The Union Public Service Commission will hold the Combined Defence Services Examination (1) 2007 on February 18, 2007.
'No matter how much you get paid or how successful you get, nothing can match the fauj.'
Keshav Govind Vyas is the reason his grandsons chose to join the armed forces.
Careers360 presents a detailed look at what the exam and interview entails.
While Shruti Raghav's friends prepared for CAT with a vengeance, she set her sights on the Combined Defence Services Exam.
'I chose the army over glamour,' says Major Sheena, who feels no other profession elicits the kind of respect like the army does.
'Not everybody gets the opportunity of having a working desk inside a helicopter from where you can control torpedoes and weapons.'
'Cracking the exam is 99 per cent hard work and persistence and maybe 1 per cent luck.'
'If you are a professional journalist, don't ever think that your work is going to bring in revolution or that you are going to change the world. That job is best left to the revolutionaries,' M V Kamath, the legendary journalist who passed away on October 9, told Nitin Gokhale.