mock tests. Apart from that, premium coaching Institutes can also prepare you for the SSB round to test your different abilities. 

You can find the best Institutes in your city on the right side list. From Pune to Gurugram, we have it all. 

A small tip from StudyDekho would be to self-study. Watch the interviews, lectures, and everything that adds something more than what you learn in your coaching institute.