NDA Exam Eligibility Criteria 2023 | Age Limit, Educational Criteria & Physical Standards

NDA Exam Eligibility 2023: All the NDA 2023 Aspirants must know the eligibility criteria laid by the NDA. The NDA Exam Eligibility 2023 must be fulfilled to make you eligible for the NDA 2023 Exam. There are multiple factors like age, educational qualification, physical standard, nationality on which the eligibility criteria is based upon.

As per the latest notification, even female candidates can apply for the exam. To know all the details, read the whole blog.

NDA Exam Eligibility Criteria 2023 – Overview 

Exam Name	NDA Examination 2023
Examination Body	Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)
Exam level	National
NDA Eligibility 2023	Nationality – Indian Age limit – 16.5 to 19.5 years Educational Qualification – Passed 12th standard with maths and physics
Number of attempts	No limit

NDA 2023 Exam Eligibility

There are various components of the NDA Exam Eligibility 2023, mentioned below:

• Nationality
• NDA age limit
• Educational Qualification
• Marital Status
• Physical Standard

NDA Exam Eligibility | Nationality

To be entitled to NDA 2023, all applicants must satisfy the nationality specifications. An applicant must be one of the following:

1) A citizen of India or

2) A subject of Nepal or

3) A subject of Bhutan

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

5) A person originally Indian 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.

Note: An applicant in categories 2, 3, 4, and 5 must be an individual in whose favour a certificate of NDA Exam eligibility has been provided by an Indian government. Gorkha applicants from Nepal do not need a certificate of eligibility.

NDA Exam Eligibility | Age Limit

Here is the NDA 1 and 2 2023 Age Limit, mentioned in the table below:

Exam	NDA Age limit	Date of Birth Criteria
NDA (1) 2023	16.5 years to 19.5 years	Candidate must have not been born earlier than 2 July 2004 or later than 1 July 2007.
NDA (2) 2023		–

NOTE: There is no age relaxation for any reserved candidates as per the UPSC guidelines.

NDA Exam Eligibility | Educational Qualification

Here is the table showing the educational qualification required for the NDA 2023 Exam Eligibility.

NDA Wings	Qualifying Exam details
Indian Army	Passed 12th standard from State Education Board or a University
Indian Air Force and Naval	Passed 12th standard with Physics and Mathematics from State Education Board or a University

NDA Exam Eligibility 2023 | Marital Status

• Candidates applying for the NDA 1 and 2 Exam must be of unmarried status.
• You must remain unmarried till such time that the National Defence Academy & Naval Academy training is in effect.
• If you get married in between the UPSC NDA training, you will be discharged from the Academy.

NDA Exam Eligibility 2023 | Physical Standard

You must clear the NDA physical fitness or medical test round and the candidates will be tested by the authorities. Here are the physical standards you must follow to be eligible for the NDA Exam 2023.

• Indian Army & Air Force Height and Weight Requirement

Height (in cm)	Age in years
	16 – 17	17 – 18	18 – 19
	Weight (in kg)
152	42.5	44	45
155	43.5	45.3	47
157	45	47	48
160	46.5	48	49
162	48	50	51
165	50	52	53
167	51	53	54
170	52.5	55	56
173	54.5	57	58
175	56	59	60
178	58	61	62
180	60	63	64.5
183	62.5	65	66.5

• Indian Navy Height and Weight Requirements

Height (in cm)	Age in years
	16	18	20
	Weight (in kg)
152	44	45	46
155	45	46	47
157	46	47	49
160	47	48	50
162	48	50	52
165	50	52	53
168	52	53	55
170	53	55	57
173	55	57	59
175	57	59	61
178	59	61	62
180	61	63	64
183	63	65	67

• Indian Navy Vision requirement

Requirements	Vision Standard
Uncorrected without glass	6/6, 6/9
Corrected with glass	6/6, 6/6
Limits of Myopia	-0.75
Limits of Hypermetropia	1.5
Binocular vision	III
Limits of colour perception	I

• Indian Air Force Vision requirement

Requirements	Vision Standard
Minimum distant vision	6/6, 6/9
Corrected with glass (for Hypermetropia)	6/6, 6/6
Colour vision	CP-I
Hypermetropia	+2.0 D
Sph Manifest Myopia	Nil
Retinoscopic Myopia	0.5 in any Meridian permitted
Astigmatism	+ 0.75 D Cyl (within + 2.0 D maximum)
Maddox Rod Test at 6 meters	Exo-6 prism D Eso-6 prism D Hyper-1 prism D Hypro-1 prism D
Maddox Rod Test at 33 cms	Exo-16 prism D Eso-6 prism D Hyper-1 prism D Hypo-1 prism D

Must Read – NDA Preparation Tips 2023

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