Let us now go through a detailed section-wise exam analysis to understand where the paper was easy, moderate, or slightly tricky.

English Language (30 Questions)

• Difficulty Level: Moderate to Difficult
• Nature: Vocabulary-based and slightly lengthy
• Good Attempts: 17–21

The English section demanded strong vocabulary and reading comprehension skills. Questions were distributed across passages, rearrangement, and grammar usage.

Major Topics Covered:

• Reading Passage
• PQRS & S1–S6 sentence arrangement
• Error spotting
• Idioms & Phrases
• Fill in the blanks
• Synonyms & Antonyms

Memory-Based Vocabulary Asked:

• Shank’s Pony (Mare)
• To throw the helve after the hatchet
• Beef up
• Alacrity
• Panacea
• Exculpate
• Archetype
• Sycophant
• Recondite

Exam Insight:

Candidates with strong vocabulary and regular reading practice managed this section well. Time management played a crucial role.

2. Numerical Ability (20 Questions) – Mostly Easy but Calculation-Based

• • Difficulty Level: Mostly Easy
  • Nature: Calculation-intensive
  • Good Attempts: 11–14
  
  

  The Maths section focused on core AFCAT concepts, but several questions were time-consuming.

  Topics Asked:

  • Time & Work
  • Profit & Loss
  • Percentage
  • Ratio & Proportion
  • Simplification
  • HCF & LCM (number of pairs type)

  Memory-Based Maths Questions:

  • Time & Work: A days, B days, working together for 5 days
  • Difference between SI & CI (P = 5000, T = 2 years, R = 8%)
  • Mixture problem: Vessel A (2%), Vessel B (8%), final mixture 6.5% – find percentage of B
  • Probability: Red = 3, Blue = 5, Green = 1 → Probability of drawing two blue boxes
  • Perimeter of square given → area of hexagon with same perimeter
  • Train & simplification-based questions

  Exam Insight:

  Concepts were simple, but speed and accuracy were critical due to negative marking.

3. Reasoning & Military Aptitude (25 Questions) – Moderate to Difficult

• • Difficulty Level: Moderate to Difficult
  • Good Attempts: 16–20
  
  

  This section was a mix of logical reasoning and visual military aptitude, slightly tougher than usual.

  Topics Asked:

  • Series & analogy
  • Coding-decoding
  • Direction sense
  • Blood relations
  • Venn diagrams
  • Image-based military reasoning

  Exam Insight:

  Candidates who practised AFCAT-specific reasoning sets found this section manageable.

4. General Knowledge (25 Questions) – Mostly Easy & Current Affairs Driven

• Difficulty Level: Mostly Easy
• Good Attempts: 15–19

The GK section was highly scoring for candidates who followed current affairs and defence updates.

Key Memory-Based GK Questions:

• Siliserh Lake – 95th Ramsar Site (Rajasthan, Dec 2025)
• Gogabeel Lake location
• Fundamental Duties
• DPSP – Article 43
• Continental Shelf (Seamounts, Guyots)
• Rowlatt Act – 1919
• Executive Director of the IMF – Urjit Patel
• PVC Awardee: Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon
• Sports term: Chukker – Polo
• Sumi Dance – War Dance of Nagaland
• World War battle-based question

Defence Exercises & Ships:

• Exercise Desert Knight – India, UAE & France (Arabian Sea)
• Exercise Eastern Bridge – IAF & Royal Oman Air Force (Sept 2024)
• INSV Kaundinya (May 2025 & Jan 2026, Oman)
• Indian Coast Guard Ship Samudra Pratap (Jan 2026)

Exam Insight:

Defence aspirants who regularly followed the monthly CA capsules found this section very rewarding.