LIC ADO Syllabus and Pattern can be downloaded from here. Life Insurance Corporation of India has announced the LIC ADO Posts. Eligible candidates can apply online application for the Apprentice Development Officer posts.
All candidates need to read the complete notification before applying online application. The vacancies are divided into different regions. Candidates should check for which region they are eligible for.
LIC ADO Important Events
| Opening date of On-Line Registration of Application and Online payment of Application Fees/Intimation Charges. | 21st January 2023 |
| Last date of On-Line Registration of Application and Online payment of Application Fees/Intimation Charges. | 10h February 2023 |
| The download of the Call letter for the On-Line Examination (Tentative) | 4th March 2023 onwards |
| Date of Online Examination-Preliminary | 12th March 2023 |
| Date of Online Examination-Main | 8th April 2023 |
Short Details OF LIC ADO
| Particulars | Details |
|---|---|
| Post Name | Apprentice Development Officer |
| Body | Life Insurance Corporation of India |
| Total Vacancy | 9394 |
| Mode of Exam | Online |
| Negative Marking | No |
| Interview | Yes |
| Mode of Application | Online |
| Exam phase | 2 (Pre & Mains) |
| Region | Total Posts |
|---|---|
| North Zone | 1216 |
| North Central Zone | 1033 |
| Central Zone | 561 |
| East Central | 669 |
| Eastern Zone | 440 |
| South Central Zone | 1408 |
| Western Zone | 1942 |
| Southern | 1516 |
| Total | 9394 |
SELECTION PROCEDURE:
Selection will be made on the basis of online tests, followed by an interview of the candidates who qualify in the online test and subsequent pre-recruitment Medical examination.
LIC ADO Syllabus and Pattern
The online examination shall be conducted in two phases for the candidates who come from Open Market Category, viz. Preliminary examination and Main examination.
Phase-I: Preliminary Examination:
A preliminary Examination consisting of an objective test will be conducted online. The test will have three sections (with separate timings for each section) as follows:
| Name of Subjects | Number of Questions | Maximum Marks | Duration |
| Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| Numerical Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 minutes |
| Total | 100 | 70 | 1 hour |
English Language test will be of qualifying nature and the marks in the English Language will not be counted for ranking.
Candidates equal to 20 times the number of vacancies in each category, subject to availability, will be shortlisted for the Main examination.
Phase-II: Main Examination:
The Main Examination consisting of objective tests will be conducted online. The main examination will consist of objective tests for 160 marks for a composite duration of 120 minutes.
| SUBJECT Name | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks |
| Reasoning Ability & Numerical Ability | 50 | 50 |
| General Knowledge, Current Affairs and English Language with Special Emphasis on Grammar and vocabulary | 50 | 50 |
| Insurance and Financial Marketing Awareness with special emphasis on knowledge of Life Insurance and the Financial Sector | 60 | 60 |
| Total | 160 | 160 |
| Duration |
(II) On-line Test for LIC Agents & LIC Employee Category:
Selection of Apprentice Development Officer from LIC Agents & LIC Employee Category will be done through a single phase examination i.e. Main Examination. It will be an objective test, which will be conducted online for 160 marks.
The objective test will have a composite duration of two hours, i.e. 120 minutes.
For LIC Agents Category Only
The language of the paper will be English and Hindi.
| Name of test | Number of Questions | Maximum Marks |
| Reasoning Ability & Numerical Ability | 20 | 20 |
| General Knowledge, Current Affairs and English Language with Special Emphasis on Grammar and vocabulary | 20 | 20 |
| Elements of Insurance and Marketing of Insurance. | 60 | 120 |
| Total | 100 | 160 |
For LIC Employee Category Only
The language of the paper will be English and Hindi. The duration of the exam will be 120 minutes.
| Name of test | Number of Questions | Maximum Marks |
| Reasoning Ability & Numerical Ability | 20 | 20 |
| General Knowledge, Current Affairs and English Language with Special Emphasis on Grammar and vocabulary | 20 | 20 |
| Practice and Principle of Insurance, Marketing | 60 | 120 |
| TOTAL | 100 | 160 |
The Scores of the Examination are obtained by adopting the following procedure:
The number of questions answered correctly by a candidate in each objective test is considered for arriving at the score.
The scores so obtained by a candidate will be made equivalent to taking care of the minor difference in difficulty level, if any, in each of the objective tests held in different sessions to arrive at the Equated Scores. (
The Test wise scores and the total score will be rounded up to two decimal digits. There will be no negative marking for wrong answers.
The marks obtained in the main examination only will be considered for shortlisting for the interview.
The marks obtained in the main examination and the marks obtained in the interview will be considered for the final merit listing of the candidates.
I. Commensurate to the number of vacancies, LIC of India reserves the right to fix the eligibility standards and the minimum marks to qualify for the interview, in order to restrict the number of candidates to be called for the interview. The maximum marks for the interview are 40.
II. In case of similar marks of two or more candidates, the merit order of a such group of candidates shall be as per the aggregate marks in the main examination and the interview and further as per their post-graduation qualification (i.e. the person with any additional higher educational qualification will be placed higher in the merit order) and in case of further similarity in such educational qualification the merit order will be decided on the basis of age, (i.e. the senior in age will be placed higher in the merit order).
III. There will be no contingency/waiting list for candidates not declared successful in the main examination.
Download the Notification and Syllabus PDF of LIC ADO
