CDS Exam Date 2023 – Combined Defense Services Exam acronym CDSE is conducted by UPSC on a national basis to fill nearly 345 vacancies of Defense Officers (Army Officer, Air Force Officer, Navy Officer) in all three branches i.e., Army, Air Force, and Navy of Indian Armed forces. Due to its National level approach, this test is taken by most of the defense services aspirants on a priority basis. The back of vacancies will be as follows:
UPSC CDS Exam Date, Syllabus, Admit Card, Application Form
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UPSC CDS Exam II 2023 Important Dates
Date of Notification and Start of Online Registration
- Yet to be declared
02.11.2013 02.12.2013
(MONDAY)
09.02.2014
(SUNDAY)
Last Date of Submission of Application Form
Admit card issue
Date of Entrance Exam
Date of Declaration of Result
CDS Exam 2022 was held on-
- 4th September 2022 – CDS Exam – 2
CDS Exam 2023 Eligibility
Educational Qualification
- For opting Army, the candidate must be a graduate of any stream. OR
- For the Air Force or Navy, the candidate must be a graduate with Maths, Physics, and Chemistry as the Main subjects at this level. OR
- Those who are taking final years of graduation in the present academic year can also appear for the entrance test provisionally subject to their fulfilling the conditions later.
- Aspiring candidates should have done Graduation in any discipline from a recognized university or equivalent.
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CDS Exam 2023 Syllabus
CDS Exam consists of three papers of 2 hours duration each consisting of 100 questions from the following given subjects.
English – Code No 1 | General Knowledge – Code No 2 |
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Mathematics – Code No 3 | |
Arithmetic | Algebra |
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Trigonometry | Geometry |
| Lines and angles, Plane and plane figures, Theorems on
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Mensuration | Statistics |
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Important: For those candidates who opt only for the Officers Training Academy have to take two papers. ie English and General Knowledge
CDS Exam 2023 Pattern
CDS Exam consists of three parts which are as follows:
For Admission to Indian Military Academy, Indian Naval Academy, and Air Force Academy-
Subjects | Max. Marks | Duration |
Mathematics | 100 | 2 Hr. |
English | 100 | 2 Hr. |
General Knowledge | 100 | 2 Hr. |
For Admission to Officers’ Training Academy-
Subjects | Max. Marks | Time |
General Knowledge | 100 | 2 Hr. |
English | 100 | 2 Hr. |
Maximum Marks allotted to get admission to the following services are as follows:
Service Name | Max. Marks |
Indian Military Academy | 300 |
Indian Naval Academy | 300 |
Air Force Academy | 300 |
Officers’ Training Academy | 200 |
Note: The level of all three papers is equivalent to the Metric Standard. There is a negative marking (0.33) in the CDS exam for each wrong response.
Important:-There is a break of 1 Hr each in all the parts of the paper. All three papers are held on the same day. Candidates can opt for Question Papers either in English or in Hindi. This option should be exercised while filling in the Application Form. It cannot be changed later.
CDS Exam 2023 Dates – UPSC CDS Exam Date, Syllabus, Admit Card, Application Form
CDS Exam is held twice a year normally in the month of February and October.
CDS Exam 2023 Fees
- Generally, the fee for the exam is Rs. 200/-
- All Female candidates and candidates belonging to SC / ST are not required to pay any fee.
However, no fee exemption is, however, available to OBC candidates and they are required to pay the full prescribed fee.
Fee: Candidates (excepting female/SC/ST candidates who are exempted from payment of fee) are required to pay a fee of Rs 200/- (Rs two hundred only) either by depositing the money in any branch of SBI by cash, or by using net banking facility of SBI, State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur/State Bank of Hyderabad/State Bank of Mysore/State Bank of Patiala/State Bank of Travancore or by using Visa/Master Credit/Debit Card – UPSC CDS Exam Date, Syllabus, Admit Card, Application Form
All Female candidates and candidates belonging to SC/ST are not required to pay any fee
No fee exemption is, however, available to OBC candidates and they are required to pay the full prescribed fee
Candidates are required to pay a fee of Rs.200 (Rs two hundred only) either by depositing the money in any branch of SBI by cash, or by using net banking facility of SBI, State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur/State Bank of Hyderabad/State Bank of Mysore/State Bank of Patiala/State Bank of Travancore or by using Visa/Master Credit/Debit Card.
CDS Exam 2023 Centres
Most of the major cities of the countries are made the test centers for the CDS Exam. Names of the cities made as to the CDS Exam center last time are:
- Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizwal, Allahabad
- Bangalore, Bareilly, Bhopal
- Chandigarh, Chennai, Cuttack
- Dehradun, Delhi, Dharwad, Dispur
- Gangtok
- Hyderabad
- Imphal, Itanagar
- Jaipur, Jammu, Jorhat
- Kochi, Kohima, Kolkata
- Lucknow
- Madurai, Mumbai
- Nagpur
- Panaji (Goa), Patna, Port Blair
- Raipur, Ranchi
- Sambalpur, Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar
- Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati
- Udaipur
- Vishakhapatnam