OICL AO Exam Pattern 2025 For Prelims and Mains Online Exam PDF

Oriental Insurance Company Limited (OICL) is India’s most popular and famous company that provides insurance-related services for the citizens of India. Every year, Oriental Insurance Company Limited (OICL) releases the notification post for the AO or Assistant on its official website. As per the latest news, its official notification of the AO post has been announced number of 300 vacancies.

OICL AO Exam Pattern 2025

It’s a good occasion for the graduates candidate who wants to get government jobs as the AO Administrative Officer Scale 1 (Generalist and Hindi Officers). In this article, we are going to reveal the official syllabus and exam pattern of the OICL AO Exam. If you have applied for this application form and want to crack it on your first attempt, you must know the detailed exam pattern of this recruitment.

You all know that there are two papers in this exam: Prelims and Mains. Generally, the banking and insurance exam has two types of exams: prelims, mains and interview. Below, we have added the exam overview so that aspirants can understand the official exam pattern of the OICL AO Exam.

OICL AO Exam Pattern 2025

As per the official notification there are two types of the exam prelims and mains as above we have narrated in short. Below, we have provided the detailed exam pattern of the OICL AO online exam for the prelims. Follow: Refer to the table below to know the marking scheme, total number of questions and duration of Prelims and Mains.

Stage 1: Prelims Exam

• There are three sections in the Prelims: Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude and English.
• Each section has its individual sectional timing, which is 20 minutes.
• Each correct answer gives 1 mark.
• For each incorrect answer, 0.25 marks will be subtracted.
• Exam Mode online
• Section time is given in the online exam

Subjects	Questions	Marks	Duration
Reasoning	35	35	20 minutes
Quantitative Aptitude	35	35	20 minutes
English	30	30	20 minutes
Total	100	100	60 minutes

Stage 2: Mains Exam

• It has 5 sections: Reasoning, General Awareness, Professional Knowledge, Quantitative Aptitude and English.
• Each Section carries 40 questions from specific subjects.
• The total questions is 200.
• Each question carries 1 mark
• 0.25 (1/4) marks will be deducted for each wrong mark.
• Exam mode online
• Sectional timing for each subject

Subjects	Questions	Marks	Duration
Reasoning	40	40	30 minutes
English Language	40	40	30 minutes
General Awareness	40	40	25 minutes
Quantitative Aptitude	40	40	30 minutes
Professional Knowledge	40	40	35 minutes
Total	200	200	150 minutes

Descriptive Test (English Language)

To attend the descriptive section, you have to crack the Prelims and Mains exam properly. Only those candidates are called who have cracked the prelims and mains exams. To crack the description, your English and essay writing part.

• The Duration of the Descriptive test is 30 minutes
• The total marks of the test are 30

1. Letter Writing: 10 marks
2. Essay Writing: 20 marks

Minimum qualifying marks in Descriptive Test:

1. General: 15 out of 30
2. SC/ST/PwBD: 13.5 out of 30

The descriptive is part of the qualifying marks, and this would not be accumulated for the Interview.

OICL AO Interview

This is the last and final stage of the OICL AO exam. In the exam pattern, you have to follow the details provided above to help.