NABARD Manager Grade B

India · National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development · civil-service

567practice questions written to this syllabus
20subjects

Format

Last listed recruitment 2019. The 2019 mains had three 100-mark papers; interview 40.

Sections

Over the years

No Grade B recruitment after 2019 was found. Careers page: https://www.nabard.org/careers-notices1.aspx?cid=693&id=26

Official source: https://www.nabard.org/auth/writereaddata/CareerNotices/15051913370905193436Grade%20B-2019%20Advt%20uploaded%20on%20website%20on%2009-05-2019%20at%2016.00.pdf

Subjects this exam draws on

Principles of Management & Organisational Behaviour17 questionsManagerial (Applied Agribusiness) Economics18 questionsFinancial & Managerial Accounting21 questionsBusiness Communication9 questionsRural Society, Polity & Institutions19 questionsHuman Resource Management30 questionsFinancial Management in Agribusiness34 questionsAgri Infrastructure & Warehousing37 questionsInternational Agri Trade & Export Management20 questionsAgricultural Development & Policy Analysis22 questionsDevelopment Economics50 questionsEconomic Development and Agricultural Economies of the World67 questionsNatural Resource & Environmental Economics21 questionsInstitutional Economics11 questionsCooperatives & Farmer Producer Organisations50 questionsProject Management, Appraisal & Agri-Entrepreneurship22 questionsFood Processing & Technology Management44 questionsAgribusiness Law & Ethics26 questionsAgricultural Extension Management & Communication16 questionsRural Development, Local Governance & Livelihoods33 questions

Five practice questions, worked

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

1. Why do most textbooks describe management as at most a partial profession rather than a full one like medicine or law?

  1. It has no organised body of knowledge and cannot be taught in universities or institutes
  2. Its principles are universal laws that can be applied mechanically without any judgement
  3. Managers are not paid for their services and so cannot form professional associations
  4. There is usually no compulsory licence to practise and no single enforceable code of conduct
Answer and working

D. There is usually no compulsory licence to practise and no single enforceable code of conduct

Management has a body of knowledge, formal education and associations, but, unlike medicine or law, generally no compulsory licensing or enforceable code. The other statements are false: it is taught widely, its principles need judgement, and managers are paid.

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

2. 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

  1. 1,050 billion
  2. 1,170 billion
  3. 930 billion
  4. 830 billion
Answer and working

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

3. The long experience of a cooperative's herd manager clearly adds value to the business, yet it appears nowhere in the balance sheet. Which concept explains the omission?

  1. Realisation concept
  2. Business entity concept
  3. Accounting period concept
  4. Money measurement concept
Answer and working

D. Money measurement concept

Only items that can be measured objectively in money are recorded; staff skill has no transaction value unless it has been bought (as purchased goodwill). The entity concept separates owner and business, which is not the issue here.

Financial & Managerial Accounting · Accounting concepts and conventions

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

  1. the grapevine, a form of informal lateral communication
  2. filtering, a barrier common in upward communication
  3. information overload at the receiving regional office
  4. selective perception by the regional office's receiver
Answer and working

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. A national census classes a settlement without a municipal body as urban only if it has at least 5,000 people, at least 400 persons per sq km and at least 75% of male main workers outside agriculture. A settlement has 6,200 residents on 12 sq km; of its 2,000 male main workers, 1,400 work outside agriculture. How is it classed?

  1. Urban, because its population exceeds 5,000 and its density is about 517 per sq km
  2. Rural, because only 70% of male main workers are non-agricultural, below the 75% test
  3. Urban, because 70% of all its workers are outside agriculture and that exceeds half
  4. Urban by statute, because a population above 5,000 automatically confers town status
Answer and working

B. Rural, because only 70% of male main workers are non-agricultural, below the 75% test

Density = 6,200 / 12 = 516.7 per sq km, which passes the 400 test, and population passes 5,000. But the male main worker share is 1,400 / 2,000 = 70%, below 75%, and all three tests must be met, so it stays rural. Statutory urban status needs a municipal body, which it lacks.

Rural Society, Polity & Institutions · Social, political and economic structure of rural societies

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