NIACL AO Prelims Exam Analysis 2018-19:
NIACL Administrative Officers (AO) is one of the most sought-after recruitment in the insurance industry. Several aspirants are burning candles at both ends to get a seat for themselves in this prestigious insurance company. 30th January is the first phase of this exam, i.e., (phase-I) prelims. Many students appeared for this exam and the competition will be very tough this time. Therefore, it is necessary that one gets aware about the type of questions being asked in the exam so that you get an idea about how to plan your strategy to attempt the questions in the exam and manage your time accordingly.
This year there is the sectional timing of 20 minutes in the Prelims Exam, its important for all banking aspirants to go through the review once. Exam analysis and review can help the aspirants who are yet to appear in upcoming shifts of NIACL AO Prelims to get an idea of the difficulty level and expected pattern of questions in Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability, and English Language sections. The examination held in this shift was of Easy to Moderate level. The order of occurrence of sections was English Language, Quantitative Aptitude and Reasoning Ability.
NIACL AO Exam Analysis 2018: Section-wise Analysis
Subject | Good Attempt | Time |
English Language | 22-26 | 20 |
Reasoning Ability | 28-33 | 20 |
Quantitative Aptitude | 19-23 | 20 |
Total | 76-83 | 60 |
Quantitative Aptitude (Moderate)
The level of Quantitative Aptitude section was Moderate because 10 questions based on word problems (Miscellaneous). There were 3 DIs questions based on a Tabular and Bar Graph. Tabular DI based on the ratio between students and teachers while the bar-graph based on the comparison between Indian and Western Cloths.
Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
Data Interpretation | 15 | Moderate |
Wrong Number Series | 05 | Easy-Moderate |
Approximation | 05 | Easy-Moderate |
Arithmetic Word Problems (Profit and Loss, Problem on Ages, SI & CI etc) | 10 | Moderate |
Total | 35 | Moderate |
English Language (Easy)
English section was easy level. There was one set of Reading Comprehension with 7 questions out of which 2 question was of identifying the synonym and antonym (thinner). The passage of the RC was based on Insurance Market.
Topic | No. of Questions | Level |
Reading Comprehension | 07 | Easy-Moderate |
Error Detection (Grammatical) | 05 | Easy |
Single Word Filler | 05 | Easy |
Cloze Test | 05 | Easy |
Sentence Re-arrangement | 05 | Easy-Moderate |
Word Uses | 03 | Easy |
Total | 30 | Easy |
Reasoning (Easy)
The level of reasoning section was also Easy. There were 4 sets of puzzles and Seating Arrangement, following are the types
- Square seating arrangement (8 people, single variable)
- Box-based puzzle (9 boxes)
- Linear Seating Arrangement single Line (9 number of people, single variable)
- Floor-based puzzle (9-floor, single variable)
Topics | No. of Questions | Level |
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement | 20 | Easy-Moderate |
Syllogism | 05 | Easy |
Direction Sense | 03 | Easy |
Alphabets Based | 02 | Easy |
Coding-Decoding | 05 | Easy |
Total | 35 | Easy to Moderate |

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