Exam pattern and the reference books for the exam of Air Force Common Admission Test

I want to give the Air Force Common Admission Test and for that I want to get the details of exam pattern and the reference books for the exam of Air Force Common Admission Test so can you provide me that?

[Kiran Chandar]

As you want to get the exam pattern and the reference books for the exam of Air Force Common Admission Test so here it is for you:

Eligibility Criteria:
Candidates must have passed M. Sc (Applied Physics or Mathematics or Meteorology or Agricultural Meteorology etc) or MCA with securing atleast 50% marks.

Age Limit:
With respect to 1 Jan, 2015, the minimum age of the candidate should be 21yrs and maximum age should not be more than 25yrs. Age is relaxed by 2years for the candidates of reserved categories.

Important Dates:
Applications Receipt Deadline: 21 March, 2014
Applications Receipt Deadline for Remote Areas: 30 March, 2014
Training Session Starts On: 1st week, Jan, 2015.

Exam Pattern:
The entrance test will contain 100 multiple choice questions. All questions will be of three marks each.

Sr. No. Paper Sections Max. Questions Max. Marks Time Alloted
1 General Awareness History, Sports, Geography, Environment, Civics, Basic Science, 100 300 2 Hours
Defence, Art, Culture, Current Affairs, Politics etc.
2 Verbal Ability in English Comprehension, Error Detection, Sentence Completion,
Synonyms, Antonyms and Testing of Vocabulary
3 Numerical Ability Decimal Fraction, Simplification, Average, Profit & loss,
Percentage, Ratio & Proportion and Simple interest.
4 Reasoning and Military Verbal Skills and Spatial Ability
Aptitude Test

Reference Books:
Books for General Awareness
• Advance Objective General Knowledge by R. S. Aggarwal
• General Knowledge 2013: Essential ‘Knowledge Capsule’ in General Awareness and Current Affairs by Manohar Pandey
• General Knowledge and Current Affairs by RPH Editorial Board
• General Knowledge and Current Affairs: Objective Type Questions by Khanna and Verma
• General Knowledge at A Glance by RPH Editorial Board
• General Knowledge Digest and General Studies by K.Mohan
• General Knowledge Encyclopaedia by Alok Gupta
• General Knowledge Manual by Barry ‘O’ Brien
• Handbook of General Knowledge by B. N. Ahuja
• Objective General Knowledge by Tarun Goyal
• Objective General Knowledge by Edgar Thorpe and Showick Thorpe

Books for English
• A Comprehensive Book of English Grammar by Dr.B.B. Jain
• Better Word Power by Vimal Bhatnagar
• Complete English Grammar by S.C. Gupta
• English Is Easy by Chetananand Singh
• Objective English for Competitive Examinations by Hari Prasad and Uma Sinha
• Objective General English by R. S. Aggarwal
• Objective General English by S.P. Bakshi
• Quick Learning Objective General English by R. S. Aggarwal
• Synonyms and Antonyms by Ashok K. Singh
• Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis
• Wren and Martin English Grammar

Books for Numerical Ability
• Arithmetic for Competitive Examinations by Jain and Sharma
• Magical Book on Quicker Maths by M Tyra
• Numerical Ability and Mathematical Aptitude by Dr.A.B.Rao
• Objective Arithmetic by R. S. Aggarwal
• Quick Arithmetics by Ashish Aggarwal
• Quicker Objective Arithmetic by Dr. Lal & Jain
• Super Quicker Arithmetic by R.Gupta
• The Pearson Guide to Objective Arithmetic for Competitive Examinations by Dinesh Khattar

Books for Reasoning and Military Aptitude
• A Modern Approach to Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning by R.S. Aggarwal
• A Modern Approach to Verbal Reasoning by R.S.Aggarwal
• An Advanced Approach to Data Interpretation by R. S. Aggarwal
• Analytical Reasoning by M.K.Pandey
• Non Verbal Reasoning by Javed
• Non Verbal Reasoning by R.S. Aggarwal
• Quantitative Aptitude by R.S. Aggarwal
• Quantitative Aptitude by T.S. Jain
• Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations by Abhijit Guha
• The Aptitude Test Workbook by Jim Barrett