Updated By Deepansh Sharma on 12 Aug, 2022 16:42
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Admit Cards for UPSC CDS (II) 2022 exam have been released on the official website of UPSC at upsc.gov.in. The exam will be conducted on September 4, 2022. All the candidates who have registered for the exam can visit the official website of UPSC to download their UPSC CDS (II) 2022 Admit Card. There is even less than a month left for the exam. Therefore, defense aspirants should accelerate their exam preparations. This is the time to start revising UPSC CDS syllabus. Read this article to learn everything about UPSC CDS exam.
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducts the Combined Defense Services (CDS) entrance exam twice every year to recruit gentleman cadets, who are trained in different military academies in India and finally they serve as officers in the Indian Armed Forces. Now-a-day's, we are witnessing a phase when there's a growing demand to join the armed forces as an officer. The career that the defense forces offer is incomparable in terms of adventure, sense of satisfaction, salary and other such factors. Other exams to join the armed forces include UPSC NDA, AFCAT and Agniveer Recruitment. CDS is a graduation level exam, in which both males as well as females can appear. Candidates who have mathematics as a subject in 10+2 can apply for Indian Military Academy, Dehradun (IMA) and Air Force Academy, Hyderabad (AFA) while other candidates apply for Officer's Training Academy (OTA). The female candidates are eligible to join only the OTA. UPSC conducts the CDS examination which begins with a written exam followed by the SSB and concludes with the medical examination.
After clearing all the stages of selection, candidates will be inducted in the INA Ezhimala, IMA Dehradun, OTA Chennai and AFA Hyderabad, based on their rank and choices opted by them during the filling up of the online application form. Here, candidates will undergo an year of rigorous training. They will also be eligible to receive a monthly stipend of ₹ 56,100. On completion of the training, these cadets get posted as commissioned officers in their respective forces. Please read the article given below which has been provided to help the aspirants who want to don the prestigious uniform.
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Online Application Form consists of two parts i.e. Part I and Part II.
Candidate has to complete both Part I and Part II and submit finally to be a candidate of the said Examination.
No, candidates can not submit request for change in exam centre or venue which has been provided by the UPSC to them
No, UPSC does not allow change of Date of Birth that has been furnished by a candidate and recorded by the Commission in the submitted application.
In that scenario, the data submitted in the final application is accepted by the commission and all the applications submitted before are ignored as this will lead to amalgamation with the previous applications and the final application
For all the Examinations conducted by the Commission, Female candidates, Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD) and candidates belonging to the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe categories are exempted from payment of Examination Fee.
Candidates can apply online for the UPSC Examinations by accessing the online portal hosted on the UPSC’s website (https://upsconline.nic.in).
