Indian Army GD 2024 - Indian Army Soldiers General Duty (NER) Exam : Application Form, Exam Date, Eligibility, Syllabus and Exam Pattern

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Indian Army Soldiers General Duty Exam 2024 - Indian Army Soldiers General Duty N.E.R Exam is conducted four times a year for recruiting personnel to the Indian Army as Sepoy/Soldier. The shortlisted candidates are imparted the required training to become fully capable of dedicating themselves to the honorable task of serving their country on various fronts throughout their carrier.

Indian Army Soldiers General Duty (NER) Exam 2024 Important Dates

Date of Notification and Start of Online Registration

  • 8th February 2024

Last Date of Submission of Application Form

  • 21st March 2024

Physical Recruitment Rallies

  • Expected to commence from May 2024 onwards

Date of Declaration of Result

  • Yet to be announced.

Indian Army Soldiers General Duty Exam 2024 Eligibility  

Educational Qualification

Aspiring candidates who have passed the Matriculation / equivalent examination preferably with Science and English as the main are eligible to apply for the Indian Army Soldiers General Duty exam.

Age Limits

Male candidates belonging to the age group of 17.5 to 21 years are eligible

Nationality

A candidate must either be:

  • a citizen of India, or
  • a subject of Bhutan, or
  • a subject of Nepal, or
  • a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before the 1st January 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or
  • a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka and East African Countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire and Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.

Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) above shall be a person in whose favor a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.

Note: Certificate of eligibility will not, however, be necessary in the case of candidates who are Gorkha subjects of Nepal.

Marital Status

Unmarried Indian male citizens are eligible.

Physical Standard

  • Minimum Height of the candidates must be 167 cm, which can be relaxed for candidates belonging to certain regions.
  • Chest Measurement: On expansion, the candidate's chest measurement should not be less than 77 cm with a minimum range of expansion of 5 cm.
  • Minimum Weight of the candidates must be 50 kilograms, which can be relaxed for candidates belonging to certain regions.
  • General Health: The candidate must be free of all communicable diseases and cardiovascular, medical or surgical deformities or infection.

Indian Army Soldiers General Duty Exam 2024 Syllabus

Indian Army Soldiers General Duty (NER) Exam Consists of questions from

  • General Intelligence
  • Mathematical Aptitude
  • General Knowledge in Preliminary exam
  • Physics, Chemistry and Biology in Mains exam

Indian Army Soldiers General Duty Exam 2024 Pattern

Selections for the Indian Army Soldiers General Duty Exam is made on the basis of a written test followed by the Physical fitness test.

Only the successful candidates in the written test will be put through the aptitude test and interview. The final selection will be on the basis of overall merit attained in all the tests. 

Physical Fitness Test

Physical Fitness Test carries 100 marks and the test are as follows

  • 1-mile run
Sr. No. Timings Marks
1 6.06 Mins to 6.20 24 marks
2 5.51 Mins to 6 .05 36 marks
3 5.41 Mins to 5.5 48 marks
4 5.40 Mins and below 60 marks
  • Pull-ups
Sr. No Numbers Marks
1 6 16
2 7 21
3 8 27
4 9 33
5 10 and above 40
  • Balance
  • 9 feet ditch

 

How to Apply for Indian Army Soldiers General Duty NER Exam 2024?

The applications for the said exam are invited through advertisements published in the Employment News and other leading newspapers. Interested candidates may collect blank application forms that are available, free of cost, at local Recruitment Offices, District Collector's Office, Zila Parishads and Employment Exchanges. However aspiring candidates can send their applications on plain paper, handwritten/typed but as per the given format.

 

Indian Army Soldiers General Duty Exam 2024 Test Centres

Most of the major cities of the countries are made the test centers of this exam. The list of the centers is:

Agartala, Gangtok, Panaji (Goa), Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Patna, Aizwal, Imphal, Port Blair, Allahabad, Itanagar, Raipur, Bangalore, Jaipur, Ranchi, Bareilly, Jammu, Sambalpur, Bhopal, Jorhat, Shillong, Chandigarh, Kochi, Shimla, Chennai, Kohima, Srinagar, Cuttack, Kolkata, Thiruvananthapuram, Dehradun, Lucknow, Tirupati, Delhi, Madurai, Udaipur, Dharwad, Mumbai, Vishakhapatnam, Dispur, Nagpur.