OICL AO Prelims Exam Analysis & Review: 22nd Oct 2017 (Shift 2) |

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OICL AO Prelims Exam Analysis & Review:

OICL ‘s recruitment of Administrative Officer is the much-anticipated opportunity for every insurance aspirant and with the Preliminary exam, you are now a step closer to achieve your goal. Today’s (22nd October’17) OICL AO Pre exam 2nd shift is over now, and it is the time for its Exam Analysis. All those aspirants who are yet to appear for OICL AO Prelims Exam can benefit from this exam analysis as here we provide you an insight on the types and levels of questions being asked in this year’s OICL AO Pre exam. The level of this shift’s examination was Easy to Moderate.You can expect cut off to be higher, due to the easy-moderate level of paper. In second shift, there were some changes in Reasoning section. No syllogism was asked in the second shift. But English Langauge and Quantitative Aptitude were same as first shift.

OICL AO Prelims Analysis: Overall

The preliminary exam for OICL AO was conducted online and had 100 questions for 60 minutes. Candidates have to manage those 60 minutes themselves while dealing with three sections- Reasoning (35 Questions), Quantitative Aptitude (35 Questions), and English (30 Questions).

Sections	Good Attempt	Time (in min.)
English Language	16-19	15
Reasoning Ability	22-26	20
Quantitative Aptitude	18-21	25
Total	67-72	60

English Language ( Moderate)

The level of English Language was Moderate. The topic of reading comprehension was related to Air Pollution. There were 1 questions of Antonyms and 2 question of synonym with the passage.

Topics	No. of Questions	Level
Reading Comprehension	10	Moderate
Phase Replacement	5	Moderate
Single Filler	5	Easy-Moderate
Error Detection	10	Moderate
Total	30	Moderate

Quantitative Aptitude ( Easy- Moderate )

The level of quantitative aptitude section was Easy-Moderate. If you are yet to appear for OICL AO exam, The first and most basic tip to help you clear quantitative aptitude section’s cut off is that you should work on your calculation speed. There were only 2 sets of DI:

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Topics	No. of Question	Level
Series (Missing)	5	Moderate
Approximation	5	Moderate
Data Interpretation	10	Easy-Moderate
Quadratic Equation	5	Easy
Profit & Loss	1	Moderate
Compound Interest	1	Moderate
Discount	1	Moderate
Problem on Ages	1	Moderate
Ratio and Proportion	2	Easy
Time and Work	1	Moderate
Boat and Stream	1	Moderate
Miscellaneous	2	Easy
Total	35	Easy-Moderate

Reasoning Ability (Easy-Moderate)

According to most of the aspirants who appeared for the exam, puzzles asked were very difficult to solve. There were 4 types of questions from puzzles and Seating Arrangement which is given below:-

Linear (7 People and 7 Colour, 2 variables)
Circular (All person was sitting inward, 2 variables)
Day based (Different Store Different thing, 3 variables)
Box Based

Topics	No. of Questions	Level
Alphabets	1	Easy
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement	20	Moderate-Difficult
Coding-Decoding	5	Easy
Blood Relation	3	Moderate
Order and Ranking	1	Easy
Inequalities	5	Moderate
Total	35	Easy-Moderate