NABARD Assistant Manager Grade A (RDBS) · India · National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersNABARD Assistant Manager Grade A (RDBS) is a government recruitment exam run by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, for candidates in India. 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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Why countries trade, how trade is measured and regulated, and how an agribusiness actually exports.
Our 31 NABARD Assistant Manager Grade A questions in this subject: 12 easy, 16 medium, 3 hard, across 8 units.
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
These 10 were written to NABARD Assistant Manager Grade A and are not shown on any other exam's page.
A country has merchandise exports of 400, merchandise imports of 550, net services of +120, net primary income of −30 and net secondary income of +80 (all in billions). Its current-account balance is:
C. +20
Trade balance = 400 − 550 = −150. Current account = −150 + 120 − 30 + 80 = +20. −150 is only the trade balance; +170 leaves out the trade balance altogether (120 − 30 + 80); −30 is only primary income.
The Prebisch-Singer hypothesis concerns:
A. A long-run tendency for the terms of trade of primary-commodity exporters to decline
Prebisch and Singer (1950) argued primary-product prices tend to fall relative to manufactures because of low income elasticity of demand for food and raw materials, among other reasons.
Under the IMF's BPM6, foreign direct investment inflows into a country are recorded in the:
C. Financial account
BPM6 places direct, portfolio and other investment and reserve assets in the financial account. The income earned on that investment (dividends, profits) goes to primary income. National presentations such as India's sometimes still label this the 'capital account'.
The rupee moves from 80 to 84 per US dollar. By what percentage has the rupee depreciated against the dollar?
A. 4.76%
Rupee value in dollars falls from 1/80 to 1/84: (1/84 − 1/80)/(1/80) = −4.76%. 5% is the dollar's appreciation (4/80), a common base error; 4% and 8.4% have no basis.
Spot rate is 83 rupees per dollar and the three-month forward rate 84. The annualised forward premium on the dollar is approximately:
C. 4.82%
(84 − 83)/83 × 12/3 × 100 = 4.82%. 1.20% is the unannualised premium; 12.05% annualises by a factor of 10 in error; 1.19% divides by the forward rate and does not annualise.
The World Trade Organization came into being on:
D. 1 January 1995
The Marrakesh Agreement signed in April 1994 established the WTO from 1 January 1995. GATT applied from 1948; Doha was launched in November 2001.
Under the Uruguay Round, developed countries agreed to reduce agricultural tariffs by an average of:
D. 36% over six years, with at least 15% per tariff line
Developed: 36% average, minimum 15% per line, 1995-2000. Developing: 24% average, minimum 10%, over ten years. 20% was the developed-country cut in Total AMS.
A developed country gives product-specific support of 80 million on a product whose value of production is 1,000 million. Under the AoA, this support:
A. Exceeds the 5% de minimis and counts in full towards current Total AMS
80/1,000 = 8% > 5%, so the whole amount enters current AMS; de minimis is a threshold, not a deduction. 10% applies to developing countries.
The Bali Ministerial Decision of 2013 on public stockholding for food security:
B. Shields developing countries' stockholding of traditional staples from challenge even if AMS limits are breached, until a permanent solution
The interim 'peace clause' protects such programmes, subject to notification and anti-circumvention conditions; the General Council confirmed in November 2014 that it lasts until a permanent solution. India invoked it for rice in 2020.
In India, pre-shipment quality certification for notified export products is the function of the:
C. Export Inspection Council
EIC, under the Export (Quality Control and Inspection) Act, 1963, certifies quality and safety of notified exports. EXIM Bank finances trade.
This plan follows where our questions actually fall, so the time goes where the marks are likely to be. It is our reading of the syllabus, not the exam body's weighting.
Read the manual chapters for these first and do every worked question you can find on them.
Aim for one sitting per unit, then mixed questions across them.
Learn the definitions, classifications and standard numbers; these units are more often recalled than worked.
Come back to these after a first pass, untimed, and read every explanation, including for the options you rejected.
Do these early in revision so they are fast on the day.
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