Hello aspirant,

I hope that you are doing absolutely great.

yes, you would be eligible for writing and giving your NDA(1) examination. With reference to your above mentioned query, I would like to tell you that Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has issuedthe NDA 1 2022 eligibility criteria for the aspirants. The UPSC has mentioned the NDA eligibility criteria in the official NDA 1 notification 2022. UPSC NDA eligibility criteria 2022 is determined based on multiple factors like age, educational qualification, physical standard, nationality.

Thus the eligibility criteria for writing NDA exam is given as follows :

Eligibility criteria - Nationality :

1. A subject of Nepal or

2. A subject of Bhutan or

3. People of Indian origin migrated from Zaire, Ethiopia, East African Countries of Kenya, the United Republic of Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, Burma, Pakistan, Zambia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam to settle in India or

4. Tibetan refugees came to India, to settle in India before January 1, 1962.

Eligibility Criteria - Age :

The actual age limit to apply for NDA exam(1) is that a candidate should be between 16.5 years to 19.5 years. That is the candidates must born between 2 July, 2003 to 1 July, 2006 to be eligible writing this exam.

Whereas for the NDA(2) exam the age limit criteria is not notified yet.

Looking at this, your age as of march 2022 would be 18 years, so it is within the required age. So, you'll be very much eligible for giving your NDA(1) examination.

Eligibility criteria - Academic Qualification :

Passed 12th standard from State Education Board or a University

Eligibility Criteria - Marital Status :

Candidates who want to appear for the UPSC NDA 1 and 2 2022 exam must be unmarried and must remain unmarried till such time that the National Defence Academy & Naval Academy training is in effect.

Further, for more information about the eligibility criteria for the NDA exam you can follow the below link :

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/nda-eligibility-criteria

I hope that this will help.

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Hello Aspirant,

As per your DoB you will be of 19 years old by March 2023 but your DoB does not fall in the period of July 2, 2004 to July 1, 2007 so according to your age you will be eligible for the NDA 1 2023, so you cannot appear for NDA 1 2023 but you will be eligible for NDA 2 2022 as per your age criteria and for your reference the complete eligibility criteria for NDA 2022 is mentioned below :-

>>> Either you should be an Indian National or a subject of Nepal or a subject of Bhutan or people of Indian origin migrated from Zaire, Ethiopia, East African Countries of Kenya, the United Republic of Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, Burma, Pakistan, Zambia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam to settle in India or Tibetan refugees came to India, to settle in India before January 1, 1962

>>> For NDA 2 2022 the age should be 16.5-19.5 years old and should have born in between January 2, 2004 to January 1, 2007.

>>> Indian Army - Should have passed 12th standard from valid State Education Board or a University.

>>> Indian Air Force and Naval - Should have passed 12th standard with Physics and Mathematics from valid State Education Board or a University.

>>> The candidate should be unmarried.

You can check out the official notification from the link given below :-

https://www.upsc.gov.in/examinations/active-exams

As per the new order now girls are also eligible for Army in NDA, earlier only boys were eligible. For complete details kindly refer to the link given below :-

https://news.careers360.com/nda-2021-sc-allows-women-appear-in-national-defence-academy-exam-slams-army-for-gender-discrimination

For detailed eligibility criteria kindly check out the link given below :-

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/nda-eligibility-criteria

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!

Hi

No, you are not eligible for NDA -1 , 2023 with your mentioned date of birth

This is because,

To be eligible for nda -1,2023 examination , you should have born between 2nd July 2004 to 1st July , 2007 but you fail to fulfill this criteria with your mentioned date of birth

You can check NDA eligibility criteria which is provided below:-

NDA eligibility criteria says that:-

-------------) Qualifucation required :-

• For army :- you need educational  qualification of 10 + 2 in any stream.

• For navy and Airforce :- To need qualifucation of 10 + 2 with Physics and Maths .

-------------) You must be  in the age group of 16.5 to 19.5 years old to be eligible.

It doesn't matter even if you will be 18 year 9 months  old because, this age limit of 16.5 to 19.5 years old is during the commencement of the course i. e after getting selected into NDA but to be eligible for filling the form your date of birth must fall between the prescribed dates

-------------) Earlier for nda only boys were eligible but now, girls are also eligible for Army in nda . For details on this refer:- https://news.careers360.com/nda-2021-sc-allows-women-appear-in-national-defence-academy-exam-slams-army-for-gender-discrimination

-------------) You must be unmarried.

-------------) Nationality

For details you can visit our page, the link for the same is provided below

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/nda-eligibility-criteria

Thank you