AFCAT 2 2020 Notification, Exam Date, Question Paper, Cut Off

Many defence aspirants are asking for the AFCAT 2 2020 notification and the likely date of the exam so that they can prepare for it. Candidates who are waiting for the AFCAT 2 2020 exam date and notification can apply for AFCAT 2 2020 from 15 June 2020 till 14 July 2020. The Indian air force will be publishing the AFCAT 2 2020 notification in June 2020. Online examination will be conducted on 19 Sep 2020 and 20 Sep 2020. Candidates who are studying in final year can also apply for AFCAT 2 2020 if they meet other eligibility criteria. One can apply for the flying, technical and non-technical branches of the Indian airforce through the AFCAT entry. Candidates who are interested in AFCAT 2020 can find more details related to AFCAT 2 2020 below. Indian Air Force is going to publish the AFCAT 2 2020 notification in June 2020 and the exam will be conducted in Aug 2020. Aspirants who want to join the Indian air force flying branch, technical branch and GDOC, can apply for AFCAT 2 2020 in June this year. The AFCAT 2 2020 is the best way to join the Indian air force and it is conducted only by CDAC on behalf of Indian Air Force across many online exam centers.

How To Prepare For AFCAT Exam Online

• Serious defence aspirants can join our full AFCAT online course, the course is specially designed for the AFCAT aspirants that will help them to score better marks in the AFCAT 2020 exam.
• Our AFCAT 2020 Online course covers the detailed syllabus for Numerical Ability, English, GK, Reasoning and Military Aptitude for the online exam. It also covers AFCAT mock tests for better practice.

AFCAT Events	AFCAT 2 2020
AFCAT Notification Date	15 June 2020
AFCAT Online Application Date	15 June 2020
AFCAT Application Last date	14 July 2020
AFCAT Admit Card date	August 2020
AFCAT Exam date	19 Sep 2020 and 20 Sep 2020
AFCAT  Result date declaration	October 2020

AFCAT 2 2020 Branch And Course Number

• Flying – (210/24F/SSC/M & W)
• Ground Duty Technical – 209/24T/PC/ M and 209/24T/ SSC/M & W
• Ground Duty Non-Technical – 209/24G/ PC/M and 209/24G/ SSC/M & W

AFCAT 2 2020 Exam Age Limit

• Flying

Age – Flying Branch. 20 to 24 years as on 01 July 2021 i.e. born between 02 July 1997 to 01 July 2001. (both dates inclusive). Upper age limit for candidates holding valid and current Commercial Pilot Licence issued by DGCA (India) is relaxable up to 26 years i.e. born between 02 July 1995 to 01 July 2001 (both dates inclusive).

Educational Qualification

–    A graduate candidate with minimum 60% marks and must have scored minimum 60%marks in Maths and Physics in 10+2 in 12th standard.

–    B.Tech/ B.E candidates who have scored minimum 60% marks and have scored 60% marks in maths and physics in 10+2 in 12th standard are also eligible for it.

• Ground Duty Technical

Age – 20 to 26 years as on 01 July 2021 i.e. born between 02 July 1995 to 01 July 2001 (both dates inclusive).

Educational Qualification – The candidate must have B.Tech/ B.E degree in notified streams as mentioned in the official notification of the IAF with minimum 60% marks and have scored minimum 60% marks in Physics and Maths in 10+2 standard are eligible for technical entry.

• Ground Duty Non-Technical

Age – 20 to 26 years as on 01 July 2021 i.e. born between 02 July 1995 to 01 July 2001 (both dates inclusive).

AFCAT 2 2020 Selection Procedure

• Indian airforce will conduct the AFCAT online exam across the country at different test centres. AFCAT 2 2020 online exam will be conducted in Aug 2020.
• IAF will publish the results of AFCAT 2 2020 in Sep 2020 and candidates will be able to check their marks, cut off marks etc on the official portal i.e. afcat.cdac.in
• Selected candidates have to choose their AFSB interview venue and date on the same portal.
• The screening test is the first stage of the interview, which consists of verbal, nonverbal tests and a PPDT test. The selected candidates will stay at the centres for further selection tests and those who could not qualify it, would be set free on the same day.
• The next stage consists of a personal interview, Psychology and GTO tests, PABT (for flying only), on the last day conference will be conducted after which, the final result is announced. The selected candidates are sent for medical examination.

AFCAT 2 2020 Syllabus

1. General Awareness: History, Sports, Geography, Environment, Culture, Current Affairs, Politics, Civics, Basic Sciences, Defence, Art etc.
2. Verbal Ability in English: Comprehension, Error Detection, Synonyms, Antonyms, and Testing of Vocabulary, Sentence Completion etc.
3. Numerical Ability: Decimal Fraction, Simplification, Average, Percentage, Ratio & Proportion, and Simple Interest, Profit & Loss
4. Reasoning and Military Aptitude Test section: Verbal Skills and Spatial Ability.

AFCAT 2 2020 Exam Pattern

The Air Force Common Admission Test will consist of 100 questions and each question will be of three marks. So total marks for all questions will be 300. As far as negative marking is concerned, there is one-third negative marking in AFCAT 2 2020 exam. For every wrong answer, 1 mark will be deducted as penalty.

Syllabus of the AFCAT 2 2020

• English: Comprehension, Error Detection, Sentence Completion/Filling in of correct word, Synonyms, Antonyms and Testing of Vocabulary, Idioms and Phrases
• General Awareness: History, Geography, Civics, Politics, Current Affairs, Environment, Basic Science, Defence, Art, Culture, Sports, etc
• Numerical Ability: Decimal Fraction, Time and Work, Average, Profit & Loss, Percentage, Ratio & Proportion and Simple Interest, Time & Distance (Trains/Boats & Streams)
• Reasoning and Military Aptitude Test: Verbal Skills and Spatial Ability

(a) General Awareness

• History
• Sports
• Geography
• Environment
• Civics
• Basic Science
• Defence
• Art
• Culture
• Current Affairs
• Politics

(b) Verbal Ability in English

• Comprehension
• Error Detection
• Sentence Completion
• Synonyms
• Antonyms
• Testing of Vocabulary

(c) Numerical Ability  

• Decimal Fraction
• Simplification
• Average
• Profit & loss
• Percentage
• Ratio & Proportion
• Simple Interest

(d) Reasoning and Military Aptitude Test 

• Verbal Skills
• Spatial Ability

AFCAT 2 2020 Exam Timing and Shift

Scheme of Online Examination. All applicants whose applications are submitted by due date will be called for AFCAT at one of the examination centres on either 19 Sep 2020 (Saturday) or 20 Sep 2020 (Sunday). It is mandatory for the candidates opting for Ground Duty (Technical) branch to appear in both AFCAT as well as Engineering Knowledge Test (EKT).

Exam Schedule. The AFCAT (and EKT) will be conducted in two days as per the following schedule:

Note: Candidates will not be permitted to enter the exam centre, under any circumstance, after the pre-exam verification process has commenced at 08:00 hrs for shift-I and 12:30 hrs for shift-II.

Syllabus: The subjects, the time allowed and the maximum marks allotted to each subject will be as follows

Locations for AFCAT 02/2020: Agartala, Agra, Ajmer, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Alwar, Aligarh, Allahabad, Amritsar, Aurangabad, Bareilly, Behrampur (Odisha), Belagavi, Bengaluru, Bhagalpur, Bhilai, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Bikaner, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Delhi and NCR, Dhanbad, Diu, Dibrugarh, Durgapur, Faridabad, Ganganagar, Gaya, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Guntur, Guwahati, Gwalior, Haldwani, Hissar, Hyderabad, Imphal, Indore, Itanagar, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Jalpaigudi, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Jhansi, Jodhpur, Jorhat, Kannur, Kanpur, Kochi, Kohima, Kolhapur, Kolkata, Kota, Kurukshetra, Leh, Lucknow, Madurai, Mangalore, Mathura, Meerut, Mumbai, Mysore, Nagpur, Nasik, Noida, Panaji, Pathankot, Patna, Port Blair, Puducherry, Pune, Rajkot, Ranchi, Shillong, Shimla, Silchar, Srinagar, Thane, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Tirunelveli, Tirupati, Udaipur, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vellore, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Warangal.

Allotment of Centres: As far as possible, candidates will be allotted centres as per their choice. Candidates should note that no request for change of centre/ date/ slot will be entertained. Therefore candidates should exercise due care before deciding date/ slot of his/ her choice for the centre for the examination before filling the form.

Air Force Selection Board (AFSB): (a) For AFCAT entry, IAF shall prepare a list of candidates who obtain the minimum qualifying marks in the Online AFCAT as fixed by the IAF in their discretion. Candidates who are declared successful in the Online AFCAT will be called at one of the Air Force Selection Boards. Candidates who have applied for NCC Special Entry/Meteorology will be directly called for AFSB testing at one of the AFSB centres. The AFSB centres are at Dehradun (1 AFSB), Mysuru (2 AFSB), Gandhinagar (3 AFSB) and Varanasi (4 AFSB). Candidates who opt for flying branch can only opt for Dehradun, Mysore and Varanasi. Candidates who have qualified in the written exam are required to choose AFSB date and venue by themselves on the website https://careerindianairforce.cdac.in or https://afcat.cdac.in in order to generate call- up letter for AFSB interview.