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

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

Essay Writing

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