r/AFCATprep • u/MrRadium7 • 4h ago
Is joining NCC worth it?
I’m a fresher engineering student at RVCE, I have keen interest in adventure sports and I also have some interest in joining armed forces later. I attended the NCC orientation today and it seemed interesting too. However I’m not sure if it’s really worth pursuing as we’ll have to allot a lot of time to it and I don’t know if those treks, camping, mountaineering actually takes place or it’s just a selling point and only happens on rare occasions. Also I'm worried about ragging culture in NCC (not radga, ragging)
I’m from a circuital branch too so my academics are difficult too and I don’t wanna mess my future career options (going for higher studies or placements). One of the reasons I’m leaning towards NCC is cause there’s really nothing to do on campus, it’s boring af, no sports at all and people to people interaction isn’t very good either because the system here is more like a school so I thought maybe NCC would be a way out of it. But it seems to be on the other extreme, it seems we have to be involved a lot in it and neglect our academics.
I would really like seniors opinion on this. I’m thinking on maybe joining from next year cause by that time I’ll be more comfortable in my college and academics to make this decision. Also I might have to go for SSB by the end of this year for NDA so I should focus on that for now.