Life in the IAF:

1. Life full of adventures:As an Officer in the Air Force, you could activate your adventurous self and enjoy undertaking any of the activities organised by the IAF. These activities include:
• Skydiving
• Para sailing
• Paragliding
• Power hand gliding
• Para Motor Flying
• Microlight flying
• Hot Air ballooning
• Aero Modelling
• Trekking
• Skiing
• Car Rally
• Motorcycle expeditions
• Cycling Expeditions
• Mountain Terrain Biking
• Rafting
• Sailing
• Wind Surfing
• Water Skiing
• Scuba Diving
2. Growth in life: As an officer in the Indian Air Force, the sky is the limit for you. You start your career as a Flying Officer and can rise up to the rank of Air Marshal.
1. Flying officer
2. Flight Lieutenant 
3. Squadron leader
4. Wing Commander
5. Group Captain
6. Air Commodore 
7. Air Vice Marshal
8. Air Marshal
9. Air Chief Marshal
3. Quality of life is an important attribute of Air Force life and has no parallel in the civil sector. The life offers you challenge, adventure, excitement, honor  prestige, self respect, content family life, safety and security for self and family and not to forget the social status, respect and esteem of your countrymen.
4. Social Status: A unique esteemed status is enjoyed by an officer in the society. By joining the Air Force, one becomes a member of an exclusive and elite brotherhood. The ingrained code of conduct and ethical values enable the officers to occupy a special social niche in society.
5. Values: Certain Core values are ingrained into Air Force Officers during their training. Most people would have heard of loyalty, duty , respect, service, honoe, integrity and courage but as warriors , you learn them and from then on, live them everyday in everything you do – whether on job or off.
1. Loyalty
2. Duty
3. Respect
4. Selfless service
5. Honour
6. Integrity
7. Personal Courage

Also Read: why do you want to join Indian army

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.- Joel Osteen,

I encountered many aspirants who failed in CDSE 2012 examination, some are freshers but many of them have already cleared CDSE written exam earlier. Obviously, they feel sad after not finding their name in the list for successful candidates. But, this is not the time to waste on thinking what you did in past, rather one must start preparing for the next examination. Moving forward, this post will tell you some points which could be a reason of your failure this time.

You failed not because others are intelligent, but you were under prepared.

Reasons why you failed in CDSE 2012:

1. No preparation or not enough preparation.
2. Lack of guidance, not aware of current structure of CDSE.
3. No focus, lack of interest.
4. Screwed up with negative marking.
5. Extremely poor performance in one of the three papers.
6. Bad luck- includes all the above.

How to prepare for CDSE:

SSC 41st & SSCW-12th technical entry notification was published by Indian army for the recruitment of eligible young male and female engineering graduates. Recently, there has been some changes in the eligibility criteria specially in the engineering streams which are eligible for Indian army technical entries like TGC and SSC-tech.

SSB Interview Dates SSCW-12th Tech Women

Eligible branch in SSC 41st and SSCW-12th:

2. For Widows of Defence Personnel – Vacancies-02

There were some confusions earlier regarding the eligibility of IT, EEE, Instrumentation and many other branches. All branches mentioned above are eligible for SSC-41st and SSCW-12th and hopefully it will eligible for TGC-117th and in future technical entries.

You your branch is not mentioned but the equivalent branch is eligible then you can get a equivalency certification from AICTE. For more details check SSC-tech eligible branches.

 Also Read:

1. SSB Interview Dates SSCW-12th Tech Women
2. Apply for SSC-41st and SSCW-12th tech.
3. TGC-117 SSB Interview dates.

To all TGC and SSC-tech candidate facing SSB interview for TGC 117, SSC-tech 40th & 11th. If you were unable to save and take the print out of the application form after submitting it, there is an alternative for it.

Also Read: Reprint TGC and SSC-tech Application Form

Application forms are mandatory at the time of SSB Interview of TGC and SSC, so candidates are required to take the printout of this common application form of TGC and SSC-tech in case you were unable to print it due to technical error, which is very common in joinindianarmy.nic.in website.

You can download the application form from the link given below; this is a common form for TGC and SSC tech for both male and female candidates. After taking the printout, you need to fill the form by hand, attestation from gazetted officer is must have. This form is almost similar to what you have filled while applying online.

Important points:

1. Always save your TGC or SSC application form after clicking submit button. 
2. This form is only for candidates those who have missed their application form due to technical error.
3. Make sure you have noted down your roll number generated after submitting the form.
4. It is always better to carry the online application form printout. 
5. Do not register again if you were unable to take the print out, this will directly lead to cancellation of your candidature, in spite of that, use this form and be happy.
6. At last be prepared for SSB, that is what matters the most.

West Bengal, Diamond Harbour is going to have a new Naval Services Selection Board (SSB) soon in this year.  Young aspirant of Indian Navy can gear up to face NSB interviews at NSB Bengal near October 2013.

At present, there are three Naval Selection boards recruting candidates for Indian Navy. An estimated 5,000 candidates will be giving Navy SSB Interviews in South 24-Parganas every year.
The three other Navy Selection boards i.e. Bhopal, Bangalore and Coimbatore are not capable of handling the number of candidates applying every year, also candidates from north east region are facing problems while traveling a long way to present NSB centers.

After the new NSB gets operational, Navy will be doing more recruitment and handling the screening process more easily for huge crowed. Indian Navy is lacking officers and this could be an excellent steps towards Indian defence growth. Recently,  Indian Air force started with a new AFSB center at Gandhinagar Gujarat.  These steps are truly motivating and encouraging which helps a defence aspirant in many ways.

While designing this SSB, we tried to improve upon the facilities available elsewhere. SSB interviews start from Mondays and carry on over five days. At the Naval SSB, candidates will undergo interviews, psychological tests and physicals. The medical tests will be held at the Eastern Command Hospital in Kolkata. The candidates will be put up inside the compound of the SSB and there will be separate accommodation for men and women. Normally, we have 52 batches every year. Each batch will comprise nearly 100 candidates – Commodore Ravi Ahluwalia, naval officer-in-charge, West Bengal

Hope Indian Navy perform a successful operation in new selection board in West Bengal.

 Also Read:

• AFSB Gandhinagar
• How to pass AFCAT 2013

Indian army JAG-11 Entry scheme notification inviting law graduates married/unmarried men and women for grant of short service commission in the India army for JAG Judge Advocate General Dept.

Eligibility Condition:

Age: 21 to 27 years, born not earlier than 02 Jul 86 and not later than 01 Jul 92.
Education Qualification: 55% aggregate marks in LLB. Must be eligible for registration with Bar Council of Indian /State.

Selection Procedure:

1. Shortlisting based on cut off.
2. Shortlisted candidates will go through SSB Interview.
3. SSB qualified candidate go through medical examination.
4. SSB and medically fit candidates will getting joining letters as per their order of merit.

This book, AFCAT Air Force Common Admission Test for Flying & Technical Branch by Arihant is one of the best book available in market for AFCAT preparation. This book is compiled as per the new syllabus of AFCAT. Though it has covered some additional concepts as well, but you can start a good preparation from it.

What is good about this book:

1. It covers current affairs in a organized manner, which helps to prepare for general awareness.
2. It has lots of question paper and AFCAT model test paper for endless practice before exam.
3. It has military aptitude questions which are hard to find anywhere else.
4. It covers almost whole syllabus of AFCAT 2013.

I went  through this book, it’s a best fit.

Table of content:

General Awareness

1. History
2. Sports
3. Geography
4. Environment
5. Civics
6. Basic Science
7. Defence
8. Art
9. Culture
10. Current Affairs
11.  Politics, etc.

1. Decimal Fraction
2. Simplification
3. Average
4. Profit & Loss
5. Percentage
6. Ratio & Proportion
7. Simple Interest

Reasoning and Military Aptitude Test

1. Verbal Skills
2. Spatial Ability

How to use this book?