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NDA Mock Test
Paper 1 is Mathematics — 120 questions for 300 marks. Paper 2 is the General Ability Test — 50 English and 100 General Knowledge questions for 600 marks. Each paper runs 2 hours 30 minutes, and a wrong answer costs one third of the marks for that question.
Exam updates · checked 19 September 2026
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Before you begin
Instructions
This is a shortened paper built on the current pattern. The full exam runs 270 questions · 150 min per paper · 900 marks.
- Questions
- 25
- Time limit
- 25 min
- Total marks
- 62.5
- Marking
- +2.5 / −0.83
- The clock starts as soon as you press Start and the paper submits itself at zero.
- You can move between questions freely and change any answer before you submit.
- Mark a question for review to come back to it — a marked question still counts as answered if you have chosen an option.
- A wrong answer costs 0.83 marks, so leave a question blank when you have no idea.
- Your score, the answer key and a full explanation for every question appear as soon as you submit.
Sections in this test
Mathematics12 Q
English6 Q
General Science & GK7 Q
Use the result
How to learn from this NDA & NA mock
Treat the NDA Mock Test as a measurement, not as a verdict. The useful output is a short correction plan built from the questions that cost marks or time.
- Reproduce real conditions. Use one uninterrupted 25-minute sitting, no notes and the same answer discipline you would use in the examination.
- Review correct guesses as well as wrong answers. A lucky mark is unresolved knowledge and should enter the correction list.
- Classify the cause of every loss. Mark it as an unknown concept, wrong method, misread question, calculation slip, poor selection or time pressure.
- Choose only three immediate corrections. Revise or drill the highest-frequency causes before attempting another full paper.
- Retest with a fresh paper. Allow enough practice time for the correction to work, then check whether the same error class has declined.
How to interpret this score
This is a shortened NDA & NA practice paper, so compare accuracy, section balance and decision-making rather than treating the raw mark as a predicted official score. Cut-offs depend on the recruitment cycle, category, vacancies, paper difficulty and the authority’s scoring rules.
This exam
What this NDA set is measuring
The written examination has two papers — mathematics, and a general ability test with a large English component — and the written stage is only half of the selection. This set covers the written side; the rest of the process is not a paper at all.
What to read off the result
- Mathematics accuracy at senior-secondary level — the paper is set to the school syllabus and rewards fluency with standard results rather than ingenuity. Slow working here usually means formulas being reconstructed instead of recalled.
- English performance specifically — English carries a large share of the general ability paper and is regularly under-prepared by candidates focused on mathematics and general knowledge.
- General knowledge spread — the general ability paper draws on physics, chemistry, general science, history, geography and current events. A candidate strong in one and absent in three loses marks that are individually cheap to recover.
- Your guessing discipline — there is a deduction for wrong answers in the written papers. Decide in advance how narrow a guess has to be before you take it.
The written examination is not the selection
Candidates who clear the written stage face the Services Selection Board process and a medical examination, and a substantial share of the outcome is decided there rather than on the papers. Physical fitness and medical standards in particular take months to prepare for and cannot be arranged after a result. Read the current notification for the standards that apply to you.
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