National Cadet Corps is a Tri-Services Organisation comprising the Army, Navy and Air Force, engaged in grooming the youth — ‘The Leaders of Tomorrow’ — into disciplined and patriotic citizens. The genesis of the NCC can be traced back to the First World War when the Britishers created the University Corps as the second line of defense and to have a large pool of trained youth available for employment into the Armed Forces.

After independence the present day NCC under the Ministry of Defence came into existence on 16 Apr 1948 through NCC act XXXI, 1948. NCC was formally inaugurated on 15 Jul 1948 as soon as the schools and colleges reopened after summer vacation. The Girls Division of the NCC was started in Jul 1949. In 1950 Air Wing was added on 01 Apr with one Air squadron each at Bombay and Kolkata. The Naval Wing of the NCC was raised in Jul 1952, thus completing the true representation of all services in the Corps. Presently, NCC has approximately 13 Lakhs Cadets under its fold.

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Aim of National Cadet Corps

• To Develop Character, Comradeship, Discipline, Leadership, Secular Outlook, Spirit of Adventure, and Ideals of Selfless Service amongst the Youth of the Country.
• To Create a Human Resource of Organized, Trained and Motivated Youth, To Provide Leadership in all Walks of life and be Always Available for the Service of the Nation.
• To Provide a Suitable Environment to Motivate the Youth to Take Up a Career in the Armed Forces.

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The Indian Army has done yeoman’s service to the nation by way of successful Counter Terrorist Operations and providing much needed assistance to the civil administration and the common people.

The Indian Army is committed to bringing down the levels of violence to “manageable levels” so as to restore the confidence of the people and create a secure environment to facilitate smooth governance and socioeconomic development.

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The schools are generally managed by the army regional commands following the CBSE 2 pattern of education. Admission is granted on a priority basis to wards of Army personnel. All Army Schools have a chairman who is a senior Indian Army officer of Brigadier rank and a patron who is of Major General rank. The Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi is the flagship school among all the APSs in the country. The Army Public School, Pune has been awarded with the highest academic excellence among all the Army Public Schools in the country.

• Children who come on Pass/promoted TC from another APS/Army School can be admitted throughout the year
• Children who have studied for 10 academic months in another APS/Army School, KV and are seeking admission after 31 Jul.
• An evaluation test may be taken in respect of these children to facilitate further academic coaching and allocation of sections. However such an evaluation test is not treated as admission test and child entitled lateral admission will be allowed to attend classes within 48 hours of reporting to the school.
• No Admission test is conducted for the students who are coming from Army Schools/Army Public Schools.
• Tests are considered for the students coming to class X or XII irrespective of the school.

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The UPSC has declared the dates for CDS 2014 exams and forms for the same are available on its website. The CDS or combined defense service exam is conducted by UPSC twice in a year to select candidate for service selection board’s interview for commissioned officers in army, navy and Indian air force.

For those aspiring to get into the Indian military academy, Dehradun or naval/airforce academy for permanent commission in the armed forces, they are expected to score the minimum cut off marks set by the UPSC in all the three papers of CDS examination. These three papers are English, general knowledge & elementary mathematics. The maximum marks for all these three papers together is 300.

For those who are aspiring to join armed forces for short service commission, they are exempted from appearing in the elementary mathematics paper of cds examination.

Pattern of CDS Examination Papers

1. Wren and Martin’s English grammar by S.Chand publication
2. Word power

1. NCERT Class 7-10
2. R.S Agrawal’s mathematics for competitive examinations.
3. Any mathematics book for ssc/cds can be referred. 

1. Number system- this includes squaring, cubing,root,lcm,hcf,bodmas
2. Trigonometry system- this includes sin/cos/tan/cot based derivations as well as values.
3. Geometry- this includes questions based on angles and their theorems/derivations.
4. Similar figures- this includes concurrent triangle and derivations based on it. 

1. Lucent’s GK
2. Lucents’ general science
3. Daily newspapers
4. Manorma year book/any yearly issue.
5. Any monthly g.k magazine 

• Start preparing from now onwards.
• Give equal time for all the three papers.
• Make sure that u have command over some specific topics like trigonometry, geometry & number system.
• Read newspaper and note down important happenings. Maintain a diary/copy for this.
• Buy cds practice books and practice it daily.
• Learn and mug up some important historical events mentioned in lucent etc.
• Make sure that u know the basics about planning commission/finance commission/pay commissions/law commissions e.tc
• Make sure you know about the production of metals and ores in different parts of India. Often they give a map to locate such reservoirs.  

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CDS 1 2014 notification has been released by UPSC and registrations for the same are open. Many of you must have already registered and those of you who have not you should register as soon as possible. CDSE gives you a great opportunity for joining the forces i.e. Army, Navy or Airforce. A candidate can opt for IMA, OTA, NA or AFA; however women candidates can only apply for OTA. The exam pattern for OTA differs slightly from the exam pattern of IMA, NA and AFA.

Written Pattern for IMA, NA and AFA

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The Sainik Schools are a system of schools in India established and managed by the Sainik Schools Society. They were conceived in 1961 by V. K. Krishna Menon, the then Defence Minister of India, to rectify the regional and class imbalance amongst the Officer cadre of the Indian Military, and to prepare students for entry into the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla, Pune and Indian Naval Academy. Today there are over 26 such schools covering all the states of the country. The schools come under the purview of respective state governments and Ministry of Defence.

Sainik School Admission Procedure

School Admission is confined to boys in Sixth and Ninth Standard. Admissions to boys are granted on the basis of the merit prepared as per written examination, interview and medical examination. All India Sainik School Entrance Exam is the exam which students have to qualify for getting admissions to Sainik schools. This exam is conducted on the First Sunday of January every year at various centers.

• The medium of examination for Class IX is English. However students are allowed to write exam in any of their preferred languages.

• Mathematics and Science (200+75 marks)
• English and Social Studies (100+75marks) 

• Mathematics and Language Ability Test (200 marks)
• Intelligence Test (100 marks) 

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Friends recently questions are being asked in interviews about NOTA, i.e. none of the above The Supreme Court of India on 27 September 2013 held that citizens have the right to reject all candidates contesting an election. From SSB point of view this is an important issue. Let’s have a look what are the provisions of this right and how it will affect our elections in near future.

Existing Provisions in Representation of People Act

Court judgment and its implementation

• A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam while pronouncing the judgment viewed that negative voting would foster purity and vibrancy of elections .
• It also ensures wide participation as people who are not satisfied with the candidates in the fray would also turn up to express their opinion rejecting contestants.
• After that Election Commission of India Approved None of the Above Option in EVMs and Ballot Papers. The NOTA option was made mandatory by the Supreme Court of India on 27 September 2013 and gave the direction to the Election Commission of India to provide none of the above options at the end of the list of candidates contesting an election in a constituency.
• The Election Commission of India on 28 October 2013 clarified that if the number of electors who had utilized the NOTA (None of the above candidates) option in the EVM or Ballot paper exceeded the votes polled by any of the candidates, the candidate with the highest number of votes would be declared winner. 

• Sole objective of giving the voter a wider choice.
• Democracy is all about choices. So, voters will be empowered by this right of negative voting.
• Negative voting will send a clear signal to political parties and candidates as to what the voters think about them.
• The concept of negative voting is prevalent in 13 countries. Even in India parliamentarians are given an option to press the button for abstaining while voting takes place in the Parliament.
• The right to reject candidates in elections is part of fundamental right given by the Constitution in article 19 (freedom of speech and expression). 

• Presently, it will only enable a voter not to vote in favour of any candidate. So the votes recorded against this button will have the same effect as the ‘invalid’ votes of the ballot paper time and would have no role in determining the winner.
• With EVMs, the ‘invalid vote’ category got eliminated as mistakes like wrong marking and multiple marking became a thing of the past. Now, with this button that column will come back to life.
• it as it may increase voter turnout, an aspect which the Supreme Court judges also pointed out.
• it will make parties more responsible, which will nominate better candidates. The judges themselves pointed out that it can widen participation and curb impersonation.

From here the next logical step will be one of raising the status of the button to that of “negative vote” with consequences, in other words a vote for ‘rejection’ of all candidates, instead of its current status of merely being “no vote or negative vote. It will indeed compel the political parties to nominate a sound candidate, if parties keep imposing tainted candidates on voters or, while selecting candidates, regardless their performance or integrity, the voter can hit back with NOTA. A time will come with demands for fresh election with a fresh set of candidates if, in the first election, NOTA scores the highest votes.

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