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UPSC NDA EXAM ANALYSIS:

National Defence Academy & Naval Academy Examination, 2021

Details & Cut-Off Marks for Recommendations:

Minimum passing score for the writing section of the exam (out of 900): 343 (with at least 25% in each topic).

Marks obtained [Final Stage] by the last recommended candidate (out of 1800): 709

TIE- PRINCIPLES

When two or more candidates received the same overall score in the first NDA & NA examination in 2021, a tie was broken using the following standards:

Candidates who are older by age have been given a higher ranking when their overall scores are equivalent.

In case of candidates having the same age, the candidates getting more marks in the written examination will be placed on higher rank.

NATIONAL DEFENCE ACADEMY & NAVAL ACADEMY EXAM ANALYSIS:

The topic-wiseanalysis of NDA & NA questions in Papers 1 and 2 is as follows:

NDAPaper I - MATHEMATICSANALYSIS

TOPIC

SUBTOPIC

SUBTOPIC

SUBTOPIC

No. of Qs

SETS , RELATION AND FUNCTIONS

SETS

9

RELATION AND FUNCTION

2

VENN DIAGRAM

2

ALGEBRA

1

NUMBER SYSTEM

1

COMPLEX NUMBER

3

POLYNOMIAL

1

QUADRATIC EQUATION

6

SEQUENCE AND SERIES

GEOMETRIC PROGRESSION

3

MATRICES AND DETERMINANTS

1

ALGEBRA OF MATRICES

3

2

DETERMINANTS

3

INVERSE OF A MATRIX

1

LINEAR EQUATIONS

1

LOGARITHMS

2

PERMUTATIONS AND COMBINATIONS

1

PERMUTATIONS

3

BINOMIAL THEOREM

1

BINARY SYSTEM

2

TRIGONOMETRY

MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES

3

TRIGONOMETRIC RATIO AND IDENTITIES

3

MULTIPLE AND SUBMULTIPL ANGLES

2

TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS OF ANGLES OF ARBITRARY MAGNITUDE

1

COMPOUND ANGLES

2

TRANSFORMATION FORMULA

3

INVERSE TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTION

2

PROPERTIES OF TRIANGLE

2

HEIGHT AND DISTANCE

2

COORDINATE GEOMETRY

TWO DIMENS. COORDINATE GEOMETRY.

STRAIGHT LINES

3

1

CIRCLE

1

ELLIPSE

2

THREE DIMENSIONAL COORDINATE GEOMETRY (SOLID GEOMETRY)

FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPT OF 3-D

1

PLANE

3

STRAIGHT LINES

1

SPHERE

1

VECTORS

SCALAR PRODUCT OF VECTORS

3

VECTOR PRODUCT OF VECTORS

3

DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS

LIMITS

1

CONTINUITY

1

DIFFERENTIABILITY

1

DIFFERENTIATION

2

FUNDAMENTAL RULES FOR DIFFERENTIATION

1

SOME MORE METHOD OF DIFFERENTIATION

2

APPLICATIONS OF DERIVATIVES

MAXIMA AND MINIMA

2

INCRASING DECREASING

2

INTEGRAL CALCULUS

INTEGRATION (INDEFINITE INTEGRALS)

2

DEFINITE INTEGRALS

2

AREA OF CURVES

1

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION

3

STATISTICS

DIAGRAMMATIC AND GRAPHIC PRESENTATION

1

MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY AND DISPERSON

3

MEASURES OF DISPERSON

MEAN DEVIATION

1

VARIANCE AND STANDARED DEVIATION

2

PROBABILITY

2

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY

1

INDEPENDENT EVENTS

1

BAYE’S THEOREM

1

MULTIPICATION RULE

THEORETICAL DISTRIBUTION

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION

1

TOTAL

120

NDA Paper II - GENERAL MENTAL ABILITY ANALYSIS

NDAPART A - ENGLISH ANALYSIS

TOPICS

SUBTOPIC

No of Qs

ENGLISH VOCABULARY

SYNONYMS

8

ANTONYMS

8

ENGLISH PROFICIENCY

ORDERING OF SENTENCES

7

PARA JUMBLE

7

ENGLISH USAGE

SPOTING ERRORS

11

ENGLISH COMPREHENSION

READING COMPREHENSION

9

TOTAL QUESTIONS

50

NDAPART - B GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ANALYSIS

TOPIC

SUBTOPIC

SUBTOPIC

SUBTOPIC

No. of Qs

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

NATIONAL SYMBOLS

1

BOOKS AND AUTHORES

1

ART AND CULTURE

DANCE

1

INSTITUTIONS

1

GENERAL SCIENCE

PHYSICS

PHYSICAL QUANTITIES , STANDARDS AND UNITS

UNIT OF LENGTH

1

MECHANICS

WORK , POWER AND ENERGY

2

PROPERTIES OF MATTER

DENSITY

1

HEAT

TRANSFER OF HEAT

1

GRAVITATION

1

WAVE MOTION

2

SHM

1

ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION

1

1

1

LIGHT

2

STATIC ELECTRICITY

3

CURRENT ELECTRICITY

2

ATOMIC PHYSICS

EMISSION OF RADIATION

2

NUCLEAR PHYSICS

1

1

CHEMISTRY

EVER DAY CHEMISTRY

6

1

OXIDATION AND REDUCTION

1

CARBON AND ITS COMPOUND

1

DIAMOND

1

NITROGEN AND ITS COMPOUNDS

1

AMMONIA

1

ACIDS , BASES AND SALTS

1

METALS

ALLOYS

1

THERMODYNAMICS

ISOTOPES AND ISOBARS

1

STRUCTURE OF THE ATOM

1

NUCLEAR RECTION AND ATOMIC ENERGY

1

INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY

1

CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS

CLASSIFICATION OF ANIMAL KINGDOM

1

BIOLOGY

NUTRITION

1

ENZYMES

1

PLANT NUTRITION ( PHOTOSYNTHESIS)

1

ANIMAL NUTRITION

1

GENETIC - THE SCIENCE OF HEREDITY

BLOOD

1

BLOOD GROUP INHERITANCE

1

HUMAN DISEASES AND DIFENSE MECHANISAM

1

1

ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY

ECOSYSTEM

1

POLLUTION

1

SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

2

HISTORY

ANCIENT INDIA

JAINISM AND BUDDHISM

2

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

1

MEDIAVEL INDIA

1

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

1

MODERN INDIA

BRITISH POLICIES AND ADMINISTRATION

1

INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY

1

GEOGRAPHY

THE EARTH ANDS ITS POSITION IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

4

1

THE ATMOSPHERE

3

THE LITHOSPHERE

VOLCANIC ACTIVITY

1

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

1

NATURAL VEGETATION

1

INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

PHYSIOGRAPHY

2

CLIMATE

1

DRAINAGE

2

INDUSTRIES

1

TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS

1

SETTLEMENTS

1

INDIAN POLITY

CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2

SCHEDULES OF THE CONSTITUTRION

1

FRAMING OF CONSTITUTION

1

THE PARLIAMENT

1

JUDICIARY

1

FINANCE COMMISSION

1

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

1

INDIAN ECONOMY

CENSUS AND POPULATION

2

PUBLIC FINANCE AND FISCAL POLICY

1

1

CURRENT EVENTS

COMMITTEE

1

BUDGET

1

PERSON

1

SPORTS

1

TOTAL

100