The Indian Air Force Academy (IAF) conducts the Air Force Common Admission Test (AFCAT) in order to recruit candidates for the Indian Air Force as permanent or short service commissioned officer in flying branch, technical branch and ground duty branches. AFCAT is conducted twice a year.
Exam syllabus
General Awareness— History, Sports, Geography, Environment, Civics, Basic Science, Defence, Art, Culture, Current Affairs, Politics etc
Verbal Ability in English— comprehension, error detection, sentence completion, synonyms, antonyms and testing of vocabulary.
Numerical Ability— Decimal fraction, simplification, average, profit and loss, percentage, ratio and proportion and simple interest.
Reasoning and military aptitude test
Verbal skills and spatial ability.
Exam pattern
The AFCAT exam question paper will have total 100 questions. The total time allotted the AFCAT exam is two hours.
There is negative marking. Each question carries three marks and for a wrong answer, 1 mark is deducted.
Selection procedure
The selection procedure for AFCAT exam is on the basis of AFCAT exam, intelligence test, psychological test, group test and interview and Pilot Aptitude Battery Test (PABT).
Important dates
The exam is scheduled to be held on August 24, 2014. The AFCAT exam result will be announced on the third week of September 2014.