NICL AO – SELECTION PROCEDURE

All tests except test of English Language and Descriptive Paper will be provided in English and Hindi. You can attempt any objective question at any point of time within 120 minutes. All the objective questions will have multiple choices. Out of the five answers to a question only one will be the correct answer. You have to select the most appropriate answer and ‘mouse click’ that alternative which you feel is appropriate/correct. The alternative/ option that you have clicked on will be treated as your answer to that question. There will be penalty for wrong answers marked by you. For every wrong answer marked by you, 1/4 of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty.

The Scores of Online Examination will be obtained by adopting the following procedure:

(i) Number of questions answered correctly by a candidate in each objective test is considered for arriving at the Corrected Score after applying penalty for wrong answers.

(ii) The Corrected Scores so obtained by a candidate are made equivalent to take care of the minor difference in difficulty level, if any, in each of the objective tests held in different sessions to arrive at the Equated Scores*

*Scores obtained by candidates on any test are equated to the base form by considering the distribution of scores of all the forms.

(iii) Testwise scores and scores on total is reported with decimal points upto two digits.

Note: Cutoffs may be applied in two stages:

(i) On scores in individual tests

(ii) On Total Score

The total marks of the examination will be 200 which includes 40 marks of the English Descriptive section. Candidates will be shortlisted for Interview on the basis of overall marks scored in objective and descriptive section taken together against full marks of 200.

English Descriptive Test will only be evaluated for those candidates who qualify in the Objective type of tests and are placed adequately high as per total marks in the objective test. Descriptive test to the extent of 15 times the number of vacancies in each discipline/category will be evaluated. The various qualifying cut off marks in each of the objective tests and the descriptive paper will be decided by the company

Questions will be displayed on the screen of your computer. Answers are to be typed using the keyboard. Before start of typing answers to questions in Descriptive Paper please check all key functions of the keyboard. You will get 45 minutes to answer the questions.