LIC AAO Study Guide

A complete preparation guide for Life Insurance Corporation - Assistant Administrative Officer. Below is the full syllabus broken down by subject, along with the topics you need to master to crack LIC AAO.

Reasoning Ability

12 topics to cover

  • Syllogism (All forms, Venn diagrams)
  • Coding-Decoding (Letter, Number, Mixed)
  • Blood Relations (Complex family trees)
  • Seating Arrangement (Linear, Circular, Complex)
  • Puzzles (Floor-based, Month-based, Box-based)
  • Inequality (Coded inequalities)
  • Direction and Distance
  • Machine Input-Output (Advanced patterns)
  • Data Sufficiency
  • Logical Reasoning
  • Alpha-numeric Series
  • Order and Ranking

Quantitative Aptitude & Data Interpretation

17 topics to cover

  • Number Series & Wrong Number Series
  • Simplification & Approximation
  • Percentage & Percentage Change
  • Average (Simple, Weighted)
  • Profit, Loss and Discount
  • Simple Interest and Compound Interest
  • Ratio and Proportion
  • Partnership
  • Mixture and Alligation
  • Time and Work (Including Pipes & Cisterns)
  • Time, Speed and Distance (Trains, Boats & Streams)
  • Problems on Ages
  • Mensuration (Area, Volume)
  • Data Interpretation (Tables, Bar, Line, Pie Charts, Caselets, Missing DI)
  • Quadratic Equations
  • Permutation and Combination
  • Probability

English Language

11 topics to cover

  • Reading Comprehension (Complex passages)
  • Cloze Test (Fill in the blanks in passage)
  • Error Spotting (Grammatical errors)
  • Sentence Rearrangement (Para Jumbles)
  • Fill in the Blanks (Single, Double, Multiple)
  • Phrase Replacement
  • Vocabulary (Synonyms, Antonyms, One word substitution)
  • Idioms and Phrases
  • Sentence Improvement
  • Para Completion
  • Word Usage

General Knowledge, Current Affairs & Insurance Awareness

6 topics to cover

  • Insurance Awareness (Types of insurance - Life, General, Health; Insurance terms, LIC products & schemes, IRDAI, Insurance sector developments)
  • Financial Awareness (Banking system, RBI, Monetary policy, Financial institutions, Payment systems, Budget)
  • Current Affairs (National & International events, last 6 months)
  • Static GK (Books, Authors, Awards, Sports, Capitals, Important Days)
  • Indian Economy (GDP, Inflation, Banking, Trade)
  • Government Schemes & Policies

Computer Knowledge

7 topics to cover

  • Computer Fundamentals
  • Hardware & Software
  • Operating Systems
  • MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Internet & Networking
  • Computer Security (Virus, Firewall, Encryption)
  • Database basics

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