November 2014

Air Force Combined Admission Test, commonly known as AFCAT is a defence admission test that is conducted by the Indian Air Force twice every year for recruitment of graduates to the Short Service Commission program in Flying Branch and Permanent/Short Service Commission in Technical and Ground Duty Branches of the Air Force. The post and course are detailed by following titles

Flying Branch:

No. 12 Short Service Commission (12 SSC) Course

Technical Branch:

No. 83 Aeronautical Engineers (83 AEC) Course (Permanent Commission)
No. 55 Short Service Commission (55 SSC) Course

Ground Duty Branches:

No. 134 Ground Duty Officers (134 GDOC) Course (Permanent Commission)
No. 27 Short Service Commission (27 SSC) Course

Eligibility criteria

1. Flying Branch

Education: Candidate must have a Bachelor’s degree with at least 60% marks from a recognized University or Bachelor of Engineering / Bachelor of Technology with 60% marks. Candidate must have Maths and Physics as compulsory subjects in 12th class examination.
Age: 19 to 23 years

2. Technical Branch

Education: BE/B.Tech degree in valid branch of engineering
Age: 18 to 28 years

3. Ground Duty

Education: Graduate degree
Age: different for different posts

AFCAT Exam syllabus and pattern

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 & loss, Percentage, Ratio & Proportion and Simple interest.
Reasoning and Military Aptitude Test - Verbal Skills and Spatial Ability

The AFCAT Question Paper will have 100 questions carrying 3 marks each.

Candidates who qualifying in the AFCAT Written test will be called for next phase of selection process divided into three stages ie.