NABARD Grade B Syllabus 2023 (PDF) Prelims & Mains Exam Pattern Download

General Awareness

1. Current Affairs (National and International)
2. Budget
3. Awards & Honours
4. International and National Organizations
5. Important days
6. Books and Authors
7. Sports
8. Countries and Capitals
9. Science- Inventions & Discoveries

English

1. Error Spotting
2. Sentence Rearrangement
3. Reading Comprehension
4. Synonyms
5. Passages
6. Idioms & Phrases

Quantitative Aptitude

1. Data Interpretation
2. Inequalities
3. Number Series
4. Approximation and Simplification
5. Data Sufficiency
6. HCF & LCM
7. Profit and Loss
8. SI & CI
9. Problems on Age
10. Time & Work
11. Speed, Distance and Time
12. Probability, Permutation and Combination
13. Mensuration
14. Average
15. Ratio & Proportion

Reasoning

1. Puzzles
2. Seating Arrangement
3. Direction
4. Blood Relations
5. Syllogisms
6. Order and Ranking
7. Coding-Decoding
8. Machine Input-Output
9. Inequalities
10. Alpha-Numeric symbol series
11. Data Sufficiency
12. Number and System Conversions
13. Logical Reasoning

Computer Knowledge

1. Computer Languages
2. Basic Hardware & Software
3. History of Computer
4. Devices
5. Virus & Hacking
6. MS Office
7. Networking
8. DBMS

Economic and Social Issues

1. Nature of Indian Economy
2. Structural and Institutional Features
3. Economic Underdevelopment
4. Opening up the Indian Economy
5. Globalisation
6. Economic Reforms in India
7. Privatisation
8. Inflation
9. Poverty alleviation and employment generation in India
10. Measurement of Poverty
11. Population Trends
12. Population Growth & Economic Development
13. Population Policy in India
14. Agriculture- Characteristics/ Status
15. Technical and Institutional changes in agriculture
16. Agricultural Performance
17. Issues in Food Security in India
18. Non-institutional and institutional agencies in rural credit
19. Industrial and Labor Policy
20. Industrial Performance
21. Regional imbalance in India’s industrial development
22. Rural banking and financial institutions in India
23. Reforms in Banking/Financial sector
24. Globalisation of Economy
25. Role of International Funding Institution
26. IMF &World Bank
27. WTO
28. Regional Economic Cooperation
29. Multiculturalism
30. Social Justice
31. Positive discrimination in the favour of the underprivileged

Agriculture and Rural Development

1. Definition, Meaning and its branches
2. Agriculture: definition, meaning, and its branches
3. Agronomy: definition, meaning, and scope of agronomy
4. Factors affecting crop production
5. Agro Climatic Zones
6. Cropping Systems: Definition and types of cropping systems
7. Problems of dry land – Seed production, seed processing, seed village
8. Meteorology: weather parameters, crop-weather advisory
9. Precision Farming
10. Organic farming
11. Soil and Water Conservation: Major soil types, soil fertility, fertilizers, soil erosion, soil conservation, watershed management
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. Animal Husbandry: Farm animals and their role in the 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.
16. Introduction to the 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. Complementary and obligatory nature of livestock and poultry production with that of agricultural farming.
17. 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.
18. 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 2017. Recent developments under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
19. Agriculture Extensions: Its importance and role, methods of evaluation of extension programmes, Role of Krishi Vigyan Kendra’s (KVK) in dissemination of Agricultural technologies.
20. Ecology and Climate Change: Ecology and its relevance to man, natural resources, their sustainable management, and conservation. Causes of climate change, GreenHouse 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.
21. Ecology and Climate Change: Ecology and its relevance to man, natural resources, their sustainable management, and conservation. Causes of climate change, GreenHouse 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.
22. Present Scenario of Indian Agriculture and Allied activities; recent trends, major challenges in agriculture measures to enhance the 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.