UPSC NDA Result 2026: NDA 1 Written Result, SSB Status & Expected NDA 2 Result Date

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CBT-1 Category Cutoff Marks / श्रेणीवार कटऑफ मार्क्स

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UPSC declared the NDA 1 2026 written result on 8 May 2026, qualifying 7,903 candidates for the SSB Interview out of a much larger applicant pool. The NDA 2 2026 exam is scheduled for 13 September 2026; its written result, expected as a roll-number list only, typically follows about three to four weeks later.

UPSC's result process for NDA follows a two-tier structure that catches many first-time aspirants off guard, because a strong showing in the written exam is only ever a gateway to the next stage, never a guarantee of selection on its own. For the NDA 1 2026 cycle, the written result was declared on 8 May 2026, just 26 days after the 12 April exam, and it was published purely as a roll-number list — 7,903 candidates in total, comprising 7,399 boys and 504 girls, were confirmed as having crossed the written qualifying threshold across both the Mathematics and General Ability Test papers, out of a far larger pool that actually sat for the exam. Consistent with UPSC's practice across all its exams, no marks, scorecard, or official cutoff accompanied that announcement; qualified candidates were instructed to register on the Indian Army's recruitment portal, joinindianarmy.nic.in, within two weeks of the result, after which they would be allotted a Selection Centre and SSB dates communicated to their registered email address. Because no official cutoff is ever published at this stage, most coaching platforms and defence-focused portals rely on candidate-reported score patterns and historical movement to estimate a range; for NDA 1 2026, most such estimates for the General category cluster between 350 and 365 out of 900, a modest rise over the roughly 342 mark cutoff commonly cited for NDA 1 2025, reflecting the kind of year-to-year drift that is typical given differences in paper difficulty and applicant strength rather than any policy change. Those 7,903 qualified NDA 1 candidates are currently working through the SSB Interview stage, which UPSC and the respective service headquarters have scheduled across batches running from June through September 2026 at Selection Centres in cities including Allahabad, Bhopal and Bangalore; because the SSB is a five-day process assessing psychological aptitude, group tasks, and a personal interview rather than academic knowledge, its scheduling naturally spreads out over several months to accommodate the full pool of qualifiers, and candidates should expect anywhere from a few weeks to a couple of months' wait between registration and their actual SSB dates depending on which batch and centre they are assigned to. Turning to the cycle most people are actually asking about heading into autumn 2026 — NDA 2, scheduled for 13 September — no result exists yet, because the exam itself has not been conducted as of this update. Based on UPSC's consistent turnaround for NDA in recent cycles, where the NDA 1 2026 written result arrived roughly three and a half weeks after the exam, the NDA 2 2026 written result can reasonably be expected sometime in October 2026, though UPSC has not announced or even hinted at an exact date, and candidates should treat any specific date circulating online before an official announcement with caution. When that result does arrive, it will follow the identical format used for every NDA cycle: a roll-number-only qualifying list for the written stage, with no marks disclosed, after which qualified candidates will again need to register promptly on the Indian Army recruitment portal to receive their SSB Interview allocation. It's worth being explicit about what "clearing NDA" actually means at each stage, since the terminology causes real confusion among first-time applicants: clearing the written exam only confirms a candidate has crossed the qualifying threshold on both Mathematics and the General Ability Test and does not by itself secure a training seat; the actual competitive merit that decides who is finally commissioned into the Army, Navy, Air Force or Naval Academy is built by adding the 900-mark written score to the equally weighted 900-mark SSB score, producing a combined figure out of 1,800 against which UPSC prepares separate merit lists for each service and, within each service, separate lists for male and female candidates given the significantly smaller number of vacancies reserved for women. Historically, the SSB stage filters far more aggressively than the written exam — of the roughly 7,900 candidates who cleared NDA 1 2026 in writing, past-cycle patterns suggest only a modest fraction, typically in the range of 15 to 20 percent, ultimately clear the SSB and medical stages combined to make the final merit list, which is precisely why defence-aspirant communities and coaching platforms place such heavy emphasis on early, dedicated SSB preparation rather than treating the written clearance as the finish line. Looking at the cutoff trend across recent cycles adds useful context for anyone trying to gauge where they stand before an official number exists: the General category written cutoff hovered around 342 out of 900 for NDA 1 2025, moved to roughly 338 for NDA 2 2025, and the unofficial estimates for NDA 1 2026 sit somewhat higher at 350-365, a pattern that broadly tracks with how many candidates appeared and how the Mathematics paper in particular was received that year — a noticeably easier Mathematics section tends to push the cutoff up because a larger share of the applicant pool clears the qualifying threshold with room to spare, while a tougher paper compresses the range and can pull the cutoff down even with a similar-sized applicant pool. Category-wise cutoffs for OBC, SC and ST candidates typically sit somewhere between 15 and 40 marks below the General category figure depending on the cycle, though — as with the General cutoff itself — UPSC never confirms these officially either, and category-wise numbers circulating online should be read as informed estimates rather than fact. For candidates who do see their roll number on the NDA 1 2026 result list and are now navigating the post-result process, it is worth being precise about the immediate next steps, since missing a procedural deadline here can cost a candidate their SSB slot even after clearing the written exam: registration on joinindianarmy.nic.in (for Army-preference candidates) or the equivalent Navy and Air Force recruitment portals must typically be completed within about two weeks of the result, using the same roll number and personal details submitted at the application stage, after which the candidate uploads scanned copies of the documents UPSC and the respective service will require for SSB — Class 10 and Class 12 mark sheets and certificates, a valid photo ID, recent passport-size photographs, and, for candidates still awaiting their Class 12 result at the time of the NDA exam, a provisional certificate or admit card from their school as interim proof. A mistake worth flagging explicitly, because it recurs every cycle among first-time NDA aspirants, is confusing this written-stage roll-number list with a final selection: social media and messaging-app forwards routinely misrepresent a written qualification as if it were the final NDA result, leading some newly qualified candidates to relax their preparation prematurely rather than immediately shifting focus to SSB-specific practice, when in reality the numerically larger and more decisive filter — the SSB and medical stage — still lies entirely ahead of them.

यूपीएससी एनडीए परिणाम दो चरणों में आता है। एनडीए-1 2026 का लिखित परिणाम 8 मई 2026 को घोषित हुआ, जिसमें 7,903 उम्मीदवार (7,399 लड़के, 504 लड़कियां) एसएसबी साक्षात्कार के लिए योग्य घोषित हुए। परिणाम के साथ अंक या आधिकारिक कट-ऑफ जारी नहीं किया जाता — केवल रोल नंबर सूची प्रकाशित होती है। योग्य उम्मीदवारों को दो सप्ताह के भीतर joinindianarmy.nic.in पर पंजीकरण कराना अनिवार्य है। एसएसबी साक्षात्कार जून से सितंबर 2026 तक विभिन्न चयन केंद्रों पर चल रहा है। एनडीए-2 2026 परीक्षा 13 सितंबर 2026 को होगी, और इसका लिखित परिणाम अक्टूबर 2026 के आसपास घोषित होने की उम्मीद है — हालांकि यूपीएससी ने अभी तक कोई तारीख घोषित नहीं की। अंतिम मेरिट सूची लिखित परीक्षा (900 अंक) और एसएसबी (900 अंक) को मिलाकर कुल 1800 अंकों में तैयार होती है।

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