LIC Assistant Exam Preparation Strategy 2019 – For Prelims & Mains

LIC (Life Insurance Corporation) has released the notification for the recruitment of Assistant 2019. LIC declared the notification through its official website for 7500+ vacancies. These vacancies are bifurcated region-wise. LIC is a state-owned insurance group and investment company headquartered in Mumbai. It is one of the most prominent Insurance firm in India. Many aspirants aspire to work for this elite firm; and now with the notification out, it is high time to enhance your preparations. This blog will give you details about LIC Assistant Exam Preparation 2019.

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LIC Assistant Exam Preparation- Course Pattern

LIC Assistant Exam Preparation- Prelims

S. No.	Sections	Number of Questions	Total Marks	Duration
1	Reasoning	35	35	20 minutes
2	Quantitative Aptitude	35	35	20 minutes
3	English Language / Hindi Language	30	30	20 minutes
Total		100	70	60 minutes

*English / Hindi Langauge Paper will be of qualifying nature only and marks scored in this section would not be considered.

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LIC Assistant Exam Preparation- Mains

Name of Tests	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Medium of Exam	Minimum Qualifying Marks		Duration
				SC/ST	Others
General/Financial Awareness	50	50	English & Hindi	18	20	35 minutes
General English	40	40	English	14	16	35 minutes
Quantitative Aptitude	50	50	English & Hindi	18	20	40 minutes
Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude	60	60	English & Hindi	22	24	40 minutes
Total	200	200				2 Hours 30 Minutes

*1/4 Negative Marking

LIC Assistant Exam Preparation- Syllabus

Reasoning	Quantitative Aptitude	General Awareness	English Language
Statement based Questions,	Data Interpretation,	Current Affairs,	Reading Comprehension,
Syllogism,	Time and Work,	National and International Matters,	Sentence Arrangement,
Seating Arrangement,	Speed, Distance and Time,	Currency and Capital,	Cloze Test,
Coding-Decoding,	Number Series,	Awards and Honors,	Error Spotting,
Alpha-Numeric Sequence,	Approximation,	General History, Geography,	Sentence Improvement,
Puzzles,	Simple Interest and Compound Interest,	Biology and Applied Science	Synonyms-Antonyms,
Seating Arrangement,	Profit and Loss,		Phrases,
Blood Relation,	Average,		Elementary Grammar
Analogy,	Mixture and Allegations
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LIC Assistant Preparation Strategy 2019

Things To Follow-

Selecting the Region to appear from– Do thorough research before filling out the form for any region. Check the eligibility criteria before applying. Exam pattern is also different for certain regions.

Know The Exam- The first thing to keep in mind before starting preparation for any exam is knowing the exam. Go through the complete pattern of the exam and time allotment to each section. Please note that pattern differs region-wise so do follow the pattern for the region for which you are appearing.

Setup Study Plan– Time allotment is very important when it comes to preparing for any exam. Prepare a list of topics that haunt you and allot maximum time to those. In this race do not forget to check the concepts you are familiar with once in a while. Allot a separate time for the revision of topics that you have good command over. Overall study should include all the topics with their specific time allotments and a certain period for revision.

Mock Test– It is one of the best ways to get self-prepared for the exam. Mocks give you a real-time view of the actual paper. Plan your study after taking the mock. This will help you in analyzing sections that require more effort and concentration. Mocks also helps a lot in time management. How to analyze yourself during the course preparation? Mock is the best solution to your question. Let Oliveboard help you with the Mock test here

Revision–  One of the very important things during preparations is, keep memorizing the tricks and patterns that you have already familiarised yourself with. Lack of revision often tends to candidates forgetting the formulas and tricks to the questions. So keep yourself in regular touch of the concepts that you have learned.

Time Management- Prepare yourself with strict timelines to finish the course and tests. This technique will help you bound the time limit for every section and overall exam. Remember clearing the sectional cut off and the overall cut off is your goal. Also there is negative marking for every wrong answer. You need to be sure when marking an answer, this will increase your chances of clearing the exam. Do not stress habits usually takes time.

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LIC Assistant Exam Preparation- Section Wise Tricks

Reasoning Section

• Follow questions of all Pattern from books, video lectures, live lectures.
• Practice questions with minimum timeframe.
• Explore the previous year’s paper for getting an idea of the type of questions

Quantitative Aptitude

• Try and apply shortcut tricks to solve the questions. This will help you in solving the questions with efficiency.
• Applications of shortcut tricks will help you in saving time and perform better.
• Figure out the chapters that troubles you and invest more time in the preparation for that chapter.
• Follow books and video lectures for better understanding.

General Awareness

• This section requires you to be in constant touch with the daily updates of the world happenings.
• Try to follow regular news and blogs for the latest updates.
• You can refer to ebooks for Static GK.
• Make a note of the important and relevant updates for the day as a handbook which you can use later for a quick revision

English Section

• Build up a habit of reading a newspaper, this will help you in improving reading and will also update you with the latest news.
• Try to solve different types of questions in the mock tests.
• Analyze daily newspaper to enhance your understanding.
• Focus very much on the Cloze test section.

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