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LIC ADO Study Material

For LIC ADO, one aptitude book, a newspaper and the LIC and IRDAI websites are the reading list; the insurance notes you build from them are the study material that matters.

LIC ADO · checked 19 September 2026

LIC ADO at a glance, from the official notices

The dates, vacancies and rules below are read on the conducting body’s own site and rewritten as each notice appears. The guide beneath carries the full pattern, syllabus, cut-offs and free mock tests.

19September 2026

Checked 19 September 2026

LIC ADO: the facts that matter now

  1. 01

    Notification 21 January 2023; applications 21 January – 10 February 2023; prelims 12 March 2023; mains 8 April 2023; final result June 2023; 9,394…

    Last cycle

  2. 02

    Life Insurance Corporation of India; separate notifications from each of the eight zonal offices, with one online examination

    Conducted by

  3. 03

    Apprentice Development Officer — a one-year apprenticeship on stipend, then Probationary Development Officer in Class II

    Post

  4. 04

    Open market (up to 60 per cent of posts), LIC agents (up to 25 per cent) and LIC employees (up to 15 per cent); agents and employees sit the mains…

    Categories

Notes

LIC ADO — Study material for this exam

The aptitude sections are covered by any standard banking material at a moderate level. The insurance and marketing section has no standard book; the official sources below, read once and turned into notes, cover it more reliably than any compilation.

Reading list for LIC ADO, by section.
SectionReadWhy this and not more
Reasoning and numerical abilityA standard reasoning text and a standard quantitative aptitude text at bank clerk to PO level; the notes on this siteThe paper is moderate; speed drills matter more than depth
EnglishGrammar basics, daily editorial reading, the English notes hereQualifying in the prelims; part of a 50-mark mixed section in the mains
Current affairs and GKA monthly digest for six months; static GK revisionQuick factual questions
Insurance and financial marketingLIC’s website (about us, plans, annual report); IRDAI’s website (Insurance Act, agent regulations, annual report); the Insurance Institute of India’s IC-38 agent syllabus; scheme pagesIC-38 is the agent licensing text and matches the section closely

Free material on this site

  • Reasoning notes — puzzles, syllogism, coding and series.
  • Quantitative aptitude notes — arithmetic, simplification and DI.
  • English notes — RC, cloze, error spotting.
  • Money and banking — the financial system that the insurance section assumes.
  • Current affairs — daily and monthly.

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