{"id":168577,"date":"2025-08-20T18:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicemock.com\/blog\/?p=168577"},"modified":"2025-08-20T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:15:15","slug":"how-to-prepare-for-niacl-ao-english-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicemock.com\/blog\/how-to-prepare-for-niacl-ao-english-section\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Prepare for NIACL AO English Section?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Home<\/a><\/span> \u00bb NIACL AO<\/a><\/span> \u00bb How to Prepare for NIACL AO English Section<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n

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The New India Assurance Company Limited has released a notification regarding the vacancies for the post of AO. Dates for the preliminary exam have also been released.  So, hardly 25 days are left. In such a short period, you need to prepare each section with precision. For this, you need to have a good strategy for each section. English is considered the easiest of all the sections, and because of this, many times students underestimate which ultimately pays a lot during the examination. To help you prepare for the English section, we have curated a strategy that will help you ace the competition.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NIACL Exam Pattern: Weightage of English section <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In NIACL Exam, the English section consists of 30 questions, which are of 30 marks. There is a sectional time limit of 20 minutes along with a negative marking of \u00bcth mark for each incorrect answer. In the analysis of previous year\u2019s papers of the NIACL AO Exam done by our experts, we observed that an average student attempts 22-24 questions, and those who make up to the mains stage attempt 25-28 questions. So you can consider targeting 25-28 questions to be solved in the examination, in order to get good scores.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most Important Topics for English Section <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here is a list of topics given in the table below that a candidate should prepare for the NIACL AO exam. Basically, English is divided into three sections: Reading comprehension, Vocabulary, and Grammar. In the table given below, we have mentioned topics according to these three sections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading Comprehension<\/strong><\/td>Vocabulary<\/strong><\/td>Grammar<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
RCs based on Economics, Finance, and Banking, health, technology, etc.<\/td>Word Usage
<\/td>		Tenses
Prepositions
Noun
Pronoun
Verb \/ Modal
Adverb
Articles
Conjunctions
Voice
Narration
Question Tags<\/td><\/tr>
Story-Based Passages<\/td>Idioms and Phrases<\/td>Conditional Sentences<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Antonyms and Synonyms<\/td>Phrasal Verbs<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td>Active and Passive <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td>Narration (Direct\/Indirect Speech)<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td>Parallelism<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Step-by-Step Strategy to Prepare English Section for NIACL AO<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Read The Hindu Editorial\/Any Newspaper Daily<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Read the editorial section of The Hindu Newspaper daily or any other newspaper of your choice. They are written the same way as reading comprehension is asked in the exam. In prelims, you can expect moderate-level English passages. So it will help you a lot by reading it daily and practicing the questions; you will become proficient, and during the examination, you will be able to solve it in less time, which will also help you with inference-based questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Master Vocabulary through Repetition of Root Words<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One of the most important things to do for mastering vocabulary is to learn root words and repeat them daily while reading something, not necessarily the editorial, anything you read, just locate the words wherever you see them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Example of root words- Root Word \u2013 Mal \u2013 a Latin word, Meaning \u2013 bad or evil.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

English words having the \u2018mal\u2019 root word \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n