For those of you who have been looking forward to the release of exam notifications for banking exams, good news awaits. The Exam Notification for LIC AAO 2019 has been officially released! Here’s what you need to know about the exam.
Important Dates:
Candidates are advised to regularly keep in touch with the authorized LIC website www.licindia.in for details and updates.
Total Number of Vacancies: 590
The Reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, Economically Weaker sections and Persons with Benchmark Disabilities shall be as under:
SC: Scheduled Caste; ST: Scheduled Tribe; OBC: Other Backward Classes; EWS: Economically Weaker Section; UR: Unreserved; PwBD: Persons with Benchmark Disabilities; LD: Locomotor disability; VI: Visual Impairment; HI: Hearing Impairment; ID: Intellectual disability; MD: Multiple Disability
Educational Qualification:
• For AAO (Generalist): “Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline from a recognized Indian University/Institution”.
• For AAO (IT): Graduation degree in Engineering in Computer Science, IT or Electronics, or an MCA, or an MSC(Computer Science) from a recognized Indian University/Institution.
• For AAO (Chartered Accountant):
o Bachelor’s Degree from a recognized Indian University/Institution and Candidate should have passed Final Examination of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and completion of Articles as presented by Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
o The candidate should be Associate member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
o Candidates should provide their membership number and the same will be verified with Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
• For AAO (Actuarial):
o Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline from a recognized Indian University/Institution and Candidates should have compulsorily passed paper CT1 and CT5 plus 4 or more other papers of the examination conducted by the Institute of Actuaries of India / Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, UK. (Total 6 or more papers) as on the date of eligibility i.e. 1st March, 2019.
o Candidates should provide their membership number and the same will be verified with Institute of Actuaries of India / Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, UK.
• For AAO (Rajbhasha):
Post Graduate Master’s Degree in Hindi/Hindi translation with English as one of the subjects at Bachelor’s Degree level OR Post Graduate Master’s Degree in English with Hindi as one of the subjects at Bachelor’s degree level OR Post Graduate Master’s Degree in Sanskrit with English and Hindi as subjects at Bachelor’s degree level.
Eligibility Conditions (as on 01.03.2019):
• Minimum age: 21 years (completed) as on 01.03.2019.
• Maximum age: Not more than 30 years (candidates must have been born not earlier than 02.03.1989 and not later than 01.03.1998 both days inclusive only are eligible)
Age Relaxations:
Relaxations in upper age limit for Scheduled Caste (SC)/Scheduled Tribe(ST)/Other Backward Community(OBC)/ Emergency Commissioned Officers (ECO) /Short Service Commissioned Officers (SSCO) /Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD) /Confirmed LIC employees shall be as under :
Selection Procedure:
Selection of Assistant Administrative Officers will be done through a three tiered process and subsequent Pre- recruitment Medical examination.
Phase-I: Preliminary Examination:
Preliminary Examination consisting of objective test will be conducted online. The test will have three sections (with separate timings for each section) as follows:
IMPORTANT: English Language test will be of qualifying nature and the marks in English Language will not be counted for ranking.
Phase-II : Main Examination:
Main Examination will consist of objective tests for 300 marks and descriptive test for 25 marks. Both the objective and descriptive tests will be online. The objective test will have separate timing for every section. Candidates will have to answer descriptive test by typing on the computer. Descriptive test will be administered immediately after the completion of the objective test.
Main Examination for recruitment of AAO (Generalist):
IMPORTANT: English Language test will be of qualifying nature and the marks in English Language will not be counted for ranking.
Main Examination for recruitment of AAO ( IT/ Chartered Accountant / Actuarial):
IMPORTANT: English Language test will be of qualifying nature and the marks in English Language will not be counted for ranking.
Main Examination for recruitment of AAO (Rajbhasha):
IMPORTANT: English Language test will be of qualifying nature and the marks in English Language will not be counted for ranking.
Guidelines for Examination (Preliminary and Main examination):
Please note that candidates will not be permitted to appear for the online examination without the following documents:
• Valid Call letter for the respective date and session of Examination
• Photo Identity proof (as specified) in original bearing the same name as it appears on the call letter/ application form and
• Photo copy of photo identity proof (as mentioned in (2) above)
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