NIACL AO Syllabus 2021 | Check Exam Pattern

NIACL is all set to conduct an exam for hiring candidates for the Administrative Officer in the Specialist & Generalist Cadre. The selection of this exam will be merit-based and New India Assurance Company Limited has set the NIACL AO Syllabus.

The interested candidates can read this article and all about the NIACL AO syllabus, exam pattern, and the books you can read for preparation.

Exclusive NIACL AO Syllabus 2021

The aspiring candidates must go through the NIACL AO syllabus and prepare themselves for the exam in every manner. For preparation, just knowing the syllabus is similar to the phrase, ‘tip of an iceberg’. You also have to know about the exam pattern and the books you can read for preparation.

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

 

 

 NAICL AO Syllabus – Exam Pattern

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

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

NAICL AO Syllabus – Prelims Exam Pattern

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 Syllabus – Mains Exam Pattern

The NIACL AO 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

 NIACL AO Syllabus  – 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

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

FAQs

1. What is the duration of NIACL Mains Descriptive exam?

Answer: The duration of the NIACL AO Mains Descriptive exam is 30 minutes.

2. What are the sections of NIACL AO Prelims Exam?

Answer: The NIACL AO Prelims Exam is divided into following sections:
Reasoning aptitude
English language
Numerical ability

3. Which book is recommended for General knowledge?

Answer: For General knowledge you can go for Lucent General knowledge.

4. What is the NIACL AO syllabus for English section?

Answer: For English section the NIACL AO syllabus is
Para jumbles
Para summary
Error spotting
Odd one out
Sentence correction or improvement
Cloze test
Fill in the blanks
Reading comprehension
Para completion

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