National Licensure Examination for Veterinarians (NLEV) · Nepal · Nepal Veterinary Council (NVC Act 2055 BS)
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersNational Licensure Examination for Veterinarians (NLEV) is a licensing and registration exam run by Nepal Veterinary Council (NVC Act 2055 BS), for candidates in Nepal. 100 MCQs with 4 options, 100 marks, negative marking of -0.25, pass at 40% aggregate. Three sittings a year. 90 minutes.
Source: vcn.gov.np.
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The economics of livestock production and trade: costs, markets, cooperatives, credit, insurance, trade rules and project appraisal.
Our 19 National Licensure Examination for Veterinarians questions in this subject: 10 easy, 9 medium, 0 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 National Licensure Examination for Veterinarians and are not shown on any other exam's page.
A farmer's own family labour is charged in a full cost of production even though no wages are paid. The economic idea behind this is:
C. Opportunity cost, the return the labour would earn in its next best use
Opportunity cost values a resource at what it would earn elsewhere, which is why family labour, owned land and owned capital are imputed. Sunk costs are past and irrelevant to decisions; marginal and fixed costs describe how costs behave with output.
Economies of scale on a livestock farm means that:
B. Average cost per unit of output falls as the scale of output rises
Economies of scale is a cost concept: cost per unit falls with output. Proportional output response to scaling all inputs is constant returns to scale, a physical concept. Total cost rises with output; it is average cost that falls.
A layer flock housed 1,000 hens; the average number alive over the laying year was 950, and the flock laid 275,500 eggs. What was the hen-day egg production per hen?
D. 290 eggs
Hen-day production = eggs / average hens alive = 275,500 / 950 = 290. Hen-housed production = eggs / hens housed = 275,500 / 1,000 = 275.5. Hen-day exceeds hen-housed whenever birds die. 261.7 multiplies 275.5 by 0.95 instead of dividing, and 305 corrects for mortality twice (290 ÷ 0.95).
Twenty kids are raised to 25 kg live weight at a total cost of 96,000 currency units. The dressing percentage is 48. What is the cost per kg of carcass?
B. 400 currency units
Live weight = 20 × 25 = 500 kg; carcass = 500 × 0.48 = 240 kg; cost per kg carcass = 96,000 / 240 = 400 currency units. 192 currency units is per kg live weight; 92.16 currency units multiplies by the dressing percentage instead of dividing; 4,800 currency units is cost per head.
In the classification of marketing functions, grading and standardisation of animals and their products is a:
D. Facilitating function
Exchange functions are buying and selling; physical functions are assembly, transport, storage and processing; facilitating functions are grading and standardisation, financing, risk bearing and market information.
In a typical contract broiler arrangement in South Asia, which party supplies the chicks, feed and medicines?
C. The integrator, while the grower provides shed and labour and earns a growing charge per kg
In integrated broiler production the integrator supplies chicks, feed, medicines and technical supervision and takes the birds; the grower supplies housing and labour and is paid a growing charge per kg, often adjusted for FCR and mortality. Buying finished birds at the day's price is open-market selling, not contract growing.
Engel's law, used to explain growing demand for livestock products, states that as household income rises:
C. The proportion of income spent on food falls
Engel's law: the share of income spent on food falls as income rises, although total food spending rises. Within food in low- and middle-income countries, demand for milk, meat and eggs rises faster than for staples, which drove the Livestock Revolution.
The modern cooperative movement traces its origin to:
D. The Rochdale Pioneers in England in 1844
The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers (1844) set out the principles from which the ICA principles developed. The Danish creameries (1882) and the Kaira union (1946) came later and drew on that tradition; the 1995 ICA statement restated the principles rather than starting the movement.
In a bank-financed dairy project, margin money refers to:
A. The share of the project cost that the borrower contributes from own funds
Margin money is the borrower's own contribution to the unit cost; the bank lends the rest. The lender's interest spread and the farmer's profit margin are different ideas; a subsidy is separate from the borrower's margin.
An owner insures a cow without telling the insurer that she has had chronic mastitis for months. Which principle has the owner breached?
B. Utmost good faith
Utmost good faith (uberrima fides) requires disclosure of all material facts, such as existing disease. Non-disclosure allows the insurer to avoid the policy. The owner does have insurable interest, and indemnity and subrogation concern how claims are settled.
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.
Do these early in revision so they are fast on the day.
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