Which best NDA after 12th or CDS after Graduation?

 

Starting with the complete forms, NDA stands for National Defence Academy, and CDS stands for Combined Defence Service. Though, through both the exams, candidates could enter any of the services but the sort of commission might vary from entry to entry. Both the exams are held by UPSC and are conducted twice during a year in offline mode. Not only this, the exam procedure of both the exams are an excessive amount of copy of 1 another until someone goes into the academies. Not only this, when the candidates are passed out from the academies after their full training, the rank allotted to them is additionally an equivalent that's Lieutenant.

Though being having tons of similarities, they still differ from one another in some ways and they are going to be discussed below:

Firstly, the standards for candidates at the NDA exam is from 16.5-19.5 years, while for the CDS exam, it's 19-25 years.

While for the NDA exam, only men can fill the form; on the opposite hand, both men and ladies can apply for the CDS exam.

The minimum education qualification required for the NDA exam is that the candidate should have passed his 12 class at the beginning of NDA coaching in Chandigarh time. For the CDS exam, the candidate should have done any undergraduate degree until the time of coaching.

Though the SSB procedure of both the NDA and CDS entry is that the same, it's often said that the extent of maturity is predicted more from the CDS candidate than the NDA candidate.

The Duration of coaching for NDA aspirants is three years at National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, and approximately one and a half years at their respective service academies. But for CDS, the training periods are different for all the services, which are 15-18 months for IMA cadets, 35-40 months for Navy Cadets, and 65-75 months for Air force candidates.

The degree awarded to any NDA cadet is an undergraduate degree, which might be BSc, BA, or BTech, whereas on the opposite hand degree provided to candidates of CDS may be a Post-Graduation Diploma in Defence Management.

It is often said that life at NDA makes scholars tougher than the candidate’s through CDS entry as NDA cadets surely get more intense training for a extended time than CDS candidates.

One more incontrovertible fact that might be indirectly said is that candidates passing out from NDA have a better chance of promotion than CDS entry candidates, which is clear from the purpose that NDA has produced quite 25 chiefs of various services.

So, these were a number of the differences between the 2 exams. I hope you've got decided the simplest one for you so far, but I will be able to suggest you to travel for both the exams. One should try it at the earliest with the NDA entry, but if he fails therein, then CDS would be the best option.