Hii sir, I Wants to give the NDA Examination Will you Please provide me the Physical Eligibility Criteria doe the NDA Examination ?

NDA (National Defence Academy) is a premier institute that trains the cadets (candidates) to get selected for Indian Armed Forces (Indian Army, Indian Air Force and Indian Navy) as officers.


Eligibility Criteria

Candidate must be a citizen of India/ a subject of Bhutan/ a subject of Nepal/ a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India.

Marital Status Only unmarried male candidates are eligible to apply.

Age Criteria one may be Attend the Age of 17 years


Physical Standards

Candidates appearing in NDA 2017 must be physically and mentally fit according to the prescribed physical standards.
A candidate recommended by the Services Selection Board (SSB) will undergo a medical examination by a Board of Service Medical Officers

. Only those candidates will be will be declared qualified NDA 2017 and admitted to the academy who is declared fit by the medical board.


Vision standard for naval candidates

Uncorrected without glass 6/6, 6/9
Corrected with glass 6/6, 6/6
Limits of Myopia –0.75
Limits of Hypermetropia +1.5
Binocular Vision III
Limits of colour perception I

Examination Pattern :

Sections: The NDA entrance examination will be asked in two subsequent sections; written test and intelligence & personality test.

Type of Questions: The question paper of written test will contain objective type questions and sectioned in code 1 & 2.

Marks for Code 1: Code 1 will comprise of Mathematics questions of 300 marks while code 2 will comprise of general ability questions of 600 marks.

Marks for Code 2: Code 2 will be divided in 2 sections as A & B. Section A will cover Math of 200 marks while section B will cover general knowledge of 400 marks.