AFCAT 2020 Recruitment, Exam Details, Notifications, Syllabus and Application Process

IAF or we can say Indian Air Force is one of the biggest departments of the country. IAF founded on 8th Oct 1932 and headquartered in New Delhi, India. IAF is owned by Government of India and IAF has declared the AFCAT 2018 Recruitment process, through that they will hire candidates via an AFCAT 2018 exam for the post of Flying Officer, Ground Duty (Non-Technical), Ground Duty (Technical). It is stated that the hiring process will take place soon and the notifications and the selection process will be updated on AFCAT 2018 Official Site. Here are the complete details about this exam.

AFCAT 2018 Notification:

IAF has released the official announcement and as per the sources, it is determined that they will serve jobs for Flying Officer, Ground Duty (Technical), Ground Duty (Non-Technical) in coming months. Have a look at the AFCAT 2018 News and AFCAT 2018 Notification from the AFCAT Exam board.

AFCAT 2018 Exam Details in Nutshell:

Details of AFCAT Recruitment 2018

Name of Exam

AFCAT Exam 2018

Name of Organizer

IAF (Indian Air Force)

Mode of Exam

Online

Post Name

Flying Officer, Ground Duty (Technical), Ground Duty (Non-Technical)

Official Site

careerindianairforce.cdac.in

AFCAT 2018 Important Dates

AFCAT 2018 Online Application Starting

16th June 2018

AFCAT 2018 Notification Release

30th May 2018

AFCAT Exam Last Date to Apply

15th July 2018

AFCAT Exam Date

18th and 19th August 2018

AFCAT (II) 2018 Supplementary Exam for Kerala

22nd & 23rd Sept 2018

AFCAT 2018 Result

9th September 2018

AFCAT 2018 Eligibility

Educational Criteria

For Flying Branch- Candidate must have a graduate in any discipline with Physics and Mathematics at 10+2 level or B.E/B. Tech with minimum 60% marks.

 

For Ground Duty (Non-Technical) - Candidates must have graduation level degree any discipline with minimum 60% marks and obtain 60% marks in Section A & B examination of Aeronautical Society of India or Associate Membership of Institute Engineers (India).

 

For Ground Duty (Technical) - Candidates must have a graduate level degree in any discipline with Physics and Mathematics at 10+2 level with minimum 60% marks.

Age Criteria

For Flying Branch – 20 years to 24 years

For Ground Duty – 20 years to 26 years

AFCAT 2018 Exam Selection Procedure

First Phase

Officer Intelligence Rating Test, Picture Perception & Discussion Test

Second Phase

Psychological Test, Group Test for Checking Interactive Ability & Personal Conversation with Interviewing Officer

Third Phase

Medical Test

AFCAT 2018 Important Links

AFCAT Official Site

Read Here

AFCAT II 2018 Advertisement

Read Here

 

AFCAT 2018 Application Fee:

IAF has announced the fee structure for AFCAT 2018. Here we want to describe that according to the rules the candidate that belongs to Meteorology and NCC Special Entry are exempted from the application fee. The fee structure for candidates from all other categories is INR 250 as the AFCAT 2018 Application Fee. It is facilitated by IAF that you can pay the application fee through both the methods online and offline through credit or debit cards, pay-in-slip, and e-challan.

Category

Application Fee

All Categories

INR 250

Meteorology and NCC Special Entry Candidates

Nil

 

AFCAT 2018 Application Form:

After the official announcement of the AFCAT 2018 exam, you will be able to fill the AFCAT Application Form 2018 from the official site of IAF. Before filling the form read the instructions and terms & conditions to avoid any kind of error or mistake. To fill the application form just follows these below steps.

  1. Explore the official IAF Site: afcat.cdac.in
  2. Click on the button stated What’s New
  3. Select the form to fill that
  4. Now you will be able to see the application form
  5. Fill the form carefully according to your preferences
  6. Fill up the remaining information carefully
  7. Upload the documents, signature, and photograph through the scanner and submit that
  8. Now submit the form and make the payment through one of the procedures including credit/debit card, net banking, pay-in-slip or e-challan
  9. You can take the print out for the further use

AFCAT 2018 Eligibility:

Indian Air Force announces jobs for Flying Officer, Ground Duty (Technical), Ground Duty (Non-Technical). So the AFCAT Eligibility differs according to the post and requirements. Here are the eligibility criteria according to the posts:

Requirements :

Age Limit

Educational Criteria

Nationality

For Flying Branch – 20 years to 24 years

For Ground Duty – 20 years to 26 years

For Flying Branch- Candidate must have a graduate in any discipline with Physics and Mathematics at 10+2 level or B.E/B. Tech with minimum 60% marks.

 

For Ground Duty (Non-Technical) - Candidates must have graduation level degree any discipline with minimum 60% marks and obtain 60% marks in Section A & B examination of Aeronautical Society of India or Associate Membership of Institute Engineers (India).

 

For Ground Duty (Technical) - Candidates must have a graduate level degree in any discipline with Physics and Mathematics at 10+2 level with minimum 60% marks.

Citizen of India

 

AFCAT 2018 Exam Pattern:

IAF will conduct this exam as follows:

AFCAT 2018 Exam Pattern:

Paper Name

No. of Questions

Marks

Time

General Awareness

20

60

120 Minutes

Quantitative Ability

20

60

Verbal Ability

20

60

Military Aptitude Test

20

60

Logical Reasoning

20

60

Total

100

300

 

EKT Test (For Technical Ground Duty only)

50

150

45 Minutes

 

AFCAT 2018 Syllabus:

AFCAT Syllabus 2018 includes the subjects mentioned in the exam pattern of AFCAT 2018. The detailed Syllabus of AFCAT 2018 is mentioned below according to the subjects.

General Awareness:

“History, Geography, Sports, Civics, Environment, Defence, Basic Sciences, Culture, Art, Politics, Current Affairs, etc.”

Numerical Ability:

“Number Series, Simplification, Average, Ratio & Proportion, Profit & Loss, Simple Interest, Decimal Fraction, Percentage etc.”

Verbal Ability in English:

“English Comprehension, Vocabulary, Error Finding, Synonyms, Antonyms, Fill in the blanks, Jumbled Sentences, rearrangement of sentences etc.”

Reasoning and Military Aptitude Test:

“Verbal Skills and Spatial Ability.”

Staff Selection Board (SSB) Interviews:

Stage-I:

“Officer Intelligence Rating Test and Picture Perception and Discussion Test.”

Stage-II:

“Psychology Test, Written Exam, Group Test (Combination of Indoor and Outdoor Activities), and Interviews.”

AFCAT 2018 Salary:

As IAF has announced jobs in Flying officer, they also announced the AFCAT salary and perks accordingly. According to the department, the AFCAT 2018 Pay as per Defence Matrix will be INR 56100 – 110700 with Level 10 along with the MSP of INR 15500.

AFCAT 2018 Selection Process:

In the AFCAT 2018 Selection Procedure the process includes various stages and candidates should go through all of them one by one. Candidates must complete the first stage and have to move forward to the next ones. Here is the complete selection procedure for AFCAT 2018.

  1. First Stage Officer Intelligence Rating Test, Picture Perception & Discussion Test
  2. Second Stage Psychological Test, Group Test for Checking Interactive Ability & Personal Conversation with Interviewing Officer
  3. Medical Test
  4. Final Selection

AFCAT 2018 Cut Off:

Indian Air Force conducts this exam all over the nation and they declare the AFCAT cut off is announced by IAF according to the respected category, where candidate belongs to. AFCAT expected Cut off denotes the minimum marks for the selection of the candidate. They have to clear the cut off to get selected. After the examination, we will update the AFCAT 2018 Cut Off in this section according to the category. You can check out the AFCAT Cut off of previous years.

Exam Year         

AFCAT-II Cut Off

AFCAT-I Cut Off

2011

88

85

2012

143

135

2013

116

144

2014

123

128

2015

144

126

2016

148

132

2017

160

150

2018

-

-

 

AFCAT 2018 Admit Card:

IAF normally dispatch the admit card 10 days prior to the examination and you will be able to download the AFCAT Admit Card 2018 from the official IAF Website.

AFCAT Result 2018:

As per the AFCAT 2018 exam, the result will be declared within 2 to 3 months after the successful completion of the exam. The first stage will include the AFCAT Result 2018 and the second stage will include the AFCAT Result. If the candidate got selected into the written exam of AFCAT then he will be eligible to attend the Interview and Medical Test and after successful completion of the examination, the IAF will announce the AFCAT Result Date. AFCAT Final Result will be declared soon, please visit the site on the regular basis for the AFCAT Update.

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