LIC AAO & AE Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2020

LIC AAO and AE official notification have been released for the year 2020 for a total of 218 vacancies. No doubt, it is a good opportunity for job seekers who aspires to start their career with Life insurance company. The online preliminary exam according to official news is scheduled to be conducted on 4th April 2020.

Total number of vacancy (AA0+AE)=218

General (AAO+AE) – 263

OBC (AAO+AE) – 152

SC (AAO+AE) -98

ST (AAO+AE) – 57

LIC AE & AAO 2020: Important Events

Sr. No	Exam Events	Important Dates
1	The start date for Online Registration & Online Payment of Application Fee/ Intimation Charges	25th Feb 2020
2	Last date for Online Registration & Online Payment of Application Fee/Intimation Charges	15th March 2020
3	The download of Call Letter for Online Preliminary Examination From 27.03.2020	From 27.03.2020 to 04.04.2020
4	Date of Online examination (Preliminary)	4th April 2020
5	Date of online examination- Main	Will be notified later

LIC exam for both the posts will be conducted online in two different phases. I.e Preliminary and mains followed by an interview process. Preliminary exam is qualifying in nature hence marks will not be added for drawing the merit list.

1. Preliminary Exam

2. Mains Exam

3. Interview process

LIC AAO & AE exam will consist of objective type question. There will be sectional timing in each phase. Students will have to complete the questions in the given stipulated time. Total duration would be 120 minutes for the mains exam and 60 minutes for the preliminary exam.

Note:

1. Here the nature of the test for the English language is qualifying and the marks obtained in this test would not be considered for the ranking.
2. The candidates are required to clear the sectional as well as overall cut off which will be decided by LIC only.

LIC AAO & AE Exam Pattern 2020

LIC AAO & LIC AE Prelims Exam Pattern 2020

Preliminary Examination consisting of an objective test will be conducted online. The test will have three sections (with separate timings for each section) as follows:

S. No.	Name of test	Number of Questions	Maximum Marks	Minimum Qualifying Marks		Duration
				SC/ST	Others
1.	English Language with special emphasis on grammar, vocabulary and comprehension**	30	30**	9	10	20 Minutes
2.	Quantitative Aptitude	35	35	16	18	20 Minutes
3.	Reasoning Ability	35	35	16	18	20 Minutes
	Total	100	70			60 Minutes

Main Exam Pattern for LIC AAO & AE

Sr. No.	Name of Test (Not by Sequence)	Number of Questions	Maximum Marks	Minimum Qualifying Marks		Time allotted for each section
				SC/ST	Others
1.	Reasoning Ability	30	90	40	45	40 minutes
2.	General Knowledge, Current Affairs	30	60	27	30	20 minutes
3.	Professional knowledge	30	90	40	45	40 minutes
4.	Insurance and Financial Market Awareness	30	60	27	30	20 minutes
	Total	120	300			2 hours
5.	English Language (Letter Writing & Essay)	2	25**	9	10	30 minutes

** Descriptive test of English Language Test will be of qualifying nature and the marks in the English Language will not be counted for ranking.

Detail Syllabus of LIC AAO & LIC AE 2020 Exam –

I. Reasoning

This section covers questions from diverse topics like

1. Statement based questions

2. Syllogism

3. Seating arrangement

4. Coding –decoding, alphanumeric sequence

5. Puzzle- rank-based, floor-based, circular arrangement based

6. Blood relation

7. Analogy, odd one out

II Quantitative aptitude

This section covers questions from various topics lik

1. Data interpretation

2. Time and work

3. Speed, distance and time

4. Number series or approximations

5.Simple and compound interest

6. Profit and loss

7. Average

8. Mixture and allegation

III.English

This section covers topics from various topics like

1.Error spotting

2. Reading comprehension

3. Sentence rearrangement

4. Sentence improvement

5. Cloze test

6.Spelling Error

7. Para Jumble

8.Phrase Replacement

Sectional cut off as per the official notification released for the year 2020 is:

Subjects	SC/ST/PWBD	General
Reasoning Ability	16	18
Quantitative Aptitude	16	18
English Language	9	10

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