What are the best ways for preparing for the AFCAT?

AFCAT compared other competitive exams is quite easy, and with a little preparation or Good Knowledge Base on can easily Clear it.

Firstly, you need to clearly understand what is the SYLLABUS of AFCAT, and stick to it, as wandering around will waste you time.

following Scheme of Syllabus is taken fromCareer Air Force, and one can go here to download the PDF of Scheme of Syllabus and Examples of Question,http://careerairforce.nic.in/sho...

SCHEME OF SYLLABUS

The AFCAT Question Paper will have 100 questions. All questions will be of three marks each. For every correct answer the candidate will get three marks and for every wrong answer one mark will be deducted under negative marking. The total time allotted for the paper is two hours.

Each Question Paper will have questions from the following topics:-

General Awareness – History, Sports, Geography, Environment, Civics, Basic Science, Defence, Art, Culture, Current Affairs, Politics etc.

Verbal Ability in English – Comprehension, Error Detection, Sentence Completion, Synonyms, Antonyms and Testing of Vocabulary.

Numerical Ability – Decimal Fraction, Simplification, Average, Profit & loss, Percentage, Ratio & Proportion and Simple interest.

Reasoning and Military Aptitude Test – Verbal Skills and Spatial Ability.

Secondly, after understanding the syllabus, one need to see the pattern, as it will help you to understand where you can get more marks and also where you take calculated risk, depending upon your strong points.

For EKT, one needs to know basic of his/her engineering branch which they have chosen while filling the form. You can also refer to few previous year papers for the same. Following links can be used to see and download previous years EKT papers,

Mechanical Stream: -http://careerairforce.nic.in/sho...

Sample Questions:-

Q. A bar of length ‘L’ meters extended by ‘l’ mm under a tensile force of ‘P’. Then the strain produce in the bar is

(a) l/L

(b) 0.1 l/L

(c) 0.01 l/L

(d) 0.001 l/L

Q. A rod is enclosed centrally in a tube and the assembly is tightened by rigid washers. If the assembly is subjected to a compressive load, then

(a) rod is under compression

(b) tube is under compression

(c) both rod and tube are under compression

(d) tube is under tension and rod is under compression

Q. The shear force and bending moment are zero at the free end of a cantilever beam, if it carries a

(a) Point load at the free end

(b) Point load at the middle of its length

(c) Uniformly distributed load over the whole length

(d)None of the above

Electrical and Electronics Stream:-http://careerairforce.nic.in/sho...

Sample Questions:-

Q. _____is an active filter

(a) RC filter

(b) notch filter

(c) Butterworth filter

(d) band pass filter

Q. For transmission line load matching over a range of frequencies, it is best to use a

(a) Balun

(b) broadband directional coupler

(c) double stub

(d) single stub

Q. Emitter follower is used for

(a) reducing the gain

(b) increasing the distortion

(c) impedance matching

(d) none of these

Computer Science Stream : -http://careerairforce.nic.in/sho...

Sample Questions:-

Q. Which computer memory is volatile?

(a) RAM

(b) ROM

(c) EPROM

(d) PROM

Q. The computer code for the interchange of information between terminals is

(a) ASCII

(b) BCD

(c) EBCDIC

(d) All of these

Q. Which of the following is not a sequential storage device?

(a) Magnetic disk

(b) Magnetic tape

(c) Paper tape

(d) All of these

Answers : -http://careerairforce.nic.in/sho... , Kindly note that answers to the sample questions mentioned above is not included.

Thirdly, One needs to practice, to increase your problem solving speed, also it gives you an idea about how you need to manage your time for various types of questions.

One can go to following links from Career Air Force for downloading question papers along with answers,

AFCAT 01/2015 :- AFCAT 01/2015 and EKT question paper along with answer key

AFCAT 02/2015 : - AFCAT 02/2015 and EKT 02/2015 question paper along with answer key

To tackle negative marking system in AFCAT exam, candidates need to attempt only those questions which they are sure of scoring. Candidates should cross check twice before tick marking their answer. After answering to those questions, one need to answer questions those he thinks 50 – 50 % correct. So here he will get 50 % of chances to get an answer correct. As the negative marking is fixed as -0.33 marks per wrong answer, attempting 50 – 50 % questions also make it worth to take chance with those type of questions.

A piece of free advice, kindly don’t take it too lightly, as competition is increasing day by day, even though clearing exams and AFSB, one doesn’t make it to merit list due to less marks, So always aim to score high, so that you land up in safer side.