UPSC Combined Defence Services (CDS) Examination (I), 2025 Overview
Important Date
Fees
Age Limits and Marital Status
👉 For IMA and Indian Naval Academy Only Unmarried Male Candidates.
👉 Age Between 2nd January, 2002 to 1st January 2007.
👉 For Air Force Academy - Age: 20 to 24 years as on 1st January 2026
👉 For Officers Training Academy - Age Between 2nd January, 2002 to 1st January 2007
UPSC Combined Defense Services Examination (I) 2025
Union Public Service Commission has been released for the Combined Defense Services Examination (I), 2025. In this, recruitment will be done for 100 jobs in Indian Military Academy (IMA), 32 jobs in Indian Naval Academy, 32 jobs in Air Force and 293 jobs in Officers' Training Academy. Interested candidates can fill the form for this from 11 December.
UPSC CDS Recruitment 2025 (First) :- Eligibility Criteria, Post
Post Neme
Post
Educational Qualifications
Indian Military Academy (IMA)
100
- Degree of a recognised University or equivalent.
Indian Naval Academy
32
- Degree in Engineering from a recognised University/Institution
Air Force
32
- Class 12 Passed in Any Recognized Board with Physics & Mathematics as a Subject.
- Degree of a recognised University or or Bachelor of Engineering.
Officers Training Academy (OTA)
293
- Bachelor Degree in Any Stream at Any Recognized University.
- including 18 for female candidate.
One Time Registration Benefits ?
- Applicant needs to fill personal details only once.
- Applicant needs to upload document, if required
- OTR Information is digitally available anytime anywhere
- OTR Information get automatically populated while applying under any Commission's Notification.
How to apply for Online Application?
- UPSC has made One Time Registration OTR mandatory for all its recruitments, thus OTR is necessary in this recruitment National Defense Academy 2025 also, those who have not done OTR yet should do their OTR, without it the application will not be accepted.
- Applications will be accepted ‘ONLINE’ from 11 Dec 2024 to 31 Dec 2024 . The candidates are to login to https://upsconline.gov.in
- Kindly Check and Collect the All Document - Eligibility, ID Proof, Address Details, Basic Details.
- Kindly Ready Scan Document Related to Recruitment Form - Photo, Sign, ID Proof, Etc
- Before Submit the Application Form Must Check the Preview and All Column Carefully.
- Take a printout of the finally submitted form.
Important Links
Apply Online
New Registration
Download Notification
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