OICL AO Mains Exam Analysis – 18th November 2017

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OICL AO Mains Exam Analysis – 18th November 2017

Hello Friends,

The second phase of the OICL AO Recruitment i.e OICL Mains exam took place today. The mains exam is divided into two categories Objective Test and Descriptive Test. The Objective Test will consist of 200 marks and the Descriptive test will be of 30 marks.

Many students have appeared for this exam today and this brings them to a step closer in their journey of getting a Job in the government sector

OICL AO Mains Analysis – Good Attempts (Generalist)

Subjects Max.
Marks
Level Good
Attempts
Duration
Reasoning
Ability
50 Moderate 18-20 Composite
Time of
2 hours
English
Language
50 Moderate
to Difficult
 14-16
General
Awareness
50  Easy to Moderate 27-32
Quantitative
Aptitude
50  Moderate 21-25
Total  200 Moderate
122-130

 

ENGLISH LANGUAGE 
This section had 50 questions for 50 marks. The level of English Language section was moderate. Questions were asked from Reading Comprehension, which included 4 questions from Synonyms/ Antonyms as well.
Topic
No. of Questions
Level
Reading Comprehension
10
Moderate
Cloze Test
10 Easy-Moderate
Sentence Rearrangement 5 Moderate
Error Detection 10 Moderate
Double Replacement 5 Moderate
Spell-Error 5 Moderate
Para-Jumbles 5 Moderate
Total
50
Moderate to Difficult

 

REASONING
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement sets were moderate level. Following were the types of puzzles asked:

  • Circular Seating Arrangement (2 Variable)
  • Linear Seating Arrangement
  • Scheduling (Day) Based Puzzle (2 variables)
  • Age Based Puzzle
The questions were:
Topic
No. of Questions
Level
Sitting Arrangement and Puzzles
20
Moderate
Data Sufficiency (2 statement)
5
Moderate
Machine Input-Output
5
Moderate
Syllogism
5
Easy
Order Ranking
3
Easy
Blood Relation
3
Easy
Logical Reasoning
8 Moderate
Direction Sense 1 Easy
Total
50
Moderate

 

GENERAL AWARENESS
Most of the questions were from Insurance, banking, Static and current affairs. There were also few questions from basic banking awareness and the questions asked from static were based on those cities which were recently in news. The current affairs questions were mainly from the news and events of October and November Month.

Quantitative Aptitude ( Moderate )
The level of Quantitative Aptitude was Moderate and there were 5 sets of Data Interpretation Questions. Following were the types of DI:
  • Pie Chart
  • Bar Graph
  • Caselet
  • Tabular DI
  • Mixed DI
Topic No. of Questions Level
Data Interpretation 25 Moderate
Missing Number Series 5 Moderate
Quadratic Equation 5 Easy
Approximation 5 Easy
Mixture and Allegation 1 Moderate
Time and Work 1 Moderate
Ratio and Proportion 1 Moderate
Boat and Stream 1 Moderate
Miscellaneous 6 Easy-Moderate
Total 50 Moderate

 

Descriptive Paper Analysis

In descriptive paper 2 questions were asked. One was based on letter writing & other was on Essay Writing. You have to choose one topic for Letter as well as Essay writing.

Letter Writing

  1. Write a letter to your friend convincing him/her about the importance of insurance in the life.
    OR
  2. Write a letter to Insurance head requesting the change of name after marriage in insurance policy.

Essay Writing

  1. Write an essay on Art Insurance?
    OR
  2. Things to be kept in mind while choosing insurance policy for yourself?
    OR
  3. How Mutual Funds are more return giving as compared to Life Insurance Policy. Why one should go for Mutual Funds.