United India Insurance (UIIC) AO 2026: syllabus and eligibility

Last checked 5 October 2026. Sources

UIIC (UIICL) AO key dates

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About UIIC (UIICL) AO

UIIC AO is the Administrative Officer (Scale I) post at United India Insurance Company Limited (UIIC, also written UIICL), a public sector general insurer wholly owned by the Government of India. Its 2026 advertisement, dated 7 September, lists 225 provisional vacancies; registration closed on 1 October 2026 after a corrigendum extended the 28 September deadline, and the tentative exam dates are 22 October 2026 for the prelims and 30 November 2026 for the mains. Generalists get 200 posts (UR 68, OBC 62, SC 30, EWS 22, ST 18) and Hindi Officers 25 (UR 11, OBC 7, SC 4, EWS 2, ST 1). PwBD reservation is horizontal: 2 VI, 2 HI, 4 OC and 3 MD/ID posts among the Generalists and 1 VI post among the Hindi Officers. You could apply for only one of the two, and the notice says the vacancies are largely in the Western and Southern zones.

Eligibility

Age limit

General category: 21–30 years, counted on 30 June 2026.

Age relaxation

• OBC: 3 years
• SC: 5 years
• ST: 5 years
• PwBD: 10 years
• Ex-servicemen: 5 years
• OBC relaxation is for the non-creamy layer.
• Ex-servicemen, including commissioned officers and ECOs/SSCOs, need at least five years of military service as on 30 June 2026 and must have been released on completion of assignment, on physical disability attributable to military service or on invalidment. The corrigendum of 28 September 2026 also admits those whose assignment ends within one year of the last date of registration.
• Defence personnel disabled in operations during hostilities with a foreign country or in a disturbed area, and released as a result, get 3 years.
• Widows, divorced women and women legally separated from their husbands who have not remarried get 9 years.
• Confirmed employees of public sector general insurance companies, including GIC and Agriculture Insurance Company of India, get 8 years.
• If you fall in more than one group, the relaxations add up, but your age cannot go above 45.

Date of birth

Born between 30 June 1996 and 30 June 2005, both dates included.

Qualification

Generalists: a graduate or postgraduate degree in any discipline (the notice names engineering, arts, science, commerce, agriculture and data science among others) from a recognised university, with at least 60% marks (55% for SC/ST/PwBD) in either degree. Hindi Officers: a master's degree from a recognised university with 60% marks (55% for SC/ST/PwBD) in one of five combinations: Hindi, with English as a compulsory or elective subject or the medium of examination at degree level; English, with Hindi as a compulsory or elective subject or the medium of examination at degree level; any other subject with Hindi medium, and English as a compulsory or elective subject or the medium of examination at degree level; any other subject with English medium, and Hindi as a compulsory or elective subject or the medium of examination at degree level; or any other subject, with Hindi and English as compulsory or elective subjects at degree level, or one of them as the medium of examination and the other as a compulsory or elective subject. You must have passed by 30 June 2026; a result declared after that date does not count.

Other conditions

• Working knowledge of computers is a must.
• Your degree must be from a university or institute in India approved by UGC or AICTE, as applicable, and recognised by the Central Government, through the 10+2+3 pattern or an equivalent system.
• If your university awards only CGPA, OGPA or SGPA, you need a certificate from the appropriate authority converting the grade to a percentage. Fractions are dropped, so 59.99% counts as below 60%.
• Serving UIIC Administrative Officers (Scale I) cannot apply.
• Indian citizens can apply. Subjects of Nepal or Bhutan, Tibetan refugees who came before 1 January 1962 and persons of Indian origin who migrated from the countries listed in the notice to settle in India also qualify with a Government of India eligibility certificate.
• Selected candidates are likely to be posted mostly in the Southern and Western zones. The first posting is for at least five years, and requests for a transfer to a place of your choice are not entertained in that period.

UIIC (UIICL) AO salary

Basic pay is in the scale Rs 82485-4050(14)-139185-4390(4)-156745, which starts at Rs 82,485, plus admissible allowances. The 2026 advertisement puts gross pay at about Rs 1,10,000 a month in metropolitan centres. Other benefits listed are gratuity, LTS, medical benefits, group personal accident insurance, the National Pension System and leased accommodation as per company rules. You serve a one-year probation, which can be extended, and must pass the Insurance Institute of India's non-life Licentiate exam to be confirmed. Before joining you sign an undertaking to serve at least five years, probation included. If you resign earlier you pay liquidated damages equal to the gross salary paid to you, capped at one year's gross salary and reduced in proportion to service after the first year, plus Rs 35,000 towards onboarding and integration costs.

Source: official notice ↗

Selection process

1. Tier I: online prelims (objective)
2. Tier II: online mains (objective tests and a typed descriptive test)
3. Interview (up to three times the vacancies)
4. Final merit: mains and interview weighted 75:25

Exam pattern

UIIC (UIICL) AO syllabus

What they ask

The prelims has 100 questions in 60 minutes, in three sections with their own 20-minute clocks, and you must clear each section and the overall cut-off. Generalists then take 200 objective questions for 250 marks in 150 minutes, with General Awareness focused on the financial sector, followed at once by a typed letter and essay worth 30 marks. Hindi Officers take a 200-mark objective mains in which Professional Knowledge (grammar, the official language Act and Rules, and translation) carries 100 marks, then a 60-minute descriptive paper with two essays, a Hindi letter and two translations. For Hindi typing you need the Inscript or Remington (GAIL) keyboard layout. Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, General Awareness and Computer Knowledge can be taken in English or Hindi, and each wrong objective answer costs a quarter of that question's marks. Prelims marks do not count in the final merit list; Generalists only need to qualify in the descriptive test, while Hindi Officers' descriptive marks are counted.

How to prepare

• Practise English, reasoning and quantitative aptitude in 20-minute timed blocks. Each prelims section has its own clock and its own cut-off.
• Generalists: follow insurance and financial sector news for General Awareness, which carries 60 marks in the mains.
• Generalists: practise typing a letter and an essay in 30 minutes. You must clear the descriptive test to reach the interview, even though its marks are not added to the merit list.
• Hindi Officers: practise Hindi typing in Inscript or Remington (GAIL) and timed translation both ways. Professional Knowledge alone is 100 of the 200 objective marks.
• Build speed on reasoning and quantitative aptitude with daily topic-wise quizzes on the free Improvam app.

Documents checklist

• Prelims or mains call letter, downloaded from uiic.co.in, with a recent photo affixed, preferably the one you uploaded
• Original photo ID in exactly the name on the call letter (for example PAN card, passport, driving licence, voter card or Aadhaar card with photo), plus a photocopy; ration cards and learner's licences are not accepted
• Two recent passport-size photos, preferably the same as the uploaded one
• Original gazette notification, marriage certificate or affidavit if your name has changed
• At the interview: originals and attested copies of certificates for date of birth, qualifications and category
• SC/ST/OBC certificate (OBC non-creamy layer in the central government format), EWS Income and Asset Certificate for 2025-26 issued after 31 March 2026, or PwBD certificate, as applicable
• No Objection Certificate from your employer if you work in government, a quasi-government body or a PSU
• Maharashtra SC/ST/OBC candidates: Caste Validity Certificate at the interview

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UIIC (UIICL) AO FAQs

Sources

• UIIC detailed advertisement: Administrative Officers (Scale I), Generalists and Hindi Officers 2026 (7 September 2026) ↗ (official, checked 5 October 2026)
• UIIC corrigendum: registration extended to 1 October 2026 and ex-servicemen rules revised (28 September 2026) ↗ (official, checked 5 October 2026)
• UIIC recruitment page: Administrative Officers, Generalists and Hindi Officers 2026 ↗ (official, checked 5 October 2026)
• Online registration page for UIIC AO 2026 on ibpsreg.ibps.in (registration dates, last date to print the application) ↗ (official, checked 5 October 2026)
• UIIC careers: list of recruitments ↗ (official, checked 5 October 2026)
• UIIC detailed advertisement: 100 Administrative Officers (Doctors and Specialists) 2023 ↗ (official, checked 5 October 2026)
• UIIC notice: online exam for Administrative Officers (Generalists) 2024 on 13 February 2024 ↗ (official, checked 5 October 2026)
• UIIC detailed advertisement: 200 Administrative Officers (Generalists and Specialists) 2024 ↗ (official, checked 5 October 2026)
• NIACL detailed advertisement: 550 Administrative Officers (Scale I) 2025 ↗ (official, checked 5 October 2026)

Checked against official sources on 5 October 2026. Rules change with each notification, so read the latest one before you apply.

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