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Cost Of Training At The National Defence Academy
In case a cadet tenders his resignation on arrival or later during the course of his training or is withdrawn by the Government for not fulfilling the conditions laid down of the Bond, he and his parents or guardians are liable to pay to the Government jointly the cost of training at the National Defence Academy and other training establishments and money received by the cadet as pay and allowances together with interest thereon. The rate of cost of training at present is Rs 7,075/- per week, which is revised from time to time.
The cadet who tenders his resignation/is withdrawn will be returned his 10+2 Education Certificate/Marksheet (original) only after clearance of his all dues (including the cost of training).If a cadet tenders his resignation, he has to submit his parents consent alongwith his resignation application. 
The cost of training incurred at RIMC, Dehradun and the amount of scholarship received at various Sainik Schools will also have to be paid by the cadet or his parent before a request to resign is considered. The amount involved will have to be deposited prior to forwarding the case to higher authorities.
4 Orders Every Cadet At National Defence Academy Follows
As we have stepped into the millennium, we are confident that the finest amongst Indian youth will continue to pass out from the portals of this great institution known as the “Cradle for Leadership” into the service of the nation, perpetuating by their gallantry, dedication and steadfastness, the Academy’s motto “Seva Pramo Dharma” or `Service Before Self’.
The orders given below are to be followed by every cadet under training at the NationalDefence Academy.
1. Honour. The Honour Code of the Academy will be observed meticulously. “A Cadet must be Loyal, Truthful, Trustworthy, Honest and Forthright under all circumstances. He will not Lie, Cheat or Steal. Nor will he Mislead or Deceive anyone. He will faithfully live up to this code and encourage his Comrades to do so”.
2. Integrity Always Do The Right Thing. Every cadet is responsible for his action. He will be held accountable in your activities you will encounter the choice between the right and the wrong. The right thing to do so isn’t always the easy thing to do, but is Always the right thing to do. A cadet is expected to have the Honour and Courage to do the morally and ethically right thing regardless of its consequence.
3. Leadership. Learn to follow, Learn to Lead. You are here to become Leaders in our Armed Forces. During your Training you will receive the benefit of hundred of years of proven Combat Leadership Principles and observe many examples of strong leaders. First become a Team player by helping coursemates, squadronmates and teammates. Learn to follow lawful orders, then learn when, how and why orders are given. When Leadership opportunities present themselves, take them without hesitation. At the NDA, leadership mistakes are learning experiences and here you learn to lead. We build Leaders of Character.
4. Excellence. Every cadet will have opportunities to demonstrate `excellence in all we do’. Every cadet will choose an area of excellence of his choice at the Academy. He will work hard in this field and be an asset to the service on passing out. Excellence is achievable.
Mission At National Defence Academy
The National Defence Academy (NDA) has the unique distinction of being the first institutions in the world, to impart combined training to officer cadets of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. The concept and genesis of National Defence Academy dates back to the period before Independence.
Mission At National Defence Academy
- The Mission at the National Defence Academy is to provide the requisite educational standard and acquire mental and physical qualities, essential to their progressive and continued development as officers of the fighting services.
- Provide basic service training as will assist in developing their character, initiative, self-confidence and, above all, qualities of leadership.
- Development ability to appreciate the inter-services aspect of the Armed Forces.
- Develop an interest in extra curricular activities of the outdoor type.
- Inculcate the spirit of the Honour Code as well as ethical and moral values.
Today the National Defence Academy imparts, to young men who choose the Armed Forces as their vocation, an intensive education in Science, Technology, Arts and Military subjects. At the end of their training the cadets receive a Degree from the Jawaharlal Nehru University. While a young cadet is being prepared intellectually to face the forthcoming challenges of high technology on tomorrow’s battle-field, he is also physically and mentally toughened by a rigorous regimen of physical conditioning which includes callisthenics, drill, swimming, horse-riding and the full gamut of games and sporting activities. At the same time, his horizons are expanded by exposure to various cultural activities, as well as hobby and adventure clubs.
Leave A Gentleman Cadet Gets At IMA Dehradun
Leave A Gentleman Cadet Gets At IMA Dehradun. Except for leave on medical grounds, no other kind of leave or absence during the period of training will be granted. Leave for wedding ceremonies and funerals is permissible only in case of blood relations and exceptional cases. No leave is permitted for any kind of festivals or similar events/occasions.
The IMA is closed for vacations as under:
- Summer Vacation (Jun-Jul) – 4 weeks
- Winter Vacation (Dec-Jan) – 4 weeks
GC will be permitted to proceed home during the vacation. The final decision as to whether or not they should be permitted to proceed home during the vacation shall, however, rest with Commandant, Indian Military Academy.
199 Flying Pilot SSB Interview Date ( CDSE and NCC)
199 Flying Pilot SSB Interview Date ( CDSE and NCC). Indian air force website careerairforce.nic.in has published the AFSB/SSB interview dates for 199 flying pilot course. SSB interview of 199 flying course will be starting from August 2015. Candidates who have cleared CDS 1 2015 written exam for Indian air force will be facing the AFSB interview soon. Candidates who have applied for 199 Flying Pilot NCC can also find their ssb dates.
Call letters are being despatched for ssb interviews from the respective selection board given against their names. Candidates whose names are listed below can report for ssb interview with a printout of this page even if call letters are not received due to postal delays.
DETAILS OF ASSEMBLY POINT AT EACH AFSB ARE AS UNDER :–
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What Are Assessors Looking At SSB? – Part 1
What Are Assessors Looking At SSB? There had been increasing interest in youth for our forces. This increasing enthusiasm makes me happy and sad also somewhere. Happy because I can see my youth directed towards serving of the nation but I feel sad when I see the rejection rate though our forces need a lot of officers as of now and there is a dearth. The assessors have hard time in rejecting people because they do not match the standards. If someone would say that to be an officers the standards are very high I would reject that statement because they just look for 15 OLQ’s in a person who can become officer. Having these 15 OLQ’s is also not a big deal because everyone has it. The difference is that certain people identify them while certain do not because of the lack of guidance.
Some people consider SSB as a free trip or a picnic where they would be paid for the trip while some have overheard the strict evaluation at SSB and they get rejected because of the fear. Only some serious aspirants reach there and get recommended. That’s why the rejection rates are that high. So the next question would be that if only 15 OLQ’s are needed and everyone has it why everyone can’t be selected. For that right preparation and proper workout is needed prior to SSB. Right preparation started way before the SSB call can bear fruits. Now I have already published the qualities they look for in my other article so please refer then for details. Here I would focus as to what assessors look for in SSB. The process of assessing at SSB is really holistic where everyone is looking for perfection. These qualities are developed as:
- Way of thinking
- Positive approach
- Family background
- Social circle and people that surround you
- Educational background
Now certain points are in our control while certain other points and factors are out of our control. The factors which are not in our control cannot be changed and they decide the majority of the qualities that one builds up in time. The remaining are in our hand so they should be shaped properly. When we know that our dream is so important to us and it can be achieved easily its foolishness not to work towards it in the right way. Since we all have qualities and we just need to identify the degree in which they are present, the task becomes easier.
Now we all know that the assessors are looking for OLQ’s along with body language, confidence, voice, tone modification etc. so let’s gear up and work on every aspect. In the second part of this series I would discuss how to develop 15 OLQ’s in us. Still If you have any confusion or feel to take individual assessment of personality for OLQ’s or prepare from your place itself through one to one interaction through my mentoring / counselling program drop me a mail at [email protected] or add me on Fb and drop in a message. Keep reading our blog to see how one can understand his or her personality in the better way. Your dream is really easy but you need the right direction to follow the right path.
Decoding The Self Description Test
Psychology has four rounds conducted on aspirants namely TAT, WAT, SRT, SD. Though self description test is the last round in this series but let me tell you that it is the most important round in the psychology series where the aspirant has to describe himself or herself as to what he or she thinks about themselves, what their parents things and other people closely associated think about them. This can be considered as sales pitch where one would tell that I have certain characteristics and please verify the same through other rounds. This is the purpose of this round so be clear that whatever you write should be clearly reflected in other rounds for getting the recommendation. Other aspirants make a mistake here as they write what they don’t have which results in a mismatch and thus the rejection. This can be written nicely and prepared by doing deep self-introspection where you reach the result by realising about yourself.
Time allotted to write is 15 minutes and you have to write the following:
- What do you think about yourself?
- What do your parents think of you?
- What your friends/ colleagues think of you?
- What your boss/ teacher thinks of you?
- What limitations do you feel in yourself?
The aim of this exercise is to assess the maturity of the participants that whether he knows of himself or not. Also, you are the best one who knows about yourself no one else can access you in the best way apart from yourself. Hence through these exercises you are made to write who you are and then through other exams you are judged whether you were right or wrong. If interference if found between what you say and what you do, you are recommended. How to prepare well for this exam?
- Keep track of time as it’s important to write something for each category. No category should be left unanswered.
- Don’t even try to bluff or tell lies or else you will never be selected.
- Try to show your true character in this exercise. Or else it would be caught either by the psychologist or the interviewer.
- Have knowledge of both positives and negatives about you. Because it gives a good impression to the examiner that you have thorough knowledge about yourself.
- Don’t feel shame in consulting parents and teachers, colleagues, friends to know their opinion about you. Since what they think needs to be mentioned this is the perfect opportunity to know this. They will give some of the details which I am sure to your surprise you might not know.
- Since it’s like you already know what to write, you should prepare beforehand and prepare a paragraph for each category.
- Be ready with the wish list of how you gonna remove your negative qualities. Do mention them as no one is perfect and everyone has it.
Yes, it’s that easy. Just follow these simple suggestions and it makes you prepare for a part of Psychology round and for the PI too. Still If you have any confusion or feel to take individual assessment of personality for OLQ’s or prepare from your place itself through one to one interaction through my mentoring / counselling program drop me a mail at [email protected] or add me on Fb and drop in a message. Performance in psychology primarily determines the selection so don’t forget to work on this important tool of SSB through introspection. I have written some sample answers in one of the previously published articles so please refer it for details. Keep reading and chasing your dream.
Reasons Of Getting Rejected At Conference Round Of SSB- Part 2
Reasons Of Getting Rejected At Conference Round Of SSB. In Part 1 of this series we saw the various myths that aspirants hear and what could be the probable reasons of rejection. As told earlier I would request aspirants that they should not believe in myths and what they hear in and around because that is the thing produced by inexperienced people and that may not be the right thing to believe on. If you have doubt always approach the reliable resources. Also one should remember that the best thing to clear SSB is introspection. In fact self-introspection is the only tool available that one should adapt to clear SSB by improving their personality and working on their psychology. Also the following steps can be performed to get success for sure the next time one visits:
- Once you are returning it’s the best time to recap of what happened and what mistakes you did because of which the rejection happened. So don’t waste that important time in cribbing about the facilities or the assessors, but thinking of what went wrong. If you want you can discuss the same with your mentor if you have one. Experienced people can hear your performance and can tell what went wrong.
- One should learn from their mistakes because it is rightly said “Mistakes are a proof that you are trying”, so it’s never bad to do mistakes but it is wrong not to learn from them. If the same mistakes are repeated again and again its sheer wastage of time.
- After returning back one should do deep self-introspection which now helps in realising the mismatch in personality and giving you what you have in terms of strengths and what you don’t have. If done properly by studying the life events with respect to OLQ’s one can actually find their weak areas and improve them.
- Preparation should be started in time rather than at the end moment because this way needs a lot of time. IT cannot be done in two weeks or something as few trainers claim that they can do and teach these things.
- For self-introspection there are some standard tests available that we use in my mentorship program which can surely make life easy. It helps in systematic formation of profiles which can give what one has and what needs to be developed.
- Once one knows about their profile they can start practice the various rounds only after this step? I have been noticing that aspirants follow the reverse path of preparation where they keep on practicing rather than knowing about themselves. Some quality time should be spent in knowing oneself rather than practicing things because if above steps are followed diligently things become easy and success can be achieved.
Hope now the way one should follow for preparation is clear. Still If you have any confusion or feel to take individual assessment of personality for OLQ’s or prepare from your place itself through one to one interaction through my mentoring / counselling program drop me a mail at [email protected] or add me on Fb and drop in a message. Any personal query can be diverted and I would try to resolve. Don’t feel low after rejection as that is common for many, but who keep moving with the same pace definitely achieve success. Success can be yours with guided preparation so select the right persona for guidance. Life is easy and it looks beautiful one the dream is fulfilled Keep working hard for your goal and get ready to serve the motherland.
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Making Educated Guess In Objective Tests- Part 2 Of 2
Hello warriors! In part 1, I’ve given some tips regarding making educated guesses if you are not aware of the question or want to give your luck a try. I’ll be giving tips to guess questions in mathematics correctly in this article.
1) Diagrams for Co-ordinate Geometry
Even if you don’t thoroughly understand a concept, drawing an approximate diagram according to the given scale can help you work out the radius, area, equations etc. easily. It might seem like a trivia but it really works in many cases.
2) You can delay practising Kinematics and Trigonometry
Despite what they say about these topics, you need a number of hours or perhaps days and even weeks to really master these two topics. And what do they yield – only 9 or 10 questions at the most out of 120. In the same amount of time, you can probably master several other topics and get your hands on 30-45 marks worth of questions.
So, I will suggest you to touch these topics only when you have extra time and have finished with the rest of your preparation.
Many argue are trigonometric methods can help you solve a number of questions. But what these main questions need are just the basics, which you will probably learn on your own between your school classes, homework, coaching classes, and assignments. For real expertise, you have to be really geeky and nerdy. So, keep your hands off it until you have mastered the rest.
3) Domain and Range of a Function
Questions related to finding domain of a function in NDA are usually asked as below:
If x = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4}, y = {2, 3, 4, 5} and x X, y Y, then which of the following is a function in the given set –
(a) f1 = {(x,y) : y = x + 1}
(b) f2 = {(x,y) : x + y = >5}
(c) f3 = {(x,y) : y = x}
(d) None of these
In such questions, you do not have to solve the entire function.
Just put in the extreme values of the set in the function and see if they satisfy the answer. In this question, you can put 0 and 4 for x and 2 and 5 for y. You will be able to get the correct answer – (d) in this case.
4) Finding out n-terms in Mathematics
Perhaps the easiest questions in Maths, these either ask for the nth term or the sum or product of n-terms. The value of ‘n’ is mostly 1, 2 or at the most 3. Simply, put in these values and check whether they fit in.
If you have tried up to ‘3’ and you still do not have the answer, leave it alone. It is most likely to be a high-level question.
Here’s an example for you:
The sum of n natural numbers (1+2+3+….+n) is:
(a) n (n-1)/2
(b) n (n+1)/2
(c) n (n+2)/3
(d) (n+1) (n-1)
Sum of 1 as a natural number should be 1 too.
Put 1 as the value of n. Solving the equations you will get 0 for (a), 1 for (b), 1 for (c) and 0 for (d). Hence, we can rule out (a) and (d).
Now we put 2 as the value of n. Solving (b) equation, we get 3 as the answer while (c) equation dissolves into 8/3, which is not a natural number. Hence, the correct answer is (b).
5) Generalize the Question
These are the favorite questions of competitive examiners. They have complex orientation and you will have to find one of the variables.
Just assume that two or more of the arbitrary values are zero, one or some other easy value and check your options again.
Here’s an example:
For positive real values, it is given that m3x4 = n3y4 and m2< n2, then
(a) m3x2 > n3y2
(b) m3 < y4
(c) m3x2 < n3y2
(d) m3 > y4
Solving these will lead you to the hot soup of inequalities.
Hence, here’s an alternative. Assume some easy values for m, x, and n. Let’s say, m = 2, n = 3, and x = 3. You will get y as the fourth root of 24. Approximate it as the square root of 5 (since 5 is the square root of 25). Hence, it can be roughly calculated to be 2.2.
For such questions, approximating values is a good idea.
Put these values in the equation. Cancel out ‘3’ wherever possible and you will soon find the correct answer as (b).
In questions where you get random inclinations of a plane (alpha, beta or whatever), check what will happen if the inclination is zero/90. Put zero or 90 as the value of the plan and see which of the answers satisfy the condition.
You can apply the same logic to find Moment of Inertia about a random axis. Here’s an example:
Find Moment of Inertia (M.O.I) of a rod along an axis at theta degrees from its length passing through the centre:
(a) ML2sin2?/12
(b) ML2cos2?/12
(c) ML2sin?cos2?/12
(d)ML2sin2?cos?/12
We know that the M.O.I of a rod along its length is zero. So if ? = 0, M.O.I = 0 too. Assume ? = 0 and (a), (c) and (d) all turn out to be zero.
Also, the M.O.I of a rod perpendicular to its axis (for ?=90) = ML2/12. Using ? = 90, only (a) gives you that answer. (c) and (d) turn out to be zero. So, (a) is the correct answer.
Isn’t it simple?
6. Let the Mind Rule for Once!
I know what they say about always listening to your heart. But NDA is about testing your Intelligence and not your Intuition. So, let the mind decide which answer to tick and ask the Heart to just be the Motivator for the three hours when you are taking the test.
Pull out some sample NDA papers. Use these tricks to derive the answers to the questions in topics you have not studied yet and check your score!
I got an extra 44 marks in my NDA exam by following this very approach!
No matter what happens, never lose your confidence. Whether it is during preparation, during exam, or after the exams, keep your spirits high.
That reminds me to give you one more warning and one more tip:
Warning: Never carry a book or revision notes to the exam centre. It will just confuse you and stress you out in the last minute. Just carry your admit card and a pencil box/geometry box with the necessary stationery. And get at least six hours of sleep the night before the exam (Refer previous article on this).
Tip: When you feel your spirits floundering in despair, just plug in your earphones and listen to these songs; you can also find a list of some songs on an article on this site:
In English:
- Firework – Katy Perry
- Live like you’re dying – Kris Allen
- Lose Yourself- Eminem
- Remember the name – Fort Minor
- Someday – Flipsyde
In Hindi:
- Baar baar haan, bolo yaar haan – Lagaan
- Jo soche jo chahe woh kar ke dikha de – Do aur do Paanch
- Koi Kahe Rehte Rahe – Dil Chahta Hai
- Kya Karoon – Wake Up Sid
- Lakshya (the title song) – Lakshya
- Yeh Honsla Kaise Jhuke – Dor
Since you now have that josh, start preparing now. It’s hardly two months left! For the best book on NDA preparation, do read my review on Pathfinder for NDA & NA Exam in the next article. All the best for your NDA exams! I hope these tips will help you in cracking the exam. If you still have some queries or want to make anything clear, you can reach out to me by dropping me a message on fb through the link below. Good luck!
