NABARD Exam Pattern & Syllabus 2024

नॅशनल बँक फॉर अॅग्रिकल्चर अँड रुरल डेव्हलपमेंट परीक्षा अभ्यासक्रम

NABARD Exam Pattern & Syllabus 2024 – All India Apex Organization, NABARD is Giving Opportunity for Development Assistant/ Development Assistant (Hindi) Posts. Candidates who are going to apply must aware about NABARD Development Assistant Recruitment Process. We are giving you Guidelines regarding NABARD Development Assistant Exam 2024, NABARD Development Assistant Selection Process, NABARD Development Assistant Syllabus. To get Development Assistant Posts in NABARD candidates need to go through NABARD Prelims Exam and Mains Exam. On the basis of Marks Obtained in Mains Exam and Language Proficiency Test of their State Students will get shortlisted. In this article you are going to know each and every details of NABARD Development Assistant Online Exam 2024. Check it carefully and start your studies as per given NABARD Development Assistant Syllabus 2024.

नॅशनल बँक फॉर अॅग्रिकल्चर अँड रुरल डेव्हलपमेंट अंतर्गत विकास सहाय्यक, विकास सहाय्यक (हिंदी) पदांसाठी इच्छुकांची भरती करण्यासाठी परीक्षा घेतली जाईल. प्राधिकरणाद्वारे आयोजित करण्यात येणारी परीक्षा हि दोन पायऱ्यांमध्ये घेण्यात येणार आहे. नाबार्ड विकास सहाय्यक परीक्षा अभ्यासक्रम आणि परीक्षा पद्धती उम्मीदवर या लेख मध्ये वाचू शकतात . त्यामुळे, आम्ही सुलभ तयारीसाठी अधिकृत नाबार्ड डेव्हलपमेंट असिस्टंट प्रिलिम्स, मुख्य अभ्यासक्रम आणि पॅटर्न आता उपलब्ध करून दिले आहेत. नाबार्ड विकास सहाय्यक अभ्यासक्रम आणि नमुना डाउनलोड करण्यासाठी खालील लिंकचा वापर करावा.

तसेच या संदर्भातील पुढील सर्व अपडेट्ससाठी या लिंक वरून आपण आमच्या टेलिग्राम चॅनलला जॉईन करावे किंवा या लिंक वरून महाभरती एक्सामची अधिकृत अँप आपल्या मोबाईल मध्ये डाउनलोड करावी आणि अधिक ताज्या आणि अधिकृत महाराष्ट्र परीक्षेच्या अपडेटसाठी MahaBharti.in/exam फॉलो करा:

Development Assistant Scheme of Selection: Development Assistant

NABARD Development Exam Pattern: Prelims Exam

• Each question carries one mark.
• The question paper will be available in both language Hindi & English.
• There is a negative marking in 0.25 marks.
•  The time duration of the preliminary examination is 60 minutes.

Development Assistant Preliminary Examination Online Pattern

Sr. No.	Name of the Tests (Objective)	No. of Questions	Max. Marks	Duration
l.	Test of English Language	40	40	Composite time of6o minutes
2.	Test of Numerical Ability	30	30
3-	Test of Reasoning	30	30
	Total	1OO	1OO

NABARD Development Assistant Main Examination Pattern

Sr. No.	Name of the Tests	No. of Questions	Max. Marks	Duration
l.	Test of Reasoning	30	30	Composite time of 90 minutes for Objective Tests and 30 minutes for Descriptive Test
2.	Quantitative Aptitude	30	30
3-	General Awareness (with special reference to agriculture, rural development and banking)	50	50
4-	Computer Knowledge	40	40
5-	Test of English Language (Descriptive)	Essay, Precis, Report/ Letter Writing	50
	Total		200

NABARD Development Assistant (Hindi) Exam Pattern :

I – Preliminary Examination (Online)

Sr. No.	Name of the Tests (Objective)	No. of Questions	Max. Marks	Duration
l.    , Test of English Language		40	40
2.	Test of Professional Knowledge (Hindi)	30	30	Composite time of 6o
3-	Test of Reasoning	30	30	minutes
	Total	lOO	1oo

II – Main Examination (Online)

Sr. No.	Name of the Tests	No. of Questions	Max. Marks	Duration
l.	Test of Reasoning	20	20
2.	Test of Professional Knowledge (Hindi)	50	50	Composite time of 90 minutes for Objective Tests and 30 minutes for Descriptive Test
3-	General Awareness (with special reference to agriculture, rural development and banking)	40	40
4-	Computer Knowledge	40	40
5-	Test of English Language (Descriptive)	Essay, Precis, Report/ Letter Writing	50
	Total		200

III. About NABARD Language Proficiency Test :

Those who qualify for selection and have passed the 10th or 12th standard with the declared language as one of the subjects will not be subjected to Language Proficiency Test, however they have to submit valid proof for the same (i.e. marksheet for class X/XII with the specified Language as Subject. In case of others (qualified for selection), the language proficiency test will be conducted after the declaration of result of Main examination at the Regional Office of concerned State. The language proficiency test will be conducted in the official language of the State concerned. Candidates not found to be proficient in official language would be disqualified, i.e. candidates who fail to qualify this test will not be offered appointment.

NABARD Development Assistant Scheme of Examination :

i. The preliminary and main online tests except English/Hindi language, will be available bilingually, i.e. in English and Hindi.
ii. The Preliminary Examination is only qualifying in nature and is meant to serve as a screening test. Only those candidates who score sufficiently high in both, individual tests & in aggregate, shall be shortlisted for Main Examination in the calling ratio of maximum 1:25 based on the cut off arrived on performance of the candidates in the examination. Similarly, only such candidates who score the cut off marks or above in the Main Examination will be shortlisted for selection.
iii. There will be negative marks for wrong answers in the Objective tests in both the phases. 1/4th mark will be deducted as penalty for each wrong answer.
iv. Other detailed information regarding the examination will be given in an Information Hand-out, which will be made available to the candidates for download along with the call letter for examination from NABARD’s website.
v. Final selection will be on the basis of candidate’s performance in the online Main examination in the order of merit and biometric verification. The decision of the Bank in this regard will be final. Final Select list of the candidates who have provisionally qualified for selection will be made available on the Bank’s website. Appointment is subject to Verification of eligibility for the post and information furnished in the online application.
vi. Candidates responses (answers) will be analysed with other candidates to detect patterns of similarity of right and wrong answers. If in the analytical procedure adopted in this regard, it is inferred/ concluded that the responses
have been shared and scores obtained are not genuine/valid, your candidature may be cancelled. Any candidate who is found copying or receiving or giving assistance or engaging in any behaviour unbecoming of a candidate will not be
considered for assessment. The NABARD may take further action against such candidates as deemed fit by it.
vii. A candidate who is or has been declared by NABARD guilty of impersonation or of submitting fabricated document/s which have been tampered with or of making statements which are incorrect or false or of suppressing material information or otherwise resorting to any other irregular or improper means of obtaining admission to examination or of using or attempting to use unfair means in the examination hall or misbehaviour in the examination hall may be debarred permanently or for a specified period.

(II) NABARD Development Assistant  Selection Process :

i. State wise merit list will be prepared for final selection. The marks obtained in the Preliminary Examination (Phase-I) will not be added for preparing the final merit list for selection. Only the marks obtained in Main Examination (Phase-II), both in the Objective Test and the Descriptive Test, will be added for preparing the final merit list.

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NABARD Exam Pattern & Syllabus 2024 – Rural Development Banking Service (RDBS) /Rajbhasha Service in National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has recently announced job notification for the recruitment of Assistant Manager in Grade ‘A’ Posts posts in RDBS/NABARD. For this recruitment process selection of candidates will be done through Online Test(Prelims And Mains), Interview. Detailed information regarding Examination Pattern For NABARD AM Grade A  Recruitment 2022 are provided in this article.. To know More about NABARD Assistant Manager Syllabus Follow this Page we update all information related to all examination…Check latest Syllabus For NABARD Assistant Manager Bharti 2024 Syllabus PDF, NABARD Assistant Manager Grade A Exam Pattern at below:

राष्ट्रीय कृषी आणि ग्रामीण विकास बँक (नाबार्ड) ने अलीकडेच सहाय्यक व्यवस्थापक ग्रेड ‘अ’ अधिकारी पदांच्या भरतीसाठी नोकरीची अधिसूचना जाहीर केली आहे.या भरती प्रक्रियेसाठी उमेदवारांची निवड ऑनलाइन चाचणी, मुलाखतीद्वारे केली जाईल. राष्ट्रीय कृषी आणि ग्रामीण विकास बँक भरती 2022 च्या परीक्षेच्या पॅटर्नशी संबंधित तपशीलवार माहिती या पृष्ठावर दिली आहे.

NABARD Grade A Bharti Selection Procedure – राष्ट्रीय कृषी आणि ग्रामीण विकास बँक भरती निवड प्रक्रिया

The selection will be in three Phases as furnished below. Shortlisting of the candidates for the Main exam will be based on marks scored in the Merit section only. The calling Ratio to qualify for the main examination and interview would be a maximum of 1:25 and 1:3, respectively. The ratio may be suitably reduced at the discretion of the bank. Candidates who qualify and rank sufficiently high as decided by NABARD, shall be called for appearing at the Main Examination and Interview. There will be penalty for wrong answers marked by the candidate. For every wrong answer marked, 1/4th of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty in Phase-I and Phase-II, both. Cut-offs in Phase-I and Phase-II may be applied in two stages: (i) On scores in individual tests, (ii) On Total Score

NABARD Preliminary Examination Structure for Grade A (RDBS/Rajhhasha):

Sr. No.	Name of the Test	No. of Qs.	Max Marks	Version	Time
l	Test of Reasoning	20	20	Bilingual – Hindi and English except test of English language	Composite time of 120 Minutes for all the tests together
2	English Language	30	30
3	Computer Knowledge	20	20
4	Quantitative Aptitude	20	20
5	Decision Making	10	10
6	General Awareness	20	20
7	Eco & Soc. Issues (with focus on Rural India)	40	40
8	Agriculture & Rural Development with Emphasis on Rural India	40	40
	Total	200	200		120 Minutes

Shortlisting of the candidates for the Main exam will be based on marks scored in the Merit section only.

NABARD Mains Exam Test Structure for Grade A

NABARD Main Examination Pattern for the post of Generalist

Paper	Grade A	Type of Paper	No. of Questions	Marks	Duration	Remarks
Paper I	General English	Online Descriptive	3	100	90 Minutes	Descriptive Answers to be typed using keyboard
Paper II	ESI& ARD	Objective	30	50	30 Minutes
		Descriptive Type	6 questions will be asked, of which candidates will be required to attempt 4 questions [2 of 15 marks each (with difficulty level) and 2 of 10 marks each]	50	90 Minutes	Descriptive Answers to be typed using keyboard either in English or Hindi (Remington and Inscript keyboards)

NABARD Main Examination Pattern for the post of Specialist

Paper	Grade A	Type of Paper	No. of Questions	Marks	Duration	Remarks
Paper I	General English	Online Descriptive	3	100	90 Minutes	Descriptive Answers to be typed using keyboard
Paper II	Stream Specific Paper	Objective	30	50	30 Minutes
		Descriptive Type	6 questions will be asked, of which candidates will be required to attempt 4 questions [2 of 15 marks each (with difficulty level) and 2 of 10 marks each]	50	90 Minutes	Descriptive Answers to be typed using keyboard either in English or Hindi (Remington and Inscript keyboards)

NABARD Main Examination Pattern for the post of Rajbhasha

Paper	Grade A	Type of Paper	No. of Questions	Marks	Duration	Remarks
Paper I	General English	Online Descriptive	3	100	90 Minutes	Descriptive Answers to be typed using keyboard
Paper II	Stream Specific Paper	Objective	30	50	30 Minutes
		Descriptive Type	6 questions will be asked, of which candidates will be required to attempt 4 questions [2 of 15 marks each (with difficulty level) and 2 of 10 marks eachl	50	90 Minutes	Descriptive Answers to be typed using keyboard in Hindi (with Remington /Inscript keyboard)

NABARD Grade A Exam Syllabus in Marathi

For Grade A ( RDBS) (All Disciplines from (i) to (xi) in Table 1 and Grade A (Rajbhasha)
1) Paper I – English: Essay, Précis writing, Comprehension and Business/Office Correspondence. The paper on English shall be framed in a manner to assess the writing skills including expressions and understanding the topic.
For Grade A (RDBS) (General Discipline) as at (i) in Table 1
2) Paper II – Economic & Social Issues and Agriculture & Rural Development (ESI & ARD) Economic & Social Issues: Nature of Indian Economy – Structural and Institutional features – Economic underdevelopment – Opening up the Indian Economy – Globalization – Economic Reforms in India – Privatisation. Inflation – Trends in Inflation & their Impact on National Economy and Individual Income. 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. Rural banking and financial institutions in India – Reforms in Banking/ Financial sector. Globalization of Economy – Role of International Funding Institutions – IMF & World Bank – WTO – Regional Economic Co-operation. Social Structure in India – Multiculturalism – Demographic trends – Urbanisation 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: Problems of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes – socio-economic programmes for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes and other backward classes. Positive Discrimination in favour of the under privileged – Social Movements -Indian Political Systems – Human Development. Current Economic & Social Issues.

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: Definition and types of cropping systems. Problems of dry land agriculture; Seed production, seed processing, seed village; Meteorology: weather parameters, crop-weather advisory; Precision Farming, System of Crop Intensification, organic farming;
a) Soil and Water Conservation : Major soil types, soil fertility, fertilisers, soil erosion, soil conservation, watershed management;
b) 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.
c) Farm and Agri Engineering : Farm Machinery and Power, Sources of power on the farm- human, animal, mechanical, electrical, wind, solar and biomass, bio fuels, water harvesting structures, farm ponds, watershed management, Agro Processing, Controlled and modified storage, perishable food storage, godowns, bins and grain silos.
d) Plantation & Horticulture: Definition, meaning and its branches. Agronomic practices and production technology of various plantation and horticulture crops. Post-harvest management, value and supply chain management of Plantation and Horticulture crops.
e) Animal Husbandry: Farm animals and their role in Indian economy, Animal husbandry methods in India, common terms pertaining to different species of livestock, Utility classification of breeds of cattle. Introduction to common feeds and
fodders, their classification and utility. Introduction to poultry industry in India (past, present and future status), Common terms pertaining to poultry production and management. Concept of mixed farming and its relevance to socio-economic conditions of farmers in India. Complimentary and obligatory nature of livestock and poultry production with that of agricultural farming.
f) Fisheries: Fisheries resources, management and exploitation – freshwater, brackish water and marine; Aquaculture- Inland and marine; biotechnology; post-harvest technology. Importance of fisheries in India. Common terms pertaining to fish production.
g) Forestry: Basic concepts of Forest and Forestry. Principles of silviculture, forest mensuration, forest management and forest economics. Concepts of social forestry, agroforestry, joint forest management. Forest policy and legislation in India, India State of Forest Report 2015. Recent developments under Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
h) Agriculture Extensions: Its importance and role, methods of evaluation of extension programmes, Role of Krishi Vigyan Kendra’s (KVK) in dissemination of Agricultural technologies.
i) Ecology and Climate Change: Ecology and its relevance to man, natural resources, their sustainable management and conservation. Causes of climate change, Green House Gases (GHG), major GHG emitting countries, climate analysis, distinguish between adaptation and mitigation, climate change impact to agriculture and rural livelihood, carbon credit, IPCC, UNFCCC, CoP meetings, funding mechanisms for climate change projects, initiatives by Govt of India, NAPCC, SAPCC, INDC.
j) Present Scenario of Indian Agriculture and Allied activities; recent trends, major challenges in agriculture measures to enhance viability of agriculture. Factors of Production in agriculture; Agricultural Finance and Marketing; Impact of Globalization on Indian Agriculture and issues of Food Security; Concept and Types of Farm Management.

Rural Development: Concept of Rural Area, Structure of the Indian Rural Economy- Importance and role of the rural sector in India- Economic, Social and Demographic Characteristics of the Indian rural economy, causes of Rural Backwardness. Rural population in India; Occupational structure, Farmers, Agricultural Labourers, Artisans, Handicrafts, Traders, Forest dwellers/tribes and others in rural India- Trends of change in rural population and rural work force; problems and conditions of rural labour; Issues and challenges in Handlooms Panchayati Raj Institutions – Functions and Working. MGNREGA, NRLM – Aajeevika, Rural Drinking water Programmes, Swachh Bharat, Rural Housing, PURA and other rural development programmes.

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NABARD Grade B Exam Pattern: Prelims Exam

उमेदवार खाली दिलेल्या तक्त्यामध्ये NABARD ग्रेड B परीक्षा नमुना 2024 तपासू शकतात.

NABARD Grade B Prelims Exam Pattern
Sections	No. of Qs	Time
Reasoning Ability	20	120 minutes
English Language	40
Computer Knowledge	20
General Awareness	20
Quantitative Aptitude	20
Economic & Social Issues (with focus on Rural India)	40
Agriculture & Rural Development (with focus on Rural India)	40
TOTAL MARKS	200	120 minutes

NABARD Grade B Phase II Exam Pattern

NABARD Grade B Mains Exam Pattern
Subject	Mode Of Exam	Marks	Time
General English	Descriptive	100	1.30 hrs
Economic and Social Issues and Agri. and Rural Development (with a focus on Rural India)	Objective & Descriptive	100	1.30 hrs
Development Economics, Statistics, Finance & Management	Objective & Descriptive	100	1.30 hrs
TOTAL MARKS		300	4.30 hrs