Airforce X Group Syllabus and Exam Pattern

Selection phases for the science stream

Every Agniveervayu intake follows the same three phase route, and only Phase I is a written test.

1. Phase I: online objective test at a centre in the city you choose while registering.
2. Phase II: held at an Airmen Selection Centre, it combines the fitness run and exercises, Adaptability Tests I and II, and a check of your documents.
3. Phase III: a medical board, only for candidates cleared in Phase II.

Under the Agnipath scheme, you join for a four year engagement as an Agniveervayu, after which a share of each batch may be offered regular service as per the policy in force.

Airforce X group exam pattern

Sections open in a fixed order. When one section's clock runs out, the next opens, and you cannot go back. Earlier intakes also kept the submit button inactive during the opening five minutes of every block.

If you register for both streams, the test gains a Reasoning and General Awareness (RAGA) block with 30 questions in 25 minutes, making it 100 questions in 85 minutes. The RAGA topics are listed in detail in our separate Y group guide.

Physics topics from Classes 11 and 12

The physics section uses the CBSE Class 11 and 12 syllabus. Expect concept questions, short numericals and graph reading.

Class 11

• Measurement: SI units, dimensional checks, error estimates
• Straight line and two dimensional kinematics, projectile paths, relative velocity
• Laws of motion, friction and uniform circular motion
• Work and energy theorem, power, elastic and inelastic collisions
• Rotation: centre of mass, torque, moment of inertia, rolling
• Gravitation, orbital speed of satellites, escape speed
• Matter in bulk: stress and strain, Pascal and Bernoulli principles, drag in liquids, capillary rise
• Thermal physics: expansion, calorimetry, laws of thermodynamics, behaviour of ideal gases
• SHM, pendulums, wave speed, standing waves and beats

Class 12

• Charges, fields, potential, capacitors; circuits with Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's rules
• Fields due to currents, magnetic materials, Faraday's induction, AC circuits and transformers
• The EM spectrum and its uses
• Mirrors, lenses, prisms, microscopes, telescopes; interference and diffraction
• Photons and matter waves, hydrogen spectrum, decay laws, mass defect
• Diodes, rectifiers and the basics of semiconductors

Mathematics topics

Maths often decides the merit for science candidates because questions can be long. The chapter list follows Classes 11 and 12:

• Algebra: function types, the argand plane, nature of roots, progressions, counting with permutations, the binomial expansion, induction, matrix operations and determinants, inequalities
• Trigonometry: identities, general solutions of equations, inverse trigonometric functions, height and distance problems
• Coordinate geometry: slope and line equations, circle equations, parabola and its two cousins (ellipse, hyperbola), and 3D direction cosines
• Calculus: evaluating limits, checking continuity, derivatives with maxima, minima and tangents, integration by standard methods, areas between curves, first order differential equations
• Vectors, statistics, probability and simple linear programming problems

Reports from recent shifts mention matrices, calculus, probability, trigonometry, permutations, binomial theorem and complex numbers turning up again and again, so give these chapters an early start.

English section syllabus

The English paper is the same for both streams and is pitched at Class 12 CBSE level. It is also the only paper set in English alone, while the others come in Hindi and English.

• Reading: a short passage, cloze test, completing a paragraph
• Grammar: verb forms and tense use, the right article or preposition, agreement between subject and verb, pronoun and conjunction errors
• Changes of form: active to passive, direct to indirect speech
• Vocabulary: word meanings and their opposites, everyday idioms, replacing a phrase by one word, spelling traps
• Sentence order and sentence completion

English needs 50% separately in your Class 12 marks as well, so it is both an eligibility filter and a scoring section.

After the test: PFT and eligibility

For the science stream you need Class 12 with Mathematics, Physics and English, scoring at least 50% overall and 50% in English. A three year engineering diploma in listed branches, or a vocational programme of two years that kept Physics and Maths as regular subjects, also qualifies under the same 50% rules. The latest intake fixed a date of birth window and an upper limit of 22 years on enrolment, and the minimum height is around 152 cm with relaxation for some regions.

Twelve weeks to the online test

With 50 of the 70 marks in Physics and Maths, your science chapters carry the paper, but English is where steady marks hide.

• Weeks 1 to 4: Class 11 physics and algebra, one chapter of each every two days, with 25 short questions per chapter.
• Weeks 5 to 8: Class 12 electricity, optics, modern physics, calculus and coordinate geometry, plus 20 minutes of English grammar daily.
• Weeks 9 to 12: sit a complete 60 minute practice paper thrice weekly with the block timers on, and morning runs to build toward 1.6 km in 7 minutes.

Airforce X group syllabus in Hindi

एयरफोर्स एक्स ग्रुप अब अग्निवीरवायु विज्ञान विषय कहलाता है। ऑनलाइन टेस्ट में भौतिकी 25, गणित 25 और अंग्रेज़ी 20, यानी 70 सवाल होते हैं, और समय सीमा 60 मिनट है। सही उत्तर 1 अंक दिलाता है; त्रुटि होने पर 0.25 घटा दिया जाता है। भौतिकी और गणित कक्षा 11 और 12 के सीबीएसई पाठ्यक्रम से आते हैं। अंग्रेज़ी में व्याकरण, शब्दावली, गद्यांश और वाक्य सुधार पूछे जाते हैं। परीक्षा के बाद शारीरिक परीक्षा, अनुकूलन परीक्षा और मेडिकल होता है।

Books, sample papers and the intake notice

The NCERT Physics and Mathematics textbooks of the last two school years cover the whole science part, and the exemplar problems help with speed. One school grammar book is enough for English. The Agniveervayu recruitment portal of the Indian Air Force posts each intake's notice, sample paper and practice test, so start there.

If you are comparing forces, look at the Navy SSR syllabus along with the Army Agniveer syllabus, or browse every forces test on the defence and police exams page.