National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) has released advertisement for recruitment of 362 Administrative Officers. The application procedure will start from 05th January 2015. All of you interested in applying for this exam, gear up with the preparation as the examination is schedule to be in April 2015.
Knowing the Syllabus of the examination is the roadmap to your success. Syllabus is one of the most important tool to succeed in an examination. The pattern of NICL AO Exam paper is like Bank Exam. So if you are preparing for a bank exam you will find it easy to prepare.
Let us find out the NICL AO Recruitment Exam Syllabus 2015
As there will be five sections in the examination, you need to understand and prepare the syllabus of each section. The five sections are –
- Reasoning
- English Language
- General Awareness
- Quantitative aptitude
- English Language comprising of Essay, Précis & Comprehension
1. Reasoning – In Reasoning the topics usually covered are: Verbal Reasoning, Series and Alphabet test, Mathematical operations, Odd man out, classification, blood relations, syllogism, coding-decoding, causes effect, analysis, sitting arrangements, statement and conclusion, decision making, puzzle, assertion and reasoning, word formation and other sub-topics.
2. English Language – Jumbled sentence, fill in the blanks, idioms and phrases, synonyms antonyms, spelling check, spot the error in a sentence, one word substitution, sentence improvement.
3. General Awareness – One cannot really narrow things down in this section. Questions will be designed to test your knowledge and awareness of the surrounding. Read newspapers daily to keep yourself abreast with the current happenings.
4. Quantitative Aptitude – Questions on Number system, LCM-HCF, Number series, Decimal Fractions, partnership, Simple/compound Interest, time distance and speed, time and work, profit and loss, percentage, permutation combination, Data Interpretation, Mixture & Alligation and elementary mensuration.
5. English Language ( Descriptive) – 3 questions on Essay, Précis & Comprehension may be asked.
Now that you know NICL AO syllabus, find out the best Books for NICL AO Exam 2015
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mithilesh says
Can any one tell me expected date of ao nicl
admin says
The written examination for NICL AO is expected to be conducted in the month of April 2015.
tamanna soni says
when will admit card for nic will be issued
admin says
The admit card of NICL AO exam 2015 is expected to be issued in the month of April 2015 about 10 days before the date of exam.
suma says
Sir,indian economy questions are to be asked only current events or ancient economy in nicl exam?
admin says
There is no clear demarcation, but current events are more important than ancient economy. All the best!
Soumya says
sir/madam,
can you please tell me what are the type of questions asked in the information technology specialist disipline in the nicl ao exam..
admin says
Hi
As I have told others, there is no defined syllabus. BUT the type of questions covered for NICL AO IT Officer Exam are similar to what is asked for IT officer exams conducted by IBPS. The question pattern of the NICL AO Specialist will be similar to GATE and SBI SO. On that basis following is the suggested NICL AO IT Officer Syllabus and important topics to be covered –
Data Base Management System (DBMS), RDBMS, E- R Diagrams, Normalization, Overview of SQL queries, Transaction Management.
Data Communication & Networking, IP Addressing (Subnetting), Network, Architecture, OSI Model, TCP-IP Model, Data Communication.
Operating System – Types of OS, Semaphore, Scheduling, Network Security, Cyber Crimes – Risk Management, Firewall, Cryptography, Process thread, Dead Lock, Memory Partitioning, Page Replacement, Computer organization, Hardware, Microprocessor, Bus Structure etc.
Software Engineering and data structure topics like SDLC, Software Development Models, Array, Linked List, Stacks etc.
Web Technologies and basics of Programming Languages topics like HTML Tags, XML, Network Security, basics of C, C++, OOP languages.
You can use your regular books to brush up these topics. However, if you are planning to also appear for IBPS Specialist Officers I.T. Officer Exam, then I would suggest that you buy one of the books below, they will be helpful for NICL AO IT Officer exam as well:
“IBPS Specialist Officers CWE I.T. Officer Online Exam Practice Work Book (With Free CD)” published by Kiran Prakashan – Buy on Flipkart or
“IBPS-CWE Specialist Officer Cadre IT Officer Scale I Recruitment Exam” by Arihant – Buy on Amazon.
Karuna says
Sir,
Will the marks obtained from essaywriting, precise writing considered for qualifying
admin says
Hello Karuna,
As per the NICL AO Notification, Candidates will be shortlisted for Interview on the
basis of overall marks scored in objective and descriptive section taken together against full marks of 200. So Yes, marks obtained from essay writing, precise writing and comprehension will be considered for qualifying.
However please note that the descriptive paper will only be evaluated if you pass the objective paper!
sweta says
in descriptive we have to only qualify or marks will be added???
admin says
Dear Sweta,
Candidates will be shortlisted for the interview on the basis of TOTAL marks scored in both objective AND descriptive section. So you need to score in both objective and descriptive papers. However please note that the descriptive paper will only be evaluated if you pass the objective paper!
Best of Luck.
Durga says
sir, regarding to descriptive test do we need to write eassy in system ? Just like united
admin says
Yes Durga. The NICL AO Exam Descriptive paper will be conducted only through online mode. All the questions will be displayed on the computer screen and you will have to type in the answers using the keyboard.
TIP 1: Before you start typing answers please CAREFULLY check that all the keys of the keyboard are working.
TIP 2: Most of the students own a laptop, but the exam will be conducted on a desktop system. If you are not used to a desktop system, then you may find this a little difficult on the exam day. So in case you are a laptop user, it is suggested that you borrow a keyboard and a mouse from your friend and practice using that. If not, buy a cheap keyboard-mouse combo from your friendly neighbourhood computer shop. Otherwise you can also order on Amazon or Flipkart. Believe me you don’t want to be surprised on your exam day!
TONMOI says
Thank you admin for your tips..