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a year agoContributor-Level 10
The General Knowledge syllabus of CDS exam consists of History, Polity, Economics, Geography, Science, etc. The subject requires the knowledge of current events whether national or international. The CDS 1 2026 notification will be released on December 10.
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
The syllabus of Mathematics consists of Arithmetic, Algebra, Trigonometry, Geometry, Mensuration, and Statistics.
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
The CDS 1 2026 application process will start on December 10, 2025. The last date to fill out the CDS 1 application form 2026 will be December 30, 2025 as per the official calendar. Candidates need to visit the official website to fill out the form, or a direct link will also be provided here once it is released.
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
To clear the NDA exam, you generally need to score between 340 to 360 out of 900 marks. NDA cut off for written exam is calculated out of 900. NDA cut off for final selection is calculated out of 1800. NDA cut off is calculated based on difficulty level of the exam, number of test takers, number of vacancies.
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
The CDS selection process consists of two stages: a written exam and an SSB interview. All candidates who qualify for the written exam are required to register themselves online on the Indian Army Recruiting within two weeks of the announcement of the written test result. After that, candidates are allotted SSB dates and centres.The SSB procedure has two-stage selection process—stage I and stage II. Only those candidates who clear stage I are permitted to appear for stage II. Stage I comprises Officer Intelligence Rating (OIR) tests and Picture Perception Description Tests (PP&DT). Stage II Comprises of an interview, Group Testing Of
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
Yes, the authority released the CDS 2 exam dates, notification at upsc.gov.in. The CDS 2 exam was conducted on September 14, 2025. Also, the CDS 2 notification was released on May 28. The last date to apply was June 17.
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
The CDS exam is conducted in two stages, the written exam and the SSB interview. The CDS exam is an offline exam conducted in pen paper-based format. The CDS marking scheme, negative marking, total marks, exam timing, and the paper pattern for the IMA, INA, AFA, and OTA are available on this page for the CDS exam.
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
CDS full form is the Combined Defence Services Examination. While some people also refer CDS full form as Chief of Defence Staff, this rank is given to the head of the Indian Armed Forces. It is a national-level exam which is conducted twice a year in April and September.
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
The distribution of questions in English Language section is given below.
- Reading Comprehension (Industrial Colour): 08-09
- Fillers: 03-04
- Para Jumbles: 05
- Error Detection 04
- Sentence Improvement: 02-03
- Word Swap : 05
- Word Usage: 03
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