NIACL Administrative Officers (AO) Phase II (Main) Exam 2018 was conducted today (March 02, 2019). There were 200 questions, which had to be answered in 120 minutes. There were four sections – Reasoning, English Language, General Awareness and Quantitative Aptitude. All the sections except English Language were available bilingually, that is, both in English and in Hindi. Each question had 5 options. The score for each correct answer is 1 mark whereas there is a negative marking of 0.25 marks for every incorrect answer.
The detailed break-up of the NIACL AO Phase I Preliminary Exam 2018 is as follows:
Section |
Total Questions |
Maximum Marks |
Level of difficulty |
Good Attempts |
Approx. Time taken (in minutes) |
Reasoning |
50 |
50 |
Moderate |
34-38 |
35 |
English Language |
50 |
50 |
Moderate |
28-31 |
25 |
General Awareness |
50 |
50 |
Easy-Moderate |
25-30 |
15 |
Quantitative Aptitude |
50 |
50 |
Moderate |
24-28 |
45 |
Total |
200 |
200 |
Moderate |
125-135 |
120 |
Topic | Number of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
AR (Square Seating Arrangement) |
5 |
Moderate |
AR(Linear Seating Arrangement – 2 parallel rows) |
5 |
Moderate |
AR (Data Arrangement) |
5 |
Moderate |
AR (Data Arrangement) |
5 |
Moderate |
AR (Data Arrangement) |
5 |
Moderate |
Input-Output |
5 |
Moderate |
Coding-Decoding – Set based |
5 |
Easy- Moderate |
Data Sufficiency |
5 |
Moderate |
Blood Relation |
3 |
Easy- Moderate |
Logical Reasoning |
7 |
Moderate |
The overall difficulty level of this section was moderate.
English Language:
Topic | Number of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
Reading Comprehension (Insurance based) |
6 |
Moderate |
Reading Comprehension (Technology based) |
5 |
Moderate |
Spot the error |
8 |
Moderate |
Fill in the blanks (Double + Triple) |
6 |
Moderate |
Parajumbles/Sentence Rearrangement |
5 |
Moderate |
Phrase Replacement |
5 |
Moderate |
Word Replacement |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
Cloze Test |
10 |
Easy-Moderate |
The overall difficulty level of this section was moderate.
General Awareness: The overall difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate. Most of the questions were from Current Affairs of last 3-4 months. Some questions were from static and banking awareness.
Topic | Number of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
Data Interpretation (Table) |
5 |
Moderate |
Data Interpretation (Bar Graph) |
5 |
Moderate |
Data Interpretation (Caselet) |
5 |
Moderate |
Data Interpretation (Pie Chart) |
5 |
Moderate |
Data Sufficiency |
5 |
Moderate |
Number Series (Missing number based) |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
Miscellaneous (Quant based word problems) |
20 |
Easy-Moderate |
The overall difficulty level of this section was moderate.
Descriptive Test: (Marks - 30 and Time – 30 Minutes)
Letter writing (150 words):
(i) Write a letter to the editor -
(ii) Write a letter to your friend -
Essay writing (200 words):
(i) Insurance Plan based -
(ii) Should mother tongue be given importance in primary education?
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