IB ACIO Grade II case studies
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The IB ACIO Grade II recruitment exam is the entry route into the Intelligence Bureau as an Assistant Central Intelligence Officer, a Group C post that blends desk research, report writing and field coordination. It suits graduates who are comfortable moving between quantitative puzzles, reasoned argument and careful English composition, and who accept that the role carries a background check and a security clearance process beyond the written test. The IB ACIO Grade II case studies are 5 cases and about 3,838 words.
1The Vendor's Completion Certificate
You assist a district electoral office that must deliver 48,000 laminated identity cards within 12 working days. Three printing units are installed.
622 words, about 3 min2The Torn Register
The single-door registry room of a district office is fitted with a logbook in which every entrant writes an in-time and an out-time, read from a wall clock inside the room. On Tuesday the entries were: Mehta 09:10–12:40; Nair 10:05–11:30; Oberoi 11:45–13:20; Pillai 12:10–14:00.
810 words, about 4 min3Two Pages on Telegram
You are the assistant in a district security branch. Forty-eight hours before a scheduled movement, a contractual data-entry operator in the same office photographs 14 pages of a schedule marked 'Restricted' on his personal phone and, within the hour, posts two of those pages to a public Telegram channel.
999 words, about 5 min4The Draft That Came Back
You must clear a 110-word draft note before it goes to the Director. A senior clerk has flagged five usages as errors and wants corrections before 4 p.m.
705 words, about 4 min5Thirty Words and Fifty-Five Minutes
In the descriptive paper you have 55 minutes left and two questions: a précis of 30 words (±2) carrying 15 marks, and an essay of 250–300 words carrying 25 marks. The passage to be summarised reads: 'Flood forecasting in India has improved steadily, but warnings still arrive as statistics rather than instructions.
702 words, about 4 min