NDA Eligibility criteria

Educational Qualification            

Candidates must be minimum intermediate qualified or its equivalent from recognized board of India for the Army wings.

For the naval and air force wings candidates must have math and physics as compulsory subjects in intermediate.

No certain number of marks required.

Candidates who are appearing in 12^th exam can apply for the NDA exam but appearing in 11^th are not eligible to apply.

Age criteria

Only unmarried male candidates born not earlier than 2^nd July, 1995 and not later than 1^st July, 1998 are eligible.

Female candidates  are not allowed in NDA exam.

Age relaxation is applicable for Other backward classes, Schedule caste and Schedule tribes.

Citizenship

Candidates should be Indian

A subject of Bhutan, or

A Tibetan refugee who came over to India before the 1^st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or

A person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka and East African Countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire and Ethiopia or Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.