Union
Public Service Commission (UPSC)
NDA / NA Examination (II) 2014
Union Public
Service Commission (UPSC) has notified the National Defence Academy & Naval
Academy Examination (II), 2014, for admission to the Army, Navy and Air Force
wings of the NDA for the 134th Course, and for the 96th Indian Naval Academy
Course (INAC) commencing on 2nd July 2015.
Exam Centre and Date: The Examination will be held
at Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Allahabad, Bangalore, Bareilly, Bhopal,
Chandigarh, Chennai, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi, Dharwad, Dispur, Gangtok,
Hyderabad, Imphal, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Jorhat, Kochi, Kohima, Kolkata,
Lucknow, Madurai, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji (Goa), Patna, Port Blair, Raipur,
Ranchi, Sambalpur, Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati,
Udaipur, Vishakhapatnam on 28th September, 2014.
Vacancies:
The approximate number of vacancies to be filled on the results of this
examination will be 375 of which 208 are for Army, 42 for Navy, 70 for the Air
Force and 55 for Indian Naval Academy (10+2 Cadet Entry Scheme). Those joining
Indian Naval Academy would undergo 4 years B.Tech Course and would be given an
opportunity to join Executive and Technical Branches of the Navy subject to
availability of vacancies. Vacancies are provisional and may be changed
depending on the availability of training capacity of National Defence Academy.
Admission will be made on the results of the
written examination to be conducted by the Commission followed by intelligence
and personality test by the Services Selection Board (SSB), of candidates who
qualify in the written examination.
Eligibility:
Applicant should satisfy the eligibility conditions related to Nationality,
Age, Sex, Marital Status, Educational Qualifications, Physical standards etc.
Age Limits, Sex and Marital Status: Only unmarried
male candidates born not earlier than 2nd January 1996 and not later than 1st
January, 1999 are eligible.
Educational
Qualifications:
(i) Army wing of NDA: 12th Class pass of the 10+2
pattern of School Education or equivalent examination conducted by a State
Education Board or a University.
(ii) Air Force and Naval Wings of NDA and for 10+2
Cadet Entry Scheme at Indian Naval Academy: 12th class pass of the 10+2 pattern
of School Education or equivalent conducted by a State Education Board or a
University, with Physics and Mathematics.
Those appearing in the 12th Class under the 10+2
pattern of School Education or equivalent examination can also apply for this
examination subject to conditions specified in the Notification and submission
of proof of passing the 12th Class/equivalent examination in original at the
time of attending SSB Interview. Those who are unable to submit it at the time
of SSB Interview must send attested photocopies of such documents to
‘Directorate General of Recruiting, Army Headquarters, West Block-III, RK
Puram, New Delhi-110066, and for Naval Academy Candidates to ‘Naval Head
Quarters, DMPR, OI&R Section, Room No.204, C Wing, Sena Bhavan, New
Delhi-110011’, to reach latest by the notified date.
Those who have failed INSB/PABT earlier are not
eligible for Air Force.
Those appearing in the 11th class exam are not
eligible for this examination.
Physical Standards: Applicant must be physically
fit according to physical standards for admission to National Defence Academy
and Naval Academy Examination (II), 2014 as per guidelines given in the
detailed Notification.
Examination Fee: Application Fee is Rs.100/-. SC/ST
applicants/Sons of JCOs/NCOs/ORs specified in Note 2 of the Notification are
exempted from payment of fee. No fee exemption is, however, available to OBC
candidates.
Fee can be paid by cash at any Branch of SBI or by
using Net Banking facility of State Bank of India/ State Bank of Bikaner &
Jaipur/Sate Bank of Hyderabad/State Bank of Mysore/State Bank of Patiala /State
Bank of Travancore or by using Visa/Master Credit/Debit Card.
Application:
Application can be submitted only online, at
http://www.upsconline.nic.in/mainmenu2.php
till 11.59 pm on 21st July, 2014. Brief instruction for filling up the
online Application Form is given in the Appendix-II of the Detailed Notification.
Detailed instructions are available at the website.
Before filling the application, applicant should
have his photograph and signature duly scanned in the .jpg format in such a
manner that each file does not exceed 40 KB and is not less than 3 KB in size
for the Photograph and 1 KB for the signature.
Application has to be submitted in two parts,
Part-1 Registration and Part-II Registration. Applicants who opt for ‘Pay by
Cash’ mode, should print the system generated Pay-in-Slip during Part II
registration of the Online Application and deposit the fee at the counter of
the SBI Branch on the next working day only. ‘Pay by Cash’ option mode will be
available only till 11.59 pm on 20.7.2014 so as to complete payment in bank by
21st July, 2014.
Applicant has to specify in the online application
form, the Services for which he wishes to be considered in the order of his
preference (1 to 4). He may indicate as many preferences as he wishes to opt,
so that having regard to his rank in the order of merit, due consideration can
be given to his preferences when making appointments. Applicants should note
that they will be considered for appointment only to those services for which
they express their preferences and for no other service(s). No request for
addition/alteration in the preferences already indicated by the applicant in
his application will be entertained by the Commission.
All the applicants are required to provide valid
& active email i.d. while filling up online application form as the Commission
may use electronic mode for contacting them.
Only one application should be submitted. However,
if due to any unavoidable situation, if an applicant submits another/multiple
applications, then he must ensure that the application with the higher (Registration
ID) RID is complete in all respects like applicants' details, examination
centre, photograph, signature, fee etc. In such cases, only the applications
with higher RID will be accepted and the fee paid against one RID will not be
adjusted against any other RID.
e-admission
Certificate: Eligible candidates shall be issued an e-Admission Certificate
three weeks before the commencement of the examination. The e-Admission
Certificate will be made available on the UPSC website (www.upsc.gov.in) for
being downloaded by candidates. No Admission Certificate will be sent by post.
Scheme of
Examination: Admission will be made on the results of the written
examination to be conducted by the Commission followed by intelligence and
personality test by the Services Selection Board (SSB), for candidates who
qualify in the written examination.
Written
examination: The written examination will have two papers, each of 2 ½
hours duration. Mathematics (Code 01) Paper will carry 300 marks while General
Ability Test (Code 02; Part A- English (200 marks) and Part B- General
Knowledge (400 marks)) will carry 600 marks. SSB Test/Interview will carry 900
marks. In Section B of Paper II, there will be subsections, namely, A- Physics(
25% weightage), B- Chemistry (15%), C- General Science (10%), D- History,
Freedom Movement etc (20%), E-Geography (20%) and F-Current Events (10%).
The papers in all the subjects will consist of
objective type questions only. The question papers (Test booklets) of
Mathematics and Part ‘B’ of General Ability Test will be set bilingually in
Hindi as well as English. Each question will have four alternatives. For each
question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate, one third
(0.33) of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty. If a
candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as a wrong answer even
if one of the given answers happens to be correct and there will be same
penalty as above for that question. If a question is left blank (no answer is
given by the candidate), there will be no penalty for that question. Detailed
syllabus is available in the Notification.
Results of
Written Examination: UPSC will prepare a list of candidates who obtain the
minimum qualifying marks in the written examination as fixed by the Commission
at their discretion. Such candidates shall appear before a Services Selection
Board for Intelligence and Personality Test where candidates for the Army/Navy
wings of the NDA and 10+2 Cadet Entry Scheme of Indian Naval Academy will be
assessed on Officers Potentiality and those for the Air Force in Pilot Aptitude
Test and for Officers Potentiality. PABT applicable to candidates with Air
Force as First choice would also be conducted for all SSB qualified candidates
with one of the choice as Air Force subject to their eligibility and if they
are so willing.
Two-Stage Selection Procedure: Two-stage selection
procedure based on Psychological Aptitude Test and Intelligence Test has been
introduced at Selection Centers/Air Force Selection Boards.
All candidates will be put to stage one test on
first day of reporting at Selection Centres/Air Force Selection Boards. Only
those candidates who qualify at stage one will be admitted to the second
stage/remaining tests. Those candidates who qualify stage II will be required
to submit the original Certificates along with one photocopy each of (i)
original Matriculation pass certificate or equivalent in support of date of
birth (ii) Original 10+2 pass certificate or equivalent in support of
educational qualification.
Merit List:
To be acceptable, candidates for the Army/Navy/Naval Academy and Air Force
should secure the minimum qualifying marks separately in (i) Written
examination as fixed by the Commission at their discretion and (ii) Officer
Potentiality Test as fixed by the Service Selection Board at their discretion.
Over and above, candidates for the Air Force, and
all the SSB qualified candidates as per their willingness, eligibility and
preference for Air Force, should separately qualify the PABT. Subject to these
conditions the qualified candidates will then be placed in a single combined
list on the basis of total marks secured by them in the Written Examination and
the Services Selection Board Tests. The final allocation/selection for
admission to the Army, Navy, Air Force of the National Defence Academy and 10+2
Cadet Entry Scheme of Indian Naval Academy will be made up to the number of
vacancies available subject to eligibility, medical fitness and
merit-cum-preference of the candidates.
For more details, see the detailed notification at
