How many students appear for DGCA CPL exams each year
22,933 students sat DGCA theory papers in 2025, a third more than in 2024, and about half of them had sat papers the year before.
Ready Aviator · Updated 22 October 2026
A third more people in one year
22,933 students sat at least one DGCA theory paper in 2025, a third more than the 17,397 of 2024. Each is counted once a year.
DGCA flight crew result lists, CPL and ATPL papers together, 2024 to March 2026. 2026 also counts the admitted lists for the March, April and May sessions.
Two-thirds come back the next year
Two-thirds of 2024's students were back in 2025, still working through their papers, and 4,483 have now written papers in all three years.
11,305 sat their first DGCA exam in 2025. The other 11,628 that year had already sat papers in 2024.
Fourteen times bigger than the door
2025 set an all-time record for new CPLs: 1,652 were issued. In the same year 22,933 students sat exams. They aren't the same people, because the licence takes years of exams, hours and paperwork.
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