India · Institute of Rural Management Anand · pg · secondary source
Shortlisting on CAT, XAT or CMAT scores, then a Written Ability Test (200-300 words) and personal interview.
Checked against a secondary source (coaching or news site), not the conducting body; re-confirm before relying on it. The shortlisting route (CAT/XAT/CMAT) is from IRMA's programme page; the weights are from pw.live. History: IRMA's own 2018 handout describes IRMASAT as 40 MCQs on 'Issues of Social Concern', 5 options, -1/4 (https://www.irma.ac.in/pdf/admission_other_download/143.pdf). The 2019 cycle used IRMASAT + group activity + PI with shortlisting on CAT/XAT/GMAT/GRE. The WAT replaced IRMASAT from the 2023 cycle (secondary: mbauniverse). The first year of IRMASAT is not verified.
Official source: https://irma.ac.in/programmes/pgdrm-post-graduate-diploma-in-rural-management
Original questions written to this exam's published syllabus and pattern. Not past papers.
1. A crop earns a profit of 50,000 rupees per hectare in a good season (probability 0.6), 20,000 in a normal season (probability 0.3) and a loss of 30,000 in a bad season (probability 0.1). What is the expected profit per hectare?
B. 33,000 rupees
E = 0.6(50,000) + 0.3(20,000) + 0.1(-30,000) = 30,000 + 6,000 - 3,000 = 33,000. 39,000 treats the loss as a gain; 13,333 is the unweighted average of the three outcomes; 36,000 ignores the bad season.
Business Statistics & Quantitative Methods · Probability
2. A farmer whose crop failed after using a company's seed comes to the dealer visibly upset. The dealer's first aim should be to understand the farmer's feelings and point of view without judging. This is
B. empathic listening
Empathic (therapeutic) listening seeks to understand the speaker's feelings and perspective without judgement, which is the first need with an upset customer; facts can be checked afterwards. Critical listening judges evidence and logic, discriminative listening separates sounds and tones, and appreciative listening is for enjoyment.
Business Communication · Listening
3. The latifundio-minifundio complex, often used to describe the historical agrarian structure of much of Latin America, refers to:
C. Very large estates coexisting with many tiny peasant plots that cannot support a family
Latifundia are large estates (haciendas) and minifundia are sub-subsistence plots; the two coexist and depend on each other through labour. Communal allocation by lineages describes African customary tenure; equal-size owner-cultivator farms describe Japan, South Korea and Taiwan after land reform.
Rural Society, Polity & Institutions · Social, political and economic structure of rural societies
4. In North's framework a registered farmer producer company is best classified as
B. an organisation, that is, a player acting within the rules
North separates institutions (rules, formal and informal, and their enforcement) from organisations (groups of individuals with a common purpose acting within and on those rules). A producer company is an organisation. Being registered under law does not make it a rule; the company law it is registered under is the formal institution.
Institutional Economics · Institutions and institutional economics
5. Chambers' 'deprivation trap' links five clusters of disadvantage. Which list is correct?
B. Poverty, physical weakness, isolation, vulnerability, powerlessness
Chambers (1983) named poverty, physical weakness, isolation, vulnerability and powerlessness, each reinforcing the others. The income-saving-investment chain is Nurkse's vicious circle; shocks, trends and seasonality belong to the DFID vulnerability context.
Rural Development, Local Governance & Livelihoods · Meaning and problems of rural development
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