With Centre for defense careers’ AFCAT online coaching, cracking the AFCAT examination is not an impossible task anymore. Once you have taken the decision to crack the exam, now, the only task is to study strategically and smartly. Additionally, focus more on the important topics and leave the rest of the least-asked section of the syllabus.
Generally, aspirants can prepare for the exam within 6-7 months (including entire syllabus multiple revisions). This article will provide you with all the necessary information (including Tips) required to crack the exam. No one can hold you back and the number of attempts doesn’t matter. Go get it.
What is AFCAT?
The Air Force Common Admission Test (AFCAT) is a national-level written examination organized by the Indian Air Force to select officers.
In total, there are three major branches of the AFCAT Exam viz. Flying branch, ground duty technical, and ground duty non-technical. Note: Students appearing for AFCAT Technical Branch, need to attempt 1 additional paper (of EKT paper) compared to aspirants from other branches.
The roles under the flying branch include Air Force pilot, ground duty (Technical) include Aeronautical Engineer Mechanical and aeronautical engineer electronics, and ground duty (Non-technical) include logistics, accounts branch, and administration.
Written exam pattern
The AFCAT online coaching helps you prepare for the AFCAT Main paper of 300 marks. The paper consists of questions from general awareness, verbal ability in English, Numerical Ability, Reasoning, and Military Aptitude tests. Additionally, the EKT paper which is a 150 marks paper consists of subjects of Mechanical, computer science, and Electrical & electronics.
Weight age-wise distribution
Based on the previous year’s AFCAT question paper analysis by Best AFCAT coaching in Mumbai, the General Awareness section consists of 25 questions, verbal ability in English 25 questions, numerical ability section consists of 18 questions, reasoning, and military aptitude consist of 32 questions respectively. With this in-depth overall weightage distribution, you get a basic idea of topics to focus on, so do your study smartly.
The mathematics sections covered by AFCAT classes in Mumbai in adherence to the exam syllabus include speed, time, and distance, time and work, profit, and loss, basic algebra, simplification, geometry and mensuration, ratio and proportion, percentage, number system, and average.
Cut off
In order to qualify and rank on the merit list, you have to score 180+ marks in the written exam. To achieve merit list cut-off, out of 70 questions you have to achieve 62 questions absolutely right at a minimum and get only 5 questions wrong at maximum. According to the Best AFCAT Coaching in Mumbai, the cut-off for qualifying AFCAT tends to hover between 130 marks to 160 marks (within the last 3 years).
Few more points
General knowledge (Awareness) majorly consists of 25 questions from geography, economy, science, history, and other subjects. On the other hand, the current affairs section only consists of 5-6 questions. Most aspirants spend more time on the current affairs section, which is not recommended by expert mentors at our AFCAT online coaching.
The reasoning section is one of the easiest sections where most aspirants can boost their scores within less time. It is important to score 30 out of 32 correct in the reasoning section to increase your chances of selection.
No matter which AFCAT online coaching you have subscribed to, revision (prior to the exam) is key to success in any competitive exam. Revision help aspirants recall each and every topic just before the exam.
Apart from that, mentors at our AFCAT classes in Mumbai help aspirants prepare for SSB interviews by implementing Officer qualities at the grassroots level.
Finally,
The center for Defence careers offers the Best AFCAT Coaching in Mumbai, where our expert mentors equip students with the necessary theoretical knowledge required for (Indian Air Force) written and physical examinations. Regular classroom sessions, field, and quiz sessions are part of our coaching approach strictly followed at our AFCAT classes in Mumbai
