Exam On :
5th, 6th, 13th March of 2016.
General
– 349
OBC – 192
SC -104
ST – 52
While
focusing on this exam here we will be discussing the selection process, the
pattern, syllabus of the exam and previous year cutoffs. The final
selection will be made on the basis of your performance in-
1. Written test followed by
2. Personal interview
The exam
will be of objective multiple choice type which will be conducted online. The
overall duration for the exam is 120 minutes (2 hours) and it will consist
following test.
But there will be a penalty for every wrong answer given by you in the test. For every wrong answer ¼ of the marks will be deducted, while no penalty for un-attempted questions.
Note:
1. Here
the nature of test for English language is qualifying and the marks obtained in
this test would not be considered for ranking.
2. The candidate is required to
clear a sectional cutoff and also overall cutoff meant to qualify for personal
interview.
Detail Syllabus of LIC AAO 2016 Exam
I. Reasoning
This section covers questions from diverse topics
like
1. Statement based questions
2. Syllogism
3. Seating arrangement
4. Coding –decoding, alpha numeric
sequence
5. Puzzle- rank based, floor
based, circular arrangement based
6. Blood relation
7. Analogy, odd one out
II Quantitative aptitude
This
section covers questions from various topics lik
1. Data interpretation
2. Time and work
3. Speed, distance and time
4. Number series or approximations
5.Simple and compound interest
6. Profit and loss
7. Average
8. Mixture and allegation
III.General knowledge &
Current affairs –
This
section covers questions from
1.Current affairs questions
will be from various sections like new appointments, recent sports
developments, national and international news, awards and honors, new schemes
etc.
2. General knowledge will
be covered from topics like country-capital-currency-head, dance forms , famous
places, dams, nuclear and thermal power stations etc.
IV.Computer
This
section covers topics from various topics like
1.Networking
2.Input output devices
3.DBMS
4.MS Office
5.Internet
6. History of computer &
generations
7. Shortcuts.
V.English
This
section covers topics from various topics like
1.Error spotting
2. Reading comprehension
3. Sentence rearrangement
4. Sentence improvement
5. Cloze test
Here
is a look on previous year cutoffs –
Sectional cutoffs:
Note: Although English is qualifying
but you have to score minimum marks required to qualify. These are LIC
AAO 2013 cutoffs.
Reference
books on different sections-
Reasoning– Verbal and Non –Verbal
reasoning by R S Aggarwal, book by M K Pandey (BSC publications).
Quantitative
aptitude– Fast
track by Rajesh Verma (Arihant publications), quantitative aptitude by R S
Aggarwal.
English-(although qualifying, but can
read from) objective general English by S P Bakshi.