AFCAT 2 2016 Will Be Conducted Again?

If you are not aware of what is going on, have a look at our last post “AFCAT 2 2016 Question Paper LEAKED ??“. We are getting emails and facebook messages from aspirants who feel that they are cheated and they demand AFCAT 2 2016 exam to be conducted again.

Whole Story till now:

After the AFCAT 2 2016 exam, many candidates started sharing on social media that shift 1 and shift 2 had same question papers, everything was same in both the shifts. Shift 1 candidates interacted with shift 2 candidates and shared all the questions face to face and some of them shared it with their friends over the phone across different AFCAT centres.
Few candidates noticed the questions were online before the exam which we have investigated and it was not true, check here
Few candidates have reported that they were not allowed to give EKT even though they have applied for the technical branch. Same issues have been reported across different AFCAT centres.
Few candidates reported Indian air force officials were helping other candidates in the exam, which is highly disturbing for us either.

Will Indian Air Force conduct the AFCAT 2 2016 again?

We are not sure about it, there is no official statement till now by the Indian air force. We will keep you posted if there is anything new.

If all this is true, what could be done, what are the different options?

The first option is to conduct AFCAT 2 2016 again.
As we know it takes lots of time and money to conduct AFCAT on a huge level, IAF can conduct AFCAT 2 2016 again for the 2nd shift only. But this won’t be fair for candidates who were loyal and did not know the questions beforehand. So ignore this option.
If a retest is not possible, there could be different cut off for first and second shift based on the average performance.
Candidates who were not able to give EKT should be given other chance. If this was a technical error from IAF side and they can’t conduct the EKT exam again, IAF should pass all these candidates without the exam who were not able to give the exam due to IAF technical fault. Even if this is not possible, they must allow these candidates for AFSB (if they pass AFCAT main) and conduct their EKT exam once they get recommended.
IAF must investigate and punish the IAF officials helping their subordinates.
For next time IAF must keep different sets of question paper and strictly invigilate the whole exam.

Emails and Messages from AFCAT candidates:

We think, if IAF confirms this type of cheating happened during AFCAT 2016; it must conduct the AFCAT 2 2016 again because the last thing we want in the forces is a cheater.

We have emailed AFCAT Cell and DISHA asking for an official statement. We will publish it once we get a reply from IAF.