SSB Interview Preparation

Candidates who have cleared the UPSC NDA and NA written examination, held twice a year, and are called to an Army, Navy or Air Force selection board for the Army, Navy, Air Force or Naval Academy wings. Class twelve pass or appearing; Physics and Mathematics required for the Air Force, Navy and Naval Academy wings. Open to men and women. Age sixteen and a half to nineteen and a half on the date specified in the notification.

Graduates who have cleared the UPSC Combined Defence Services written examination, held twice a year, and are called to a selection board for the Indian Military Academy, Indian Naval Academy, Air Force Academy or Officers Training Academy Chennai, the short service entry open to men and women. Engineering degree or Physics and Mathematics at class twelve are required for the Navy and Air Force wings. Age bands differ by academy and run roughly from nineteen to twenty-five; the current notification is final.

Graduates who have cleared the Air Force Common Admission Test, held twice a year by the Indian Air Force, or NCC Air Wing C certificate holders under the NCC special entry, called to one of the five Air Force Selection Boards at Dehradun, Mysuru, Gandhinagar, Varanasi or Guwahati. Flying branch requires Physics and Mathematics at class twelve and age twenty to twenty-four; Ground Duty technical and non-technical branches admit up to twenty-six. Flying branch candidates also take the Computerised Pilot Selection System test, once in a lifetime.

Shortlisted candidates for the Army's technical entries, which have no written examination. Technical Entry Scheme takes class twelve students with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, aged sixteen and a half to nineteen and a half, shortlisted on aggregate marks and JEE Main performance. Technical Graduate Course takes engineering graduates of twenty to twenty-seven for the Indian Military Academy. SSC Tech takes engineering graduates, men and women, of twenty to twenty-seven for the Officers Training Academy Chennai. Shortlisting is by a cut-off on engineering or board marks that varies by branch and cycle.

Candidates shortlisted for the Indian Navy's own officer entries and called to a Naval Selection Board at Bhopal, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Visakhapatnam or Kolkata. The 10+2 B.Tech Cadet Entry takes class twelve students with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, shortlisted on JEE Main rank, for the four-year B.Tech at the Indian Naval Academy Ezhimala. Executive and Technical short service and permanent commission entries take graduates and engineers, men and women, shortlisted through the Indian Navy Entrance Test or on normalised marks depending on the cycle. Age bands vary by entry and are given in each notification.