The AFCAT (Air Force Common Admission Test) is conducted by the Indian Air Force for selecting officers in Flying, Ground Duty (Technical), and Ground Duty (Non-Technical) branches. The exam is held twice a year, typically in February and August: AFCAT 1 is held in February while AFCAT 2 is held in August. Candidates undergo an AFCAT written exam, followed by SSB Interviews for final selection.
AFCAT admit card 2025 will be released one or two weeks before the exam. Here are some Quick Revision Notes for the AFCAT GK/GS section. These important Quick Revision General Awareness notes will save your time before the AFCAT exam. Also Read: 25 Expected GK Topics for AFCAT Exam
Mullah Tyab Ali Bhai Mian (Badruddin Tyabji) was the third INC President in 1887, after WC Bannerjee & Dadabhai Naoroji.
Badruddin Tyabji in December 1867 became the first Indian barrister in the High Court of Bombay.
Badruddin Tyabji became the first Indian to hold the post of Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court in 1902.
Lala Lajpat Rai, also called ‘Punjab Kesari’ and 'Lion of Punjab', founded the Home Rule League of America in 1917 in New York.
Lala Lajpat Rai founded the Servants of People Society in 1921.
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989.
Indian Statutory Commission, popularly known as Simon Commission was appointed by the British in 1927 under the chairmanship of John Simon.
Mir Bakshi was the head of the military administration in the Mughal Empire. The first Mir Bakshi was appointed by Akbar in 1574.
The 86th Constitutional Amendment in 2002, provided Right to Education as a Fundamental Right in Part-III of the Constitution.
On 18 May 1974, India became the first nation apart from the P5 countries (five permanent UNSC members) to conduct a nuclear test (Pokhran-I).
In September 1916, Annie Besant established the All-India Home Rule League in Madras.
Modifier keys are keys on a keyboard that are used to modify the action of other keys when pressed together. Ex: Shift, Control, Alt, Command, Option, and Function.
Article 93 of the Constitution provides for the election of both the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker.
The Speaker is elected from among the Lok Sabha members by a simple majority of members present and voting in the House.
The Swaraj Party, established as the Congress-Khilafat Swaraj Party, was formed on 1 Jan 1923 by Motilal Nehru and C.R. Das following the Gaya session of the INC in Dec 1922.
Saturn is the second-largest planet and sixth from the Sun in our solar system. Like Jupiter, Saturn is a gas giant primarily composed of hydrogen and helium.
On March 21, the vernal equinox occurs, when the sun's direct rays fall on the equator.
Train to Pakistan is a historical novel by writer Khushwant Singh, published in 1956. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2007.
Firoz Shah Tughlaq established the Diwan-i-Bandagan, or the department of slaves, during the Tughlaq Dynasty. The Tughlaq dynasty ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1320 to 1414.
The Doctrine of Lapse was introduced by Lord Dalhousie (1848-1856). It was first applied in the year 1848 to the State of Satra.
Red Soil is formed as a result of weathering of metamorphic and igneous rocks. The red colour of the soil is due to the presence of iron content. It is rich in potash content.
Chandrasekhar Limit is the maximum mass theoretically possible for a stable white dwarf star. He first proposed this limit in 1931.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. Chandrasekhar Limit is named after him.
The Red soil is suitable for crops like millets, pulses, cotton, groundnut, tobacco, and some horticultural crops.
Since 1967, the International Literacy Day (ILD) has been celebrated by UNESCO on 8 September.
Edward Teller invented the hydrogen bomb in 1952 and is renowned as the Father of the hydrogen bomb.
A light-year is the distance light travels in one Earth year. A light-year equals about 9.46073 × 1012 km.
The Mahabharata in its original version was called Jaya Samhita. It was written down by Ganesha and narrated by Maharishi Ved Vyasa.
Isohyets are imaginary lines that connect areas on a map that have the same rainfall during a given time period.
Pollen grains of a flower are small structures that contain androecium, a flower's male reproductive organ.
The Duleep Trophy is named after Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji (KS Duleepsinhji). The competition was established by the BCCI in the 1961–62 season.
Externality theory forms the basic theory of environmental economics.
‘Muhtasibs” were special officers appointed by Aurangzeb to ensure that the Muslims lived their lives according to the Quranic law.
Madan Mohan Malaviya became the President of the Indian National Congress in 1909 and 1918. Gandhi gave him the title of “Mahamana”.
Tulsi Gabbard, on 7 November 2012 created history by becoming the first Hindu American to enter the US House of Representatives as a senator.
The egg yolk has about 200 mg of cholesterol which is the biggest source of dietary cholesterol.
Lord Linlithgow (1936 - 1944) was the viceroy of India during Quit India Movement in 1942. Linlithgow remarked the movement to be "by far the most serious rebellion since 1857".
Dew point is the temperature at which relative humidity reaches 100% and air is saturated.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body established in 1988.
Clayey soil retains the highest amount of water and sandy soil retains the lowest amount of water. Clay is the densest and heaviest type of soil.
At the Faizpur Session of the INC in December 1936, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru referred to the Government of India Act 1935 as "The new Charter of Bondage".
“Economic Nightmare of India: Its Cause and Cure” was written by Prime Minister Charan Singh and published in 1981.
“Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka's Hidden War” was written by the British journalist Frances Harrison.
The iron pillar of Delhi is a structure 7.21m (23 feet 8 inches) high with a 41cm (16 in) diameter that was constructed by Chandragupta II and was dedicated to the Hindu God Vishnu.
River Ganga originates from Gaumukh, which is located at the base of Gangotri and Khatilang glaciers in Uttarakhand. It is the longest river in India.
Functional finance is an economic theory proposed by Abba P. Lerner, based on effective demand principles and chartalism.
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is observed every year on the 17th of June.
In Dec 1922, Chittaranjan Das, Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar and Motilal Nehru formed the Congress-Khilafat Swarajya Party with Das as the president and Nehru as one of the secretaries.
The rings of Saturn were first seen by Galileo in 1610, during the first telescopic observations of this planet.
The farad (F) is the unit of electrical capacitance, the ability of a body to store an electrical charge. It is named after the English physicist Michael Faraday.
An electric fuse wire has high resistivity and a low melting point.
Milkha Singh became the first Indian to win a gold medal in the Commonwealth Games when he won the race at Cardiff 1958.
The Indian Railways was nationalized in 1950. Its East Central Railway has headquarters at Hajipur, Bihar. It is the gateway to Nepal.
Retired British Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer Allan Octavian Hume founded the Indian National Congress on 28 Dec 1885.
The ozone layer sits in the stratosphere between 15 km and 30 km above the earth.
Army Day is celebrated on 15 January in recognition of Lt. Gen K. M. Cariappa's taking over as the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from General Francis Roy Bucher.
The CDC - 6600, released in 1964, is considered the first supercomputer. The first supercomputer of India was PARAM 8000.
Nana Saheb was the adopted son of the last Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao II. Nana Saheb led the Revolt of 1857 of 1857 from Kanpur.
Nargis Dutt was the first Indian woman to receive the Padma Shri (India's fourth highest civilian honor) award in 1958. She was also the first woman film star nominated/ elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1980.
Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by a type of bacteria, Mycobacterium leprae. The bacteria primarily infect the skin and nerves .
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is headquartered at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. The ICJ was established in 1945 by the UN Charter.
Guru Ram Das, also known as Bhai Jethu, was the fourth of the ten Sikh Gurus. Amritsar was founded in 1577 by Guru Ram Das.
The Ramon Magsaysay Awards were established in 1957 to honour the President of Philippines. The first Indian to win the award was Vinoba Bhave (in 1958) for Community Leadership.
Article 3 of the Indian Constitution grants the Parliament the power to form new states, alter the boundaries of existing states, or merge two or more states.
Article 120 (Language to be used in Parliament) provides for use of Hindi or English in the parliament but gives the right to members to express themselves in their mother tongue.
Part XVII of the Indian Constitution deals with the official languages in Articles 343 to 351.
Kanishka the Great, was the ruler of the Kushan Empire. His capital was Purushpura (Peshawar). Kanishka’s rule is famous for the development of the Silk Road and the spread of Mahayana Buddhism to China.
Panchasiddhantika, Brihat Samhita, Laghu Jataka, Brihat Jataka and Yogayatra are the literary works of Varahamihira.
Varahamihira was one of the nine gems or Navratna of Chandragupta II also known as Vikramaditya of Gupta Empire.
Plasma is the largest part of our blood. It constitutes 50 to 55 per cent of total blood volume. About 90% of plasma is water; the rest is proteins, ions, nutrients, and gases.
Red blood cells (RBCs), also known as erythrocytes, are the most abundant cell type in vertebrates. Vertebrates are the species which have a vertebrae or backbone.
The first World Press Freedom Day was celebrated on May 3, 1994.
Territorial sea is a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) from the baseline. This limit was formally adopted as an international standard in 1958.
Karnataka (71%) is the largest coffee-producing state in India. Kerala comes second (21%). Kodagu district in Karnataka produces 33% of the total coffee produced in India.
The most common iron ores found in India are hematite and magnetite. Odisha is the leading state for the production of iron with 39% of the reserves, followed by Jharkhand (20%).
In 1929, the Child Marriage Restraint Act set 16 and 18 years as the minimum age of marriage for girls and boys respectively.
The Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929 was popularly known as the Sarda Act after its sponsor Harbilas Sarda, a judge and a member of Arya Samaj.
Lord Irwin was the 30th Viceroy of India. His tenure was from 1926 to 1931.
Jawaharlal Nehru wrote the book 'The Discovery of India', during his imprisonment at Ahmednagar fort (Maharashtra) for participating in the Quit India Movement (1942 – 1946).
The book 'Conquest of self' was authored by Mahatma Gandhi in 1943.
Bicameralism is the practice of having two Houses of Parliament. The six states in India with bicameral legislatures are: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, and Uttar Pradesh.
Moti Masjid is a white marble mosque in Delhi's Red Fort, built by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (1659-1660) for his wife Nawab Bai.
Moti Masjid in Agra was built by Shah Jahan, and is called the "Pearl Mosque."
The largest Biosphere reserve in India is the Gulf of Kachchh, Gujarat and the smallest Biosphere Reserve in India is Dibru-Saikhowa in Assam.
The first biosphere reserve of the world was established in 1979. The first biosphere reserve in India was the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, established in 1986.
2011 Census: Kerala ranks first in the country with a literacy rate of 93.91%, closely followed by Lakshadweep (92.28%) and Mizoram(91.58%).
2011 Census: The gap in literacy rates of males and females is lowest in Meghalaya (3.1% points).
2011 Census: The gap in literacy rates of males and females is highest in the State of Rajasthan (27.1% points).
Durand Cup is Asia’s oldest and the world’s third oldest football tournament. First edition was held in Shimla in 1888 as an “Army Cup”. It was open only to the British Indian Army troops in India.
The gravitational force at the center of the Earth is zero. This is known as zero gravity or weightlessness.
The Asian Games is the biggest sports competition in Asia, held once every four years. The first-ever Asian Games were held in New Delhi in 1951. Appu, the Indian elephant, was the first mascot to be used for the Asian Games.
On August 23, 1954, the Council of States was named as the Rajya Sabha in Hindi.
The Fourth Schedule of the Indian Constitution deals with the Allocation of seats in the Council of States.
Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura have got only 1 seat each in Rajya Sabha.
On 14th Sep 1949, the Constituent Assembly designated Hindi in Devanagari script as the official language of the Union of India. The first Hindi Diwas was celebrated on September 14, 1953.
The Haber-Bosch process is method for synthesizing ammonia by combining nitrogen from the air with hydrogen.
Fritz Haber, a German chemist, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1919 for his work on ammonia synthesis.
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Frontier Gandhi) of Pakistan was the first non-Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna in 1987.
Nelson Mandela, the former South African president, was the second non-Indian to receive Bharat Ratna in 1990.
Dadasaheb Phalke Award was established by the Govt. of India in 1969. It is the highest award in cinema.
The Bharat Ratna was established on January 2, 1954 by the first President of India, Rajendra Prasad.
Devika Rani (First Lady of Indian Cinema) was the first recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1969.
The Jamat Khana Masjid or Khilji Mosque was built in 1315-1325 AD by Khizr Khan, son of Sultan Alauddin Khilji (Khilji dynasty).
The fastest possible speed of sound that has been recorded is about 36 km per second.
Alluvial soil is rich in potash but poor in nitrogen, humus and phosphorus.
Sound travels fastest in solids, then in liquids, and slowest in gases.
The Karakoram Highway, the highest paved international road, connects China and Pakistan through the Khunjerab Pass.
“Around the World in Eighty Days” is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1872.
The Itimad-Ud-Daula's Tomb, built by Nur Jahan for her father in 1628 was the first pure marble monument.
The first recipients of the Bharat Ratna award were C Rajagopalachari, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and C. V. Raman in 1954.
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