NICL AO Recruitment Important Dates
On line Registration commences from | 2nd January, 2024 |
Last Date for Online Registration | 22nd January, 2024 |
Payment of Application fees | 2nd January, 2024 to 22nd January, 2024 (both days inclusive) |
Date of online Examination – Phase I | To be notified later |
Downloading of call letters for examination commences from | To be notified later |
Date of online Examination – Phase II & Hindi Officers Exam | To be notified later |
Candidates should apply through On-Line mode only. No other means/mode of application will be accepted. Vacancies (Tentative):
Discipline | No. of Posts | UR | OBC | SC | ST | EWS | Out of which PwBD | |||
a | b | c | d & e | |||||||
Specialist: | 57 | 33 | 26 | 12 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
Doctors (MBBS) | 28 | |||||||||
Legal | 20 | |||||||||
Finance | 30 | |||||||||
Actuarial | 02 | |||||||||
Information Technology | 20 | |||||||||
Automobile Engineers | 20 | |||||||||
Hindi (Rajbhasha) Officers | 22 | |||||||||
Discipline | No. of Posts | UR | OBC | SC | ST | EWS | Out of which PwBD | |||
a | b | c | d & e | |||||||
Generalist | 130 | 68 | 24 | 18 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
Backlog | 2 | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – |
NICL AO Recruitment Educational Qualification (as on 01.12.2023)
Candidate should possess a certificate as proof of passing the qualifying examination as of 01.12.2023.
The minimum Educational Qualifications required for various disciplines are:
Sl. No. | Discipline | Minimum Qualification |
1 | Doctors (MBBS) | M.B.B.S / M.D. / M.S. or PG – Medical Degree from a recognized University |
2 | Legal | Graduate / Post Graduate in Law |
3 | Finance | Chartered Accountant (ICAI) / Cost Accountant (ICWA) OR |
4 | Actuarial | Bachelor / Masters degree in Statistics / Mathematics / Actuarial Science or any other quantitative discipline |
5 | Information Technology | B.E / B.Tech / M.E. / M.Tech in Computer Science/Information Technology/ MCA |
6 | Automobile Engineering | B.E. / B.Tech. / M.E. / M.Tech in Automobile Engineering |
7 | Generalist Officers | Graduate / Post Graduate in any stream |
8 | Hindi (Rajbhasha) Officers | Master’s Degree from a recognized University in Hindi with English as a compulsory or elective subject or as the medium of examination at the degree level with 60% marks (for SC/ST 55% marks) |
NICL AO Recruitment Age as on 01.12.2023
Minimum Age: 21 years Maximum Age: 30 years, as on 01.12.2023
i.e. a candidate must have been born not earlier than 02.12.1993 and not later than 01.12.2002 (both dates inclusive).
Relaxation in upper age limit shall be as follows:
Sl. | Category | Age Relaxation |
1. | Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes | 5 years |
2. | Other Backward Classes (OBC – Non creamy layer) | 3 years |
3. | Persons with Benchmark Disabilities as defined under “The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016” | 10 years |
4. | Ex-Serviceman, Commissioned Officers including Emergency Commissioned Officers (ECOs)/ Short Service Commissioned Officers (SSCOs) who have rendered at least five years Military Service as on 01.09.2023 and have been released; (a) on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year from 01.09.2023) otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency; or | 5 years |
5. | Defence service personnel disabled in operation during the hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as consequence thereof | 3 years |
6. | Widows, Divorced women and women legally separated from their Husbands, who have not remarried | 9 years |
7. | Existing confirmed employees of Public Sector General Insurance Companies (including GIC & Agriculture Insurance Company of India Ltd.) | 8 years |
NICL AO Recruitment Selection Procedure
Part A – Applicable for all applicants other than for Hindi Officers.
The written exam will be conducted in two phases
Phase – I: Preliminary Examination online
Phase – II: Main Examination online
Preliminary Examination consisting of Objective Tests (Multiple Choice type Questions) for 100 marks will be conducted online (applicable for all disciplines except Hindi Officers). This test would be of 60 minutes duration consisting of 3 sections (with separate timings for each section) as follows:
S. No | Name of Test/Section (Not in Sequence) | Type of test | Max. Marks | Duration for each test/section (Separately timed) | Version |
1 | English Language | Objective | 30 | 20 minutes | English |
2 | Reasoning Ability | Objective | 35 | 20 minutes | Eng / Hindi |
3 | Quantitative Aptitude | Objective | 35 | 20 minutes | Eng / Hindi |
| Total (Aggregate) |
| 100 |
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Candidates have to qualify in each test/section by securing passing marks to be decided by the Company. Adequate number of candidates in each category as decided by the Company (approximately 15 times the numbers of vacancies subject to availability) will be shortlisted for the Main Examination.
Main Examination will consist of Objective Tests (Multiple Choice type Questions) for 250 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 3 Hours duration consists of five & six sections for Generalists & Specialists respectively for total 250 Marks
For Generalists:
S. No | Name of Test/Section (Not in sequence) | Type of test | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Medium of Exam | Duration for each test/section (Separately timed) |
1 | Test of Reasoning | Objective | 50 | 50 | Eng / Hindi | 40 min |
2 | Test of English Language | Objective | 50 | 50 | Eng | 40 min |
3 | Test of General Awareness | Objective | 50 | 50 | Eng / Hindi | 30 min |
4 | Test of Computer Knowledge | Objective | 50 | 50 | Eng / Hindi | 30 min |
5 | Test of Quantitative aptitude | Objective | 50 | 50 | Eng / Hindi | 40 min |
| Total (Aggregate) |
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| 250 |
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For Specialists:
S. No | Name of Test/Section (Not in sequence) | Type of test | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Medium of Exam | Duration for each test/section (Separately timed) |
1 | Test of Reasoning | Objective | 40 | 40 | Eng / Hindi | 35 min |
2 | Test of English Language | Objective | 40 | 40 | Eng | 30 min |
3 | Test of General Awareness | Objective | 40 | 40 | Eng / Hindi | 20 min |
4 | Test of Computer Knowledge | Objective | 40 | 40 | Eng / Hindi | 25 min |
5 | Test of Quantitative aptitude | Objective | 40 | 40 | Eng / Hindi | 35 min |
6 | In Specialist stream, an additional test to assess technical& professional knowledge in the relevant discipline | Objective | 50 | 50 | Eng / Hindi | 35 min |
| Total (Aggregate) |
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| 250 |
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(ii) Descriptive Test: The descriptive Test of 30 Minutes duration with 30 marks will be a Test of English Language (Essay – 10 Marks, Précis – 10 & Comprehension – 10 marks). The descriptive test will be in English and will be conducted through on-line mode.
Candidates will be required to obtain a minimum score for each section separately of objective test for short listing for the Descriptive Test evaluation i.e., the descriptive answer script would be evaluated only in respect of those candidates who qualify the objective test. Depending on the number of vacancies, cut offs will be decided for Descriptive Papers evaluation i.e. there will also be a separate cut-off marks for the Descriptive Test. The Descriptive test will be qualifying in nature and the marks scored in the Descriptive test will not be counted towards short listing for interview or final selection.
Each candidate will be required to obtain a minimum total score (to be decided by the Company according to number of vacancies) in the objective test (Main Examination) and qualify in the descriptive test for short listing for the Interview.
Penalty for Wrong Answers (Applicable to both – Preliminary and Main Examination (objective tests):
The objective test except on “English Language” will be bilingual (in English and in Hindi). All the questions will be objective type with alternative choices out of which one will be correct answer. The candidate has to select the correct answer and “mouse click” that alternative which he or she feels correct. There will be penalty for wrong answers marked in the Objective Tests. Each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate, one-fourth of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty to arrive at corrected score. If a question is left blank, i.e. no answer is marked by the candidate; there will be no penalty for that question. The alternative/option that is clicked on will be highlighted and will be treated as answered to that question.
Part B. – Applicable for Hindi Officers only
The online written exam of 3 Hours 30 Minutes duration will be conducted in a single phase for Hindi (Rajbhasha) Officers:
S. No | Name of Test/Section (Not in sequence) | Type of test | No. of | Maximum Marks | Medium of Exam | Duration for each test/section (Separately timed) |
1 | Test of Reasoning | Objective | 40 | 40 | Eng / Hindi | 35 min |
2 | Test of General Awareness | Objective | 40 | 40 | Eng / Hindi | 25 min |
3 | Test of English Language | Objective | 40 | 40 | Eng | 35 min |
4 | Test of Translation | Objective | 40 | 40 |
| 25 min |
5 | Test of Hindi and English grammar/ vocabulary & knowledge of Act/ Rules regarding Official Language implementation | Objective | 40 | 40 | Eng / Hindi | 30 min |
6 | Test of Hindi Language Essay, Précis, Comprehension & Letter Writing | Descriptive | 4 | 50 | Hindi | 60 min |
| Total (Aggregate) |
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| 250 |
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The marks distribution for the Test of Hindi Language (Section 6) is: Essay – 20 Marks, Précis – 10, Comprehension – 10 marks & Letter Writing – 10 marks.
The Descriptive Test of Hindi Language will be conducted only through online mode. Questions will be displayed on the screen of the computer. Answers are to be typed using the keyboard. For Hindi typing, the candidates should know the following keyboard layout:
- In script
- Remington (GAIL)
Before typing answers to questions in Descriptive Paper please check all key functions of the keyboard. The Candidates will get 60 minutes to answer the questions.
Each candidate will be required to obtain a minimum score for each section separately to be eligible for shortlisting for the interview.
Further, each candidate will be required to obtain a minimum total score (to be decided by the Company according to a number of vacancies) in the Written Examination for shortlisting for the Interview.
NICL AO Recruitment Application Fee (Non-Refundable)
Payable on-line from 2nd January, 2024 to 22nd January, 2024 (both dates inclusive).
SC / ST / PwBD | Rs. 250/- (incl. of GST) (Intimation Charges only) |
All candidates other than SC / ST / PwBD | Rs. 1000/- (incl. of GST) (Application fee including intimation charges) |
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