CDS 2020 Eligibility, Salary, Exam Pattern, Mock Test Series, MCQ
The Combined Defence Services Examination is conducted twice a year by the Union Public Service Commission for recruitment into the Indian Military Academy, Officers Training Academy, Indian Naval Academy and Indian Air Force Academy.
CDS Eligibility Criteria 2020
Nationality:
Candidate must be unmarried and must be any of the followings:
a Citizen of India,
A subject of Bhutan,
A subject of Nepal,
A Tibetan refugee who came over to India before January 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India,
Educational Qualification:
Every candidate who is willing to apply for CDS 2020, must have completed their Graduation or at least is appearing for the final exam of the degree. For further details read below:
For I.M.A. and OTA, candidates should have a degree of a university or equivalent degree from institutions that have been recognized by Central/State Government.
For INA( Indian Naval Academy), candidates will need to have a Degree in Engineering from a recognized University/institution.
CDS Salary 2020
| Rank | Level | Grade Pay |
| Major | Level 11 | Rs. 6,94,00 – 2,07,200 |
| Lieutenant Colonel | Level 12A | Rs. 1,21,200 – 2,12400 |
| Colonel | Level 13 | Rs. 1,30,600-2, 15,900 |
| Brigadier | Level 13A | Rs. 1,39,600-2,17,600 |
CDS Mock Test Series
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CDS MCQs
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CDS Syllabus
English
1. Fill in the blanks
2. Reading Comprehension
3. Vocabulary (Synonyms/ Antonyms/ Phrases)
4. Sentence Rearrangement (Jumbled sentences)
5. Spotting Error
6. Sentence Improvement/ Correction
General Knowledge
Current Affairs
1. Cover news of important international and national summits/ conferences,
2. awards, sports-related news,
3. books, and authors etc.
Political Science
1. Important facts of the Indian constitution,
2. fundamental rights, and directive principles,
3. powers of the president and prime minister,
4. constitutional bodies, Indian judiciary etc.
Indian Histroy
Questions may be asked from Ancient, Medieval and Modern India.
Indian Polity
Prepare important facts of Indian as well as world geography.
Economics
Prepare topics like Budget, Five-year plan, foreign trade etc.
General Science
1. In Physics, focus on topics like optics, motion, force, units, heat, electricity, temperature etc.
2. In Chemistry, prepare important topics of organic, inorganic, physical and general chemistry.
3. In Biology, focus on the topics of important diseases, botany, zoology as well as human biology.
Defence Related News
Questions in this section may be asked from important defence related topics like Army Day, Navy Day, recent developments etc.
Elementary Mathematics
Arithmetic
1. Number System (natural, integers, rational & real numbers)
2. Fundamental operations (subtraction, addition, division, multiplication)
3. Unitary method
4. Percentages
5. Time & Work
6. Simple & Compound Interest
7. Time & distance
8. Ratio & proportion
9. Profit & loss
10. Elementary number theory
11. Composite & prime numbers
12. Divisibility tests
13. Theorem of factorisation
14. Factors & Multiples
15. Euclidean algorithm
16. laws of algorithm & algorithmic tables
Algebra
1. Basic operations
2. Remainder theorem
3. L.C.M. & H.C.F.
4. Polynomial theories
5. Quadratic equations (relation between roots & its coefficients)
6. Linear equations in 2 variables
7. Set language and set notation
8. Laws of indices
9. Conditional identities
10. Rational Expressions
Trigonometry
1. All about Sine a, Cos a, Tan a when 0° < a < 90°, Sin, Cos and Tan values of important angles like 0°, 30°, 45°, 60° and 90°
2. Simple trigonometric identities
3. Trigonometric tables
4. Heights and distance
Geometry
1. Plane & plane figures
2. Lines, and angles
3. Important theorems (like angle property based)
4. Parallel lines
5. Congruency of triangles
6. Medians & Altitudes
7. Similar triangles
8. Parallelogram
9. Circles
10. Rectangle
11. Square
Mensuration
1. Areas of circles, Triangles
2. Rectangles, Squares
3. Parallelograms, Volume
4. Surface area of cuboids
5. Cones, Cylinders, Spheres
Statistics
1. Tabulation of statistical data
2. Graphical representation of frequency polygons
3. Bar graphs, Histograms, Pie charts
4. Measures of central tendency
CDS Exam Pattern 2020
(For INA, IMA, and AFA )
Negative Mark : 0.33
| PAPER | Subject | No. of Question | Marks | Duration |
| PAPER - I | English | 120 | 100 | 120 Minutes |
| PAPER - II | General Knowledge | 120 | 100 | 120 Minutes |
| PAPER - III | Elementary Mathematics | 100 | 100 | 120 Minutes |
| Total | 340 | 300 | 360 Minutes |
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