If you are a graduate degree holder or a graduate final year student and wants to join Indian Air Force as an commissioned officer then AFCAT (Air Force Common Admission Test) is your answer. AFCAT is an exam which can give you wings! For all of you who have the dream of working between the sprawling jets can turn this dream into reality. AFCAT was first conducted on 27 March 2012, Its a test conducted by IAF twice in a year. The written exam is followed by Air Force Selection Board Interview for shortlisted candidates.

AFCAT 1 2016 Notification and Exam Date [Expected]

AFCAT 1 2016 Notification is expected to be released in 1st week of December 2015 and the written exam of AFCAT 1 2016 is expected to  to be held on the last Sunday of February 2016. The results for AFCAT 1 2016 can be expected by end of March 2016. SSBCracK Exams will release notification as soon as the IAF release it officially.

Eligibility Criteria

• Flying Branch –Age should lay between to 23 years at the time of course commencement. The candidate must be a Graduate (Minimum three year degree course) in any discipline from a recognized University who have attained minimum 60% marks in aggregate in all papers put together and have passed Maths and Physics at 10+2 level OR BE / B Tech degree (Four year course) from a recognized University with minimum 60% marks in aggregate in all papers put together.
• Technical Branch- The age must lay between 18 to 28 years at the time of course commencement. For details on education candidates can refer to the advertisement.
• Ground Duty Branch-The age must lie between 20-23 years for Graduates, 20-25 years for Post Graduates, 20-26 years for LLB (Three year course after graduation) and 20-27 years for M.Ed/PhD/CA/ICWA. For details on education qualification you can refer to the official advertisement.

AFCAT 1 2016 Syllabus

1. General Awareness – History,Sports, Geography, Environment, Civics, Basic Science, Defence, Art, Culture, Current Affairs, Politics etc.

2. Verbal Ability in English – Comprehension, Error Detection, Sentence Completion, Synonyms, Antonyms and Testing of Vocabulary.

3. Numerical Ability – Decimal Fraction, Simplification, Average, Profit & loss, Percentage, Ratio & Proportion and Simple interest.

4. Reasoning and Military Aptitude Test – Verbal Skills and Spatial Ability

AFCAT exam details

The written exam is an exam of 2 hour duration. It consists of 100 questions and each question carries 3 marks. Thus for every correct answer a candidate gets 3 marks, for every wrong answer one mark is deducted and there is no marking for any question left blank. The paper consists a mix of variety of fields. There are questions from Current Affairs, Math, Reasoning, English, History, Geography, Science, Polity, Economics etc. After the written exam the results are declared and a cut off is fixed. Candidates scoring above the cutoff are called for AFSB interview. This interview is a personality test conducted for duration of 6 days. This personality test is conducted in two stages and consists of tests like Intelligence test, Psychological Tests, Group Tasks and personal interview.