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Assistant Post:- For the Development Assistant there are two parts of the exam that are mentioned below:

– Preliminary Exam (Online)
– Main Exam (Online)

PHASE-I (Preliminary Exam):

In the Phase I Exam has three-part, the first part is Reasoning, the Second part is Numerical Ability and the Third part is the English Language. Below you can find the total Number of Questions for each part, Marks, and duration of the Exam:

Test Name

No. Of Questions

Marks

Duration

Reasoning

30

30

60 Minutes

Numerical Ability

30

30

English Language

40

40

Total

100

100

 

PHASE-II (Main Exam):

Test Name

No. of Questions

Marks

Duration

Computer Knowledge

40

40

90 Minutes

General Awareness

50

50

Reasoning

30

30

Quantitative Aptitude

30

30

English Language (Descriptive)

Essay writing, Letter/Report writing, Precis writing

50

30 Minutes

Total

200

2 Hours

Age Limit for NABARD Grade A & B

  • Age Limit for NABARD Grade-A: Candidates’ age should be in between 21 to 30 years.
  • Age Limit for NABARD Grade B:- The candidate’s age should be in between 25 to 32 years.

Educational Qualification:

  • Assistant Manager Grade A (Rural Development Banking Service):- Bachelor’s Degree in any subject from any recognized University with a minimum of 60% marks (SC/ST/ PWBD applicants 55%) in aggregate or Post Graduate degree with a minimum of 55% marks (SC/ST/PWBD applicants 50%) in aggregate from a recognized university or Ph.D.
  • Manager Grade B (Rural Development Banking Service):- Bachelor’s Degree in any subject from any recognized University with a minimum of 60% marks (SC/ST/ PWBD applicants 55%) in aggregate or Post Graduate degree with a minimum of 55% marks (SC/ST/PWBD applicants 50%) in aggregate from a recognized university or Ph.D.

NABARD GRADE A & B EXAM PATTERN (Phase-1: Preliminary)

Test Name

No. of Questions

Marks

Duration

Reasoning Ability

20

20

2 Hours

Quantitative Aptitude

20

20

Computer Knowledge

20

20

English Language

40

40

General Awareness

20

20

Economic and Social Issues

40

40

Agriculture & Rural Development

40

40

Total Marks

200

200

2 Hours

NABARD Grade A & B Main Exam Pattern:

Exam

Name of Test

No. of Marks

Duration

Phase I

General English

100

90 Min

Phase II

For General Post – Agriculture and Rural Development; Economic and Social Issues

For Manager Agriculture Post – Agriculture

100

90 Min

Phase III

Development Economics, Statistics, Finance & Management

100

90 Min

NABARD Grade A & B Prelims Syllabus

Reasoning Ability

  • Puzzles & Seating arrangement
  • Syllogism
  • Data sufficiency
  • Statement based questions (Verbal reasoning)
  • Inequality
  • Miscellaneous Questions
  • Input-Output
  • Blood relations
  • Alphanumeric series
  • Coding and Decoding
  • Direction Sense
  • Ranking and Order
  • Input-Output
  • Questions based on Data Sufficiency

Quantitative Aptitude

  • Data Interpretations
  • Quadratic Equations
  • Number Series
  • Simplification/ Approximation
  • Data Sufficiency
  • Arithmetic Questions
  • Quantity Comparisons
  • Mathematical Inequalities

English Language

  • Reading Comprehension
  • Cloze test
  • Sentence improvement
  • Spotting the errors
  • Fill in the blanks
  • Sentence rearrangement
  • Para Jumbles
  • New pattern questions

General Awareness

  • Current affairs of the preceding 6 months from the date of examination
    National News: MoUs, summits and major events related to India.
  • International: Summits, Conferences held abroad.
  • Defence: Military exercises, drills and major updates related to the defence sector of India.
  • Days in News: Major events or days, along with its date, and theme.
  • Persons in News: Obituaries, appointments, retirements.
  • Sports: Major tournaments and its winners.
  • Science, Technology and Space
  • Awards and honours
  • Environment
  • Banking, Economy and Schemes
  • Books and Authors
  • Static GA: Chief Ministers and Cabinet Ministers, National Parks and Sanctuaries, Organisations’ Headquarters, Banks’ Headquarters and Taglines, Power Plants in India, Indian Dance Forms, Countries’ Capitals and their Currencies.

Computer Knowledge

  • This section includes topics from various topics like the Internet and Computer Security, Input-output devices, DBMS, Networking, MS Office, History of computers & generations, Shortcuts, 2. Hardware and Memory, Software and Operating Systems,

NABARD Grade A & B Mains Syllabus

Phase 2 of the NABARD Grade A & B Exam consists of the following:

  • Online Descriptive Test – Paper-I
  • Online Objective Test – Paper-II

Let’s discuss the syllabus of those papers in detail:

NABARD Grade A & B Mains Exam: Paper-I English Writing

  • This paper is descriptive in nature.
  • This paper consists of questions supported Essay, Précis writing, comprehension, and Business/Office Correspondence.
  • The objective of the paper is to assess the writing skills including expressions and understanding of the subject.
  • Paper I is common for Grade ‘A’ –Rajbhasha, RDBS, and Legal

NABARD Grade A & B Mains Syllabus: Paper-II - Economic & Social Issues:

Nature of Indian Economy

  • Structural and Institutional features
  • Economic Underdevelopment
  • Opening up the Indian Economy
  • Globalization
  • Economic Reforms in India

Inflation

  • Impact on National Economy and Individual Income and Trends in Inflation

Poverty Alleviation and Employment Generation in India

  • Rural and Urban
  • Measurement of Poverty
  • Poverty Alleviation Programmes of the Government.

Population Trends

  • Population Growth and Economic Development
  • Population Policy in India.

Agriculture

  • Characteristics / Status
  • Technical and Institutional changes in Indian Agriculture
  • Agricultural performance
  • Issues in Food Security in India
  • Non-Institutional and Institutional Agencies in rural credit.

Industry

  • Industrial and Labour Policy
  • Industrial performance
  • Regional Imbalance in India’s Industrial Development
  • Public Sector Enterprises

Financial institutions in India and Rural banking

  • Reforms in the Banking/ Financial sector.

Globalization of Economy

  • Regional Economic Co-operation.
  • IMF & World Bank
  • Role of International Funding Institutions
  • WTO

Social Structure in India

  • Multiculturalism
  • Demographic trends
  • Urbanization and Migration
  • Gender Issues Joint family system
  • Social Infrastructure
  • Education
  • Health and Environment.

Education

  • Status & System of Education
  • Socio-Economic Problems associated with Illiteracy
  • Educational relevance and educational wastage
  • Educational Policy for India.

Social Justice

  • Socio-economic programmes for scheduled tribes and scheduled castes and other backward classes.
  • Problems of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes

Positive Discrimination in favour of the underprivileged

  • Social Movements
  • Indian Political Systems
  • Human Development

NABARD Grade A & B Mains Paper-II: Agriculture & Rural Development

Agriculture

  • Definition, meaning, and its branches
  • Agronomy: Definition, meaning, and scope of agronomy.
  • Classification of field crops.
  • Factors affecting crop production
  • Agro Climatic Zones
  • Cropping Systems: Types and Definition of cropping systems.
  • Meteorology: weather parameters, crop-weather advisory
  • Precision Farming
  • System of Crop Intensification
  • Organic farming
  • Dry land problems- seed processing, Seed production, seed village

Soil and Water Conservation

  • Major soil types
  • Soil fertility
  • Fertilizers
  • Soil erosion
  • Soil conservation
  • Watershed management

Water Resource

  • Irrigation Management
  • Types of irrigation
  • Sources of irrigation
  • Crop-water requirement
  • Command area development
  • Water conservation techniques
  • Micro-irrigation
  • Irrigation pumps
  • Major, medium, and minor irrigation.

Farm and Agri Engineering

  • Farm Machinery and Power
  • Water harvesting structures
  • Farm Ponds
  • Agro-Processing
  • Perishable food storage, Sources of power on the farm- human, animal, mechanical, electrical, wind, solar and biomass, biofuels, godowns, bins, and grain silos.
  • Sources of power on the farm- human, animal, mechanical, electrical, wind, solar and biomass, biofuel

Plantation & Horticulture

  • Definition, meaning, and its branches
  • Production technology of various plantation, Agronomic practices and horticulture crops
  • Value and supply chain management of Plantation and Horticulture crops, Post-harvest management.

Animal Husbandry

  • Different species of livestock
  • Farm, animals and their specifications and role in the Indian economy
  • Animal husbandry methods in India
  • Utility classification of breeds of cattle.
  • Common feeds and fodders, their utility and classification.
  • Introduction: poultry industry in
  • Poultry production and management
  • The significance of mixed farming and its relevance to socio-economic conditions of farmers in India
  • Obligatory and Complimentary nature of livestock and poultry production with that of agricultural farming.

Fisheries

  • Fisheries resources
  • Exploitation and Management – freshwater, marine, brackish water, Aquaculture- Inland and marine
  • Biotechnology
  • Post-harvest technology
  • Importance of fisheries in India
  • Common terms pertaining to fish production.

Forestry

  • Basic concepts of Forest and Forestry
  • Principles of forest mensuration, Silviculture, forest management, and forest economics
  • Agroforestry concepts, joint forest management, social forestry.
  • Legislation and forest policy in India
  • India State of Forest Report
  • Recent developments under the Ministry of Forest and Climate Change and Ministry of Environment.

Agriculture Extensions

  • Methods, role and its importance of evaluation of extension programmes
  • Krishi Vigyan Kendra’s (KVK): the dissemination of Agricultural technologies.

Ecology and Climate Change

  • Ecology and its relevance to man, natural resources, sustainable management, and conservation
  • Green House Gases (GHG), climate analysis
  • Causes of climate change, major GHG emitting countries Distinguish between adaptation and mitigation
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture and rural livelihoods
  • Carbon credit
  • IPCC, UNFCCC, CoP meetings
  • Funding mechanisms for climate change projects
  • Government of India NAPCC, SAPCC, INDC.

Present conditions of Indian Agriculture and Allied activities

  • Major challenges in agriculture measures to enhance
  • Viability of agriculture
  • Recent trends
  • Factors of Production in agriculture
  • Agricultural Finance and Marketing
  • Impact of issues of Food Security and Globalization on Indian Agriculture
  • Concept and Types of Farm Management.

NABARD Grade A & B Mains Paper-II: Rural Development

  • Concept of Rural Area
  • Structure of the Indian Rural Economy
  • Role and importance of the rural sector in India
  • Social, Economic and Demographic Characteristics of the Indian rural economy
  • Causes of Rural Backwardness.
  • Rural population in India
  • Occupational structure
  • Agricultural Laborers, Handicrafts, Farmers, Artisans, Traders, Forest dwellers/tribes, and others in rural India
  • Changes in trends of rural population and rural workforce
  • Problems and conditions of rural labour
  • Issues and challenges in Hand-looms
  • Panchayati Raj Institutions – Functions and Working.
  • NRLM, and MGNREGA–Rural Housing, PURA, Aajeevika, and Rural Drinking water Programmes, and other rural development programs, Swachh Bharat.

Phase III Details:

The Phase-III of the NABARD Examination Consists of an Interview.

  • Candidates are shortlisted for interview based on their Phase 2 marks only (sum of all 2 papers)
  • Interview carries a weightage of 50 marks
  • Candidates can opt for interview either in Hindi or English
  • The final selection of candidates is done by adding marks secured in Phase 2 and Interview.