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NICL Assistant Prelims Mock Test 1

National Insurance Company Assistant

A full-length NICL Assistant Prelims mock in the exact exam pattern — 100 questions across English Language, Reasoning Ability and Quantitative Aptitude, with a locked 20 minutes for each section exactly as the real paper is sat. Every question carries a worked solution, and your result breaks performance down by section and by topic.

Questions
100
Total marks
100
Duration
60 min
Sections
3

Exam pattern

Section Questions Marks Correct Wrong Time
English Language 30 30 +1 −0.25 20 min
Reasoning Ability 35 35 +1 −0.25 20 min
Quantitative Aptitude 35 35 +1 −0.25 20 min
Total 100 100 60 min

Each section is timed separately. Once a section's time ends you cannot return to it, and unused time does not carry over — exactly as in the real exam.

What you get

  • The real exam interface The same question palette, Save & Next, Mark for Review and Clear Response as the exam-day software.
  • Sectional timers on a server clock Sections close on time whether or not your tab is open, so your practice is timed the way the exam is.
  • Real marking, negative included Wrong answers cost marks at the exam rate. Unattempted questions never do.
  • Score, accuracy and time per section Where the marks went and where the minutes went, section by section.
  • A topic-wise breakdown The actionable part — which topics cost you marks, so you know what to revise tomorrow.
  • Worked solutions for every question Not just the right option: the working behind it, available the moment you submit.

Sample questions

One question from each section of this paper, with the worked solution. The answers stay hidden until you ask for them.

English Language Fill in the Blanks
The sentence below has two blanks. Choose the pair of words that fits both blanks so that the sentence is grammatically correct and makes sense. The report was ___ to read because the writer had used long sentences and ___ vocabulary.
  1. A easy, simple
  2. B pleasant, difficult
  3. C difficult, technical
  4. D quick, complex
Show answer & solution

Correct answer: C. difficult, technical

"Because" makes the second half the reason for the first. Long sentences and technical vocabulary make a text hard to read, so "difficult, technical" is a proper cause and effect. "Easy, simple" contradicts the stated cause — long sentences do not make a report easy. "Pleasant, difficult" and "quick, complex" both pair a positive result with an obstructive cause.
Reasoning Ability Syllogism
In the question below are given two statements followed by two conclusions. Take the statements to be true even if they seem at variance with commonly known facts, and decide which of the conclusions logically follows. Statements: All poets are writers. Some writers are critics. Conclusions: I. Some poets are critics. II. Some critics are writers.
  1. A Only conclusion I follows
  2. B Only conclusion II follows
  3. C Both conclusions I and II follow
  4. D Either conclusion I or II follows
  5. E Neither conclusion I nor II follows
Show answer & solution

Correct answer: B. Only conclusion II follows

Poets sit inside writers, and some writers are critics — but nothing says those particular writers are the poets. The critics could lie entirely in the part of "writers" outside "poets", so conclusion I is possible but not certain. Conclusion II is simply the second statement read backwards, and a "some" statement always converts. Only conclusion II follows.
Quantitative Aptitude Simplification and Approximation
What value should come in place of the question mark? 28% of 450 + 22% of 350 = ?
  1. A 203
  2. B 193
  3. C 213
  4. D 207
Show answer & solution

Correct answer: A. 203

28% of 450 = 450 × 28/100 = 126 22% of 350 = 350 × 22/100 = 77 126 + 77 = 203. The second term is quickest as 350 × 22 = 7,700, then divided by 100.

100 questions · 60 min

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