NIACL AO Exam 2021 | Notification, Exam Dates, Application Form, Eligibility

NIACL or New India Assurance Company Ltd. Is an Indian Company that is going to recruit candidates for the Administrative Officer or AO. NIACL AO Notification will be released soon in the upcoming months of 2021. All the interested candidates can apply for the post of NIACL AO. Before applying it is highly advised to check out all the details regarding the NIACL AO Exam 2021.

NIACL conducts a yearly drive for filling the vacancy of AO Post, all over India. The recruitment for this post is done in 2 categories:

  • NIACL AO Specialist
  • NIACL AO Generalist

Interested candidates can go through this article and know more about NIACL AO Exam 2021. All the details regarding NIACL AO Exam, like the notification and recruitment, eligibility, exam details, etc. will be discussed here.

NIACL AO Exam– Overview

Organization name

NIACL

Post

Assistant Officer

Vacancies

To be released

Exam mode

Online

Selection process

·         Prelims

·         Mains

Exam duration

·         Prelims – 1 hour

·         Mains – 2 hours and 30 mins

Official website

www.newindia.co.in

NIACL AO Notification

To be released

NIACL AO – Exam Date

Event

Date

NIACL AO Exam Notification Released

To be announced 

NIACL AO Exam Registration Opening Date

April 2021

NIACL AO Exam Registration Closing Date

April 2021   

NIACL AO Exam Date

To be announced 

NIACL AO Exam Admit Card

To be announced 

NIACL AO Exam Result

To be announced 

NIACL AO Exam– Vacancy

As of now, no notification regarding the NIACL AO Vacancy 2021 has been released. Candidates can check out the vacancy list of 2018-19 to get acquainted with the idea of the vacancy list.

Categories

Vacant seats

General

175

SC

37

ST

26

OBC

74

Total seats

312

NIACL AO – Eligibility Criteria

All those who fulfill the given eligibility criteria can apply for the NIACL AO Exam. The Eligibility Criteria includes

  • Age limit and relaxation (category-wise)
  • Nationality
  • Educational qualification

AGE LIMIT AND RELAXATION

  1. For the NAICL AO, candidates must be born on or after 2nd December 1988 and on or before 1st December 1997.
  2. The minimum age to appear for the exam is 21 years and the maximum is 30 years.
  3. For reserved categories, age relaxation is provided to apply for the post of NAICL AO. The table mentioned below shows age relaxation for reserved categories.

Categories

NAICL AO Age relaxation

SC/ST

5 Years

OBC (Non-creamy layer)

3 Years

PWD

10 Years

Ex-servicemen

5 Years

Defence personnel disable in operation

3 Years

People originally domiciled in the State of J&K during the time 1-1-80 to 31-12-89

5 Years

Existing NAICL employees and existing confirmed employees of Public Sector General Insurance Company (this includes GIC and Agriculture Insurance Company of India Ltd.

8 Years

NATIONALITY

 A candidate applying for the NIACL AO recruitment 2021 must fulfill either of these conditions:

  1. He/she must be an Indian citizen.
  2. He/she must be a subject of Nepal.
  3. He/she must be a subject of Bhutan.
  4. The candidate must be a Tibetan refugee before Jan 1st, 1962, with the intention of permanently settling in India.
  5. Must be of Indian origin, migrated from Sri Lanka, Kenya, Burma, Pakistan, Uganda, the countries of East Africa and The United Republic of Tanzania, Zaire, Ethiopia, Malawi, Zambia, and Vietnam. He/ she must have an intention of permanently settling in India.

Candidates falling under the categories (2), (3), (4) & (5), must have a certificate of eligibility, issued by the Government of India. 

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

  1. The minimum qualification to apply for NIACL AO is Graduation in any discipline from a recognized university.
  2. Reserved category candidates like SC/ST/PWD, applying for General Cadre, must have 55% marks (at least). For general category candidates, it is 60% (at least).
  3. For the NAICL AO specialist cadre, candidates must have the following educational qualification:

Discipline

Educational qualification

Legal

Graduation or Post-Grad in any discipline with at least 60% marks.

Company Secretary

·         ACS or FCS from ICSI

·         Grad or Post-Grad in any discipline with at least 60% marks.

Finance and Accounts

·         Chartered Accountant (ICAI)

·         Grad or Post-Grad in any discipline with at least 60% marks. For SC/ST/PWD, it is 55%.

·         Cost & Management Accountant ICWAI – B.A. or M.A. degree in any discipline with at least 60% marks. For SC/ST/PWD, it is 55%.

·         PGDM Finance/MBA Finance/M.COM with at least 60% marks. For SC/ST/PWD, it is 55%.

NIACL AO Exam – Selection Process

NAICL AO Exam has 2 main stages – Prelims and Mains. Both the stages are divided into various sections.

While Prelims is an Objective type exam with a time limit of one hour, Mains is both Objective and Descriptive type, with the time limit of 2 hours and 30 minutes, respectively.

NAICL AO Prelims Exam Pattern 2021

Test name

Number of questions

Maximum marks

Time

Reasoning ability

35

35

20 minutes

Numerical ability

35

35

20 minutes

English language

30

30

20 minutes

Total

100

100

1 Hour

 NAICL AO Mains Exam Pattern 2021

The Mains exam is both Objective of 2 hours and Descriptive of 30 minutes.

  • Objective Paper (For Generalists)

Sections

Maximum marks

Time

Test of Reasoning

50

120 Hours

Test of English Language

50

Test of Quantitative Aptitude

50

Test of General Awareness

50

Total

200

2 hours

  • Objective Paper (For Specialists)

Sections

Maximum marks

Time

Test of Reasoning

40

120 Hours

Test of English Language

40

Test of Quantitative Aptitude

40

Test of General Awareness

40

Additional test for assessing technical & professional knowledge in the relevant discipline

40

Total

200

120 Hours

  • Descriptive Paper

Language

English

Mode of paper

Online

Total time

30 minutes

Topics

·         Letter writing

·         Essay writing

Marks

·         Letter writing – 10 marks

·         Essay writing – 20 marks

·         Total marks – 30

NAICL AO Exam– Application form

  1. Open the Official website of NIACL and click on ‘Online Apply’.
  2. Click on the ‘New Sign-up option and enter the required details.
  3. The website will generate a Provisional number & Password and note it down.
  4. Enter all the details and click on ‘Save & Next.
  5. Before pressing the ‘Final Submit’ option make sure to check your details.
  6. Upload your scanned photograph and scanned signature as per the requirements given in the notification.
  7. Click on the payment tab and complete the procedure.

NAICL AO – Application fee

  • Fee payment for the NIACL registration process can be done via Debit card (Visa, MasterCard, and Rupay), Credit card, Net banking, and Mobile wallets.
  • The candidate will receive an e-receipt after successful fee payment.
  • The application fee is non-refundable.

Categories

Fee

General/OBC

Rs. 600

SC/ST/PWD/Ex-servicemen

Rs. 100

NIACL AO – Admit card

  1. After the successful submission of the Application form and fee payment.
  2. It will have all the details like personal details, exam date, time. Centre, etc.
  3. Expected to release a few days before the examination.

NIACL AO Exam– Syllabus

Reasoning Ability

Quantitative Aptitude

English Language

General Awareness

Seating Arrangement

(linear, circular, square)

Number series

Para jumbles

History

Alphabet series, numeric series, alphanumeric series

Data interpretation

Para summary

Geography

Blood relations

Approximation/simplification

Cloze test

Politics

Coding-decoding

Quadratic equation

Reading comprehension

Current Affairs

Logical reasoning

Ration & proportion

Fill in the blanks

Culture

Syllogism

Quantity based questions

Para completion

Banking, insurance and financial awareness

Puzzles

Profit & Loss

Odd one out

Awards & Recognition

Data sufficiency

Percentage & Averages

Sentence correction or improvement

General science

Input-output

Simple & Compound interest

Error spotting

 

Inequalities

Time & Distance

 

 

Order & ranking

Mixtures & Allegations

 

 

Direction based questions

Time, work and wages

 

 

 

Permutation, Combination & Probability

 

 

 

Boats & Streams

 

 

 

Pipes & Cisterns

 

 

 NIACL AO– Result

  • NIACL AO Prelims exam results will be announced after a few weeks of the exam.
  • All the candidates who have cleared the Prelims will be selected for the Mains.
  • All the candidates who have cleared the Mains will be recruited for the post of NIACL AO.

NIACL AO– Cut-Off

The Cut-Off for NIACL AO 2021 has not been announced yet, but you check the cut-off list of 2018-19 for your reference:

  • Prelims Cut-off

Specialization

SC

ST

OBC

General

Generalist

70.50

61

75.75

36.75

Finance & Accounts

47

28.25

46.25

56.50

Legal

20.25

14.50

16.75

36.25

Company Secretary

36.75

  • Mains Cut-off

Specialization

SC

ST

OBC

General

Generalist

108

95.25

118.25

126.50

Finance & Accounts

81

64.75

89.25

99

Legal

67.25

52.75

67.75

87.75

Company Secretary

102

 NIACL AO– Answer Key

  1. Published on the Official website after the exam is conducted.
  2. A direct link to the answer key will be uploaded as soon as it gets out.

NIACL AO – Recommended books

The candidates appearing for the NAICLAO Exam 2021 can study from the books mentioned below:

Author/Publisher

Name of books

B S Sijwalii

A new approach to Verbal and non-verbal reasoning

Lucent

Lucent General Knowledge

N.D.V. Prasad Rao

High school English grammar & composition by Wren & Martin

Dilip Khushwaha

Reading comprehension, ordering of sentences, ordering of words & cloze test

R.S. Agarwal

Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive exams

NIACL AO – Preparation

To ace your AO Exam in one go you can prepare like this:

  1. Know about your exam – syllabus, exam pattern, everything.
  2. Make a timetable and split your time according to your need. If a subject is tough, try to devote extra time to it. And always stick to your timetable.
  3. Practice Quants and Reasoning daily.
  4. Do essay and letter writing practice.
  5. You can also appear for online mock tests for NIACL Assistant.
  6. Read a lot of newspapers, watch the news and keep your general knowledge and current affairs updated.

For any query regarding the NIACL AO Exam, you can ask in the comment box.

FAQs 

1. What are the total number of vacancies for NIACL AO 2021?

Answer: The vacancy list for NIACL AO 2021 has not been released yet. In 2018, there were 312 vacancies.

2. What is the syllabus of General Awareness for NIACL AO?

Answer: For General Awareness, the candidate must prepare the following topics:
History
Culture
Geography
Politics
Current affairs
Awards & Recognition
General science
Banking, insurance and financial awareness.

3. What is the age limit (for general category candidate) to apply for NIACL AO?

Answer: A candidate must be born on or after 2nd December 1988 and on or before 1st December 1997.
The minimum age to appear for the exam is 21 years and the maximum is 30 years.

4. What is the age relaxation for SC, ST & PWD Candidates?

Answer: For SC & ST, it is 5 years.
For PWD, it is 10 years.

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