LIC Assistant Administrative Officer (AAO) Phase I (Preliminary) Examination 2019 was conducted today (May 05, 2019). There were 100 questions, which had to be answered in 60 minutes. There were three sections – Reasoning Ability, Quantitative Aptitude and English Language. All the sections except English Language were available bilingually, that is, both in English and in Hindi. Each question had 5 options. This year there is sectional timing of 20 minutes.
The detailed break-up of the LIC AAO Phase I (Preliminary) Exam 2019 is as follows:
Section |
Total Questions |
Maximum Marks |
Level of difficulty |
Good Attempts |
Minimum Qualifying Marks |
Time taken (in minutes) |
Reasoning Ability |
35 |
35 |
Easy-Moderate |
27-31 |
SC/ST -16; Others - 18 |
20 |
Quantitative Aptitude |
35 |
35 |
Moderate |
18-22 |
SC/ST -16; Others - 18 |
20 |
English Language |
30 |
30* |
Easy-Moderate |
14-15* |
SC/ST -09; Others - 10 |
20 |
Total |
100 |
70 |
Easy-Moderate |
52-58 (Reasoning + QA) |
|
60 |
* English Language test is of qualifying nature and the marks in English Language will not be counted for ranking.
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
AR (Circular Seating Arrangement – 11 persons – all are facing the center) |
5 |
Easy |
AR(Data Arrangement – 9 people visit Mumbai in different months of a year based) |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
AR (Seating Arrangement – Parallel rows Based) |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
AR(Puzzle- 6 people are in different departments) |
4 |
Easy-Moderate |
Letter Arrangement to form a meaningful word and then find the third letter from left |
1 |
Easy |
Mathematical Inequalities |
5 |
Easy |
Direction – set based |
3 |
Easy-Moderate |
Blood Relation |
3 |
Easy |
Counting between letters(Dictionary based) |
1 |
Easy |
Syllogism |
3 |
Easy |
There were four sets from Seating Arrangement and Data Arrangement. The overall difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate.
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
Data Interpretation (Bar Graph) |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
Data Interpretation (Pie Chart + Table) |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
Data Interpretation(Caselet) |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
Simplification/Approximation |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
Number Series |
5 |
Moderate |
Ages |
1 |
Easy |
Percentages |
1 |
Easy |
Time, Speed and Distance |
1 |
Easy |
Partnership |
1 |
Moderate |
Si and CI |
1 |
Easy-Moderate |
Miscellaneous |
5 |
Moderate |
There were three sets of five questions each from Data Interpretation. The overall difficulty level of this section was moderate.
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
Reading Comprehension (Based on Pocket money given to the adults by their parents ) |
10 |
Moderate |
Spot the error (Grammar based) |
5 |
Easy |
Find out wrongly spelt or inappropriate words out of the bold words given in the statement |
5 |
Easy |
Rearrangement of 5 different parts into a meaningful sentence |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
Cloze Test |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
The Reading Comprehension was based on Pocket money given to the adults by their parents. The overall difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate.
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All the Best!
Team CL