AFCAT 1 Question Paper 2020

About this paper

This is the AFCAT-I (Air Force Common Admission Test) 2020 paper, printed as a solved paper with an answer grid and hints and solutions for most questions. It has 100 multiple-choice questions of three marks each, for a maximum of 300 marks in two hours, and one mark is deducted for every wrong answer. Questions 1–25 test English (double-blank sentence completion, error spotting, idioms, a short passage on hypnotherapy, synonyms, antonyms and a cloze passage), 26–50 general awareness, 51–82 verbal and non-verbal reasoning including odd figures, embedded figures and figure series, and 83–100 numerical ability. Several general-awareness items refer to events from 2016 to 2018.

Exam

AFCAT

Subject

AFCAT 1

Year

2020

Maximum marks

300

Time allowed

2 hours

Questions

100

Pages

12

Answers included

Yes

Paper pattern

• Questions 1–25

  75 marks

  English: sentence completion, error spotting, idioms, reading comprehension, synonyms, antonyms and a cloze passage, three marks each

• Questions 26–50

  75 marks

  General awareness: history, science, sports, awards, government schemes and computers, three marks each

• Questions 51–82

  96 marks

  Reasoning: analogies, coding, direction sense, calendars, syllogisms, odd figures, pattern completion, embedded figures and figure series, three marks each

• Questions 83–100

  54 marks

  Numerical ability: algebra, profit and loss, trains, time and work, interest, averages and boats and streams, three marks each

Topics covered

• Sentence completion and error spotting
• Idioms, synonyms and antonyms
• Reading comprehension and cloze test
• Indian national movement
• General science
• Sports, awards and government schemes
• Analogies and coding-decoding
• Direction sense and calendars
• Syllogisms and statement–assumption
• Non-verbal reasoning
• Profit and loss and simple interest
• Time, speed and distance

Questions from this paper

1. Who built the Vijay Stambha (Tower of Victory) in Chittorgarh?
2. At what temperature in degrees Celsius do the numerical values on the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales become equal?
3. Akbar is standing facing East. He walks 15 m, turns left and walks 25 m, turns right and walks 10 m, then turns right again and walks 25 m. How far is he from his original position?
4. The sum of two numbers is 24 and their product is 143. What is the sum of their squares?
5. A boat goes 40 km upstream in 8 h and 36 km downstream in 6 h. What is the speed of the boat in still water?
6. Choose the word opposite in meaning to 'Compassionate'.