NIACL Assistant 2017 (Prelims): Exam Analysis & State-wise Cut-Offs

The NIACL Assistant (Prelims) exam was conducted in a single day on 23^rd April 2017. The paper had no major surprises and has been along the same lines as other Assistant level exams of the last few months. With vacancies being under 1000 and an easy paper, the cut-off is expected to go high.

NIACL Assistant Prelims 2017 : Numerical Ability

This section was easy with only some of the miscellaneous word problems potentially being a little time consuming.

 

Question Type (Numerical Ability)	Number of Questions
Simplification	10
Data Interpretation	5
Number Series	5
Miscellaneous	15

 

NIACL Assistant Prelims 2017 : Reasoning

This section was easy to moderate. Only the Analytical Reasoning/Puzzles were a little time consuming. Syllogism asked were of the simple statement-conclusion type.

 

Question Type (Reasoning)	Number of Questions
Analytical Reasoning/ Puzzles	15
Word Re-arrangement	5
Alphanumeric Coding	5
Direction Sense	1
Syllogism	5
Blood Relations	1
Coding – Decoding	1
Miscellaneous	2

 

 

NIACL Assistant Prelims 2017 : English Language

The English section followed the recent trend of having only three types of questions with 10 questions on each. This section could have been attempted in under 10 minutes with a good attempt count of 23-26.

Question Type (Reasoning)	Number of Questions
Reading Comprehension	10
Correct Usage (Identify Error)	10
Cloze Test	10

NIACL Assistant Prelims 2017 : State-wise Cut-offs (EXPECTED)