Airforce Y Group Syllabus and Exam Pattern

From Y group to Agniveervayu

Before the Agnipath scheme, the Air Force recruited airmen in two broad groups. X group meant technical trades for science students, and Y group meant non technical trades open to students of any stream. Today both enter as Agniveervayu for a four year engagement, and the notification uses the words "science subjects" and "other than science subjects" instead of X and Y.

Selection has three phases:

1. Phase I: an online test in a city picked on your form.
2. Phase II: physical fitness test (PFT) and Adaptability Tests I and II at an Airmen Selection Centre.
3. Phase III: medical examination.

Airforce exam pattern for other than science

A right answer earns 1 mark, a wrong one loses 0.25, and a skipped one scores zero. Sections open one after the other and each is timed on its own: once English closes you move to RAGA and cannot return. The submit button stays disabled for the first five minutes of each section.

If you studied Physics and Maths and chose both streams while registering, you sit a single combined paper of 100 questions in 85 minutes, adding 25 Physics and 25 Maths questions to the same English and RAGA sections. For that longer paper, read our X group guide.

Airforce Y group English syllabus

The air force y group english syllabus is set at the Class 12 CBSE standard. Topics seen in recent papers and model papers:

• Grammar: tenses, prepositions, articles and determiners, adjectives and adverbs, subject verb agreement, spotting the error
• Vocabulary: antonyms and synonyms, idioms, phrase meanings, single word replacements, spelling checks
• Sentence work: blanks to fill, finishing a sentence, putting jumbled parts in order, voice change, narration change
• Passages: cloze test, paragraph completion and a short reading comprehension

With 20 questions in 20 minutes, you have exactly a minute each. Grammar items take seconds if your rules are clear, which leaves time for the passage.

Reasoning and general awareness topics

RAGA mixes verbal and non verbal reasoning with general knowledge. Expect a blend roughly like this, although the split between reasoning and GK is not fixed in the notification.

Reasoning

• Analogies, odd item classification, series of letters or numbers
• Codes, family relation puzzles, directions and order ranking
• Syllogism, statements and conclusions, seating and simple puzzles
• Non verbal items: mirror images, figure completion, folded paper and hidden shapes
• Basic numerical ability: percentages, averages, ratio problems, simple or compound interest, time taken on work, buying and selling with profit or loss

General awareness

• School level history of India, map based geography, Constitution and polity basics
• General science of daily life, the solar system, inventions and discoveries
• Countries, capitals and currencies, Indian states, important days
• Awards, sports terms, books and authors
• Defence basics: Air Force ranks, commands, aircraft and exercises, plus news from the past twelve months or so

Physical fitness test and eligibility at a glance

Both men and women must stand at least 152 cm, though candidates from certain regions get relaxation. For the other than science entry you need Class 12 in any stream, or a two year vocational course, with at least 50% in aggregate and 50% in English. Percentages are not rounded up, so 49.99% counts as 49%.

A ten week plan built on the 20 plus 30 split

RAGA carries 30 of the 50 marks, so it deserves more of your week, but English is the section where steady students lose easy marks through careless grammar.

• Weeks 1 to 3: grammar rules daily (tenses, prepositions, articles), 30 vocabulary words a day, and one reasoning chapter every two days.
• Weeks 4 to 6: arithmetic basics for RAGA, static GK notes, defence facts, and two cloze passages a day.
• Weeks 7 to 10: complete 45 minute mocks with the section timers on, four a week, plus a timed 1.6 km run three mornings a week.

Books and official sources

Your Class 11 and 12 English textbooks plus one standard grammar book cover the English section. For reasoning, a general mental ability practice book is enough, and NCERT Class 6 to 10 social science books give you the static GK base. The official Agniveervayu portal posts the notification, a model paper and a mock test, and the mock is the closest thing to the real screen you will see. If you are weighing other forces, look at the Army Agniveer syllabus and every other forces test listed at our defence and police section.

Airforce y group syllabus in Hindi

एयरफोर्स वाई ग्रुप (अब अग्निवीरवायु, विज्ञान के अलावा अन्य विषय) की ऑनलाइन परीक्षा में कुल 50 प्रश्न होते हैं। अंग्रेज़ी के 20 प्रश्नों के लिए 20 मिनट और रीज़निंग व सामान्य जागरूकता (RAGA) के 30 प्रश्नों के लिए 25 मिनट दिए जाते हैं। सही जवाब का 1 अंक है, जबकि गलत जवाब पर 0.25 अंक घटा दिया जाता है। अंग्रेज़ी का स्तर बारहवीं कक्षा (सीबीएसई) जैसा है: व्याकरण, शब्दावली, क्लोज़ टेस्ट और गद्यांश। RAGA में कोडिंग, सीरीज़, रक्त संबंध, दिशा, सरल गणित, इतिहास, भूगोल, विज्ञान और रक्षा से जुड़े सामान्य ज्ञान पूछा जाता है। ऑनलाइन टेस्ट पास करने पर 1.6 किलोमीटर दौड़, पुश अप, सिट अप, स्क्वाट और मेडिकल होता है।