LIC ADO Mains study plan
LIC ADO Mains · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Reasoning Ability & Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability
Solve 60 puzzle sets across floor, circular and linear seating plus box arrangements, capping each set at 6 minutes and recording the clock time per set.
Drill 150 simplification and approximation items plus 100 quadratic-comparison items, writing the shortcut used beside every solved question.
Rebuild percentage, ratio, average and proportion by solving 180 arithmetic sums and building a one-page formula card for each chapter.
Open a single error register that tags every wrong answer as concept gap, calculation slip or misread question.
Your checkpoint
Error register with at least 150 tagged entries plus three timed 20-question reasoning sets each scored at 70% or above.
Reasoning Ability & Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability
Master syllogism with possibility cases and inequality by solving 120 questions using a diagram-first method at under 45 seconds each.
Work 120 number-series and 100 wrong-number-series questions, labelling each one as difference, product, square-cube or mixed pattern.
Solve 150 time-work, pipes-cistern, speed-distance and train-boat problems, writing the unitary equation before calculating.
Practise 40 tabular and pie-chart DI sets, forcing mental percentage estimates before any rough work.
Your checkpoint
A 40-question mixed reasoning and quant sectional finished in 45 minutes at 65% accuracy, with every miss mapped to its chapter.
Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability & Reasoning Ability
Cover machine input-output, data sufficiency, blood relations, direction sense, order-ranking and alphanumeric series with 200 questions, noting the solving frame for each type.
Solve 50 caselet and arithmetic-based DI sets at 8 minutes per set, including missing-data, profit-loss and interest-based cases.
Finish mixture-alligation, partnership, simple and compound interest, probability and mensuration with 150 questions plus one formula revision sheet.
Start a dated 20-minute daily current-affairs log covering RBI, IRDAI and SEBI decisions, appointments and government schemes.
Your checkpoint
A 50-question quant sectional completed in 40 minutes at 70% accuracy, plus 21 dated current-affairs log entries.
Insurance and Financial Marketing Awareness & General Knowledge (including current affairs)
Build a LIC product comparison table covering term, endowment, money-back, ULIP, pension and micro-insurance plans with entry age, policy term and core benefit columns.
Write out the principles of insurance, including insurable interest, utmost good faith, indemnity, contribution, subrogation and proximate cause, each with a two-line original example.
Memorise the IRDAI framework: establishment and duties, licensing of insurers and agents, solvency margin, ombudsman, commission caps and mis-selling rules.
Compile six months of current affairs into monthly digests covering banking and insurance appointments, schemes, indices, awards and sports.
Your checkpoint
A 10-page handwritten insurance and current-affairs digest plus 200 self-made flashcards, each fact checked against a primary or official source.
Insurance and Financial Marketing Awareness & General Knowledge (including current affairs)
Learn marketing fundamentals, covering the 4Ps, segmentation, targeting, positioning, product life cycle, pricing and promotion, applying each to one insurance product example.
Map insurance distribution in India, covering agency, bancassurance, brokers, web aggregators and direct selling, with regulator, commission rule and one advantage or drawback for each channel.
Revise financial-market basics, covering RBI functions, monetary policy tools, money versus capital market, SEBI's role, mutual funds, NBFCs, NPAs and payment systems such as UPI and NACH.
Test retention with 300 mixed GK and insurance MCQs, rewriting every missed fact as a question-answer pair.
Your checkpoint
A 300-question GK and insurance sectional test scored at 70% or above, with a rewritten Q&A sheet for every missed fact.
English Language & Insurance and Financial Marketing Awareness
Read 20 editorial-length passages and answer 100 RC questions under a 6-minute-per-passage cap, underlining the sentence that supports each answer.
Drill error detection, sentence improvement and fillers with 150 questions built from a self-made list of 40 recurring grammar rules, including subject-verb agreement, articles, prepositions and tenses.
Complete 40 para-jumbles and 100 cloze-test blanks, marking the connector or pronoun that fixes each link.
Revise insurance chapters through flashcards and re-attempt every question missed in weeks 4 and 5.
Your checkpoint
A 50-question English sectional finished in 30 minutes at 80% accuracy plus a 10-page grammar rule sheet with one example per rule.
Reasoning Ability & Quantitative Aptitude / Numerical Ability
Take two full-length mocks on separate days and log section-wise time, attempts and accuracy in a tracking sheet.
Re-solve every wrong reasoning and quant question from both mocks untimed, then again under the sectional clock.
Run eight 20-minute puzzle-and-DI sprint sets to bring reasoning speed below 90 seconds per easy or moderate question.
Repair the three slowest arithmetic chapters revealed by mock data with 100 targeted questions each.
Your checkpoint
Two full mocks fully analysed, with accuracy on the weaker of reasoning or quant improved by at least 8 percentage points from mock 1 to mock 2.
General Knowledge (including current affairs) & Insurance and Financial Marketing Awareness
Revise the week-4 digest and week-5 fact sheets in three spaced passes on days 1, 3 and 6 without re-reading source material.
Take two full-length mocks in the actual exam slot and finish each with at least 5 minutes left for review.
Update current affairs for the last 15 days and re-test 200 insurance and GK MCQs, scoring 75% or higher.
Consolidate formula cards, the grammar sheet and the error register into one pre-exam revision sheet per domain.
Your checkpoint
Two final full mocks scored above the week-7 average, with five one-page domain revision sheets ready.
Milestones
Week 3: Quant sectional at 70% in 40 minutes, and the error register shows at least half of all entries caused by calculation slips rather than concept gaps.
Week 4: 200 insurance and current-affairs flashcards written, with 75% recall on a blind self-test of 50 randomly drawn cards.
Week 6: English sectional at 80% in 30 minutes, and insurance flashcard recall lifted to 85%.
Week 7: Two full mocks completed with section-wise analysis, and the second mock's overall score higher than the first.
Week 8: Latest full mock at or above 65% overall with no section below 55%, and all five revision sheets finished.