LIC - AAO Downloads, Exam Pattern and Syllabus

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S.No.	Section	No. of Questions	Max. Marks
1	Quant	30	90
2	Reasoning	30	90
3	General Awareness	30	60
4	Computer	30	60
5	English	40	–
	Total	160	300

For Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude Section, you are awarded +3 for every correct answer and 0.75 is deducted for incorrect answer.
For General Awareness and Computer Knowledge Section, you are awarded +2 for every correct answer and 0.5 is deducted for incorrect answer.
Marks obtained in the English Section will not be considered in calculating the total score. But you have to score a min. qualifying marks in order to move to the interview round.

Quantitative Aptitude

This section includes 30 questions, each of 3 marks.The topics to be covered in this section are

Simplification
Number Series
Data Sufficiency
Data Interpretation
Quadratic Equations
Time and Work
Partnership
Profit and Loss
Mensuration
Time, Distance and Speed – Trains, Boats n Streams
Simple and Compound interest
Mixture and Alligation
Ratio and Proportion, Percentages, Averages

Reasoning

This section also includes 30 questions, each of 3 marks.The topics to be covered in this section are

Input/Output
Syllogism
Blood Relation
Direction Sense
Inequalities
Statement and Assumptions/Conclusions
Puzzles – Seating Arrangement, Floor puzzle, etc.
Coding Decoding
Ranking

Computer Awareness

This section includes 30 questions, each of 2 marks. The topics to be covered are

Basics of computer, different generations, hardware/software, etc.
DBMS
Networking
Internet
MS Office and Shortcuts used in MS Office
Input/output Devices, their types
Important abbreviations

General Awareness

This section includes 30 questions, each of 2 marks.The syllabus for this section is remains vast, The topics included are

Current Affairs – covers every current news including related to banking industry and insurance industry, latest appointments, obituaries, awards and honors, books and authors, new schemes of central and state governments, sports, etc.
Static GK – topics like headquarters of financial organizations (of insurance companies), country-capital, country-currency, dance forms, nuclear and thermal power stations, etc.

We will provide you with our GK capsule before some days of exam which will cover almost all topics.

English

This section includes 40 questions. This section is of qualifying nature, means the marks obtained will not be included in final marks, but one has to clear the sectional cutoff.
The topics to be covered are

Reading comprehension
Sentence rearrangement or Para jumbles
Sentence Correction/ Error Finding
Fillers
Cloze Test

Since English is of only qualifying nature, so do only those least questions which you are sure about and just clear the sectional cutoff which remains at near about 12 for General.