GIC Scale - I Officer 2018 Exam Analysis , Check Here !

GIC Scale - I Officer (Assistant Manager) Exam 2018 was conducted today i.e. on 22nd July 2018. As the exam is over now, we are here with comprehensive exam analysis of GIC Scale - I officer exam to keep you abreast of the latest exam trend. You can go through this GIC Assistant Manager, General Stream exam review to know all about topics asked, number of questions, difficulty level of individual sections and overall exam.

In this post, you can also check good attempts which are based on the level of the exam and vacancies this year.

GIC Scale - I Officer Exam Analysis 2018

You can check following points in this analysis :

Major Observation in GIC Scale - I Officer Exam 2018.
Difficulty Level of Individual Sections
Section-wise Exam Analysis
Good Attempts based on the level of the exam.

Major Observation in GIC Scale - I Officer Exam 2018

Level of the exam - Part A of the exam was on the difficult side while Part B was of Moderate Level.

Section-wise highlights :

Higher Order Reasoning Ability/Critical Thinking - This section consists of the question from Puzzles, Seating Arrangement and Logical Reasoning/Critical Thinking. The level of this section was Moderate. Questions of Logical reasoning were perception based. This section was difficult
Test of Reasoning - This section had moderate level questions. Questions from Inequality, Syllogism, Direction Sense and data sufficiency were asked.
Test of English Language - In this section, there was no new pattern question. Questions from Reading Comprehension, error spotting, sentence improvement and fillers were asked.
Test of Quantitative Aptitude & Computer Literacy - 10 questions from Quantitative Aptitude and 10 Questions from Computer Literacy were asked. The level of the questions was simple. In Quant, only arithmetic topics were asked.
Test of General Awarnesss - This section had questions from current affairs, static gk and some question related to insurance awareness.
Essay, precise and Comprehension - The topics were related to insurance and finance.

GIC Scale - I Officer: Section Wise Exam Analysis

We will now discuss the individual sections that were asked in this exam as well as their detailed analysis. There were 5 sections in the exam -

1. Test of English -

English Language consisted of 20 questions. Check below the topics asked in this section -

Section	No. of questions	Details of the topic asked
Reading Comprehension	6	There were 2 vocabulary based questions.
Spotting Errors	5	Old pattern error spotting was asked in which candidates were required to find out the part which has an error
Sentence Improvement	5	This also consisted of questions of Phrase Replacement.
Fill in the blanks	4	The level of the questions was moderate.
Total	20

2. Test of Reasoning

20 questions were asked in this section. The level of the questions in this section was Moderate -difficult. Following table consists of the topics asked in Test of Reasoning -

Section	No. of questions	Details of the topic asked
Inequality	5	The questions were doable and easy.
Syllogism	5	Old pattern syllogism questions were asked.
Direction	5	5 questions from direction sense topics were there. The level was moderatr
Data Sufficiency	5	This had questions from miscellaneous topics of Reasoning.
Total	20

3. Higher order reasoning/Critical Thinking

This section had 40 questions. This section puzzled the candidates very much as all the questions were perception based. Go through the below table to know all about the topics asked in this section -

Section	No. of questions	Details of the topic asked
Puzzles	15	One puzzle was based on different years. The level was moderate to tough. A box based puzzle was asked. The level was moderate. A puzzle was based on blood relation. The level was moderate to tough.
Seating Arrangement	5	Linear seating arrangement was asked in which persons were facing North direction.
Logical Reasoning and Critical Thinking	20	Remaining questions were related to logical reasoning topics. Questions were asked from following topics - Statement and assumption Course of Action Strengthening & weakening of sentences Cause and effect
Total

4. Test of Quantitative Aptitude/Computer Literacy

Quantitative Aptitude -

Quantitative aptitude comprises of 20 questions. The level of the questions was Moderate. This section also had questions of computer literacy. There were 10 questions from Quantitative Aptitude and 10 from Computer literacy. Check the below table to be aware of the topics asked in Quantitative Aptitude Section -

Section	No. of questions	Details of the topic asked
Miscellaneous Arithmetic topics	10	Questions from following topics were asked - Age-based Average Profit and Loss Percentage Partnership etc
Computer Literacy	10	Basic questions related to computer knowledge were asked.
Total	20

5. Test of General Awareness

20 questions were asked in the General Awareness Section. In the General Awareness Section, most of the questions were based on current affairs. Questions from static GK were also asked. You can check all the questions asked through the link given below -

Questions Asked in GIC Scale - I Officer Exam 2018!

GIC Scale - I Officer Descriptive Test

3 topics were asked in this section. There were 3 options in each of the topics. Check below the topics asked in the descriptive test -

1. Essay - Following mentioned topics were asked :

Marine Insurance
Importance of Insurance for Hypertension patients
Insurance and types of fraud associated with it
Baggage Insurance

2. Precise - There was a single question on this topic which is mentioned as following -

Solvency

3. Comprehension - There was a passage. Questions based on this passage were required to be answered by the candidates. There were 5 questions based on the comprehension. Comprehension was based on the following topic -

Financial Management

GIC Scale - I Officer Exam: Good Attempts

Based on the level of the exam conducted today, you can check section-wise and overall good attempts for the exam in the table below -

Section Name	Good Attempts
Higher Order Reasoning Ability/Critical Thinking	18-22
Test of Reasoning	15-17
Test of English Language	11-15
Test of General Awareness	12-16
Test of Quantitative Aptitude & Computer Literacy	14-18
Overall	85-95

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