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LIC HFL Assistant Exam Analysis and Review 2017: 12th October

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LIC HFL Assistant Exam Analysis and Review 2017: 12th October
Dear Aspirants, LIC HFL Assistant Online Exam 2017 is over, Now it’s time for its review and analysis. This exam was a bright opportunity for candidates to start a career in the Insurance sector. The level of today’s LIC HFL Assistant exam was Easy-Moderate. Recently LIC had also conducted online examination for the post of Assistant Manager and that too was of a Moderate level.


LIC HFL Assistant Exam 2017-18 Analysis (Overall )



SECTIONS GOOD ATTEMPTS
LOGICAL REASONING 31-36
NUMERICAL ABILITY 27-32
ENGLISH LANGUAGE 31-34
GENERAL AWARENESS 37-41
TOTAL 144-153

Logical Reasoning (Easy-Moderate)

Reasoning section of this exam was of an easy-moderate level and had 50 questions which candidates had to attempt in 35 minutes. The questions asked were of conventional pattern and there were a total of three sets of puzzles and seating arrangement:

  • Scheduling (Month based) Puzzle
  • Circular Seating Arrangement
  • Floor Based Puzzle
Topic No. of Questions Level
Puzzle and Seating Arrangement 15 Moderate
Inequality 5 Easy-Moderate
Syllogism 5 Easy
Blood Relation 3 Easy
Miscellaneous 10 Easy-Moderate
Alpha Numeric Number Series 5 Easy
Direction 2 Easy-Moderate
Numeric Series 5 Moderate
Total 50 Easy-Moderate


Numerical Ability (Moderate)


Quant section was of Moderate Level. There were two sets of Tabular Data Interpretation:

Topic No. of Questions Level
Data Interpretation 10 Moderate-Difficult
Simplification 20 Easy-Moderate
Series 5 Easy-Moderate
Miscellaneous 15 Moderate-Difficult
Total 50 Moderate

English Language (Easy)


English Language section was also of an Easy level. The topic of the reading comprehension was related to based on a story of a farmer and his three sons taking a troll in a jungle and there were 3 questions of Antonym and Synonym with the passage. The Cloze test and Sentence rearrangement were also based on a story.

Topic No. of Questions Level
Reading Comprehension 10 Easy-Moderate
Single Fillers 5 Easy
Sentence Rearrangement 5 Easy
Error Detection 10 Easy-Moderate
Sentence Improvement 5 Moderate
Cloze Test 10 Easy
Spellings 5 Moderate
Total 50 Easy


General Awareness (Easy-Moderate)

GA section was of easy-moderate level. Most of the questions in this section were from Current Affairs of September and October. And around 8-10 questions were from Insurance Awareness. Following are some questions asked in today’s exam:

  • What is the meaning of “M” in MPC?- Monetary
  • 7th pay commission head?- AK Mathur
  • One question related to complete risk?
  • Sardar Sarovar dam over which river?- Narmada (Gujarat)
  • Professional who deals with risk & uncertainty- Actuary
  • Sector 16 Stadium located in which UT- Chandigarh
  • Piyush Goyal constituency?- Maharashtra
  • Arjan Singh related to- Indian air force 
  • Which is a joint military exercise between India and USA- Yudh Abhyas 2017
  • Indus water treaty between India and which country- Pakistan
  • Name the President of Singapore?- Halimah Yacob
  • GST  on export committee head?- Hasmukh Adhiya
  • In which year LIC was nationalized?- 1956
  • Insurance companies are controlled by?- IRDAI
  • Shares of insurance in FDI?- 49%
  • “R” in AMRUT?- Rejuvenation 
  • Korean open winner?- PV Sindhu
  • Who inaugurated Swach Se in UP – President Ram Nath Kovind
  • Which state was recently recognised to employee transgenders- Kerala (Kochi Metro)
  • Headquarters of NSE?- Mumbai
  • FIFA football cup 2022?- Qatar


All the best for upcoming exams!!

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