LIC Assistant Syllabus 2020: Life Insurance Corporation of India conducts the LIC Assistant Recruitment 2020 exam for the Assistant Engineer, Assistant Administrative Officer post. Candidate has to give prelims and main examination. The exam pattern and syllabus for both the examination are different. To qualify the LIC Assistant Recruitment 2020 exam, candidates need to understand the exam pattern and the type of questions asked. Candidates can see the detailed syllabus for LIC Assistant Syllabus 2020 from this page.
LIC Assistant Syllabus 2020
The syllabus for the main exam is broader than the syllabus of the preliminary exam. The marks of the candidates in the main exam only are considered for preparing the final merit list for the selection of candidates. Here we are providing the general syllabus for the LIC Recruitment 2020 exam.
LIC Assistant Syllabus 2020
Reasoning
- Picture Sequence
- Statement and conclusions
- Coding and decoding
- Circular Sitting arrangement
- Straight-line sitting arrangement
- Blood Relation
- Alphabetical Series
- Number Series
- Odd one out
- Direction and Distance
- Cube and Dice
- Syllogism
- Data Sufficiency
- Analogy
- Cause and Effect
- Puzzels
English/Hindi Language
- Jumble words/phrases
- Jumbled Paragraphs
- Omission and addition
- Sentence correction
- Reading comprehensions
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Cloze test
- Phrases
- Error Correction
- Error Detection
- Fill in the Blanks
- Problems on ages
Quantitative Aptitude
- Number Series
- Data interpretation
- Simplification
- Approximation
- Simple and Compound Interest
- LCM andHCF
- Time & Work
- Time & Distance
- Profit and Loss
- Area
- Pipe and Cisterns
- Partnership
- Percentage
- Volume and Surface area
- Boats and Streams
- Average
- Square roots and Cube roots
- Mixture and Allegations
- Ratio and Proportion
- Surds and Indices
- Problems on Trains
- Data Sufficiency
GK, Current Affairs, Insurance & Financial Market
- Recent credit and monetary policies
- Indian Economy
- Current Affairs
- General history and geography
- Currency and Capital
- Biology and Applied Science
- Sports
- Banking and Financial General Awareness
- Basic computer knowledge
- The basic history of Insurance & Financial Market
- National and International Matters
- Awards and Honors
Professional Knowledge
Professional Knowledge consists of knowledge related to the profession. As the assistant post consists of many posts like Assistant Engineers (including Assistant Architects) and Assistant Administrative Officer (Specialist). So the profession of this post is also different. This section of the exam is conducted to check the knowledge of the candidate’s related to their profession.
LIC Assistant Recruitment 2020 Exam Pattern
Since the selection procedure of the LIC Assistant Recruitment 2020 exam comprises 3 subsequent stages, let us look at the exam pattern for each of these.
Preliminary Examination
- Mode: The mode of the examination is Online.
- Type of Questions: Objective type questions are asked.
- Number of Sections: There is a total of 3 sections.
- Duration: 1 hour (20 minutes separately for each of 3 sections)
- Medium: The medium of examination is English and Hindi (except the English language section)
- Total Questions: 100
- Total Marks: 100 (effectively, prelims is of 70 marks only because English Language section is qualifying only)
| Section | Questions | Max. Marks |
| Reasoning | 35 | 35 |
| English Language | 30 | 30 |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 35 | 35 |
Main Examination: The English Language section is qualifying in this phase also.
- Mode: The mode of the examination is Online.
- Type of Questions: Objective + Descriptive (English Language section) both type questions are asked.
- Number of Sections: There is a total of 5 sections.
- Duration: The duration of the examination is 2 hours + 30 minutes for English Language section.
- Medium: The medium of examination is English and Hindi (except the English language section)
- Total Questions: 120 objective (30 from each section) + 2 descriptive (English Language)
- Total Marks: 300 + 25 (English Language)
| Section | Max. Marks | Duration |
| Reasoning | 90 | 40 minutes |
| GK, current affairs | 60 | 20 minutes |
| Professional Knowledge | 90 | 40 minutes |
| Insurance & Financial Market | 60 | 20 minutes |
| Total | 300 | 2 hours |
| English Language | 25 | 30 minutes |
Interview: The maximum marks for the interview round are 300.
Preparation Tips for LIC Assistant Recruitment 2020
Those candidates who are going to give the online examination of the LIC Assistant Recruitment 2020 ca see the preparation tips from here.
- Make a daily study plan according to the topic and do study as per that plan.
- The candidates can see the latest videos on youtube and can study topic wise.
- Do practice daily of the numerical and reasoning problems because the speed and accuracy are required.
- Read newspaper daily for the daily updates and current affairs knowledge
- The candidates can give mock tests daily and these mock tests are released by the various institutes.
- The candidates can purchase the e-books from online sites.
- There should be a comprehensive study of each subject.
- Time management is very important for the competitive exam.
About LIC of India
Life Insurance of Corporation of India is established in the 1818 year and also known as the LIC of India. It is a government-owned corporation in India. The headquarter of LIC is now moved to Mumbai. The corporation is nationalized in the year 1956 by the government of India (GOI) by the life insurance of India Act. The LIC has released the notification regarding the LIC Assistant post of Assistant Engineers (including Assistant Architects) and Assistant Administrative Officer (Specialist).
