NIACL AO Phase II (Main) Examination 2018 Analysis: (March 02, 2019)



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

Reasoning:

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.

Quantitative Aptitude:

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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