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CDS Syllabus 2026, Exam Pattern
CDS 2 Syllabus 2026, Exam Pattern, Exam Date 2026
| Organization | Union Public Service Commission |
| Exam Name | Combined Defence Service Examination (II) |
| Total Posts | 451 |
| Mode of exam | Offline |
| CDS 2 Exam Date 2026 | 13th September 2026 |
| Job Location | All Over India |
| Category | Syllabus and Exam Pattern |
| Official Website | upsc.gov.in |
UPSC CDS 2 Exam Syllabus 2026
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
UPSC CDS 2 Exam Pattern 2026
(For INA, IMA, and AFA )
Negative Mark : 0.33
| Paper | Subject | No. of Question | Marks | Duration |
| Paper I | English | 100 | 100 | 120 Minutes |
| Paper II | General Knowledge | 100 | 100 | 120 Minutes |
| Paper III | Elementary Mathematics | 100 | 100 | 120 Minutes |
| Total | 300 | 300 | 360 Minutes |
CDS Exam Pattern for OTA
Negative Marking : 0.33
| S.No | Subject | No.of Question | Marks | Duration |
| 1. | English | 100 | 100 | 120 Minutes |
| 2. | General Knowledge | 100 | 100 | 120 Minutes |
| Total | 200 | 200 | 240 Minutes |
Important Details of the CDS Exam Pattern:
The exam of CDS will be offline, i.e. through pen and paper mode.
The question paper of Mathematics and General Knowledge will be set bilingually, i.e. in Hindi as well as English.
All the tests will consist of objective-type questions only.
English and General Knowledge sections will comprise 120 questions each, while the Mathematics section would contain 100 questions.
There is a penalty for every wrong answer. 1/3rd marks will be deducted for every incorrect answer marked by the candidate.
The help of scribe will not be permitted to write the answers in the exam under any circumstance.
Starting Date of Application Form CDS 2 : 20th May 2026
Total Post : 451
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