Tell me is there any CDS recruitment held by UPSC? Also give me its syllabus.

You want to know about UPSC CDS recruitment so Union public Service Commission (UPSC) conduct CDS exam twice in a year for selection of candidates into the Indian Military Academy (IMA), Officers Training Academy (OTA), Naval Academy and Air Force Academy. Its This year exam was just over on 17th February 2013 but UPSC will conduct next exam very soon.

Following is UPSC CDS Syllabus:
PAPER – 1: ENGLISH:
The question paper will be designed to test the candidates’ understanding of English and workmanlike use of words.

PAPER – 2: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE:
General Knowledge including knowledge of current events and of such matters of everyday observation and experience in their scientific aspects as may be expected of an educated person who has not made a special study of any scientific subject. The Paper will also include questions on History of India and Geography of a nature which Candidate should be able to answer without special study.

PAPER – 3: ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS ARITHMETIC:
Number System-Natural numbers, Integers, Rational and Real numbers. Fundamental Operations addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, Square roots, Decimal, fractions. Unitary method, time and distance, time and work, percentages, applications to simple and compound interest, profit and loss, ratio and proportion, variation. Elementary Number Theory- Division algorithm. Prime and composite numbers. Tests of divisibility by 2, 3,4,5,9 and 11. Multiples and factors. Factorisation Theorem. H.C.F. and L.C.M. Euclidean algorithm, Logarithms to base 10, laws of logarithms, use of logarithmic tables.

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