ESIC UDC Syllabus

The Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) will conduct a three-stage recruitment process for Upper Division Clerk (UDC) posts: Prelims, Mains, and Skill Test. The prelims exam and skill test will be qualifying in nature, and the final selection will be based on the marks scored by candidates in ESIC UDC Phase-II (Mains) Exam.

ESIC UDC Exam Pattern 2025

Phase-1 Prelims Exam

This stage is qualifying, and marks will not be included in the final selection. The exam will consist of 4 sections with 100 Objective Type Questions. Each correct answer carries 2 marks, and there will be a negative marking of one-fourth mark (0.25) for each incorrect answer. The total duration of the test will be 60 minutes (1 hour).

S. No.	Name of the Test	No. of Questions	Max. Marks
1	General Intelligence and Reasoning	25	50
2	General Awareness	25	50
3	Quantitative Aptitude	25	50
4	English Comprehension	25	50
Total		100	200

Phase-2 Mains Exam

This stage is scoring, and marks will be considered in the final selection. The exam will consist of 4 sections with 200 Objective Type Questions. Each correct answer carries 1 mark, and there will be a negative marking of one-fourth mark (0.25) for each incorrect answer. The total duration of the test will be 120 minutes (2 hours).

S. No.	Name of the Test	No. of questions	Max. Marks
1	General Intelligence and Reasoning	50	50
2	General Awareness	50	50
3	Quantitative Aptitude	50	50
4	English Comprehension	50	50
Total		200	200

Phase-3 Computer Skill Test

There will be no negative marking for this phase, and the marks scored by the candidates will not be considered for the final merit list.

S.No.	Description of Test	Marks	Total Marks	Duration
1	Preparation of 02 PowerPoints Slides	10	50	30 minutes
2	Typing matter on MS Word with formatting	20
3	Preparation of Table on MS Excel with use of formulae	20

ESIC UDC Syllabus

Though the subjects are common in Phase-I & Phase-II, the difference lies in their difficulty level & the number of questions. Candidates must clear their basics for each subject to score good marks in both stages.

General Intelligence and Reasoning

Reasoning Topics

• Verbal Reasoning: Analogy, Series Completion, Verification of truth of the Statement, Situation Reaction Test, Direction Sense Test, Classification, Data Sufficiency, Alpha-Numeric Sequence Puzzle, Puzzle Test, Blood Relations, Coding-Decoding, Assertion and Reasoning, Arithmetical Reasoning, Operations of Mathematics, Venn Diagrams, Word Sequence, Missing Characters, Sequential Output training, Directions, Test on Alphabets, Eligibility Test.
• Non-Verbal Reasoning: Dot Situation, Identical figure groupings, Forming figures and analysis, Construction of Squares and Triangles, Series, Analytical Reasoning, Paper Folding, Paper Cutting, Cubes and Dice, Water Images, Mirror Images, Figure Matrix Completion, Incomplete Pattern, Spotting embedded figures, Classification, Rules Detection.

General Intelligence Topics

• Number Ranking, Figurative Classification, Classification, Blood Relations, Arrangements, Arithmetical Reasoning, Mathematical Operations, Venn diagrams, Number Series, Figural Pattern, Cubes and Dice, Analogies, Non-Verbal Series, Coding-Decoding, Logical Venn Diagrams, Directions, Number, Ranking & Time Sequence.

ESIC UDC Syllabus 2025 For General Awareness

• Finance Commissions, Taxes on Income and Expenditure, Financial and Railway Budget, Revenue of Central Government, Economic Planning, Inflation, National Income, Public Finance, Bills, Concept of Budget, Schemes and Policies implemented by Government, Indian Banking Industry History, Functions of Banks, Types of Banks, RBI and its Monetary Policy, Capital market in India, Money Market in India, Role of Banking.

ESIC UDC Syllabus 2025 For Quantitative Aptitude

• Simple Equations, Quadratic Equations, Indices and Surds, Mensuration, Percentages, Areas, Time and Distance, Problems on Trains, Odd Man Out, Numbers and Ages, Pipes and Cisterns, Time and Work, Partnership, Ratio and Proportion, Simple Interest, Probability, Averages, Problems on L.C.M and H.C.F, Problems on Numbers, Compound Interest, Volumes, Profit and Loss, Races and Games, Mixtures and Allegations, Boats and Streams, Permutations and Combinations, Simplification and Approximation.

ESIC UDC Syllabus 2025 For English Language

• Spellings/Detecting Mis-spelt words, Common Error, Active/Passive Voice of Verbs, Comprehension Passage, Cloze Passage, Fill in the Blanks, Shuffling of Sentence parts, Conversions, Sentence Rearrangement, Grammar, Shuffling of Sentences in a passage, Improvement of Sentences, Synonyms/Homonyms, Antonyms, Vocabulary, Idioms & Phrases.

ESIC UDC Qualifying Marks

Candidates must score minimum qualifying marks as decided by ESIC for both Prelims & Mains Exam. Those scoring less than these minimum qualifying marks will not be considered for the next stage of the selection process.

Phases Categories	UR	OBC	SC, ST, ESM	PWD
Phase-I & II (Prelims & Mains)	45%	40%	35%	30%