Exam Pattern of GIC Recruitment for Officer Scale I
Dear Sehpaathians,
General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC),the sole reinsurance company in the Indian insurance market with over four decades of experience will soon going to conduct the online examination for the recruitment of Officers. So, we are here with the complete examination scheme for all of you
The scheme of online written examination is as follows:
For General Stream Candidates:
PART A (OBJECTIVE): It consists Higher Order Reasoning Ability/Critical Thinking having 40 questions of 40 marks.
PART B (OBJECTIVE):
| SECTION | Max Marks | Number of Questions |
| Test of Reasoning | 20 | 20 |
| Test of English Language | 20 | 20 |
| Test of General Awareness | 20 | 20 |
| Test of Numerical Ability & Computer Literacy | 20 | 20 |
PART C (DESCRIPTIVE): It has Test in English Language – Essay, precise and Comprehension consisting 3 questions of 30 marks.
For Specialist Candidates:
PART A (OBJECTIVE): It consists Technical & Professional Knowledge Test in the relevant discipline having 40 questions of 40 marks.
PART B (OBJECTIVE):
| SECTION | Max Marks | Number of Questions |
| Test of Reasoning | 20 | 20 |
| Test of English Language | 20 | 20 |
| Test of General Awareness | 20 | 20 |
| Test of Numerical Ability & Computer Literacy | 20 | 20 |
PART C (DESCRIPTIVE): It has Test in English Language – Essay, precise and Comprehension consisting 3 questions of 30 marks.
Overall there will be 123 questions of 150 marks.The Minimum qualifying marks in the online test will be 60% for General & OBC and 50% for SC /ST.
The Part B and Part C of examination shall be common for the candidates of all the streams. There will be penalty for wrong answers marked (in objective tests) by the candidates.
- For each wrong answer ¼ of the marks assigned to the question will be deducted from those obtained.
- Tests will be bilingual i.e. English and Hindi except test of English Language.
- The minimum qualifying marks would be applicable on the total score of online examination.
- The Descriptive English Test will be conducted only through online mode. Questions will be displayed on the screen of your computer. Answers are to be typed using the keyboard in English . Before start of typing answers to questions in Descriptive Paper, please check all key functions of the keyboard.
- Total test timing 150 minutes. 30 minutes for Domain knowledge, 60 minutes for Part B objective and 60 minutes for Part C (descriptive).
- Candidates will be shortlisted for Group Discussion and interview on the basis of overall marks scored in objective and descriptive section taken together against full marks of 150.
Pre- Examination Training Intimation for GIC Recruitment of Officer Scale I
