State agricultural university MBA (ABM) admission

India · State agricultural universities via ICAR AIEEA-PG Group 19 · pg

941practice questions written to this syllabus
20subjects

Format

All-India-quota seats are filled through AIEEA-PG Group 19 (see that entry).

Sections

Over the years

State-quota entrance tests are not catalogued yet; this is a known gap.

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

Subjects this exam draws on

Principles of Management & Organisational Behaviour30 questionsManagerial (Applied Agribusiness) Economics41 questionsBusiness Statistics & Quantitative Methods1 questionsBusiness Communication79 questionsAgriculture & Food Systems (bridge)104 questionsRural Society, Polity & Institutions1 questionsComputer Applications & MIS67 questionsMarketing Management47 questionsAgricultural Marketing & Price Analysis66 questionsManagement of Agricultural Input Marketing56 questionsRural Marketing31 questionsAgri Supply Chain & Logistics Management19 questionsAgri Value Chain Management29 questionsAgri Infrastructure & Warehousing45 questionsInternational Agri Trade & Export Management58 questionsProject Management, Appraisal & Agri-Entrepreneurship47 questionsFood Processing & Technology Management71 questionsFood Retail & Agri-food Retail Management31 questionsSector-specific Agribusiness Electives22 questionsAgribusiness Law & Ethics96 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:

  1. Efficient in procurement but ineffective, since low unit cost is what effectiveness means
  2. Both effective and efficient, since full collection proves that unit costs are under control
  3. Neither effective nor efficient, since effectiveness is judged only by the year's net profit
  4. 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

  1. maximise the balanced growth rate subject to a security constraint against takeover
  2. maximise a utility function that includes staff expenditure and managerial emoluments
  3. reach satisfactory aspiration levels rather than an optimum
  4. 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. A trader spends exactly 10,000 rupees buying onions at 20 rupees per kg in one market and another 10,000 rupees buying at 25 rupees per kg in a second market. What is the average price paid per kg?

  1. 22.50 rupees
  2. 22.36 rupees
  3. 11.11 rupees
  4. 22.22 rupees
Answer and working

D. 22.22 rupees

Equal money, different prices: use the harmonic mean. Quantities bought are 500 kg and 400 kg; 20,000 / 900 = 22.22, which equals 2 / (1/20 + 1/25). The arithmetic mean 22.50 would be right only if equal quantities were bought; 22.36 is the geometric mean. 11.11 divides only one market's 10,000 by the total 900 kg.

Business Statistics & Quantitative Methods · Measures of central tendency

4. Which communication model is summarised by the chain 'who says what, in which channel, to whom, with what effect'?

  1. Berlo's SMCR model
  2. Shannon and Weaver's model
  3. Schramm's circular model
  4. Lasswell's model
Answer and working

D. Lasswell's model

Harold Lasswell (1948) framed communication as that chain of questions, which is why it is used to plan campaigns and media research. Berlo's SMCR names source, message, channel and receiver but not the 'effect' question, and Shannon and Weaver's engineering model is built around transmitter, signal and noise.

Business Communication · The communication process and its barriers

5. As a country's per capita income rises over decades, the share of agriculture in its GDP usually

  1. rises, because richer households spend a larger share of income on food
  2. falls only in years when farm output itself declines in absolute terms
  3. falls, because spending on food grows more slowly than income
  4. stays constant, because food is a necessity whose demand never changes
Answer and working

C. falls, because spending on food grows more slowly than income

This is structural transformation, explained by Engel's law: the share of income spent on food falls as income rises, so farm output grows more slowly than the rest of the economy even when it grows in absolute terms. Saying the share falls only when output declines confuses share with level.

Agriculture & Food Systems (bridge) · Importance of agriculture in the national economy

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