NABARD Entrance Exam Pattern

NABARD releases recruitment notification every few years for post of Officers/ Assistant Manager (Grade-A). The bank is going to conduct the written examination for the same.

 Now we will discuss about the exam pattern which will give you an holistic view how the marks distribution would be there and how you can segregate your time and effort to each section to score a good score in the exam.

Few are the key pointers as follows : -

There has been some slight change in the  NABARD  Prelims exam pattern.

• NABARD has increased the weight age of the Agriculture and Rural Development [ARD] and the Economic and Social Issues [ESI] sections from 25 marks to 40 marks respectively seeing some major changes in the previous exam patterns. It has reduced the weight age of Quantitative Aptitude and Reasoning sections from 30 marks to 20 marks and 40 marks to 20 marks, respectively which has given students an extra edge to score more marks in the exam.
• The Computer Knowledge, General Awareness, Economic and Social Issues and Agriculture and Rural Development papers together constitute 120 marks, whereas Quantitative Aptitude, English Language and Reasoning constitute 80 marks in it only. The former is theoretical & requires lesser time to solve, and the latter is practical and requires calculation and mental ability, so it takes more time to solve the exam.

Therefore, we strongly recommend you aim to score maximum marks in the theoretical papers in less time (around 40 minutes) and use the remaining time (around 75-80 minutes) for the practical papers (Quantitative Analysis, Reasoning, English) as well.

 NABARD Prelims has duration of 120 minutes for its exam. Since there’s no sectional timing, you can start with the section you’re most comfortable with. However, we suggest you to do the section which you are best comfortable solving it and have full confidence you can clear it, which will give you an extra edge of clearing the answers which you already know and will give you the space to breathe and be give time to  the questions which are time taking or require brain storming. Also, we would like you consider factors like weight age, time-taken to solve and difficulty level to decide your order of attempt as well. The order you choose which you want to opt for needs to help you cover all the topics within the time provided and with great accuracy.

 Deciding your order of attempt could be a challenging task so avoid that. Therefore, we suggest you take NABARD Mock Tests which can massively help you in building up confidence for doing the exam.

 Reasoning Ability

• Reasoning Ability section has no well defined rules or formulas of conducting it.
• Hence, the command over this section can only be improved by constant practice of it.
• Thus to score high make sure that you are familiar and well practiced in all types of questions asked in that particular section of it.

Computer Knowledge

• The questions based on Computer Knowledge do not require in-depth preparation for it. Rather hands on experience speak volumes in itself.
• They are quite basic in nature itself.
• Knowledge you computer any day makes you standout of the crowd as it helps in almost all the field now a days so it’s good to keep up to it.
• You can prepare this section by going through any standard book or practicing computer questions online, this thing helps wonders and gives you a thorough knowledge as well..

General Awareness

• You should read a newspaper on a daily basis and supplement it with a good current affairs magazine as well, also you can read various journals and content online to get your feed of General Awareness from it. You can also go through Daily GK Updates, Weekly One Liners and Monthly Digests of Current Affairs to improve this section as well, this also makes you sharp, well informed person as a whole.
•  News related to NABARD, RBI and RBI policies must be given special emphasis during preparation as they are the ones which will give you more edge towards scoring end.