Life Insurance Corporation has announced 8500+ Vacancies for the post LIC Apprentice Development Officer (ADO). The detailed notification for LIC ADO 2019 Recruitment was released on 20th May 2019. In this blog, we are going to look at the detailed LIC ADO Syllabus for all the sections of LIC ADO Prelims and Main Exam. It contains all the important topics to prepare for Reasoning Ability, Numerical Ability, English, General Awareness, Insurance Awareness, Insurance Marketing etc.
LIC ADO Syllabus – Prelims and Mains 2019
LIC ADO Syllabus – Quantitative Aptitude
- Average
- Data interpretation
- Data Sufficiency
- L.C.M. and H.C.F.
- Mathematical Inequality
- Mixture and allegation problems
- Number Series/Number System
- Percentage
- Profit and loss problems
- Problems on Age
- Ratio and Proportion
- Simple and compound interest
- Simplification and Approximation
- Time, Speed and distance;
- Trains, Boat and Stream, and other Arithematic problems
- Time and work problems
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LIC ADO Syllabus – English Language
- Error Spotting
- Cloze Test
- Fillers – Single, Double, etc. (Solve Free Practice Questions)
- Grammar (verb, prepositions, adverbs, articles, tenses etc.),
- Misspelt Words
- Find the odd one out
- One Word Substitution
- Parajumbles
- Reading Comprehension (Solve Free Practice Questions)
- Sentence Completion
- Sentence Improvement
- Rearrangement of Sentences
- Synonyms/Antonyms
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LIC ADO Syllabus – Reasoning Ability
- Alpha-numeric/Alphabetical Series
- Analogy
- Analytical Reasoning (Solve Free Practice Questions)
- Blood Relations
- Coding Decoding
- Data Sufficiency
- Direction Sense
- Inequality (Solve Free Practice Questions)
- Input-Output
- Odd one out
- Puzzles & Seating Arrangement
- Ranking
- Syllogism
- Statement and Conclusion (Solve Free Practice Questions)
- Statement-Course of Action
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LIC ADO Syllabus – General Awareness
Questions relating to India and its Neighboring Countries pertaining to History, Culture, Geography, Economics, General Polity, Scientific Research, Science – Inventions and Discoveries, Insurance etc.
LIC ADO Current Affairs (National and International)
- Major Financial / Economic News
- Budget and Five-Year Plans
- Sports
- Books and Authors (Solve Free Practice Questions)
- Awards and Honors
- Abbreviations
- Important Days
- International and National Organizations are some related topics
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Insurance Awareness Syllabus:
- Insurance Sector – Basics
- Bancassurance
- History- IRDA
- Life Insurance Company (Public Sector)
- Important Insurance Acts
- Insurance Terms and Abbreviations
- Insurance Companies – Names, Headquarters, Taglines, etc
- Insurance Abbreviations
- Types of Insurance
- Insurance Products and Plans
- Insurance Frauds
- Insurance related Govt Schemes
- Important Facts about Private Life / Non-Life Insurance companies (Get Exclusive Insurance Notes here)
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Insurance Marketing Syllabus:
- Insurance Marketing Basics
- Types of Insurance Marketing
- Methods of Promotion
- Middlemen/Agents – Types, Roles and Responsibilities
- Understanding of Insurance Market etc.
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LIC ADO Syllabus 2019 : Exam Pattern
(I) On-line Test for Open Market Category – 2 Phases
Phase-I: Preliminary Examination:
LIC ADO Prelims Exam pattern is as follows -:
| Section | Name of test | Number of Questions | Maximum Marks | Medium of exam | Duration |
| 1 | Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | English & Hindi | 20 minutes |
| 2 | Numerical Ability | 35 | 35 | English & Hindi | 20 minutes |
| 3 | English | 30 | 30** | English | 20 minutes |
| TOTAL | 100 | 70 | 1 hour | ||
** English Language test will be of qualifying nature and the marks in English Language will not be counted for ranking.
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Phase-II : Main Examination:
LIC ADO Main Exam pattern for Open Market category is given below -:
| Section | Name of test | Number of Questions | Maximum Marks | Medium of exam | Duration |
| 1 | Reasoning Ability & Numerical Ability | 50 | 50 | English & Hindi | Composite 120 minutes |
| 2 | General Knowledge, Current Affairs and English Language with Special Emphasis on Grammar & vocabulary | 50 | 50 | English & Hindi | |
| 3 | Insurance and Financial Marketing Awareness with special emphasis on knowledge of Life Insurance and Financial Sector | 50 | 50 | English & Hindi | |
| TOTAL | 150 | 150 | |||
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(II) On-line Test for Agents & Employee Category:
Selection of Apprentice Development Officer from Agents & Employee Category will be done through single phase examination i.e. Main Examination.
The LIC ADO Main Exam pattern for Agent and Employee are mentioned below.
(i) For Agents Category :
| Section | Name of test | Number of Questions | Maximum Marks | Medium of exam | Duration |
| 1 | Reasoning Ability & Numerical Ability | 25 | 10 | English & Hindi | Composite 120 Minutes |
| 2 | General Knowledge, Current Affairs & English Language with Special Emphasis on Grammar & vocabulary | 25 | 15 | English & Hindi | |
| 3 | Elements of Insurance & Marketing of Insurance. | 50 | 125 | English & Hindi | |
| TOTAL | 100 | 150 | |||
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(ii) For Employee Category :
| Section | Name of test | Number of Questions | Maximum Marks | Medium of exam | Duration |
| 1 | Reasoning Ability & Numerical Ability | 25 | 25 | English & Hindi | Composite 120 minutes |
| 2 | General Knowledge, Current Affairs & English Language with Special Emphasis on Grammar and vocabulary | 25 | 25 | English & Hindi | |
| 3 | Practice and Principle of Insurance Marketing | 50 | 100 | English & Hindi | |
| TOTAL | 100 | 150 | |||
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Candidate MUST obtain minimum qualifying marks in each Section separately and should also obtain minimum marks in the aggregate to qualify for the examinations (Preliminary and Main) and the interview.
Note: There will be no penalty for wrong answers. However, candidates are advised not to mark answers through random guessing.
Interview:
Marks obtained in the Main Examination only will be considered for shortlisting for interview and marks obtained in Main Examination + marks obtained in Interview will be considered for final merit listing of candidates.
Commensurate to the number of vacancies, LIC reserves the right to fix the eligibility standards in order to restrict the candidates to be called for interview and also fix the minimum marks to qualify in the interview. Maximum Interview marks are 37.
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