LIC AAO 2019 Prelims Exam Analysis | Shift 1 (4th May 2019)

Hello Aspirants, 

LIC Assistant Administrative Officers (AAO) is one of the most sought-after recruitments in the insurance industry. Several aspirants are burning candles at both ends to get a seat for themselves in this prestigious insurance/banking company. 04th May is the first phase of this exam, i.e., (Phase-I) Prelims. Many students appeared for this exam and the competition will be very tough this time. Therefore, it is necessary that one gets aware about the type of questions asked in the exam so that you get an idea about how to plan your strategy to attempt the questions in the exam and manage your time accordingly.

This year there is the sectional timing of 20 minutes in the Prelims Exam, it’s important for all insurance/banking aspirants to go through the review once. Exam analysis and review can help the aspirants who are yet to appear in upcoming shifts of LIC AAO Prelims to get an idea of the difficulty level and expected the pattern of questions in Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability, and English Language sections. The examination held in this shift was of Easy to Moderate level. The order of occurrence of sections was the English Language, Quantitative Aptitude and Reasoning Ability.

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
DI	11	Easy-Moderate
Wrong Number Series	05	Moderate
Approximation	06	Easy-Moderate
Arithmetic Word Problems (Profit and Loss, Problem on Age, probability, SI & CI etc)	13	Easy-Moderate
Total	35	Moderate

English section was easy. There was one set of Reading Comprehension with 7 questions out of which 2 questions were based on Vocabs. The passage of the RC was based on Artificial Intelligence in Insurance Sector. 

*The English Language section is qualifying in nature and the marks in English Language will not be counted for ranking. Minimum qualifying marks is 10 (9 for SC/ST). 

The level of reasoning section was also Easy. There were 4 sets of puzzles and Seating Arrangement, following are the types

Topics	No. of Questions	Level
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement	20	Easy-Moderate
Syllogism	05	Easy
Inequalities	05	Easy
numeric Series	01	Easy
Coding-Decoding	01	Easy
Direction Sense	03	Moderate
Total	35	Easy-Moderate