What these books are

The Directorate General NCC publishes the cadet syllabus as a set of handbooks, usually called

precis. The current edition is the Revised Syllabi 2025, issued on 17 October 2025. There are

fourteen of them: seven subjects, each in two editions — JD/JW for the junior division and

wing, which is the A certificate, and SD/SW for the senior division and wing, which is B and C.

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publicly issued books; it is not an official NCC publication.

We do not host these books, and we will not. They are the NCC's publications, and the right

place to read them is the NCC's own site. What this article gives you is the map: what is in each

book, so you know which one you actually need before you go looking.

The fourteen books

Every figure below is taken from the master index printed inside the book itself, and each one was

checked against that book's own TOTAL PERIODS row before it went in here.

"Periods" is the teaching time the syllabus allots — the unit's figure for how long a subject takes

on the training programme, not a page count. "By year" splits it across the years of the course:

two for the junior editions, three for the senior.

Which one do you need

• A certificate → the JD/JW edition of your wing's specialised subject, plus the three

common subjects: Life Skills, Nation Building & Civic Preparedness, and Technical Skills.

• B or C certificate → the SD/SW edition of the same set.
• Your wing decides the specialised book: Army, Air Force, Navy, or R&V if you are with the

Remount and Veterinary Corps.

The three common books are the same for every wing. That is why a cadet in the Air Wing and a cadet

in the Naval Wing sit the same drill and the same first-aid content but different specialised papers.

What is inside each kind of book

The specialised subject books carry your wing's own trade. Army runs armed-forces organisation,

field craft and battle craft, military communication, map reading and weapons. Air Force runs

general service knowledge, principles of flight, airmanship and navigation, airframes and engines,

instruments and aeromodelling. Navy runs naval orientation, communication, navigation, seamanship,

watermanship, ship modelling and damage control. R&V runs organisation, animal management,

equitation, saddlery and shoeing.

The common subject books are taken by everyone. Life Skills covers morals and ethics,

personality development and leadership, cyber science, career counselling, innovation, and physical

and mental wellness. Nation Building & Civic Preparedness covers the NCC itself, national

integration, border and coastal areas, disaster management, environment, military history and

social service. Technical Skills covers foot drill, arms drill, weapon training, obstacle

training and drones.

Where to read them

The NCC publishes these books itself. Read them from the NCC, not from a third party — that way

you know the edition is current and nobody has edited it.

At the time of writing the NCC's own website was not responding, so rather than print a link we

have not been able to open, this section is deliberately short. Government sites are sometimes slow

or briefly offline; that is normal and it is worth trying again later rather than reaching for a

copy someone else is hosting.

If you find a copy of an NCC handbook on a private website or inside a private app, it is worth

asking where it came from. These are Government of India publications. A private platform

redistributing them in full has not necessarily been given permission to do so, and a copy taken

at some point in the past may quietly be an old edition — which matters, because the 2025 revision

changed real content.

How our lessons relate to these books

Our lessons are not these books, and they are not extracts from them. They are written in our

own words from the published syllabus and from open sources, which is why they can be translated,

turned into practice questions and read on a phone. The handbook is the dense source text; our

course is the teaching of it.

What we have done is make the two navigable together: each unit in our classroom now shows the

precis subject codes it corresponds to — MR-VII, FCBC-II, PMW-IX — so a cadet holding the

book can find the same ground in our lessons, and the other way round. We print the code and the

subject name only. We do not reproduce the text.

The honest limits of this article

• The period figures are from the 2025 edition. If the NCC issues a revision, they change.
• We describe what the books contain. We do not quote them, and we do not summarise their lessons

in a way that would substitute for reading them.

• This is not an official reading list, and studying these books is not a substitute for the

training your unit gives you. Enrolment, training and certificates come from the NCC alone.