AFCAT Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2022 - Download PDF

AFCAT Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2022 – Download PDF

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AFCAT Syllabus & Exam Pattern for AFCAT 2022 exam is discussed in this article. Indian Air Force conducts Air Force Common Admission Test (AFCAT), for employment of aspirants into Flying (Short Service Commission only), Technical (Permanent and Short Service Commission) and Ground Duty (Permanent and Short Service Commission) Branches. The AFCAT is generally conducted twice a year. The test is designed to assess the understanding level of concepts and intelligence of the aspirant. Aspirants can check the Exam Pattern and Syllabus of AFCAT 2022 here.

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AFCAT Exam Pattern 2022

The AFCAT exam consists of Reasoning, General Aptitude, General Awareness , Verbal Ability and Military Aptitude. Candidates can check the Exam Pattern of AFCAT in the following table.

Exam	EKT (only for technical)	AFCAT
Mode of Exam	Online	Online
No. of Questions	50	100
Maximum Marks	150	300
Duration of Exam	45 minutes	2 hours (120 minutes)
Sections in Paper	Mechanical, Computer Science and Electrical & Electronics	General Awareness, Verbal Ability in English, Numerical Ability and Reasoning and Military Aptitude Test
Negative Marking	1 mark	1 mark

For all the aspirants of the AFCAT recruitment, it is mandatory to appear in the written test. Also, the examine who have applied for the technical posts need to appear in EKT or the Engineering Knowledge Test .

Important Points:

Total Time Duration: 2 hours

Number of Questions: 100

Marking Criteria: +3 for each correct answer

Negative Marking: -1 for each incorrect answer

No marks for unattended questions.

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AFCAT Syllabus 2022

Here we are discussing the AFCAT syllabus plan for all topics, namely Numerical Reasoning skills, General Awareness, English and Military Aptitude Test.

General Knowledge Segment

This segment consists of questions from history, politics, economics, geography, physics, chemistry, biology, and present-day India. The difficulty level of this segment is easy to medium.
This segment assesses aspirant’s general knowledge. The exam is based on current and ongoing events in various fields around the world. There are around 20 questions asked in this segment.
The main topics covered in this segment are as follows:
History
Sports
Geography
Art and Culture
Present
Politics
Citizenship
Environment
Defense
Basic Studies

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Reasoning Segment

To prepare for this segment, all you need to do is practice as much as you can.
Solve as many questions from the previous year of AFCAT and practice mock tests.
Questions about verbal reasoning, military suitability, series, Venn diagram, syllogism, consanguinity, non-verbal questions etc. are asked.

Quantitative Aptitude Segment

The questions asked in the AFCAT math segment range from easy to moderate and the questions would be formulated from the time, distance and speed, numerical system, HCF and LCM, time and work, Ratio and Proportion, Pipes and Cistern,Percentage, Average, Simple Interest, and Compound Interest, etc.
Numerical Skills segment is to test the not only the student’s knowledge, but also his/her speed, and accuracy in solving numerical problems.
Basic math topics are covered in this segment. The important topics in this segment are:
Decimal and Fraction
Simple Interest and Compound Interest
Time and Distance (Problems on Trains / Boats and Streams)
Percentage
Ratio and Proportion
Time and Labor
Average
Profits and Losses