AFCAT 2022 Model Paper

About this paper

This is AFCAT Model Question Paper-II, a practice paper for the Air Force Common Admission Test rather than a paper from an actual exam session. It has 100 multiple-choice questions of three marks each and a two-hour time limit, with one mark deducted for each wrong answer, and an answer key is given on the last page. Questions 1–29 cover English (idioms, a cloze passage on television, synonyms, antonyms, a passage on polar bears, phrases and spelling), 30–41 numerical ability, 42–65 general awareness, and 66–100 reasoning, from verbal analogies and Venn diagrams to figure series and figure analogies. Its current-affairs questions refer to 2014 events.

Exam

AFCAT

Subject

AFCAT Model Paper

Year

2022

Maximum marks

300

Time allowed

2 hours

Questions

100

Pages

9

Answers included

Yes

Paper pattern

• Questions 1–29

  87 marks

  English: idioms, cloze test, synonyms, antonyms, reading comprehension, phrases and spelling, three marks each

• Questions 30–41

  36 marks

  Numerical ability: time and work, boats and streams, interest, percentages, trains and averages, three marks each

• Questions 42–65

  72 marks

  General awareness: polity, books, defence, science, history and 2014 current affairs, three marks each

• Questions 66–100

  105 marks

  Reasoning: analogies, Venn diagrams, figure completion, figure series, odd word and odd figure out, and figure analogies, three marks each

Topics covered

• Idioms and phrases
• Cloze test and reading comprehension
• Synonyms, antonyms and spelling
• Time and work
• Boats and streams
• Interest, profit and percentages
• Indian polity
• Ancient and medieval Indian history
• Defence and missiles
• Current affairs 2014
• Analogies and Venn diagrams
• Non-verbal reasoning

Questions from this paper

1. A train travelling at a uniform speed clears a platform 200 m long in 10 seconds and passes a telegraph post in 5 seconds. What is the speed of the train?
2. A's salary is 20% lower than B's salary, which is 15% lower than C's salary. By what percentage is C's salary more than A's?
3. Who was the Congress President at the Madras Session of 1927, when it boycotted the Simon Commission?
4. Sir C. V. Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on which phenomenon of radiation?
5. Which is India's first long-range subsonic cruise missile?
6. Choose the word nearest in meaning to 'Intransigent'.