India · National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development · civil-service
Phase I: 200 questions / 200 marks / 120 minutes, -1/4. Phase II: Paper I General English, descriptive, 100 marks / 90 minutes; Paper II (generalist) ESI + ARD, 30 objective questions / 50 marks / 30 minutes plus descriptive (attempt 4 of 6: 2 x 15 + 2 x 10) / 50 marks / 90 minutes. Mandatory psychometric test. Interview 50.
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Original questions written to this exam's published syllabus and pattern. Not past papers.
1. An economy has consumption 600, investment 200, government purchases 150, exports 100 and imports 120 (all in billion). Its GDP by the expenditure method is
C. 930 billion
GDP = C + I + G + (X - M) = 600 + 200 + 150 + (100 - 120) = 930. 1,050 ignores imports; 1,170 adds imports instead of subtracting them. 830 leaves out exports.
Managerial (Applied Agribusiness) Economics · National income and the circular flow
2. Gross value added at basic prices is 900, taxes on products are 120 and subsidies on products are 40. What is GDP at market prices?
D. 980
GDP at market prices = GVA at basic prices + product taxes - product subsidies = 900 + 120 - 40 = 980. Adding subsidies gives 1060; reversing both signs gives 820; ignoring subsidies gives 1020.
Macroeconomics & Policy · National income concepts and measurement
3. Five farms in a village report wheat yields of 42, 38, 45, 40 and 35 quintals per hectare. What is the mean yield?
A. 40 q/ha
Mean = (42 + 38 + 45 + 40 + 35) / 5 = 200 / 5 = 40 q/ha. 38 is a data value near the centre but is not the mean; 42 would come from dropping the lowest value.
Business Statistics & Quantitative Methods · Measures of central tendency
4. A branch manager rewrites a field officer's report on overdue farm loans so that the figures look better before it goes to the regional office. This is an example of
B. filtering, a barrier common in upward communication
Filtering is the deliberate manipulation of information so that it appears more favourable to the receiver, and it is typical of upward communication through layers of hierarchy. The grapevine is informal communication; overload and selective perception are receiver-side barriers, whereas here the sender is altering the message.
Business Communication · The communication process and its barriers
5. In the Kuznets classification of agriculture's contributions to development, the movement of farm labour and rural savings into industry is the
C. factor contribution
The factor contribution is the transfer of factors of production, labour and capital, to other sectors. The product contribution is food and raw materials, the market contribution is rural demand for industrial goods, and the foreign-exchange contribution is export earnings or import savings.
Agriculture & Food Systems (bridge) · Importance of agriculture in the national economy
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