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About the Armed Forces Preparatory

Academy (AFPA)

This book which I authored just after my retirement as group task

officer(GTO) way back in 2011 was my first ever contribution to help
defence aspirants in pursuing their dreams and in the very first year the book

sold 20,000 copies. Driven by this motivation and understanding the fact that
not many can comprehend everything, particularly the practical tasks of the
GTO Technique by reading a book, I decided to produce a video product
wherein students can practically see how the task are to be done. I made this

video so comprehensive that it covers everything right from screening to
conference procedure and published the same in the year 2016. This was the

first and the only video product for SSB Preparation available in the country
and several hundred aspirants found it extremely useful and even succeeded
in clearing the selection process. During this period, hundreds of defence

aspirants expressed their desire to learn from me and requested me to start an
academy. This led to the birth of AFPA in March 2018 with a team of 3
assessors who were equally qualified, experienced and passionate about

teaching. AFPA first tasted success within a month of its inception and the
series of success stories started pouring in. In the very first year, we could
produce 100 success stories and this number grew rapidly to the surprise of

all.

Often people ask me about how AFPA was able to produce so many
success stories? AFPA’s competitors who have been in existence for decades

frown at the number of successful candidates from our academy, some of
them even claiming that AFPA is compromising the selection process of the
defence services on social media.

I will tell you the real secret of how AFPA transforms a candidate in a short
span of 14 days.

1. AFPA is not commercially oriented and there is a deep desire in every

assessor and the support staff to contribute towards the candidate’s