LIC AAO SYLLABUS

Recruitment of Assistant Administrative Officers (Generalist & Specialist) 32nd Batch

SYLLABUS FOR MAIN EXAMINATION

(Syllabus is illustrative in nature and not exhaustive)
For the Recruitment of Asst. Engineer (Civil)
C-1. Construction Technology:
Engineering Materials:
Physical Properties of construction materials with respect to their use in construction – Aggregates,
Bricks and Tiles, Cement, different types of Mortars and concrete.
C-2. Construction:
Masonry principles using Brick, Stone, Blocks
Types of Plastering, point, flooring, roofing and construction features.
Common repairs in buildings.
Principles of functional planning of building for residents and specific use – Building code
provisions.
Basic principles of detailed and approximate estimating – specification writing and rate analysis –
principles of valuation of real property.
Machinery for earthwork, concreting and their specific uses.
C-3. Construction Planning and Management:
Construction activity – schedules – organization for construction industry – Quality assurance
principles.
Use of basic principles of network – analysis in form of CPM and PERT – their use in construction
monitoring, cost optimization and resource allocation.
C-4. Surveying:
Common methods and instruments for surveying required for building construction.

C-5. Introduction:
• CPWD – Schedule of Rates
• Estimation
• Bar Bending Schedule
• Knowledge of NBC and IS codes.
C-6. Basic principles of Analysis of Rates:
• Methodology of (AOR) Analysis of rates
• Market Rate Item
• Quotation from vendor
C-7. Principles of Construction Contracts:
• Item rate
• Lump sum
• EPC
• Statutory Provisions of contract
• Labour Laws
C-8. Quality Control and Assurance:
• For Pavement work
 Rigid (PQC) 

 Flexible (Bituminous)
• For building works
 Material – Bricks, Aggregate, Sand, Steel, Cement, Glass and other important building
materials.
C-9. Project Management:
• MS Project / Primavera
• Revision of schedule
• Critical Activity etc.
• Milestones.
C-10. Water Supply:
Estimating of demand for water, Standards for portable water, Water conservation – Rain Water
Harvesting.
C-11. Sewage treatment:
Working principles, units, chambers, sedimentation tanks, trickling filters, oxidation ponds,
activated sludge process, septic tank, disposal of sludge, recycling of wastewater.
C-12. Introduction of automation in construction:
Concept, need, examples related to different civil engineering projects.
C-13. Basic computer software usage:
Basic knowledge of MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point), Drawing Software (Auto
CAD)
For the Recruitment of Asst. Engineer (Electrical)

E-1. Circuit Theory:
Circuit components; networks graphs; KCL; KVL; circuit analysis methods; nodal analysis, mesh
analysis; basic network theorems and applications; transient analysis; RL, RC, and RLC circuits;
Two-port networks.
Instrumentation: Insulation megger, earth megger, Kelvin’s double bridge, Quadrant electrometer,
Rotating substandard, TOD meter.
E-2. Electrical Machines:-
a) Transformers: Construction details – Principles of operation – vector diagrams on no load and
load – regulation and efficiency – equivalent circuits and test for the determination of parameters of
equivalent circuits – types of three phase transformers and their applications – Scott connection of
transformers.
b) 3- Phase Induction Motors: Principle of operation – Cage and Slip ring motors – torque slip
characteristic – methods of speed control.
c) 3- Phase Alternators: Principles of operation and constructional details – types of Alternators –
Synchronous impedance – voltage regulation – short circuit ratio and its importance – phasor
diagrams of round rotor and salient pole machines synchronization – behavior of an alternator
connected to infinite bus – effect of varying excitation and mechanical torque – power angle curves
– control of active and reactive powers.
d) Single Phase Induction Motors: Types of single phase motors – Types of Single Phase Induction
motors – characteristics and methods of starting – shaded pole induction motor.
E-3. Power System Protection:
Principles of over current, differential and distance protection, Concept of Solid state relays, Circuit
breakers.
Line Bus, generator, transformer protection; numeric relays and application to DSP to protection.
E-4. Transmission and Distribution:
a) Over Head Line Insulators: Types of Insulators – Potential distribution over a string of
suspensions insulators – string efficiency – Methods of improving string efficiency.

b) Cable: Insulators of cables, Grading of cables – Capacitance Measurements in cables – Testing
of cables – Power frequency withstand tests.
c) Protection: Characteristic of Relays – Over current, directional dna distance protection of lines.
d) Circuit Breakers: Air – blast, oil, minimum oil, vacuum – sulphur hexafluoride and d c circuit
breakers – Relative merits and demerits.
E-5. Sub-station
I. HT Panels
• HT overhead Lines
• HT cables
II. Transformers
• LT Panels, LT Cables
• Bus Duct, Capacitor panels
• Cable Trench, Cable Tray
E-6. DG Sets / UPS
• AMF Panel
• Synchronization
• SCADA
E-7. Internal Electrification
• Wiring
• Conducting
• Fitting/Fixtures
• Fans
E-8. Fire Alarm & Fire Fighting System
• Fire Alarm & Detection
• Wet Riser
• Down Comer
• Sprinkler System
• Fire Suppression System
E-9. Earthing
• Lightning Protection System
• CCTV / PA System
• Solar Power System
• Codes and services in buildings.
E-10. Elements of Electrical Engineering
1. A. C. Circuits: Generation of alternating voltage and current, RMS and average value, form
factor, crest factor, AC through resistance, inductance and capacitance, R-L, R-C, and R-L-C
series and parallel circuits, phasor diagrams power and power factor, series and parallel
reasonnance, Q-factor and bandwidth.
2. Three Phase Circuits: Three phase voltage and current generation, star and delta
connections (balanced load only), relationship between phase and line currents and voltages,
Phasor diagram, Basic principle of wattmeter, measurement of power by two wattmeter
method.
3. Single phase transformer: Construction, working principle, Emf equation, ideal and practical
transformer, transformer on no load and on load, phasor diagrams, equivalent circuit, O. D. and
S. C. test efficiency.
E-11. Basic Computer Software Usage:
Basic Knowledge of MS Office (MS Word, MS excel, MS Power Point); Drawing Software (Auto
CAD)

For the Recruitment of Company Secretary
The paper will be based on:
1. Company Law
2. ISDR SEBI: Issue of capital and disclosure
3. SEBI- SAST Regulation (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 2011
4. SEBI- PIT Log (Prohibition of Insider Trading)
5. Drafting of resolution/notes

For the Recruitment of Chartered Accountants
The paper will be based on:
1. Financial Accounting
2. Financial Reporting (Including GAAP & IndAS)
3. Commercial Laws
4. Taxation- Direct & Indirect
5. Information Technology
6. Risk Management and Internal Financial Control

For the Recruitment of Legal Officers
The paper will be based on Contract Act interpreting various Laws viz., Banking, Negotiable Instruments,
Company, and Cooperative Laws, Cyber Laws Commerce/Property transactions, Life Insurance, Staff
matters and Good experience in drafting various types of documents.

For the Recruitment of Actuarial
The paper will be based on the syllabus prescribed by the Institute of Actuaries of India, under the
subjects CS1, CS2, CM1, CM2, CB1, CB2 & CB3

For the Recruitment of Insurance Specialist
The paper will be based on the syllabus prescribed by the Insurance Institute of India, under the subjects
IC85, IC86, IC89, IC92, AS 03, AS 05(iv), AS 05(v) 

 

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