Life Insurance Corporation of India conducts exams to recruit Class3 posts of assistants for performing various office duties, including single window operator, customer service and cashier. If you can crack the LIC Assistant test, you will be privileged to join the most esteemed insurance company in India. Established in 1956, the total assets held by LIC are around $507.33 billion as of the 2021 fiscal year. LIC is the fifth-largest company in India after Reliance, TCS, HDFC Bank and Infosys. The company is to be listed in NSE and BSE on 17th May with an estimated market capitalization of INR 6 lakh crore.
Prelim and mains
The exam date for LIC Assistant would be published on their official website; it involves a two-stage screening to engage eligible candidates. The test is conducted to recruit assistants in various branches. LIC have eight zonal offices, one hundred thirty-three zonal office and two thousand forty-eight branch offices. The exam is conducted in two phases; prelim and mains. To crack the prelim, you need to prepare sincerely and take a regular LIC Assistant Mock Test. The job profile of the post is to resolve customer grievances and disburse office assignments. If you crack the prelim and mains, you need to appear at the final phase, which is a medical test.
You can answer the LIC Assistant exam either in English or Hindi; this is applicable both in prelim and mains. The duration of the test is an hour; the mode of the exam is online and usually occurs in the month of November. It is assumed the number of vacancies for the post of assistant this year would be 7919. The exact number will be known once the date of the exam is officially announced on the LIC website.
Eligibility criterion
The candidates willing to appear for the exam must fulfil the eligibility criteria prescribed by the recruitment board of LIC. Primarily the candidate should be an Indian citizen, above eighteen years and below thirty years. SC/ST candidates have age relaxation of five years, PWD (Person with Disability) SC/ST fifteen years and PWDOBC thirteen years. The age relaxation for ECO (Emergency Commissioned Officer)/SSCO(Short Serviced Commissioned Officer) general is five years, ECO/SSCO (SC/ST), ECO/SSCO (OBC) is ten and eight years, respectively. The candidate must have a Bachelor`s degree in any stream from a recognized university.
Course outline
You must be well acquainted with the syllabus to crack the exam. The course outline consists of English/Hindi language, numerical and reasoning ability. In an English paper, you need to solve cloze tests, error detection/correction, comprehension reading, Para jumbles, and fill in the blanks. In the numerical ability test, you have to answer quadratic equations, quantity-based questions, data sufficiency, simplification and approximation. In the reasoning ability test, the question is based on code/decoding, inequality, number series and syllogism.
LIC Assistant Mock Test is drafted based upon the latest trend and course. If you want to aspire to LIC as an assistant, prepare for the exam through the mock test. Nine LIC mock tests for the south and north zone are available in the portal. The more you appear in this mock test, the potential to crack the exam increases considerably.