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    <h2>Updates as of September 22, 2026</h2>
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        <p>The most recent ACC written examination that the public record documents is the combined ACC-134 and SCO-59 paper held on 5 January 2026. Applications for that cycle were reported as open from 10 November to 9 December 2025, with a correction window on 10 to 12 December 2025 and admit cards on 26 December 2025. This timeline comes from the coaching site PhysicsWallah, not from an Army release.</p>
        <a class="acc-entry-updates-222026-cite" href="https://www.pw.live/defence/exams/acc-entry-in-army">PhysicsWallah (coaching site)</a>
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        <p>As of 22 September 2026 no notification for the next ACC course is visible in any public source we could reach. The Join Indian Army portal could not be read, and the coaching trackers that cover ACC still show the next notification, application window, exam date and result as pending. Treat any date circulating for the next cycle as unverified until your unit receives the order.</p>
        <a class="acc-entry-updates-222026-cite" href="https://prepp.in/acc-exam">Prepp (coaching site)</a>
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        <p>ACC is not an open competitive examination. Trishul Defence Academy and Major Kalshi Classes both describe applications for ACC-134 being routed through the chain of command, with the Commanding Officer running an initial written test and interview and only then forwarding the application upward for screening. There is no public application portal equivalent to a UPSC registration page.</p>
        <a class="acc-entry-updates-222026-cite" href="https://www.majorkalshiclasses.com/news/army-cadet-college-acc-134-form-notification">Major Kalshi Classes (coaching site)</a>
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        <p>Published accounts of the ACC-134 cycle do not agree on the paper structure. Major Kalshi Classes and Trishul Defence Academy both describe a single three-hour, 300-mark paper of 150 questions across six subjects with 0.5 negative marking, while PhysicsWallah describes five separate papers totalling roughly 1,200 marks. Nothing we could read resolves the conflict, so verify the pattern from the notification your unit receives.</p>
        <a class="acc-entry-updates-222026-cite" href="https://www.trishuldefenceacademy.in/blog/army-cadet-college-acc-134-form-notification">Trishul Defence Academy (coaching site)</a>
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        <p>Centurion Defence Academy states that the ACC entry runs twice a year, with examinations in April and October and notifications in February and August, and roughly 75 vacancies per course. That periodicity does not match the reported 5 January 2026 sitting, which is a further reason to treat published ACC calendars as indicative rather than firm.</p>
        <a class="acc-entry-updates-222026-cite" href="https://www.centuriondefenceacademy.com/acc-coaching/acc-written-exam/">Centurion Defence Academy (coaching site)</a>
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Every row above is drawn from defence coaching sites, because the Army's own ACC notification is distributed through unit and formation channels rather than published as an open web document. Trishul Defence Academy additionally reports a SHAPE-1 medical standard, clean confidential reports and no red ink entry in the preceding year, and states that successful cadets take a B.A. or B.Sc. from Jawaharlal Nehru University before commissioning as Lieutenants.

<p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://www.trishuldefenceacademy.in/blog/army-cadet-college-acc-134-form-notification">Trishul Defence Academy</a> &middot; <a href="https://www.centuriondefenceacademy.com/acc-coaching/acc-written-exam/">Centurion Defence Academy</a> &middot; <a href="https://prepp.in/acc-exam">Prepp</a></p>

Two of the dates above conflict with the twice-yearly April and October rhythm that Centurion Defence Academy publishes, and an older Trishul Defence Academy post dates the ACC-134 application window to June and July 2025 rather than November and December. Do not act on any of these without the notification as received in your unit.

<p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://www.pw.live/defence/exams/acc-entry-in-army">PhysicsWallah</a> &middot; <a href="https://www.majorkalshiclasses.com/news/army-cadet-college-acc-134-form-notification">Major Kalshi Classes</a> &middot; <a href="https://www.centuriondefenceacademy.com/acc-coaching/acc-written-exam/">Centurion Defence Academy</a></p>

The single most common mistake with ACC is treating it like a public recruitment examination and waiting for a website to tell you when to apply. It is an in-service entry, and the binding document is the notification that reaches your unit. The second mistake is copying a paper pattern off a coaching page: the published descriptions of the ACC-134 paper contradict each other outright, and preparing to the wrong one wastes months.

Both Major Kalshi Classes and Trishul Defence Academy describe the Commanding Officer conducting a written test and an interview before an ACC application is forwarded at all. That means the first competitive event happens inside your own unit, months before the Army-level written paper, and it is decided partly on documents you cannot improve at short notice. Trishul lists clean annual confidential reports, no disciplinary action, and specifically no red ink entry in the preceding year. If you intend to apply at the next cycle, the work on the service record has to be done in the year before the notification, not after it. Confirm with your Subedar Major or the unit clerk exactly which documents the screening board will call for.

Two incompatible paper patterns are in circulation

Major Kalshi Classes and Trishul Defence Academy both describe one paper: 150 questions, 300 marks, three hours, six subjects at 25 questions each, two marks per question and a 0.5 mark deduction for a wrong answer. PhysicsWallah describes something quite different, a five-paper sitting of General Mental Ability, Current and General Awareness, Objective English, Descriptive English and an Academic Content Test, summing to about 1,200 marks over roughly twelve hours. Prepp gives a third variant with four papers. These cannot all be right. The safe preparation is the overlap: reasoning, school-level mathematics, general knowledge and current affairs, general science and English, with written English practice in case a descriptive component appears.

Age is reckoned at course commencement, not at application

The 20 to 27 year band that Trishul Defence Academy, Major Kalshi Classes and Centurion Defence Academy all quote is tied to the date the course begins, not to the application deadline or the examination date. Major Kalshi Classes reports the ACC-134 intake commencing in January 2027 against an examination held in January 2026, which is a full year of gap. For a soldier close to the upper limit that one year is the difference between eligible and not. Work the arithmetic from the stated course start date in the notification rather than from the day you fill the form, and if you are near the boundary raise it with the unit before the application is forwarded.

The written paper is only the first of four gates

The sequence reported consistently across sources is unit or formation screening, then the Army-level written examination, then the Services Selection Board interview, then a medical to officer standards, then merit. PhysicsWallah and Centurion Defence Academy both place SSB and the medical after the written stage. Trishul Defence Academy quotes a SHAPE-1 medical requirement. With roughly 75 seats per course, clearing the written paper is not the finish line, and an SSB attempt taken cold after a year of purely academic preparation is a common way to lose the seat. Group tasks, the personal interview and officer-like qualities need separate, earlier work.

Centurion Defence Academy publishes an April and October examination rhythm with February and August notifications. PhysicsWallah reports an actual sitting on 5 January 2026. Trishul dates the ACC-134 application window to June and July 2025; PhysicsWallah dates it to November and December 2025. None of these sources is the conducting authority. The practical consequence is that you cannot plan leave, study blocks or a coaching enrolment around a published ACC date. Plan instead around a standing readiness: keep the academic subjects warm year-round so that a notification with a six-week runway is survivable, and ask your unit to flag the order the day it arrives.

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<div style="background:#eef3fb;color:#303846;border:1px solid #c9d7ee;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 18px"><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6"><strong style="color:#171d29">Checked 21 October 2026.</strong> The plan is ours. The rules it is built on (pass marks, section times, test date) are jlpt.jp's and JEES's, read 21 Oct 2026.</p></div>

<div style="background:#fff8e8;color:#3a3020;border:1px solid #f0d9a8;border-left:4px solid #b7791f;border-radius:12px;padding:16px 20px;margin:0 0 18px"><p style="margin:0 0 6px;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#b7791f">Test date</p><p style="margin:0;line-height:1.65"><strong>The next JLPT is on Sunday 6 December 2026.</strong> In Japan, N1 and N2 start at 9:10 and the room opens at 8:30. Outside Japan, confirm the timetable with your local host institution; in New Delhi, N1 and N2 are in the morning session.</p></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">In our view a month is not enough to learn N2 or N1 from scratch, and this plan does not pretend it is; we built it for learners already close to their level, where a month can protect a pass. The JLPT fails anyone below 19 out of 60 in any one section, however strong the total, so the last 30 days should be spent where a section is at risk, under real timing. The plan below is our own; the rules and dates it rests on come from jlpt.jp, JEES and MOSAI. ProSyllabus is an independent study site, not part of the Japan Foundation or Japan Educational Exchanges and Services (JEES), which run the JLPT (JEES in Japan, the Japan Foundation overseas with local host institutions). Every rule, mark and date here is quoted or summarised from jlpt.jp, JEES and MOSAI (the host institution in New Delhi), read on 21 October 2026.</p>

<div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;margin:18px 0"><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">30 days</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">6 November to 6 December 2026</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">19 / 60</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">the floor in every section: plan around it</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">2</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">full timed rehearsals in the plan</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">1 free</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">N2-style grammar question below, our own</div></div></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;margin:-8px 0 18px">Pass marks and times: jlpt.jp and JEES, read 21 Oct 2026.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">jlpt.jp states the pass rule plainly: if <em>"there is even one scoring section where the score is below the sectional pass mark, examinees are determined to have failed, no matter how high the total score he/she might have."</em> N2 needs 90 of 180 and N1 needs 100, with at least 19 in each of Language Knowledge, Reading and Listening. That changes what a good last month looks like. A candidate scoring well in grammar but shaky in listening gains more from listening than from more grammar, because the floor fails first.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">One caution before you mark practice papers: the JLPT uses scaled scores, not a count of correct answers. In the FAQ's words, <em>"it is possible for an examinee with a high number of correct answers to receive a relatively modest scaled score."</em> So use practice percentages to compare your own sections and your own weeks, not to predict an exact score.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">The first sitting is the long one: vocabulary, grammar and reading share one clock. Running out of time on the last reading passages is a reading-score problem even if the cause is slow grammar, which is why the plan practises pace inside that sitting. jlpt.jp also says the test needs no cultural knowledge: <em>"all questions can be answered without cultural knowledge."</em></p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">For each rehearsal, note three things per section: how many questions you answered, how many you were sure of, and where the time went. Compare the second with the first section by section. A section that has not moved after three weeks of work needs a different method, not more hours of the same one. Sit both rehearsals at the time your own test starts, so that your concentration peaks in the right part of the day, and keep a break between the sittings like the one in your local timetable (in Japan it is 30 minutes for both N1 and N2).</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">jlpt.jp offers sample questions, with <em>"One sample question is offered for each test item type"</em>, and its FAQ says you can download listening audio from them. For more, it points to its Official Practice Workbooks, which it says contain questions <em>"selected from among those used in tests since the 2010 revision"</em>. Past papers as such are not released: <em>"The exact same test questions of every exam are not published."</em> jlpt.jp's site policy allows reproduction <em>"for personal use such as individual study"</em>. It also notes that some N1 and N2 grammar and reading samples and all the listening audio files contain third-party works, whose reprint and reproduction is prohibited without permission outside the exceptions in that policy.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">The first rehearsal decides where weeks 2 and 3 go. These are our rules of thumb, not jlpt.jp's; the only official parts are the pass marks they protect. Because practice percentages are not scaled scores, judge "at risk" by your own sections against each other.</p>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Habits that cost marks in the last month</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Studying only the strongest section because the practice scores feel good there.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Marking practice papers out of 100 and reading the result as a JLPT score.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Never sitting a full first sitting in one go, so the reading section is met tired for the first time on 6 December.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Learning new grammar lists in the final three days instead of reviewing your own mistakes.</li></ul></div>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">One N2-style grammar question (our own)</h3><p style="margin:0 0 10px;line-height:1.6">Written by ProSyllabus in the "selecting grammar form" style. It is not from a JLPT paper or an official sample.</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:18px;line-height:1.8;color:#171d29" lang="ja">朝から強い雨が降っていた（　　　）、試合は予定どおり行われた。</p><ol style="margin:0 0 10px;padding-left:24px;line-height:1.9" lang="ja"><li>にもかかわらず</li><li>からには</li><li>ことなく</li><li>ついでに</li></ol><details style="margin:6px 0 0"><summary style="cursor:pointer;font-weight:700;color:#1f7a45">Show the answer</summary><p style="margin:10px 0 0;line-height:1.7"><strong>1. にもかかわらず</strong> ("even though, despite"): heavy rain had been falling since morning, yet the match went ahead as planned. The second half runs against what the first half leads you to expect, which is exactly what にもかかわらず marks. <span lang="ja">からには</span> means "now that, since", which would make the rain a reason to hold the match. <span lang="ja">ことなく</span> ("without doing") follows the dictionary form of a verb, so it cannot follow <span lang="ja">降っていた</span>. <span lang="ja">ついでに</span> ("while you are at it") joins an extra action to a main one and makes no sense here.</p></details></div>

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<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Sources</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.jlpt.jp/e/guideline/results.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">jlpt.jp: Scoring Sections, Pass or Fail, Score Report (score ranges, overall and sectional pass marks)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.jlpt.jp/e/faq/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">jlpt.jp: FAQ (2026 dates, scaled scores, retakes, results, CEFR reference)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.jlpt.jp/e/guideline/testsections.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">jlpt.jp: Composition of Test Sections and Items (2026 dates, test times, item types by level)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://info.jees-jlpt.jp/info/2026-2jisshiannnai.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">JEES: Guidelines for the JLPT in 2026 (December) (in Japan), 14 Jul 2026: room opening, start times, section times, vouchers, results</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://mosai.org.in/examination-and-contest/jlpt-december-2026" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">MOSAI (local host institution, New Delhi): JLPT December-2026 (registration closed; admit cards in November; N1 and N2 in the morning session)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.jlpt.jp/e/samples/sampleindex.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">jlpt.jp: Sample questions and Official Practice Workbooks (one sample per item type; third-party copyright notes)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.jlpt.jp/e/policy.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">jlpt.jp: Site Policy, 1. Copyright (personal study use; other uses need permission)</a></li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472"><strong style="color:#1f7a45">official</strong> = a document published by the conducting body. <strong style="color:#8a5300">reported</strong> = a news or coaching site we could not check against an original. Where sources disagree this page says so rather than picking one.</p></div>

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Thirty days from 6 November to the JLPT on 6 December 2026. A section-first plan built on the 19-point rule, two full timed rehearsals, and one free N2-style grammar question.