In yet another first, the Indian Air Force (IAF) successfully conducted its first online selection test for airmen from May 3-6.
Taking forward the Digital India Initiative of the government, the first ever Scheduled Test for Airmen Recruitment (STAR) was conducted successfully through computer based online tests in collaboration with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) Pune, a Government of India organisation functioning under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, IAF Spokesperson Wing Commander Anupam Banerjee said.
This is the first instance of any of the three services undertaking selection tests online.
A total of 409169 candidates had registered for the online STAR examination for Airmen.
The online examination was successfully conducted at 439 centres spread over 102 cities across the country.
In the earlier manual pattern of tests, despite the IAF receiving over 4 lakh applications, owing to the limitations of testing capacity at the Airmen Selection Centres, only 80,000 to 1 lakh candidates could be called to undergo the written test.
Candidates were therefore screened out based on their Class 12 marks, thus denying opportunity to otherwise eligible candidates.
The initiative is part of the Air Headquarters policy to reach out to the best talent to man and service the technology intensive platforms that equip the IAF.
In yet another first, the Indian Air Force (IAF) successfully conducted its first online selection test for airmen from May 3-6.
Taking forward the Digital India Initiative of the government, the first ever Scheduled Test for Airmen Recruitment (STAR) was conducted successfully through computer based online tests in collaboration with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) Pune, a Government of India organisation functioning under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, IAF Spokesperson Wing Commander Anupam Banerjee said.
This is the first instance of any of the three services undertaking selection tests online.
A total of 409169 candidates had registered for the online STAR examination for Airmen.
The online examination was successfully conducted at 439 centres spread over 102 cities across the country.
In the earlier manual pattern of tests, despite the IAF receiving over 4 lakh applications, owing to the limitations of testing capacity at the Airmen Selection Centres, only 80,000 to 1 lakh candidates could be called to undergo the written test.
Candidates were therefore screened out based on their Class 12 marks, thus denying opportunity to otherwise eligible candidates.
The initiative is part of the Air Headquarters policy to reach out to the best talent to man and service the technology intensive platforms that equip the IAF.
