NICL AO Prelims Admit Card 2026

NICL AO Prelims Admit Card 2026 — Phase I exam on 17 November 2026

The National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) has released the Phase-I Preliminary Examination call letter for the Administrative Officer (Scale-I) recruitment 2026-27. There are 321 posts in all — Generalist 200 and Specialist 121. The Prelims exam is on 17 November 2026, and the call letter can be downloaded till 17 November 2026 from the Recruitment section of the official NICL website. The login itself is hosted on the IBPS recruitment portal.

Verification basis — read this first

The official NICL site is unreachable from here and the IBPS direct login link failed with a network error, so no official page was read. The release rests on unanimous post-release secondary consensus: Times of India, NDTV Profit, JagranJosh, CareerIndia, EdexLive, PracticeMock, ShabdSanchi, Sunday Guardian and MaruGujarat all report the call letter released and the exam on 17 November 2026, with the download link in the Recruitment section of nationalinsurance.nic.co.in. One conflict: most post-release reports say the call letter was released on 10 November 2026, while FreeJobAlert alone says 9 November 2026 — this post uses 10 November 2026 and flags the FreeJobAlert date. This is the admit-card item only; the recruitment itself is already live as a separate post.

Exam pattern

Phase I (Prelims) is online: 100 questions for 100 marks in 60 minutes, in three separately timed sections of 20 minutes each — English Language 30, Reasoning Ability 35 and Quantitative Aptitude 35. You must clear each section. About 15 times the vacancies are called to the Mains. Prelims marks are screening only and do not count in the final merit. Phase II (Mains) is on 22 December 2026, followed by an interview; the final merit combines Mains and interview in the ratio 80:20.

Fee

The recruitment application fee, as stored on the live NICL AO recruitment post, is Rs. 1,000 for General / OBC / EWS and Rs. 250 for SC / ST / PwBD. That figure is from the recruitment post itself — it was not re-verified from an official source in this admit-card check, and no fee applies to downloading the call letter.

Salary and eligibility (from the recruitment)

Starting basic pay is Rs. 82,485 in the scale Rs. 82,485–1,56,745, with total emoluments of about Rs. 1,14,000 a month in metro centres. Every discipline needs a graduation or post-graduation with at least 60% marks (55% for SC/ST/PwBD) held on 1 October 2026. Generalist needs a degree in any stream; Specialists need the discipline qualification (CA/CMA for Finance, law degree for Legal, BE/BTech/ME/MTech in CS/IT or MCA for IT, and so on). Age 21 to 30 years as on 1 October 2026, with relaxations as per rules.