26K to appear for NDA exam in Chandigarh

Chandigarh, September 5

As many as 26,013 candidates will appear for National Defence Academy (NDA) examination scheduled to be held in 65 government schools of the city tomorrow.

The exam will consist of a mathematics paper to be held from 10 am to 12:30 pm and a general ability exam from 2 pm to 4:30 pm. As there are no examination centres in Punjab and Haryana, students from both states are expected to come to Chandigarh to take the exam.

Instructions

• Wearing of mask/face cover is mandatory for all candidates. Candidates without a mask/face cover will not be allowed to enter the venue.
• They will have to remove their masks for verification, whenever required by the examination functionaries.
• Candidates may carry his/her own hand sanitiser (small size) in a transparent bottle.
• They are required to follow Covid-19 norms of social distancing as well as personal hygiene inside the examination halls/rooms as well as on the premises of the venue.

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, some new rules are to be followed during the NDA 2020 written exam. These include mandatory wearing of mask/face cover for all candidates. The candidates without a mask or face cover will not be allowed to enter the venue. They will have to remove their masks for verification, whenever required by the examination functionaries.

The candidate may carry a hand sanitiser (small size) in a transparent bottle. They will be requested to follow all Covid-19 norms such social distancing as well as personal hygiene inside the examination halls/rooms as well as within the premises of the venue.

Dates of NDA,

JEE (Main) clash

Students desirous of taking both JEE (Main) and the National Defence Academy (NDA) exam are in a dilemma as the date and time of the two exams are clashing. Some students have also written to the National Testing Authority (NTA) authorities regarding the change in exam dates, but no communication has been received from the latter so far.