NIACL Assistant Preparation: The New India Assurance Company Ltd. released the notification for the post of assistant every year. The competition is very high in this exam and a large number of the candidate appears for this exam. So the how you are preparing for the exam is very crucial. In this blog, we are sharing the whole NIACL Assistant preparation strategy and tips.
For the right NIACL assistant preparation, there are few things you need to keep in mind are the exam syllabus, exam pattern, study material, and your study plan. We ensure that we will cover everything in this article. So, before we get into the NIACL Assistant preparation let’s check the NIACL Assistant exam pattern.
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The NIACL Assistant exam is conducted in two-phase, the Prelims, and the Mains exam. The Prelims exam is of 60 minutes and has three sections Reasoning Ability, Numerical Ability, and English Language. You will be called for the mains exam after qualifying for the prelims exam. The mains exam duration is 120 minutes and five sections are asked.
In the prelims exam, three sections are asked with sectional timing of 20 minutes. A total of 100 questions are asked in the exam of 100 marks. A total of 35 questions are from each reasoning ability and Numerical ability and 30 questions are of English Language.
| Sr. No. | Paper | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Duration |
| 1 | English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 minutes |
| 2 | Reasoning | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| 3 | Numerical Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 60 minutes |
| Sr. No. | Paper | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Duration |
| 1 | English Language | 40 | 50 | 120 minutes of composite time |
| 2 | Reasoning | 40 | 50 | |
| 3 | Numerical Ability | 40 | 50 | |
| 4 | General Awareness | 40 | 50 | |
| 5 | Computer Knowledge | 40 | 50 | |
| Total | 200 | 250 |
| Reasoning Ability | Numerical Ability | English Language | General Awareness | Computer Knowledge |
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Coding-Decoding | Number system & Approximation | Grammar Rules –Noun, Pronoun, Adjective and Adverb, Preposition, Conjunctions, etc. | Current affairs National & International | Fundamentals of Computer MS Office
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| Analogy and classification | Surds & Indices | Vocabulary | Sports News | Computer Software
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| Syllogism | Quadratic equations | Reading Comprehension | New Appointments & Demise | Computer Hardware
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| Numerical and Alphabetical Series | Number Series missing & wrong | Close test | Awards and honors | Computer Abbreviation
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| Direction and distance | Percentage | Para-jumble | Science and Technology | Keyboard Shortcuts
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| Blood Relation | Profit & Loss | Spotting Error | Current & All related Insurance News and policies | Logic Gates
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| Seating Arrangement Linear and Circular | Ratio & Proportion | Idioms & Phrases | History and Geography | Internet
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| Input-Output | Problems on Age | Active Passive Voice | Indian Economic news | Generations of computer |
| Speed, time & distance | Indian Polity and Constitutions | Application & System software | ||
| Problems on train | New Committees | Latest computer-related news or research. | ||
| Data Interpretation | Budget and five year Plan | Computer Extensions. | ||
| Data Sufficiency | IP address | |||
| Time and work | Windows Operating System | |||
| Mensuration | ||||
| Simple and Compound Interest | ||||
| Boats and Streams |
NIACL Assistant Previous Year Papers
| Subjects | Books |
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Reasoning Ability | A Modern Approach to Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning by RS Aggarwal |
| Analytical Reasoning by MK Pandey | |
| A New Approach to Reasoning Verbal and Non-Verbal by BS Sijwali | |
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Numerical Ability | Practice Book on Quicker Maths by M Tyra And K Kundan |
| Fast Track Objective Arithmetic by Rajesh Verma | |
| Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations by RS Aggarwal | |
| Quantitative Aptitude by Arun Sharma | |
| English Language | Objective General English- SP Bakshi |
| General English – Lucent Publications | |
| Word Power Made Easy- Norman Lewis | |
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General Awareness | NCERT Books |
| Manorama Year Book- Philip Mathew | |
| Current Affairs Yearly book- Arihant Experts | |
| Computer Knowledge | Objective Computer Awareness-R Pillai |
| Computer Knowledge by- Sikha Agarwal | |
| Computer Fundamentals- Anita Goel, Pearson |
For the NIACL Assistant preparation of both prelims and mains exam, the few things you need to follow is how you are preparing and from where you are preparing, what study material we are choosing. The most crucial thing during the NIACL Assistant preparation which you have to follow is to clear the basic concepts of all the subjects like formulas and methods in numerical ability, short tricks for fast calculation. Tricks and concepts in reasoning ability. Grammar rules, tenses, etc. in the English Language. Practice all the chapters individually to solve examples.
Q. From where I can prepare computer knowledge for NIACL Assistant?
A. You can prepare computer knowledge from, Objective Computer Awareness-R Pillai, Computer Knowledge by- Sikha Agarwal, and Computer knowledge by Lucent’s publications.
Q. Where I can apply for the NIACL Assistant exam 2020?
A. You can apply for the assistant exam from the official website-www.newindia.co.in.
Q. Name any books for NIACL Assistant reasoning preparation?
A. Some books are, A Modern Approach to Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning by RS Aggarwal, A New Approach to Reasoning Verbal and Non-Verbal by BS Sijwali.
Q. Can I apply for NIACL Assistant if I don’t know the regional languages of that state?
A. You can apply but you have to pass the regional language test to crack the exam. Reading, writing, and speaking any of the regional languages is mandatory for NIACL Assistant.
Q. What will be the language of the NIACL assistant question paper?
A. The language of the question paper will be bilingual i.e. both in English and Hindi.
Q. Is there negative marking in the NIACL Assistant exam?
A. Yes, there will be a deduction of 0.25 marks on each wrong answer.
This post was last modified on October 30, 2020 2:35 pm