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National Defense Academy Exam FAQs

National Defense Academy Exam is conducted every year, in which lakhs of candidates take part, and after passing this exam, candidates are selected in several stages.

• Exam is offline.

• Only objective type questions are asked in this examination.

• Duration of each paper will be 2 hours and 30 minutes.

• There are only 2 papers in this exam.

• First Paper – Maths

• Second Paper – General Ability Test

• Both the papers are in two languages, Hindi and English.

• There is also a provision for negative marking.

NDA Paper I- Mathematics

Time 2 hours 30 minutes

Question 120

Marks 300

Marking Scheme 2.5 for correct and -0.83 for incorrect

Topics - Algebra, Matrices and Determinants, Trigonometry, Analytical Geometry of two and three dimensions, Differential Calculus, Integral Calculus and Differential Equations, Vector Algebra, Statistics and Probability

NDA Paper II- General Ability Test

Time 2 hours 30 minutes

Question 150

Marks 600 (English 200, GK 400)

Marking Scheme 4 for correct and -1.33 for incorrect

Part A: English

Part B: General Knowledge - Physics, Chemistry, General Science, Indian History, Freedom Movement in India, Civics, Geography, Current Events

Medium - English and Hindi

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