NDA (National Defence Academy) entrance test will be organized by the UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) for the appointment of the aspirants in all three armed forces of the country, viz. Indian Army, Indian Navy and Indian Air Force. NDA 2018 Results will be published in two stages, viz. written exam result and the final result. It will be declared on April 2018 and September 2018 for the examination held twice a year.
NDA 2018 Application Form submission will be over in the month of January and June for both the sessions. The final result will comprise the total marks of the aspirants which will be released in June 2018. After the result of the written exam, aspirants will be shortlisted on the basis of merit for the SSB (Service Selection Board) round. All aspirants who have appeared in the exam can check the result on the official website of UPSC, www.upsc.gov.in.
UPSC will release the result for NDA 2018 in the following stages:
Events | NDA (I) | NDA(II) |
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Written Examination Date | April 23, 2018 | September 10, 2018 |
Written Examination Result Date | June, 2018 | October 2018 |
Interview Call Letter and allocation of SSB Centers Dates | September/October | To be notified |
Final Merit List Declaration Date | To be notified | To be notified |
NDA 2018 Result will be declared one month after the organization of the examination. It will be displayed in the .pdf pattern on the official website of NDA, www.nda.nic.in from which aspirants can check their result.
Aspirants must take the printout of the result and keep it safe with them for further use. Result for NDA 2018 written test and Selection procedure (SSB) shall be declared separately.
The following process is to be followed at the time of downloading the result of NDA examination 2018.
Aspirants required to view NDA Score Card 2018 through online mode. No result copies will be sent via post. The merit list of the aspirants will be prepared based on the score in the written test.
Aspirants have to check all the details cautiously after downloading the NDA Rank Card 2018. NDA Rank Card consists of the following details.
The normalization procedure is based on a simple formula and depends on few parameters. The exam organizing committee arrives at the following formula for calculating the normalized marks for the multi-session papers.
Normalization mark of jth aspirant in the ith session M̂ij
Here,
Mij: actual marks secured by the jth aspirant in the ith sessions
M̅gt: average marks of the top 0.1% of the aspirants considering all sessions
Mgq: sum of mean and standard deviation marks of the aspirants in the paper considering all sessions
M̅ti: average marks of the top 0.1% of the aspirants in the ith sessions
Miq: sum of the mean marks and standard deviation of the ith session
Once the responses are checked and assessed, the normalized marks of an aspirant will be calculated corresponding to the actual marks secured by the aspirant in the examination and the Scorecard will be devised based on the normalized marks.
The process to calculate the score based on the marking scheme of the exam is given below:
Sections | Calculation of score |
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GAT | Total number of accurate responses (x 4)– Total number of inaccurate responses (x 0.33) |
Mathematics | Total number of accurate responses (x 2.5) Total number of inaccurate responses (x 0.33) |
Aspirants after verifying the accurate and inaccurate responses can calculate their estimated score of the exam. The process to calculate the score is given below.
Total number of questions in Mathematics | 120 |
Total marks | 300 |
Marks allotted per questions | 2.5 |
Negative marks for inaccurate response | 0.33 |
Total marks | Number of accurate responses x 2.5– Number of inaccurate responses x 0.33 |
For example in Mathematics:
If the aspirant attempts 90 questions and 20 are inaccurate the according to the formula:
Aspirant will score: 90*2.5 – 20*0.33 = 218.4
UPSC will announce the response key of NDA after the declaration of final result. This will help the aspirants to check the accurate responses of the questions asked from the subject and also to predict the scores they will get on the actual exam.
NDA 2018 Response Key will be offered in a .pdf file. Aspirants can download the .pdf file via the process given below:
Aspirants can check the response key by clicking on the links given below their respective sets.
The final merit list will be disclosed based on the total marks scored by the aspirants in written examination and Service Selection Board (SSB) Test in three separate lists:
Three separate merit lists will be formed and disclosed comprising the name of the aspirants who have qualified for different services of NDA 2018.
The marks obtained in the three stages viz. written examination, SSB Interview, and Medical Screening will be considered while preparing the final NDA Result 2018 which is expected to be declared by UPSC in the month of February 2018.
Service Selection Board (SSB) result will be declared after the result of the written test. Aspirants who qualify the written test will be called for the SSB Counseling Procedure.
Aspirants required to secure an at least mark to pass the written test and applicable for next round of selection process i.e. SSB interview. NDA 2018 Cut Off will be decided by examination authority Union Public Service Commission after the declaration of final result.
NDA cutoff will be applied in the following stages:
NDA Cut off will depend on the following factors:
Serial No | Subjects | Expected Cutoff marks | Maximum Marks |
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1 | General Ability Test | 370-410 | 600 |
2 | Mathematics | 185-210 | 300 |
Year | NDA-1 (Max Marks:900) |
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2010 | 263 |
2011 | 290 |
2012 | 333 |
2013 | 337 |
2014 | 348 |
2015 | 332 |
2016 | 320 |
UPSC will release the result for NDA I exam 2018 in the following stages:
Counseling is the last procedure of selection via which the aspirants get selected. This is scheduled after the result is declared. Aspirants required to bring the original documents for verification along with them on the day of counseling.
Aspirants will be called for the counseling according to the marks and the rank they have secured in the exam.
All aspirants required to carry the documents mentioned below for the counseling for verification. All original documents should be carried and one attested copy of each document must be carried along for submission.