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PSU Insurers — Internal Promotion Exams

Clear your next scale

Working at National, New India, Oriental or United India? Your promotion runs through a written test — GIPSA scale promotions for officers, Para 13.2 for Assistants moving to AO — and through the III qualifications that earn your eligibility and weightage marks. The Almanac covers all three, chapter by chapter, with every MCQ explained.

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The promotion exams

GIPSA Officer PromotionScales 1–5 — National, New India, Oriental, United India
Company-wise cycles — announced by internal circular
Written test (fast-track channel): objective MCQs across Fire, Marine, Motor, Miscellaneous, Underwriting & Claims, and HR/Admin — HR weightage rises with scale. Eligibility leans on III qualifications (typically AIII for Scale 1→2, FIII for 2→3) plus years in scale. Exact pattern varies by company and cycle — your circular is authoritative.
✅ Dedicated 12-chapter course: officer-level revision of every tested section, service-rules chapter, current industry awareness — every MCQ explained in plain language.
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Para 13.2Assistant (Class III) → Administrative Officer Scale I
Internal cycles — announced by company circular
Paper 1 (100 marks, MCQ, no negative): choose any 3 of 6 groups — Fire, Marine, Miscellaneous, Accounts & Investments, Personnel & Legal, Systems. Paper 2 (100 marks): descriptive English (essay, précis) + objective English + General Knowledge. Then interview.
✅ Dedicated 11-chapter course: every Paper 1 group covered, plus English technique and an insurance-weighted GK chapter — built for working Assistants, fundamentals first.
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GIPSA: what should I study?

The written test offers 7 sections — you answer any 4 (max 25 questions each). The course chapters are your exam-shaped revision; the III papers are the depth behind each section — and your AIII/FIII eligibility marks on the same ladder. Tap the 4 sections you plan to answer — your study list stays highlighted.

Exam sectionIn the GIPSA Promotion courseDeep-dive paper(s)
Fire & EngineeringCourse ch. 2 + 6IC-57 Fire & Consequential Loss · IC-56 Fire Claims · IC-77 Engineering
Marine & AviationCourse ch. 3IC-67 Marine Insurance · IC-76 Aviation Insurance
Motor (OD & TP)Course ch. 4IC-72 Motor Insurance
MiscellaneousCourse ch. 5, 6 & 7IC-78 Miscellaneous · IC-74 Liability · IC-27 Health · IC-71 Agricultural
ReinsuranceCourse ch. 10IC-85 Reinsurance Management
Finance — Accounts, Investment & ITdeep-dive onlyIC-46 GI Accounts & Investment
HR (incl. HR-Legal)Course ch. 11IC-90 Human Resources Management
Every section — underwriting & claims anglesCourse ch. 8 & 9IC-45 GI Underwriting · IC-29 GI Claims · IC-86 Risk Management

Para 13.2: what should I study?

Paper 1: you choose any 3 of the 6 groups. Paper 2 (English + GK) is compulsory for everyone. Pick your 3 groups, read their course chapters, then go deep with the paper behind each. Tap the 3 groups you plan to take — Paper 2 is compulsory and stays on.

Exam sectionIn the Para 13.2 courseDeep-dive paper(s)
Group: FireCourse ch. 2IC-57 Fire & Consequential Loss · IC-56 Fire Claims
Group: MarineCourse ch. 3IC-67 Marine Insurance
Group: MiscellaneousCourse ch. 4IC-78 Miscellaneous · IC-74 Liability
Group: Accounts & InvestmentsCourse ch. 5 & 6IC-46 GI Accounts & Investment
Group: Personnel & LegalCourse ch. 7 & 8IC-90 Human Resources · IC-14 Regulation · IC-24 Legal Aspects of Life Insurance
Group: Systems (DP & MIS)Course ch. 9Computer Awareness
Paper 2: English (compulsory)Course ch. 10English Language
Paper 2: General Knowledge (compulsory)Course ch. 11Banking & Financial Awareness

The III ladder is the promotion ladder

Licentiate → Associateship → FellowshipInsurance Institute of India professional qualifications
III qualifications do double duty in every PSU insurer's promotion policy: they gate the fast-track channel (AIII for Scale 1→2, FIII for 2→3) and they add weightage marks to your promotion score. Every Licentiate, Associateship and Fellowship paper is on the platform — keynotes summaries, explained MCQs and full-length mocks, in English and Hindi.
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A note on patterns. These are internal exams — the structure can shift between companies and cycles, and your company's own circular/handout is always the authoritative source. Our courses teach the durable syllabus those papers draw from, so a pattern tweak doesn't change what you need to know.