AFCAT 2 2017 Exam Date Age Educational Qualification and Exam Pattern

AFCAT 2 2017 Notification is expected to be released in 1st week of June 2017 and the written exam of AFCAT 2 2017 is expected to  to be held on the last Sunday of August 2017. The results for AFCAT 2 2017 can be expected by end of Sep 2017. SSBCracK Exams will release notification as soon as the IAF release it officially.

AFCAT 2 2017 Exam Date Age Educational Qualification and Exam Pattern

• Date of Notification: June 2017
• Start of receipt of applications: June 2017
• Last date for the receipt of applications: June/July 2017
• Date of Exam:  Aug  2017
• Expected date of result: Sep 2017

How to Apply: Online only, from the career website of IAF (www.careerairforce.nic.in)

What Posts you can apply for: You can apply based on your age and educational qualification for the post of commissioned officers in the Flying, Ground Duty and Technical Branches of Indian Air Force.

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 2 2017 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.