AFCAT Mock Tests, Syllabus & Complete Exam Guide

The Air Force Common Admission Test (AFCAT) is the Indian Air Force's entrance test for selecting officers into the Flying Branch and the Ground Duty (Technical and Non-Technical) branches. It is held twice a year and is the common gateway for graduates who want to be commissioned as officers, mostly under Short Service Commission, with Permanent Commission offered for some entries. Because it recruits commissioned officers rather than airmen, AFCAT is a graduate-level test with its own aptitude and personality assessment stages.

The written paper has 100 questions for 300 marks in 2 hours, spread across four sections — General Awareness, Verbal Ability in English, Numerical Ability, and the Reasoning & Military Aptitude Test. Candidates for technical branches also sit the Engineering Knowledge Test (EKT) right after. Clearing the written stage takes you to the Air Force Selection Board (AFSB), which runs the interview, psychological and group tasks, the Pilot Aptitude Battery Test for flying aspirants, and a medical — the stages that ultimately decide selection.

AFCAT rewards balanced preparation across all four sections and, crucially, speed with accuracy under a 2-hour clock. Numerical Ability and Reasoning are the most scoreable — drill percentage, ratio, average, profit & loss, interest, time-work, time-distance, analogy, series, coding and spatial reasoning until they are quick and automatic. General Awareness is high-return and stable when you build static GK — history, polity, geography, defence, sports and basic science — steadily rather than cramming.

Verbal Ability rewards clean grammar, a working vocabulary and quick comprehension, so practise error spotting, synonyms/antonyms, cloze passages and short reading sets. Because every wrong answer costs a mark, attempt with discipline: solve what you know, eliminate before guessing, and skip what you genuinely cannot judge. Full-length timed mocks build the stamina and section balance the paper demands, and clearing the written test is only the start — the AFSB interview and, for pilots, the PABT reward genuine officer-like qualities that are best prepared for early.