ICAR AIEEA-PG (Master's admission and PG scholarship)

India · National Testing Agency for ICAR · pg

1798practice questions written to this syllabus

37subjects

Format

Computer-based test, 120 minutes, 120 MCQs, +4 / -1 / 0 for unattempted, English only. 2026 exam on 4 July 2026. Fills 30% of Master's seats at agricultural universities.

Sections

Group 19 Agri-Business Management (19.1): Units I-IV agriculture, forestry, horticulture, livestock, veterinary and home science basics; V quantitative ability; VI communicative ability (English); VII data interpretation; VIII logical reasoning; IX managerial economics, SCP, agricultural marketing, trade, corporations, cooperatives, agribusiness institutions, entrepreneurship
Group 19 syllabus note: around 20-25% of questions relate to agriculture and agriculture-related sciences
Group 06 Social Sciences (6.1 Agricultural Economics; 6.2 Agricultural Extension Education): Unit I agriculture, biology and statistics basics; II micro, macro, agricultural marketing, credit, insurance, cooperatives, WTO; III farm management, production economics, agricultural finance; IV extension and rural sociology; V communication and diffusion

Over the years

ICAR handed its entrance exams to NTA from 2019. The 2025 exam was a 2-hour CBT on 3 July 2025. 4,883 all-India-quota seats in 2025-26. Syllabus: https://icar.org.in/sites/default/files/Circulars/Syllabus%20AIEEA%20(PG).pdf. The pre-2019 format is not verified.

Official source: https://cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s388a839f2f6f1427879fc33ee4acf4f66/uploads/2026/05/202605091397132773.pdf

Subjects this exam draws on

Principles of Management & Organisational Behaviour30 questions Managerial (Applied Agribusiness) Economics63 questions Microeconomic Theory & Applications73 questions Macroeconomics & Policy57 questions Business Statistics & Quantitative Methods85 questions Business Communication79 questions Agriculture & Food Systems (bridge)104 questions Rural Society, Polity & Institutions56 questions Computer Applications & MIS67 questions Marketing Management47 questions Agricultural Marketing & Price Analysis77 questions Management of Agricultural Input Marketing32 questions Rural Marketing33 questions Financial Management in Agribusiness4 questions Agricultural Finance, Credit & Rural Banking35 questions Research Methodology40 questions Econometrics8 questions Agribusiness Environment & Policy57 questions Farm Management83 questions Agricultural Production Economics71 questions Agri Supply Chain & Logistics Management24 questions Agri Value Chain Management29 questions Agri Infrastructure & Warehousing45 questions Commodity Markets, Futures & Options19 questions International Agri Trade & Export Management86 questions Agricultural Development & Policy Analysis5 questions Economic Development and Agricultural Economies of the World15 questions Cooperatives & Farmer Producer Organisations52 questions Agri Risk Management & Insurance37 questions Project Management, Appraisal & Agri-Entrepreneurship55 questions Food Processing & Technology Management71 questions Food Retail & Agri-food Retail Management31 questions Sector-specific Agribusiness Electives22 questions Quality Management & Food Standards8 questions Agribusiness Law & Ethics96 questions Agricultural Extension Management & Communication61 questions Rural Development, Local Governance & Livelihoods41 questions

Five practice questions, worked

Original questions written to this exam's published syllabus and pattern. Not past papers.

1. A village dairy society collects every litre its members offer, but its chilling cost per litre is about double that of similar societies nearby. In management terms the society is:

Efficient in procurement but ineffective, since low unit cost is what effectiveness means
Both effective and efficient, since full collection proves that unit costs are under control
Neither effective nor efficient, since effectiveness is judged only by the year's net profit
Effective in reaching its procurement goal but inefficient in its use of resources

Answer and working

D. Effective in reaching its procurement goal but inefficient in its use of resources

Effectiveness is reaching goals (all milk offered is collected); efficiency is output per unit of input (chilling cost per litre is high). The common error is to swap the two terms: low cost is efficiency, not effectiveness.

Principles of Management & Organisational Behaviour · Nature and scope of management

2. In Baumol's model of the firm, managers aim to

maximise the balanced growth rate subject to a security constraint against takeover
maximise a utility function that includes staff expenditure and managerial emoluments
reach satisfactory aspiration levels rather than an optimum
maximise total sales revenue subject to a minimum profit constraint

Answer and working

D. maximise total sales revenue subject to a minimum profit constraint

Baumol argued that managers of large firms value sales (size, prestige, bargaining power) and maximise revenue as long as profit meets the minimum shareholders will accept. Growth with a security constraint is Marris; staff and emoluments in the utility function is Williamson; aspiration levels are Simon's satisficing.

Managerial (Applied Agribusiness) Economics · Objective of the firm and mathematical tools

3. The slope of a production possibility frontier measures

the opportunity cost of one good in terms of the other
the ratio of the two goods' market prices
the marginal rate of substitution in consumption
the average productivity of resources

Answer and working

A. the opportunity cost of one good in terms of the other

The slope of the PPF is the marginal rate of transformation: how much of one good must be given up to produce one more unit of the other, which is its opportunity cost. It equals the price ratio only at a competitive optimum, and the MRS is a consumption concept.

Microeconomic Theory & Applications · Scarcity and the production possibility frontier

4. Which of the following is excluded when GDP is measured?

Wages paid to hired farm labourers
The imputed value of grain retained by a farm family for its own consumption
An old-age pension paid by the government
A dealer's commission on the sale of a used tractor

Answer and working

C. An old-age pension paid by the government

A pension is a transfer payment: no current good or service is produced in exchange, so it is excluded from GDP (it does enter personal disposable income). Farm wages are factor income, own-consumed farm output is imputed and included, and a dealer's commission on a second-hand sale is payment for a current service even though the tractor itself is not counted again.

Macroeconomics & Policy · National income concepts and measurement

5. Daily milk yields (litres) of six cows are 8, 12, 10, 15, 9 and 11. What is the median yield?

10 litres
11 litres
10.5 litres
10.83 litres

Answer and working

C. 10.5 litres

Ordered: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15. With an even count the median is the mean of the 3rd and 4th values: (10 + 11)/2 = 10.5. 10.83 is the mean (10.83), not the median; 10 or 11 alone takes only one middle value.

Business Statistics & Quantitative Methods · Measures of central tendency

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