Aryan · Founder, Ready Aviator · 18 May 2026

The most expensive mistake in DGCA prep: booking an exam you don't show up for

More than 18,000 booked papers were never written across 2024 to early 2026. Here's which papers students skip the most, and how to never donate an exam fee again.

Directorate General of Civil AviationPublished result sheets

Absent

Booked, never written18,088
Fee per paper₹2,500, non-refundable
Skipped mostRadio Aids, Air Navigation
The fee is spent either wayMonths are the real costNo result to read
18,000 papersBooked and never written, 2024 to early 2026.
₹2,500 eachNon-refundable, whether you sit it or not.
Radio Aids and Air NavigationThe two skipped most.
One session lostAnd the months until the next one.
Which papers

People skip the ones that scare them

Out of every 100 booked papers, how many are never writtenMarked absent on the published result sheets, 2024 – April 2026
Radio Aids30
Air Navigation17
Aviation Meteorology12
Air Regulation10
Technical General10
Technical Specific9

Counted from every DGCA CPL result sheet published between January 2024 and April 2026. A booking made in a confident week meets an exam date in a less confident one, and the seat stays empty.

What it costs

The fee is gone either way

Book the session your prep plan says you will be ready for, not the one whose window happens to be open. If the date is three weeks out and the mock scores say you are not there, sitting the paper is still the better move: you have paid for it, and a real rehearsal is worth more than an empty seat.

The larger bill

Months, not rupees

A skipped sitting costs you the wait until the next one, and the students who clear fastest treat a booked date as fixed and build the prep backwards from it.

Practise the real papers

Walk into the session you booked

Five per chapter, open, with the working underneath.

Question 5 of 20Answer shown

What is the highest latitude listed below at which the sun will reach an altitude of 90⁰ above the horizon at some time during the year?
a23⁰b45⁰c66⁰

How the answer is reached

  1. The sun is overhead somewhere on the earth every day, and that point moves north and south with the seasons.
  2. Because the axis is tilted 23½°, the point stops at 23½° north in June and 23½° south in December. It never goes past either.
  3. 45⁰ and 66⁰ are both outside that band, so the sun never stands at 90⁰ over them.

Answer 23⁰the only latitude in the list inside the band

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