Difference between AFSB and other SSB

With the outcome of the results of AFCAT there has been a ripple in the pool of aspirants and lot of queries are arising suddenly. I had been receiving multiple mails related to various queries and i have been personally trying to address them, but some of the queries are common so thought of using this medium to answer those queries. AFCAT is the exam that is held twice a year for the aspirants and this is the gateway to the SSB and earning the wings of air-force officers. Though Air force take through other entry schemes also but this is the major gateway for all the aspirants. This time the cutoff has been kept low and air-force authorities have shortlisted near about ten thousand aspirants for different entries cumulatively including technical, pilot, and ground/ administrative duties. These shortlisted candidates will now be called for AFSB which is the air force selection board where they will be under testing for five days and few luck aspirants would be recommended by various boards for their dreams to come true. 

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Those looking for the difference between the SSB and AFSB here is the list of minor differences:

• Recommendations are not easy at all as the standards are similar to all the SSB across India for all the forces considered. So don't think that there is any difference between the SSB and the AFSB. 
• Only difference between the SSB and AFSB is the GTO outdoor tasks that too in IO. These tasks are designed keeping in mind the force requirements.
• So the individual tasks might vary from normal SSB centers.
• One major difference in AFSB is for Pilot entry aspirants. they have to additionally give PABT test apart from all the tests which is conducted separately for these aspirants. So get ready to face the test on simulator. Its once in a life time chance to give and clear this test. 
• Its  compulsory to clear this test and then only aspirants will be considered for Pilot entry schemes.

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These are the minor differences but still the mode of preparation remains the same for every round. Assessment by the assessors is done psychologically and in similar fashion and the set of OLQ's assessment also remains the same. So keep you focus on personality improvement and psychology learning which can be done with the help of introspection . I will be covering the tips to do introspection in my next article. Till then keep reading and follow us for receiving the updates immediately .Also you can subscribe so that email notifications are received by you as and when articles are published. We are open to feedback and will be ready to solve the queries of any sort. Drop your queries in the comment section.