Indian
Air Force AFCAT 02/2022 Exam Syllabus
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Selection Procedure for AFCAT:
If you have successfully
cleared Step 1, you will receive a Call letter to report to any one of the Air
Force Selection Boards located at Dehradun, Varanasi, Gandhinagar and Mysuru.
At the Air Force Selection Board (AFSB), you undergo following tests in order
to ascertain your suitability and gauge your potential as an Officer in the
Indian Air Force.
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1. AFCAT Written Examination, Practice Test |
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2. Air Force Selection Board (AFSB): Candidates who have qualified in the written exam are required to
choose AFSB date and venue by themselves on the website
https://careerindianairforce.cdac.in or https://afcat.cdac.in in order to
generate call- up letter for AFSB interview For AFCAT entry, IAF shall prepare a list of candidates who obtain the
minimum qualifying marks in the Online AFCAT as fixed by the IAF in their
discretion. Candidates who are declared successful in the Online AFCAT will
be called at one of the Air Force Selection Boards. Candidates who have
applied for NCC Special Entry will be directly called for AFSB testing at one
of the AFSB centres. The AFSB centres are at Dehradun (1 AFSB), Mysuru (2
AFSB), Gandhinagar (3 AFSB), Varanasi (4 AFSB) and Guwahati (5 AFSB).
Candidates who opt for flying branch can only opt for Dehradun, Mysore and
Varanasi. The testing
at AFSB would consist of three stages as given below:- (i) Stage-I. Officer Intelligence Rating Test along with Picture
Perception and discussion test will be conducted on the first day. Stage-I
test is a screening test and only those who qualify would undergo subsequent
testing. All Stage-I qualified candidates would be subjected to document
check to ascertain their eligibility for the branches applied for. Candidates
who either do not qualify in Stage-I or do not meet the required eligibility
criteria would be sent back on the first day itself. (ii) Stage-II. Psychological test will be conducted on Day 1(Afternoon)
and the Group Tests and Interview would commence after document check for the
next five days. (iii) For Flying Branch. Computerised Pilot Selection System (CPSS)
would be administered to recommended candidates only. This is once in a
lifetime test. Candidates who have failed the CPSS/ PABT in an earlier
attempt or a Flight Cadet suspended from flying training at Air Force Academy
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3. Final Merit List |
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For AFCAT Candidates Only: On 10 Aug 22 (1700 hrs) onwards click
“DOWNLOAD ADMIT CARD” to download your Admit Card from the website
https://afcat.cdac.in and you will also receive admit card on your registered
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(a). Scheme of
Online Examination: All applicants whose
applications are submitted by due date will be called for AFCAT at one of the
examination centres on either 26 Aug 22 (Friday), 27 Aug 22 (Saturday) and 28
Aug 22 (Sunday). It is mandatory for the candidates opting for Ground Duty
(Technical) branch to appear in both AFCAT as well as Engineering Knowledge
Test (EKT).
i. Exam
Schedule:
The AFCAT (and EKT) will be conducted in three
days as per the following schedule:-
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Note:
Candidates will not be permitted to enter the exam centre, under any
circumstance, after the pre-exam verification process has commenced at 07:30
hrs for shift-I and 12:30 hrs for shift-II.
ii. Syllabus: The subjects, the time allowed and the maximum marks allotted to each subject
will be as follows:-
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Exam |
Subject |
Duration |
No. of Questions |
Max Marks |
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AFCAT |
General Awareness, Verbal Ability in English, Numerical Ability and
Reasoning and Military Aptitude Test |
02 Hours |
100 |
300 |
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EKT [For Candidates with one of the choices as (Technical) Branch] |
Mechanical, Computer Science and Electrical & Electronics |
45 Minutes |
50 |
150 |
(iii)
The Online examination will consist of objective type questions and will be in
English only for both AFCAT and EKT.
(iv)
Marking Scheme is as follows:-
(aa)
Three marks will be awarded for every correct answer.
(ab)
One mark will be deducted for every incorrect answer.
(ac)
No marks for unattempted questions.
(v)
Questions will be based on the metric system of Weights & Measures wherever
applicable.
(vi)
Candidates are required to appear for the Online AFCAT in person. Under no
circumstance will any scribe or another candidate be allowed to appear/ assist
in the exam.
(vii)
Air Force has the discretion to fix qualifying marks in any or all the subjects
of the examination.
(b). Standard
and Syllabus of the Examination:
(i) Syllabus:
(aa)
English. Comprehension, Detect Error in Sentence, Sentence Completion/ Filling
in of correct word, Synonym/ Antonym, Cloze Test or Fill in the Gaps in a
paragraph, Idioms and Phrases, Analogy, Sentence Rearranging, Substitution in a
Sentence/ One Word Substitution.
(ab)
General Awareness. History, Geography, Sports, National & International
Organisations, Art & Culture, Personalities, Environment & Ecology,
Indian Polity, Economy, Basic Science Based Knowledge, Science &
Technology, Current Affairs (National & International), Defence.
(ac)
Numerical Ability. Decimal Fraction, Time and Work, Average/ Percentage, Profit
& Loss, Ratio & Proportion, Simple and Compound Interest, Time &
Distance and Races (Trains/ Boats & Streams), Area and Perimeter,
Probability, Number System & Number Series, Mixture & Allegation Rules,
Clocks.
(ad)
Reasoning and Military Aptitude Test. Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning
(ii) Standard: The standard of Numerical Ability Questions will be of Matriculation
level. The standard of questions in other subjects will be of graduation level
(Indian University).
(c) Practice
Test: An online Practice Test (for AFCAT
& EKT) is available on the IAF website https://careerindianairforce.cdac.in
or https://afcat.cdac.in.
Examination
Cities for AFCAT 02/2022: Agartala, Agra,
Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Ajmer, Allahabad/ Prayagraj, Alwar, Ambala, Aurangabad,
Bareilly, Bathinda, Belagavi, Bengaluru, Berhampur (Odisha), Bhagalpur, Bhilai,
Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Bhuj, Bikaner, Chandigarh, Chennai, Chapra, Coimbatore,
Delhi and NCR, Dhanbad, Dibrugarh, Dimapur, Diu, Durgapur, Faridabad,
Ganganagar, Gaya, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Guntur, Gurugram, Guwahati, Gwalior,
Haldwani, Hissar, Hyderabad, Imphal, Indore, Itanagar, Jabalpur, Jaipur,
Jalandhar, Jalpaigudi, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Jhansi, Jodhpur, Jorhat, Kannur,
Kanpur, Kochi, Kolhapur, Kolkata, Kota, Kurukshetra, Leh, Lucknow, Ludhiana,
Mangalore, Meerut, Mumbai, Muzzafarpur, Mysore, Nagpur, Nasik, Noida, Panaji,
Patiala, Patna, Port Blair, Puducherry, Pune, Rajahmundry, Rajkot, Ranchi,
Rourkee, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Shillong, Shimla, Silchar, Solapur, Srinagar,
Thane, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Tirunelveli, Tirupati, Udaipur, Vadodara,
Varanasi, Vellore, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Warangal.
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Indian Air
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