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How can an Electronics Engineer join Air Force?

To join in Air Force being a Electronics Engineer, you need to appear in Combined Defence Service (CDS) examination which is conducted by UPSC twice a year. Eligibility criteria required to join in Indian Air Force through CDS examination is mentioned below :-

1. Nationality :- Indian

2. Educational Qualification :- Graduation in any discipline from a recognised university.

3. Age Limit :- 19-24 years

4. Gender :- Male

5. Martial Status :- Unmarried

Selection Procedure :-
1. Written Test
2. Medical Test
3. Personal Interview

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How can an Electronics Engineer join Air Force?

If you have completed B.E/B.Tech in Electronics engineering then you are eligible for Indian Air Force through CDS exam.

CDS stands for COMBINED DEFENCE SERVICE

The educational qualification and age criteria for CDS exam is given below-

Indian Military Academy:- You need to be a graduate in any discipline from a recognized university. Your age should be between 19 to 24 years.

Air Force Academy:- You need to have a bachelor's degree in science with physics or mathematics or B.E./B.Tech in engineering or technology. Your age should be between 19 to 23 years.

Naval Academy:- You need to complete your graduation in engineering or technology or you can do B.Sc degree with physics or mathematics. Your age should be between 19 to 23 years.

Officer's Training Academy:- You need to have a bachelor's degree in any discipline from a recognized university or institution. Your age should be between 19 to 25 years.

I think Electronics Engineer is the best branch to join Indian Air Force. You can join the flying branch of this academy. You will be able to achieve more with your education in this branch. You can either be a helicopter pilot or a transport pilot or a fighter pilot. You will have knowledge from your graduation branch which will help you a lot in this job. If you are a male, then if you sit for Combined Defence Services Examination under union public service commission, then you will get permanent commission. This will happen only if you clear the Combined Defence Services Examination. But the age limit is 23 years. So hurry up. Along with this, you must not be married when you apply for this. So just keep all this in mind and go ahead.

Yes, electronics engineer can join the Indian Air force through the AFCAT examination. AFCAT stands for the Airforce Common Admission test. Indian Air Force conducts this exam twice every year for selection of candidates to:

1. Flying Branch.

2. Technical Branch.

3. Ground Duty Branch.

Being an electronics engineer, you are eligible for the the branches mentioned above. AFCAT examination consists of two papers.

First paper is of General Ability test which consists of 100 questions, one question carries three marks each. Second paper is of Engineering Knowledge Test. It is of 45 minutes and will consists questions from electronics engineering for electronics engineers.

IAF has released the notification for the AFCAT 2 to be held this year, you can apply at the official website www.careerairforce.nic.in.

After completing Electronics engineering degree you can join Indian Air Force through CDS exams. CDS stands for Combined Defence Services Exam.

You can apply for CDS exam on UPSC official website http://upsc.gov.in

After completing the application process candidate will have to appear for written exam.
Written exam consists of 300 marks. After passing written exam candidate have to pass SSB interview. SSB interview also consists of 300 marks.

After passing SSB Interview candidates have to go through medical test and that is the last step.

For more details please visit : http://careerairforce.nic.in/

Please find the attchment for CDS exam syllabus.

Its great too see that after engineering in Electronics, you want to join a career in IAF>

A technical graduate can do it by fighting the CDSE and AFCAT examinations.
The details are as follows :

CDSE is conducted by the UPSC twice a year in the month of February and October for the recruitment of officers in the defence forces.

The eligibility criteria for the same is as follows :

* The candidate should be a citizen of India.

* The candidate should be mentally and physically fit.

* The candidate should have done the graduation under the scheme of 10+2+3 at least from a recognized university.

* The minimum age for appearing is 21 years at least.

You can appear in the examination right from the final year of your graduation degree.


AFCAT stands for the Air Force Common Admission Test.

It is the test conducted by the India Air Force twice the year for the recruitment of Engineers as the officers in the IAF.

According to the notification released by the IAF, the eligibility criteria is as follows :

* The candidate should be a citizen of India.

* The candidate should be mentally and physically fit.

* The candidate should have done the Engineering (BE/BTech) from any stream.

* The minimum age for appearing is 21 years at least.

You can appear in the examination right from the final year of your Engineering degree.

For engineers, the most suitable exam to enter into the Indian Air Force is Air Force Common Admission test. This entrance test is conducted for recruitment of candidates into different branches of Air Force like Flying, Technical and Ground Duty branch.

Minimum academic qualification is bachelor's degree in engineering or science for technical and flying branch and for ground duty you can apply from any stream.

AFCAT has two papers:

1. General ability test consisting of questions from English, Quantitative aptitude, reasoning and general awareness.

2. Engineering knowledge test.

You can apply online for the AFCAT II exam, 2015 at www.careerairforce.nic.in.

Engineers can apply for exams like CDS and AFCAT for getting an officers job. You have to crack written exam and interview for getting job. For CDS you need 19 to 23 years of age for Air Force Academy.

For AFCAT there are various posts like flying branch, technical branch and ground duty branch. The age limit varies 19 to 27 years for these branches in air force. Hence, you can apply for these exams.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How can an Electronics Engineer join Air Force?

For becoming electrical engineer in Air force,you have to first of all a graduation degree in electrical engineering.
Various vacancies are coming time to time if,you want to take jobs in Air force you must have to first of all fill up the form then a entrance exam is conducted by the committee if you qualify the entrance exam then a interview will be conducted for those students who qualify the written test.
if student qualify the interview then he will be eligible to do job.

Yes, you are eligible to join the Air Force after Electronics engineer through the CDS or the AFCAT entry.

CDS stands for the Combined Defence Services and the examination is conducted by the UPSC twice every year. The examination is conducted for the selection of the candidate in anyone of the different wing.

AFCAT stands for the Air Force Common Admission Test and the examination is conducted by the Indian Air Force for the selection of the candidate in the different duty as Ground duty, Technical duty, Flying Duty. It is also conducted twice in a year.

The written examination for the AFCAT entry contains two paper as General Ability Test and the Engineering Ability Test. One who qualifies in both the paper are eligible for all the three duties.

So you can apply in both of them but both the examination are conducted in the two stages and you have to qualify in both the stages for the final selection.

You can join Indian Air Force through CDS examination. CDS i.e Combined Defence Service Examination is conducted by UPSC twice in a year. This examination will be held in the month of February and September in the official website of UPSC as well as Employment newspaper.

Eligibility Criteria for Indian Air Force:

-You must be Citizen of India.
-You should have completed B.E / B.Tech or graduation with Mathematics from a recognized university or equivalent qualification.
-Your age should be between 19 years and 24 years.
-Age relaxation are applicable for reserved categories.
-No percentage bar are required.
-Final year of degree course are eligible.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How can an Electronics Engineer join Air Force?

Yeah a electronics engineer can join in Indian Air force. The procedure to join in the force is, candidate should apply for entrance exam . There are possibly many entrance exams which are conducted in India for candidates to join in Indian Air Force.

You can apply for the CDS exam which offers candidates to join in Indian Air force and other forces of India. This exam is conducted by UPSC and is held every year as CDS I and CDS II.

To join in Indian Air Force through CDS the qualifications needed are:

# Candidate need to have a citizenship in India

# Age limit needed is 19-24 years

# Educational qualification needed is candidate should have completed a degree with physics, mathematics as subjects.

# Candidate need to be physically fit.

If you satisfy them all then you can apply for the CDS exam to join in Indian Air force. You can apply for the exam in 2 modes:

1. ONLINE
2. OFFLINE

During form fill up application part i am facing problem.i am electronics and communication engineer.so what subjects should i choose