OICL AO Exam Pattern and Syllabus

Dear Aspirants,
Here we are providing you the detailed syllabus & exam pattern for the OICL AO Recruitment 2017.

OICL AO Exam Pattern:

Phase-I: Preliminary Examination
Preliminary Examination consisting of Objective Tests for 100 marks will be conducted online. This test would be of 1-hour duration consisting of 3 sections as follows:

Candidates have to qualify in each test by securing passing marks to be decided by the Company. The adequate number of candidates in each category as decided by the Company (approximately 20 times the numbers of vacancies subject to availability) will be shortlisted for the Main Examination.

Phase – II: Main Examination
Main Examination will consist of Objective Tests for 200 marks and Descriptive Test for 30 marks. Both the Objective and Descriptive Tests will be online. Candidates will have to answer Descriptive Test by typing on the computer. Immediately after completion of Objective Test, Descriptive Test will be administered.
(i) Objective Test: The Objective Test of 2 hours duration consists of 4 sections (Generalists) and 5 sections (Specialists) for total 200 marks.

Descriptive Test: The Descriptive Test of 30 minutes duration with 30 marks will be a Test of English Language (Letter Writing-10marks & Essay-20 marks). The descriptive test will be in English and will be conducted through on-line mode.
Each candidate will be required to obtain a minimum score for each section of objective test separately for short listing for the Descriptive test evaluation/Interview. Descriptive answer script would be evaluated only in respect of those candidates who qualify the objective test and also score high. Depending on the number of vacancies available, cut offs will be decided for Descriptive paper evaluation.

Each candidate will be required to obtain a minimum total score (to be decided by the Company according to the number of vacancies) in the objective test (main examination) and qualify in the descriptive test for shortlisting for the Interview.

A candidate shall be required to qualify in the descriptive test, but the marks in the descriptive test will not be counted towards short listing for interviews or final selection.

Phase – III: Interview
Candidates who have been shortlisted at the end of Phase-II will subsequently be called for an Interview to be conducted by the Company, up to three times the number of vacancies of respective stream/category.
Interview will be conducted at select centres. The weightage (ratio) of online Examination and Interview will be 80:20 respectively

OICL AO – Exam Pattern & Syllabus:

Quantitative Aptitude:

The topics to be covered in this section are

• Data Interpretation [ Bar Graph, Pie Chart, Table, Line Graph, Radar Chart, Mixed Graph]
• Number Series
• Data Sufficiency
• Quadratic Equations
• Miscellaneous- Time and Work, Partnership, Profit and Loss, Mensuration, Time, Distance and Speed –Trains, Boats n Streams, Simple and Compound interest, Mixture and Alligation, Ratio and Proportion, Percentages, Averages, Age, Problems based on Numbers.

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Reasoning:

The topics to be covered for Reasoning Ability are

• Puzzles – Seating Arrangement(North – South, Circular, Rectangle, Square), Based on Floors, Hierarchy, Boxes, Months etc.,
• Machine Input/Output
• Blood Relation
• Direction Sense
• Inequalities
• Logical Reasoning
• Coding Decoding
• Ranking
• Statement and Assumptions/Conclusions
• Analytical Reasoning
• Syllogism

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English

The topics to be covered in this section are

• Reading comprehension including Synonyms and Antonyms
• Sentence rearrangement or Para jumbles
• Sentence Correction/ Error Finding
• Spell Checks
• Fillers(Sentence/word)
• Cloze Test

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General Awareness:

The syllabus for this section remains vast

The topics included are

• Banking/Financial/ Insurance terms
• Current Affairs – covers every current news including related to banking industry, latest appointments, obituaries, awards and honors, books and authors, new schemes of central and state governments, sports, etc.
• Static GK – topics like headquarters of financial organizations , Country-capital, country-currency, constituencies of ministers, dance forms, nuclear and thermal power stations, Superlatives of World and India, First in India & World, Places with surname, Palaces, International Lines/Boundaries, Important Monuments of India & World, Rivers, Parliament names of different countries, Important Temples, National Parks,Airports, Wildlife Sanctuary, Stadium, Important Days,memorial place / crematorium, etc.,

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• Click Here To Read Daily Current Affairs
• Click Here To Download Current Affairs 2017 Pocket PDF
• Click Here To Take Current Affairs Mock Tests – Month wise
• Click Here To Download Static GK Capsule 
• Click Here To Download Banking Awareness Capsule 
• Click Here To Buy Banking & Economy Questions 2016 PDF – (Aug-Dec31)
• Click Here To Buy Banking & Economy Questions 2017 PDF – (Jan-Jul31)

Descriptive Test:

It includes one Essay writing and Reading Comprehension.

Sample Questions: