What is the pattern of United Insurance Admin Officer Exam 2014 and how to prepare for it? This article helps you with the Exam Pattern, Sample Papers & Prep Books for this exam.
If you have so far not applied for this recruitment, please visit my article titled:United India Insurance Admin Officer Recruitment 2014: Notification, Form & Eligibility, which introduces you to the United Insurance Admin Officer exam and tells you how to apply for the same. Last date to apply for the same is 18th November, 2014.
United Insurance Admin Officer Selection process:
Stage 1: Screening test (Objective).
Stage 2: Main examination (Objective) + Descriptive Test.
Stage 3: Interview.
Both the Screening test and Main examinations are of Objective type (i.e. MCQ) paper. Also, both the tests are going to be held online.
From the Screening test, 10 times the vacancy (i.e. 10 x 323 = 3230) are short-listed for the UIIC Mains exam.
In the Mains exam, besides the Objective paper, there is a Descriptive test also. The Descriptive test consists of Essay /précis writing and Letter writing. However the Descriptive test is for qualifying purpose only - i.e. mark you score in this test is not counted for deciding merit list.
Three times the vacancy (i.e. 3 x 323 = 969) are short-listed from Mains exam for the UIIC Interview. The Final merit list is based on the marks you score in the Mains exam and the Interview.
Exam Pattern/Syllabus:
As you found above, you have to appear in two written exams before you get the UIIC Call letter for Interview: Screening test and Mains exam.While the pattern of United Insurance screening test is same for Generalist & Specialist, the pattern of Mains exam slightly differs. The same is given in detail below:
United Insurance Screening test 2014 Pattern
There are 100 questions of 100 marks, which has to be answered in 1 hour. The three test sections are: English Language, Quantitative Aptitude (QA) and Reasoning Ability.
If you see the distribution of marks you would find that out of the three, English Language has least number of questions.
There is negative marking - one fourth marks for each wrong answer.
United India Insurance Admin Officer 2014 Mains Exam Pattern (Generalist):
There are 200 questions of 200 marks, which has to be answered in 2 hour. The five test sections are: English Language, Quantitative Aptitude (QA), Reasoning Ability, General Awareness & Computer Literacy.
The General Awareness section will consist of questions with special reference to Financial Sector.
There is negative marking - one fourth marks for each wrong answer.
United India Insurance Admin Officer 2014 Mains Exam Pattern (Specialist):
There are 200 questions of 200 marks, which has to be answered in 2 hour. The five test sections are: English Language, Quantitative Aptitude (QA) & Computer Literacy, Reasoning Ability, General Awareness and Professional Knowledge test section which will be discipline-specific.
The General Awareness section will consist of questions with special reference to Financial Sector.
There is negative marking - one fourth marks for each wrong answer.
The Descriptive test consists of Essay /précis writing and Letter writing and it will consist of 2 questions, which has to be answered in 30 minutes.
United Insurance Admin Officer exam sample online papers:
United Insurance Screening test 2014 Pattern
If you see the distribution of marks you would find that out of the three, English Language has least number of questions.
There is negative marking - one fourth marks for each wrong answer.
United India Insurance Admin Officer 2014 Mains Exam Pattern (Generalist):
The General Awareness section will consist of questions with special reference to Financial Sector.
There is negative marking - one fourth marks for each wrong answer.
United India Insurance Admin Officer 2014 Mains Exam Pattern (Specialist):
The General Awareness section will consist of questions with special reference to Financial Sector.
There is negative marking - one fourth marks for each wrong answer.
The Descriptive test consists of Essay /précis writing and Letter writing and it will consist of 2 questions, which has to be answered in 30 minutes.
Strategy to prepare for the exam:
As you can see above, the three test sections of Screening test is repeated in the Mains exam as well. Therefore once if you prepare for the Screening test well, your effort to prepare for Mains exam would be reduced.
United Insurance Admin Officer exam sample online papers:
First thing that you would like to know while preparing for a United Insurance Admin Officer exam is where to find those online sample papers. I did some scouting for you on the net, but could not find any paper specific to United Insurance Admin Officer exam.
Also, as told above, United Insurance written exam pattern is very similar to the Bank PO exams. Therefore my previous blog posts on SBI PO Exam Pattern, Papers & Books should be useful to you to download sample papers section-wise for United Insurance written exam.
This exam pattern is also very similar to that of the LIC Asst. Admin Officers exam, as you can from my previous blog post titled: LIC AAO Exam Pattern, Sample papers & Books. Hence you can use those study materials to prepare for United Insurance Admin Officer Exam 2014.
This exam pattern is also very similar to that of the LIC Asst. Admin Officers exam, as you can from my previous blog post titled: LIC AAO Exam Pattern, Sample papers & Books. Hence you can use those study materials to prepare for United Insurance Admin Officer Exam 2014.
The above sample/previous years papers for United Insurance Admin Officer exam can be used to know what type of questions are asked. However, for in-depth preparation you need to use the prep-books, which gives you more questions.
Prep books for United Insurance Admin Officer exam :
These books are available in most of the bookstores, but you can also order them online by clicking the links below, from Flipkart.com which offers huge discounts upto 35%,apart from free shipping/postage in India if the order exceeds Rs. 500/=. You can choose to pay through Credit Card/Debit Card/Internet Banking. You can also choose to pay through “Cash-on-Delivery” i.e. you pay in cash only when the same is delivered at your doorstep:
LIC AAO Exam Guide By RPH Editorial Board
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NICL (National Insurance Companies Ltd.)/GIC AO (Administrative Officer Exam) Practice Work Book; Publisher: Kiran
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Complete Success Package LIC AAO: Assistant Administrative Officer Exam of Life Insurance Corporation of India; Publisher: ARIHANT
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NICL (National Insurance Companies Ltd.)/GIC AO (Administrative Officer Exam) Practice Work Book; Publisher: Kiran
Price: Rs. 195
Complete Success Package LIC AAO: Assistant Administrative Officer Exam of Life Insurance Corporation of India; Publisher: ARIHANT
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Prep Books for specific test-sections of New India Assurance Admin Officer Exam:
Buy the book according to the area of your weakness:
A Modern Approach To Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning by R. S. Aggarwal
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TMH Objective English For Competitive Examinations By Hari Prasad
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Text Book of Quickest Mathematics: Quantitative Aptitude & Numerical Ability Useful for all Competitive Exams by Kiran Prakashan
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United Insurance Admin Officer interview questions and preparation materials:
For those of you who qualify the written exam of the written exam, you would have to appear the United Insurance interview.
This blog has some excellent material to help you prepare for the United Insurance interview with a list of Interview questions. Click here to visit this article, which tells you what are the requirements an interviewer looks for in you. It also gives you an interesting YouTube video telling you how you can also analyze an interviewer and hence be prepared for it. And than it gives you a list of 99 interview questions, which are most repeated in every other interview! These questions helps you prepare yourself.
Hope above information on study materials for United Insurance written exam as well as materials for United Insurance interview would help you in cracking the Admin Officers Exam. I would be on look out for more resources on the net for United Insurance written exam and would post the same, as soon as I come across them. Therefore keep visiting this blog!
Best wishes!
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