ACC Exam Syllabus 2021

The Army Cadet College (ACC) Wing at Indian Military Academy provides training to the soldier, airmen, and sailor s from the regular army, navy, and air force for commission as officers in the Indian Army. The ACC is also known as the Siachin battalion now.

The training at IMA is aimed at the optimum development of intellectual, moral and physical qualities essential for leadership in the profession of arms. Training at the IMA inculcates those qualities of mind and heart, patriotism, character, dynamism, initiative and understanding that are the very basis of leadership in war as well as in peace.

The Army Cadet College Wing headed by a Brigadier is the fifth Battalion of IMA located in Tons Campus. It consists of three Companies with three platoons each and an Academic Department headed by a Principal. The latter is organized into various departments under the Humanities and Science Streams and each department is being headed by a Professor / Associate Professor.

All About ACC Entry?

• The ACC exam is conducted 2 times every year.
• The age limits for ACC is 20-27 years.
• One must have minimum 02 years of service.
• For ACC entry you must have 10+2 or its equivalent as your educational qualification.
• Both married and unmarried soldiers can apply.
• You can avail maximum 03 chances for ACC entry.

ACC Exam Selection Procedure

• First of all, before applying for ACC, the jawan must have a good ACR.
• One must have a clean record without any disciplinary action.
• A unit-level written exam will be conducted by the CO/OC to find the potential soldiers who can go ahead for ACC entry.
• Candidates who clear the written exam will be interviewed by the senior officers for further screening and selected candidates’ documents will be forward to the higher formation.
• Selected candidates will be sent for a 10 Weeks class at Command HRDCs ( Human Resource Development Centers).
• The respective formations will be sending the names of the candidates and ACC exam will be conducted at Command HRDCs.
• The ACC exam is usually conducted near February and August for January and July courses respectively.
• The Result will be declared by DGMT/MT-15 -Director General of Military Training MT-15.
• A merit list of 500 candidates will be made who will face the SSB interview. (05 x 100 in each batch)
• These 500 candidates will go for a preliminary screening test similar to the actual SSB interview.
• After the screening test, 200 candidates will be selected to go for the Young Leaders Course (YLC) at OTA Chennai and the remaining candidates will go for Personality Development Training (PDT) at AEC Centre and Command HRDCs.
• The likely dates for the ACC SSB interview will be Sep- Nov for Jan Course and Jan-March for July Course.
• Candidates who clear the SSB interview and medical tests will be called to join the Indian Military Academy, ACC wing.
• The ACC training will be for 03 years after which 01 year training at IMA, Dehradun.

ACC Exam Syllabus

• Paper 1 – GMAT
• Paper 2 – CGAT
• Paper 3 – ICE (Part 1 and 2)
• Paper 4 – ACT

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PAPER –I: GENERAL MENTAL  ABILITY TEST

General Mental Ability test (GMAT) paper will be aimed at testing the candidate’s intellectual ability.This paper have two types of questions – Argument and data Sufficiency. There will be 150 objective type questions of two marks each. The paper will consists of three sections:
1.    Reasoning Ability (Verbal): 75 questions: 150 Marks
2.    Non – verbal Reasoning: 15 questions: 30 Marks
3.    Numerical Ability: 60 questions: 120 Marks

PAPER – II: CURRENT GENERAL AWARENESS
Questions in this component will be aimed at testing the candidate’s General Awareness of the environment around him and its application to society. The syllabus designed to include test of mental ability, current general situational and military awareness. This will consists of 150 objective type questions of two marks each.

PAPER – III: INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH
Questions in this component will be designed to test the candidate’s understanding and knowledge of English language in particular the communicative skill. There will be two papers for Interactive Communicative English. Part I will consists of 120 objective type questions of one mark each for a duration of one hour. Part II will consist of descriptive type questions for 180 marks for a duration of two hours.

PAPER –IV: ACADEMIC CONTENT TEST
There will be only one paper covering Mathematics, General Science and Humanities. There will be a total of 150 objective type questions of 3 marks each Topics to be included in each paper and the distribution of marks will be as under:
1.    Section A: Mathematics: 50 Questions: 100 Marks
2.    Section B: General Science: 50 Questions:100 Marks
3.    Section C: Humanities: 50 Questions: 100 Marks

Mental ability test is the easiest of all the topics which can be learned through some practice, Learning English is a long process.

After going through the ACC exam syllabus you must have realize how vast the syllabus is, it is hard and hence device your plan accordingly , you need 3 to 4 months of constant practice. Daily one to one and a half hour of intense practice is more than enough to pass this exam.