There are three stages that a candidate needs to qualify to get recruited as an Administrative Officer is as follows:

1. Preliminary Examination
2. Main Examination
3. Descriptive Test

Preliminary Examination will be conducted online. It is an Objective Test of 100 marks. This test will have three sections with a duration of 1 hour.

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

Mains: Phase II

Main Examination will have Objective Tests for 200 marks and Descriptive Test for 30 marks. Both these tests will be conducted Online. Candidates will have to answer Descriptive Test on the computer. Descriptive Test will be administered immediately after completion of Objective Test.

(i) Objective Test:

The Objective Test of 2 hours duration will consist of 4 sections for Generalists and 5 sections of Specialists for total 200 marks.

For Generalists

For Specialists

(ii) Descriptive Test

• The Descriptive Test will be of 30 minutes duration.
• It will consist of 30 marks & will be a Test of English Language with the following sections.
  • Letter Writing – 10 marks
  • Essay – 20 marks
• The descriptive test will be in English and will be conducted online.

Selection Procedure for the Interview

• Each candidate will have to obtain a minimum score for each section of objective test separately for getting short listed for the Descriptive test evaluation/Interview.
• The evaluation of the Descriptive answer script will be only for the candidates who qualify the objective test and score high.
• Cut-offs will be decided for Descriptive paper evaluation depending on the number of vacancies available.
• Each candidate will have to obtain a minimum total score in the objective test & main examination and will have to qualify the Descriptive Test for getting short-listed for the interview.

English 

(1) Reading Comprehension

• Expected No. of Qs: 7-10 (1 Passage)
• Moderate to More Time Consuming, Moderate Accuracy Possible.
• Expected Topics: The passage will be focussed on topics like Banking & Economy, Business, Social Issues etc. Fact and Inference based questions – easy to moderate, Vocab & Theme based questions – moderate to tough.
• Study Material: General Tips for RC, Tips for Economics & Banking based passages, Tips for Style & Tone of RC
• Quizzes: Quiz 1, Quiz 2

(2) Grammar (Error Spotting, Phrase Replacement, Fill in the Blanks)

• Expected No. of Qs: 5 -10
• Easy to Moderate in Difficulty, Moderate Accuracy Possible.
• Expected Topics: Error Spotting, Phrase Replacement/ Sentence Correction, Fill in the Blanks.
• Study Material: 52 Tips for Error Spotting, Easy Tips for Grammar, General Tips on Tenses.
• Quizzes: Error Spotting Quiz, Phrase Replacement Quiz, Fillers Quiz

(3) Cloze Test

• Expected No. of Qs: 7-10
• Easy to Moderate Difficulty, Less Time Consuming, Moderate to High Accuracy possible.
• Expected Topics: Social issue, Economy, Banking & Financial Insurance etc.
• Study Material: 8 Tips to Master Cloze Test
• Quizzes: Quiz 1, Quiz 2

(4) Para Jumbles

• Expected No. of Qs: 0-5
• Expected Topics: Para Jumbles
• Study Material: 7 Tips for Solving Para Jumbles.
• Quizzes: Quiz 1, Quiz 2

2. Oriental Insurance AO Syllabus – Reasoning Ability

The various topics expected in the Reasoning Ability section are:

(1) Syllogisms

• Expected No. of Qs: 5 Questions
• Expected Topics: Direct questions with 2-3 statements & 2-3 conclusions, possibility based questions, negative information based questions.
• Study Material: Basic Concepts of Syllogisms
• Quizzes: Quiz 1, Quiz 2

(2) Blood Relations

• Expected No. of Qs: 2-5
• Expected Topics: Family Tree Problems, Coded Blood Relations.
• Study Material: General Understanding of Blood Relations, Complex Blood Relations
• Quizzes: Quiz 1, Quiz 2

(3) Directions & Distances

• Expected No. of Qs: 1-3
• Expected Topics: Direction of people moving in different directions (north, south, east, west, left, right ) & distance covered by them.
• Study Material: 3 Tricks for Directions & Distances
• Quizzes: Quiz 1

(4) Coding & Decoding

• Expected No. of Qs: 5 Questions
• Expected Topics: Coding by Letter Shifting, Coding in Fictitious Language.
• Study Material: Coding Decoding in Fictitious Language, Coding by Letter Shifting
• Quizzes: Quiz 1, Quiz 2

(5) Scheduling

• Expected No. of Qs: 5
• Expected Topics: Based on days of a week, months & People working in 3 different department.
• Quizzes: Quiz 1, Quiz 2

(6) Ordering & Ranking

• Expected No. of Qs: 2-5
• Expected Topics: Order in a row, Arranging by age, height, weight, rank.
• Study Material: Tricks to Crack Ordering & Ranking
• Quizzes: Quiz 1, Quiz 2

(7) Linear Arrangement

• Expected No. of Qs: 5
• Expected Topics: People sitting in a single row facing north/south/both direction (some facing north & some south) or People sitting in two rows, in row 1st all of them are facing south & in row 2 all of them are facing north.
• Study Material: 
• Quizzes: Quiz 1, Quiz 2

(8) Circular Arrangement

• Expected No. of Qs: 0-5
• Expected Topics: Uni & Bi-directional problems on circular, square, rectangular tables.
• Study Material: How to Approach Circular Arrangements
• Quizzes: Quiz 1, Quiz 2

(9) Puzzles

• Expected No. of Qs: 5
• Expected Topics: Floor based, Mixed of arrangement with blood relation or direction.
• Quizzes: Quiz 1, Quiz 2

(10) Machine Input Output

• Expected No. of Qs: 0-5
• Study Material: Short tricks for input output
• Quizzes: Quiz 1

3. Oriental Insurance AO Syllabus – Quantitative Aptitude

This section is time consuming so it is very important to pick up the right questions so you do not waste your precious time.

(1) Simplification/Approximation

• Expected No. of Qs: 5 Questions
• Easy to Solve, Less Time Consuming, High Accuracy Possible.
• Expected Topics: BODMAS Rule, Approximation, Decimals, Fractions, Surds & Indices, Percentages etc.
• Study Material: Simplification using BODMAS rule
• Quizzes: Quiz 1, Quiz 2

(2) Quadratic Equations

• Expected No. of Qs: 5
• Expected Topics: Comparing values of x and y when two equations given.
• Study Material: Simplified way of solving quadratic equations
• Quizzes: Quiz 1, Quiz 2

(3) Number Series

• Expected No. of Qs: 5
• Expected Topics: Complete the Series, Find the Missing Term, Find the Wrong Term etc.
• Quizzes: Quiz 1

(4) Data Interpretation

• Expected No. of Qs: 10-15 (2-3 sets)
• Expected Topics: Line Graphs, Bar Graphs, Pie Charts, Tabular Graph.
• Study Material: Missing Data Problems, Tips for Line Graphs, Tips for Maximum-Minimum Problems in DI
• Quizzes: Quiz 1, Quiz 2

(5) Miscellaneous Questions

• Expected No. of Qs: 10-15
• Expected Topics: Average, Percentage, Ratio & proportion, Time Speed Distance, Boat & Stream, Profit & Loss, Simple & Compound Interest, Time & Work, Problems on Age, Probability, Permutation & Combination, etc.