LIC ADO Exam Pattern & Syllabus 2019

19/05/2019

LIC ADO Exam Pattern & Syllabus:

Life Insurance Corporation of India(LIC) invites online applications for LIC ADO Recruitment 2019 from eligible candidates who must be Indian Citizens for selection and appointment as LIC Apprentice Development Officer in the jurisdiction of the various Divisional Offices. So here we are come-out with the LIC ADO Exam Pattern and Syllabus 2019. You can check the LIC ADO Exam pattern and syllabus from here and start your preparation accordingly.

Selection will be made on the basis of on-line test followed by an Interview of candidates who qualify in the on-line test and subsequent pre-recruitment Medical examination.
On-line Test for Open Market Category:
Selection of Apprentice Development Officer from Open Market Category will be done through two phase examination.

Phase-I: Preliminary Examination 2019

Preliminary Examination consisting of objective test will be conducted online. The test will have three sections (with separate timings for each section) as follows:

Section	Name of test	Number of Questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
1	Reasoning Ability	35	35	20 minutes
2	Numerical Ability	35	35	20 minutes
3	English	30	30*	20 minutes
TOTAL		100	70	1 hour

** English Language test will be of qualifying nature and the marks in English Language will not be counted for ranking.
Candidates equal to 20 times of number of vacancies in each category, subject to availability, will be shortlisted for Main examination.

Phase-II: Main Examination 2019

Main Examination consisting of objective test will be conducted online. Main examination will consist of objective tests for 150 marks.

Section	Name of test	Number of Questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
1	Reasoning Ability & Numerical Ability	50	50	Composite 120 minutes
2	General Knowledge, Current Affairs and English Language with Special Emphasis on Grammar & vocabulary	50	50
3	Insurance and Financial Marketing Awareness with special emphasis on knowledge of Life Insurance and Financial Sector	50	50
TOTAL		150	150

Note: There will be no penalty for wrong answers. However, candidates are advised not to mark answers through random guessing.

For Agents Category

Selection of Apprentice Development Officer from Agents & Employee Category will be done through single phase examination i.e. Main Examination.
Main Examination consisting of objective test will be conducted online. Main examination will consist of objective tests for 150 marks.

Section	Name of test	Number of Questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
1	Reasoning Ability & Numerical Ability	25	10	Composite 120 Minutes
2	General Knowledge, Current Affairs & English Language with Special Emphasis on Grammar & vocabulary	25	15
3	Elements of Insurance & Marketing of Insurance.	50	125
TOTAL		150	150

For Employee Category

Section	Name of test	Number of Questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
1	Reasoning Ability & Numerical Ability	25	25	Composite 120 minutes
2	General Knowledge, Current Affairs & English Language with Special Emphasis on Grammar and vocabulary	25	25
3	Practice and Principle of Insurance Marketing	50	100
TOTAL		150	150

The Scores of Examination are obtained by adopting the following procedure:

(i) Number of questions answered correctly by a candidate in each objective test is considered for arriving at the Score.
(ii) The score so obtained by a candidate are made equivalent to take care of the minor
difference in difficulty level, if any, in each of the objective tests held in different sessions to arrive at the Equated Scores*
* Scores obtained by candidates on any test are equated to the base form by considering the distribution of scores of all the forms.
(iii) Test wise scores and scores on total is reported with decimal point upto two digits.

Phase-III: Interview

Marks obtained in the Main Examination only will be considered for shortlisting for interview and marks obtained in Main Examination + marks obtained in Interview will be considered for final merit listing of candidates. Maximum Interview marks are 37.

I. Commensurate to the number of vacancies, LIC reserves the right to fix the eligibility standards in order to restrict the candidates to be called for interview and also fix the minimum marks to qualify in the interview. Maximum Interview marks are 37.
II. In case of similar marks of two or more candidates, the merit order of such group of candidates shall be as per the aggregate marks in main examination and interview and further as per their additional post-graduation qualification (i.e. the person with higher educational qualification will be placed higher in the merit order) and in case of further similarity in educational qualification merit order will be decided on the basis of age, (i.e. senior in age will be placed higher in merit order).
III. There will be no contingency/waiting list for candidates not declared successful in the main list.

LIC reserves the right to modify the structure of the examination which will be intimated through its website. Other detailed information regarding the examination will be given in an Information Handout which will be made available for the candidates to download along with the call letters
Candidate MUST obtain minimum qualifying marks in each Section separately and should also obtain minimum marks in the aggregate to qualify for the examinations (Preliminary and Main) and the interview. The minimum marks to be obtained in each paper and in the aggregate shall be decided by LIC of India. The Corporation reserves the right to fix the minimum eligibility standard in order to restrict the number of candidates to be called for the On-line Test and/or Interview, commensurate with number of vacancies.
Decision of the Corporation in this regard shall be final and binding on the candidates. No correspondence will be entertained in this regard.
The responses (answers) of individual candidates with other candidates would be analyzed to detect patterns of similarity of right and wrong answers. If in the analytical procedure adopted in this regard, it is inferred/concluded that the responses have been shared and scores obtained are not genuine/valid, LIC reserves the right to cancel the candidature of the concerned candidate and the result of such candidates (disqualified) will be withheld.
The scores obtained by each of the candidates in different sessions (if held) will be normalized using equi-percentile equating method.
There will be no penalty for wrong answers. However, candidates are advised not to mark answers through random guessing.

LIC Exam Syllabus For ADO 2019

Reasoning

Statement based Questions,
Syllogism,
Seating Arrangement,
Coding-Decoding,
Alpha Numeric Sequence,
Puzzles,
Seating Arrangement,
Blood Relation,
Analogy,
Odd One Out

Numerical Ability

Number System
HCF
LCM
Simplification
Decimal Fractions
Ratio and Proportions
Unitary Method
Percentage
Time and Distance
Time and Work
Profit and Loss
Average
Simple and Compound Interest
Mensuration (2D and 3D)
Algebra
Data Interpretation are some related topics

English Language

Grammar and vocabulary
Spotting error
Comprehension
Passage making
Jumble word
Sentence framing
Fill in the blanks etc.

General Knowledge and Awareness

Current Affairs (National and International) (Last 6 month)
Major Financial / Economic News
Budget and Five Year Plans
Sports
Appointment
Summit
Important Business Deals
Books and Authors
Awards and Honors
Science – Inventions and Discoveries
Abbreviations
Important Days
International and National Organizations are some related topics

Insurance and Financial Marketing Awareness

This section will contains multiple type questions based on Insurance and Financial Marketing Awareness with special emphasis on knowledge of Life Insurance and Financial Sector.