NABARD Grade A Agriculture Exam Highlights 2025
The NABARD Grade A notification for 2025 has not yet been released. Candidates aspiring for the NABARD Grade A exam under the Agriculture stream have to wait a little while since the current recruitment drive is not yet completely done. The online applications for the NABARD Grade A exam will begin after candidates send in their applications and all aspirants can start registering before the deadline closes. According to the notification, the online applications for the NABARD Grade A exam will be open as per the deadline link which will be mentioned in the notification. For the year of 2025, there are expected to be vacancies for the Agriculture stream in NABARD out of the total vacancies that NABARD will announce for the post of Assistant Manager in NABARD Grade A. For the year of 2025, there are expected to be a good number of vacancies for the Agriculture stream in NABARD out of the total vacancies that NABARD will be announced for the post of Assistant Manager in NABARD Grade A.
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) notification signals the eagerly anticipated recruitment of Grade A officers. Among the various positions offered, the NABARD Grade A Agriculture Officer stands out prominently as part of NABARD's Rural Development Banking Service (RDBS) recruitment initiative. This role holds immense significance in the agricultural and rural development sector, where officers play a pivotal role in designing and implementing policies and financial strategies aimed at boosting rural economies and ensuring the sustainable growth of agriculture. As NABARD is a prestigious institution known for its commitment to rural development, the recruitment of Grade A officers, particularly Agriculture Officers, is an exceptional opportunity for those dedicated to making a meaningful impact in this crucial domain.
NABARD Grade A (Agriculture) Highlights 2024
| Conducting Authority | National Bank For Agriculture and Rural Development |
|---|---|
| NABARD Website | www.nabard.org |
| Name of the Posts | Assistant Manager in Grade ‘A’ (Agriculture) |
| Mode of application | Online |
| Stages of Exam | Three Stages-
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| Maximum marks & Time duration |
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| NABARD Grade A 2024 Exam Notification | July 27, 2024 |
| Online Registration and Payment of Online Fees/Intimation Charges | July 27, 2024 to August 15, 2024 |
| Download NABARD Grade A Phase I (Preliminary) – Online Exam Admit Card | |
| NABARD Grade A Phase I (Preliminary) – Online Examination | September 01, 2024 |
| NABARD Grade A Phase II (Mains) – Online Examination | To be notified later |
| Number of Vacancies | 2 |
| Download NABARD Assistant Manager in Grade ‘A’ (RDBS/Rajbhasha) Notification [PDF] | |
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NABARD Grade A Agriculture Exam Pattern
The NABARD Grade A exam for Agriculture Post will be held in three phases as mentioned below.
- Phase 1/ Prelims - Online Written Examination - 200 Marks
- Phase 2/ Mains - Online Written Examination (mix of MCQ and descriptive pattern) - 200 Marks
- Phase 3 - Psychometric Test - The Psychometric Test is mandatory to give with the Mains exam. Only candidates who give the Psychometric Test with the Mains paper will be considered for shortlisting for the Interview. The Psychometric Test does not hold any marks in the overall selection process but is still mandatory.
- Phase 3- Personal Interview – 50 Marks
NABARD Grade A Agriculture Prelims Exam Pattern
NABARD Grade A Prelims for Agriculture Officer will be an online multiple-choice test. Phase 1 exam consists of eight sections. The NABARD Grade A exam has 2 broad sections- The qualifying section and the Merit section. Further details are given below.
- The marks obtained in the sections of Reasoning, English Language, Computer Knowledge, Quantitative Aptitude, and Decision Making will be qualifying in nature.
- You will be shortlisted based on your performance in General Awareness, ESI, and ARD.
Further details about the NABARD Grade A Agriculture exam pattern are in the table below.
| Nature of Test | Test Name | No. Of Questions | Maximum Marks | Time Duration | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualifying | Quantitative Aptitude | 20 | 20 | Composite time of 120 minutes | Bilingual – Hindi and English except test of English language |
| Reasoning Ability | 20 | 20 | |||
| Computer Knowledge | 20 | 20 | |||
| English Language | 30 | 30 | |||
| Decision Making | 10 | 10 | |||
| Merit Based | General Awareness | 20 | 20 | ||
| Agriculture & Rural Development (with focus on Rural India) | 40 | 40 | |||
| Economic and Social Issues (with focus on Rural India) | 40 | 40 | |||
| Total | 200 | 200 | 2 Hours | ||
NABARD Grade A Agriculture Mains Exam Pattern
NABARD Grade A Mains for Agriculture stream is held only for those candidates who clear Prelims. The calling ratio for the NABARD Grade A Mains/Phase 2 exam is 1:25. The NABARD Grade A Mains exam for Agriculture consists of
- Paper 1 (General English) - Descriptive
- Paper 2 - a mix of multiple-choice and descriptive types related to the Agriculture domain.
Detailed NABARD Grade A Agriculture Mains exam pattern is given in the table below.
| Paper | Name of Test | Paper Type | No. of Questions | Marks | Duration | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper 1 | General English | Online Descriptive | 3 | 100 | 1 hours and 30 mintues (90 Minutes) | Descriptive (Answer to be typed using keybord) |
| Paper 2 | Stream Specific Paper | Objective $ | 30** | 50 | 30 mintues | |
| Descriptive | 6 questions will be asked, of which candidates will be required to attempt 4 questions [2 of 15 marks each (with difficulty level) and 2 of 10 marks each] | 50 | 1 hours and 30 mintues (90 Minutes) | Descriptive Answers to betyped using keyboard either in English or Hindi (Remington and Inscript keyboards) | ||
| $ (Paragraph Based/Numerical/Application based interpretive questions ) | ||||||
| ** (Some questions carry 2 marks each and some questions carry 1 mark each) | ||||||
Interview
After qualifying Mains exam, you will be called for an interview. The calling ratio for the NABARD Grade A interview round is 1:3. The NABARD Grade A interview will be 50 marks.
Please note that the final merit for the post of Assistant Manager in NABARD Grade A Agriculture recruitment will be prepared on the basis of your cumulative performance in the Mains exam and Interview.
NABARD Grade A Agriculture Syllabus
With the exam registration link for the NABARD Grade A Agriculture stream active, candidates should waste no time in beginning their exam preparations. NABARD Grade A Prelims syllabus is the same for all the streams. You can check out the syllabus of NABARD Grade A Prelims below.
| Section | Topics |
|---|---|
| Quantitative Aptitude | Time and Work, Mensuration, Average, Speed, Distance and Time, Mixture and Allegations, Permutation and Combination, Probability, Data Interpretation, Ratio & Proportion, Simplification & Approximation, Percentage, Set Theory, Data Interpretation, Quadratic Equation, Number Series, Profit & loss, Boats & Stream, Simple and Compound Interest, Data Sufficiency |
| English Language | Grammar, Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Passage Making, Error Spotting, Jumble Words, Sentence Framing, Fill in the Blanks, Cloze Test, Sentence Rearrangement, Idioms & Phrases |
| General Awareness | Monetary Policies, Banking & Financial Awareness, Economic Terms, Current Affairs, Static GK, Financial & Economics News, Government Schemes, Agreement & Deals, Banking terms, rates, processes, National Institution |
| Reasoning Ability | Puzzles, Seating Arrangement - Circular, Square and Linear, Data Sufficiency, Directions and Distance, Coding Decoding, Blood Relations, Inequality, Syllogism, Machine Input Output, Verbal Reasoning, Ordering and Ranking, Alphanumeric Series |
| Computer Knowledge | Computer Languages, Basic Hardware and Software, History of Computer, Devices, Viruses and Hacking, MS Office, Networking |
| Decision Making | Behaviour Decision Making,Managerial Decision making,Eligibility Criteria based decision making,Data Arrangements Based Decision making |
NABARD Grade A Mains - Paper 1
Find the NABARD Grade A syllabus details for Mains - Paper 1 (English-Descriptive) from the table below.
| Section | Topics |
|---|---|
| English Descriptive | (Descriptive) Essay, Precis, Questions on the Precis/para, Report/Letter Writing |
NABARD Grade A Mains - Paper 2 (Agriculture Syllabus)
The NABARD Grade A Mains - Paper 2 will consist of questions from the Agriculture domain. The complete syllabus for the NABARD Grade A Agriculture Officer is given in the table below.
| S.No | Topics |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ecology and its relevance to man, natural resources, their sustainable management and conservation. Physical and social environment as factors of crop distribution and production. Agro ecology; cropping pattern as indicators of environments. Environmental pollution and associated hazards to crops, animals and humans. Climate change - International conventions and global initiatives. Green house effect and global warming. Advance tools for ecosystem analysis - Remote sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). |
| 2 | Cropping patterns in different agro-climatic zones of the country. Impact of highyielding and short- duration varieties on shifts in cropping patterns. Concepts of various cropping and farming systems. Organic and Precision farming. Package of practices for production of important cereals, pulses, oil seeds, fibres, sugar, commercial and fodder crops. |
| 3 | Important features and scope of various types of forestry plantations such as social forestry, agro- forestry, and natural forests. Propagation of forest plants. Forest products. Agro forestry and value addition. Conservation of forest flora and fauna. |
| 4 | Weeds, their characteristics, dissemination and association with various crops; their multiplications; cultural, biological, and chemical control of weeds. Soil- physical, chemical and biological properties. Processes and factors of soil formation. Soils of India. Mineral and organic constituents of soils and their role in maintaining soil productivity. Essential plant nutrients and other beneficial elements in soils and plants. Principles of soil fertility, soil testing and fertilizer recommendations, integrated nutrient management. Biofertilizers. Losses of nitrogen in soil, nitrogen-use efficiency in submerged rice soils, nitrogen fixation in soils. Efficient phosphorus and potassium use. Problem soils and their reclamation. Soil factors affecting greenhouse gas emission. |
| 5 | Soil conservation, integrated watershed management. Soil erosion and its management. Dry land agriculture and its problems. Technology for stabilizing agriculture production in rain fed areas. Water- use efficiency in relation to crop production, criteria for scheduling irrigations, ways and means of reducing runoff losses of irrigation water. Rainwater harvesting. Drip and sprinkler irrigation. Drainage of waterlogged soils, quality of irrigation water, effect of industrial effluents on soil and water pollution. Irrigation projects in India. |
| 6 | Farm management, scope, importance and characteristics, farm planning. Optimum resource use and budgeting. Economics of different types of farming systems. Marketing management - strategies for development, market intelligence. Price fluctuations and their cost; role of co-operatives in agricultural economy; types and systems of farming and factors affecting them. Agricultural price policy. Crop Insurance. |
| 7 | Agricultural extension, its importance and role, methods of evaluation of extension programmes, socio- economic survey and status of big, small and marginal farmers and landless agricultural labourers. Training programmes for extension workers. Role of Krishi Vigyan Kendra's (KVK) in dissemination of Agricultural technologies. Non Government Organization (NGO) and self-help group approach for rural development. |
| 8 | Cell structure, function and cell cycle. Synthesis, structure and function of genetic material. Laws of heredity. Chromosome structure, chromosomal aberrations, linkage and cross-over, and their significance in recombination breeding. Polyploidy, euploids and aneuploids. Mutations - and their role in crop improvement. Heritability, sterility and incompatibility, classification and their application in crop improvement. Cytoplasmic inheritance, sex-linked, sex-influenced and sex-limited characters. |
| 9 | History of plant breeding. Modes of reproduction, selfing and crossing techniques. Origin, evolution and domestication of crop plants, center of origin, law of homologous series, crop genetic resourcesconservation and utilization. Application of principles of plant breeding, improvement of crop plants. Molecular markers and their application in plant improvement. Pure-line selection, pedigree, mass and recurrent selections, combining ability, its significance in plant breeding. Heterosis and its exploitation. Somatic hybridization. Breeding for disease and pest resistance. Role of interspecific and intergeneric hybridization. Role of genetic engineering and biotechnology in crop improvement. Genetically modified crop plants. |
| 10 | Seed production and processing technologies. Seed certification, seed testing and storage. DNA finger printing and seed registration. Role of public and private sectors in seed production and marketing. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues, WTO issues and its impact on Agriculture. |
| 11 | Principles of Plant Physiology with reference to plant nutrition, absorption, translocation and metabolism of nutrients. Soil - water- plant relationship. |
| 12 | Enzymes and plant pigments; photosynthesis- modern concepts and factors affecting the process, aerobic and anaerobic respiration; C3, C4 and CAM mechanisms. Carbohydrate, protein and fat metabolism. Growth and development; photoperiodism and vernalilzation. Plant growth substances and their role in crop production. Physiology of seed development and germination; dormancy. Stress physiology - draught, salt and water stress. |
| 13 | Major fruits, plantation crops, vegetables, spices and flower crops. Package practices of major horticultural crops. Protected cultivation and high tech horticulture. Post harvest technology and value addition of fruits and vegetables. Landscaping and commercial floriculture. Medicinal and aromatic plants. Role of fruits and vegetables in human nutrition. |
| 14 | Diagnosis of pests and diseases of field crops, vegetables, orchard and plantation crops and their economic importance. Classification of pests and diseases and their management. Integrated pest and disease management. Storage pests and their management. Biological control of pests and diseases. Epidemiology and forecasting of major crop pests and diseases. Plant quarantine measures. Pesticides, their formulation and modes of action. |
| 15 | Food production and consumption trends in India. Food security and growing population - vision 2020. Reasons for grain surplus. National and international food policies. Production, procurement, distribution constraints. Availability of food grains, per capita expenditure on food. Trends in poverty, Public Distribution System and Below Poverty Line population, Targeted Public Distribution System (PDS), policy implementation in context to globalization. Processing constraints. Relation of food production to National Dietary Guidelines and food consumption pattern. Food based dietary approaches to eliminate hunger. Nutrient deficiency - Micro nutrient deficiency : Protein Energy Malnutrition or Protein Calorie Malnutrition (PEM or PCM), Micro nutrient deficiency and HRD in context of work capacity of women and children. Food grain productivity and food security. |
NABARD Grade A Agriculture Eligibility Criteria
Before applying for the exam, you must check your NABARD Grade A eligibility concerning the Education Qualification, Age limit and other qualifications. It is critical for candidates to ensure they meet all the eligibility criteria to prevent the cancellation of their application.
NABARD Grade A Agriculture Educational Criteria
For the NABARD Grade A Agriculture stream, you must possess the following educational qualifications mentioned in the table below.
| Stream | Educational Criteria |
|---|---|
| Agriculture | Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture from any recognized University / Institution with a minimum of 60% marks (PWBD applicants - 55%) in aggregate OR Two years full time Post Graduate Degree in Agriculture (Soil Science/Agronomy) with a minimum of 55% marks (PWBD applicants - 50%) in aggregate from a recognized University / Institution. |
NABARD Grade A Age Limit
Besides the educational criteria, you also need to meet the NABARD Grade A age limit to be eligible for the NABARD Grade A Agriculture exam. The NABARD Grade A Notification will provide the age deadline which means the candidate must have been born not earlier than a particular date and not later than another one to qualify for the age criteria for the 2025 NABARD Grade A exam. For the detailed NABARD Grade A Age limit, please look at the table below.
| Post | Age Criteria (As on July 01, 2024) |
|---|---|
| NABARD Grade A | The candidate must be between 21 and 30 years of age as on 01-07-2024, i.e., the candidate must have been born not earlier than 02-07-1994 and not later than 01-07-2003. |
NABARD Grade A Age Relaxation
In case you belong to any of the reserved categories and seek age relaxation, you can apply for the exam through the reserved quota. You can get age relaxation within the upper age limit. Please look at the table below for further details.
| Sr. No. | Category | Age relaxation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Other Backward Classes (OBC) | 3 Years | ||
| 2 | Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) | 5 Years | ||
| 3 | Ex-servicemen (including Emergency Commissioned Officers/Short Service Commissioned Officers) provided that the applicants have rendered at least five years continuous Military Service and have been released on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year) otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency or on account of physical disability or have been released on account of physical disability attributable to Military Service or on invalidation | 5 Years | ||
| 4 | Emergency Commissioned Officers/Short Service Commissioned Officers who have completed their initial period of assignment of five years of Military Service but whose assignment has been extended beyond five years and in whose case, on selection, the Ministry of Defence issues certificates that they would be released within 03 months from the date of receipt of offer of appointment | 5 Years | ||
| 4 | Children/family members of victims died in the1984 riots. | 5 Years | ||
| 5 | Persons With Bench Mark Disabilities | PwBD (General) | 10 Years | |
| PwBD (OBC) | 13 Years | |||
| PwBD (SC/ ST) | 15 Years | |||
How to Apply Online for NABARD Grade A Agriculture Stream
The step-by-step process for the NABARD Grade A application process is given below.
- Log on to the official website of NABARD, i.e. www.nabard.org
- Check out the ‘nabard.org/career’ notices and look for the ‘Apply Online link.’
- New registrants must click on the ‘Click here for New Registration’ tab and provide details such as full name, email ID and contact details.
- Registrants will receive a Provisional Registration Number and Password
- Use these login credentials to complete the form by providing the correct details
- Validate the details by selecting the ‘Validate your details and ‘Save & Next button
- Upload the documents (Photo & Signature), taking care of the specifications as mentioned below -
- Guidelines for Uploading the Photograph
- The dimensions of the photograph should lie between 200 x 230 pixels
- The photograph must be clear and passport-size
- The file size of the photograph should be between 20KB - 50 KB
- Guidelines for Uploading the Signature
- The signature should be clear and legible
- The file size of the signature should be between 10KB- 20 KB. If it is below the limit or if it exceeds the mentioned limit, the application will be rejected.
- The dimensions of the signature should lie between 140 x 60 pixels
- Verify for the last time before ‘Final Submit
- Select the ‘Payment’ tab to remit the application fee
- Take a print of the application form and fee receipt for future use
NABARD Grade A Agriculture Application fee
After submitting the NABARD Grade A application form, you need to submit the required application fee. Please note that your application will not be considered complete until you pay the fees. You can pay the fees via online mode only, no other mode is available. The NABARD Grade A Agriculture exam fee details are as follows.
| Category | Application Fee | Intimation Charges | Total Fees |
|---|---|---|---|
| For SC/ ST/ PWBD | NIL | Rs. 150 | Rs.150* |
| For all others | 700 | Rs. 150 | Rs. 850* |
| Staff | @ | @ | @ |
| * Exclusive of applicable GST | |||
| @ All NABARD employees satisfying the educational qualification criteria would be eligible to apply. They will be required to pay fee/intimation charges as indicated above at the time of online application, which will be reimbursed on submission of fee receipt only to those employees of NABARD (Staff Candidates) who satisfy the eligibility criteria for the post. The status as staff candidate will be verified at the time of interview. | |||
NABARD Grade A Agriculture Salary
NABARD Grade A Agriculture Officer draws a starting basic pay of Rs 44500/ month. The PayScale is 44500-2500(4) -54500-2850(7) – 74450 –EB - 2850(4)- 85850-3300(1)-89150 (17 years).
Besides this, you will also be eligible for
- Dearness Allowance
- Local Compensatory Allowance
- House Rent Allowance and many more.
Further details about NABARD Grade A Salary is in the table below.
| Post | Salary |
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| NABARD Grade A |
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NABARD Grade A Agriculture Job Profile
NABARD is an apex institution and a regulator so you won't regret joining/working for NABARD. Office timings of a NABARD Grade ‘A’ officer would be 9:30 AM to 5.30 PM, 5 days a week. The following will be your NABARD Grade A Agriculture job profile once you start working as an Officer.
- Identifying and mapping resource potential under related sectors and sub-sectors of rural economy and SWOT analysis thereof, credit-linked planning, preparation of sectoral papers, State Focus Papers, etc.
- Meeting requests from client institutions, especially Banks and Government Departments, for periodic updating of techno-financial parameters and unit costs of various developmental activities.
- Provision of expert views, advisory services, consultancy, etc. to individual entrepreneurs, Corporates, Institutions, Government Departments, etc. seeking such advice. This may be in contexts of preparation of DPRs, standardization of techno-financial norms with specific reference to new agri-business ventures such as high-value agriculture, value chain financing, processing and value addition, organic farming, etc.
- Liaison with National / Regional Research Institutes to support their R&D interventions to develop solutions to field-level technical /operational problems and innovative technologies.
- Liaison with Line Departments of Central as well as State Governments, ICAR, and State Universities of related disciplines.
- Advisory services at the District/State/National level in the operationalization of several Government-sponsored schemes pertaining to related disciplines.
- Representation on various technical committees/ sub-groups constituted by State / National Level institutions etc. towards policy advocacy.
- Provision, and simultaneous internal capacity building, in the emerging areas of NABARD’s interest and projects being implemented by NABARD requiring specializations/expertise from a related discipline.
- Miscellaneous areas – suggestions/advice for effective policy formulations and business plans, Appraisal & Monitoring of proposals having NABARD’s interest and/or involvement. Documentation of Success Stories and dissemination technology for replication. Any support related to technical discipline sought from time to time
NABARD Grade A Agriculture Career Growth
You will get promoted to the Manager post after going through departmental exams and interviews. The hierarchy of posts right from the post of NABARD Grade A Assistant Manager is as follows.
- Director
- Executive Director
- Chief General Manager
- General Manager
- Deputy General Manager
- Assistant General Manager
- Grade B ( Manager)
- Grade A ( Assistant Manager) ← You are here
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NABARD Grade A Agriculture Exam Dates
NABARD Grade A notification is an excellent opportunity for every aspirant who wants to make a career in the government sector. Refer to the table below for more details on the NABARD Grade A exam schedule.
NABARD Grade A Exam Dates 2024
| Events | Exam Dates |
|---|---|
| NABARD Grade A 2024 Exam Notification | July 27, 2024 |
| Online Registration and Payment of Online Fees/Intimation Charges | July 27, 2024 to August 15, 2024 |
| NABARD Grade A Phase I (Preliminary) – Online Examination | September 01, 2024 |
| NABARD Grade A Phase I (Preliminary) – Online Exam Result (list of roll no. of short listed candidates for phase-II) | |
| Download NABARD Assistant Manager in Grade 'A Call Letter For Phase II (Main) Online Examination | |
| NABARD Grade A Phase II (Mains) – Online Examination | October 20, 2024 |
| Download NABARD Assistant Manager in Grade 'A Result For Phase II (Main) Online Examination | |
NABARD Grade A Agriculture Vacancy
NABARD Grade A recruitment notification 2025 was not yet released since the current recruitment drive is still ongoing. The 2025 NABARD Grade A detailed notification is expected to mention the total number of NABARD Grade A vacancies as well as the number of vacancies for the Agriculture stream. The notification is expected to shed more light on the exact number of vacancies in the NABARD Agriculture stream for 2025
| POST / DISCIPLINE | No. of Vacancies | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UR | SC | ST | OBC | EWS | TOTAL | |
| Agriculture | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 |
NABARD Grade A Agriculture Books
Books can make or break your preparation. To become an Agriculture officer in NABARD, you should collect the best books available for the 2025 NABARD Grade A Agriculture exam. To assist you with this, we have compiled a list of books for Agriculture. Please refer to the table below for a detailed list of NABARD Grade A Agriculture books .
| Paper | Book | Author/Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Economic and Social Issues | Indian Economy | Uma Kapila or Mishra Puri |
| Indian Economy | Ramesh Singh | |
| Indian Social System | Ram Ahuja / Rawat Publications | |
| Agriculture | Agriculture at a Glance | R K Sharma and S K Bhoi |
| Rural Development | GPH Panel of Experts | |
| Fundamental Of Agriculture Vol 1 | Arun Katyan | |
| Fundamental Of Agriculture Vol 2 | Arun Katyan | |
| A Competitive Book of Agriculture | Nem Raj Sunda | |
| Any Objective Book | Arihant etc. | |
| Quantitative Aptitude | Quicker Mathematics | BSC Publications |
| Quantitative Aptitude | RS Agarwal | |
| Class Notes | SS Bharti | |
| Reasoning Ability | A modern approach to verbal & Non-verbal reasoning | R.S. Aggarwal |
| Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning | S.Chand | |
| Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning | Arihant Publication | |
| English Language | English Grammar | Wren & Martin |
| Made Easy for English | Norman Lewis | |
| Descriptive General English | SP Bakshi | |
| Computer Awareness | Objective Computer Awareness | Arihant |
| General Awareness | Lucent GK Knowledge | Lucent Publication |
| Current Affairs | BeePedia | ixambee |
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NABARD Grade A Agriculture Previous Year Cut-off
Previous year cut-offs play a vital role in the preparation of any examination. You can check out the previous year's cut-off for the NABARD Grade-A Agriculture and Land Development / Soil Science exam for all categories below.
NABARD Grade A 2021 Cut Off -Prelims
| Post | SC | ST | OBC | EWS | UR | CAT.B | CAT.C | CAT.A | CAT.E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General | 44.00 | 41.50 | 45.75 | 31.75 | 53.50 | 14.25 | 37.50 | 38.75 | 12.75 |
| Agriculture | 31.50 | 28.00 | 40.75 | 29.00 | 46.25 | ||||
| Agriculture Engineering | 15.50 | - | 16.00 | - | 40.00 | ||||
| Fisheries | 23.00 | -- | 19.25 | – | 22.00 | ||||
| Animal Husbandry | 21.00 | – | 21.00 | – | 27.25 | ||||
| Forestry | 30.50 | – | – | – | 27.00 | ||||
| Plantation/ Horticulture | 14.75 | – | 21.50 | – | 24.75 | ||||
| Land Development/ Soil Science | – | – | 18.75 | – | 20.75 | ||||
| Water Resources | – | – | 15.50 | – | 36.25 | ||||
| Finance | 8.75 | 11.75 | 8.25 | – | 16.75 | ||||
| Computer/ Information Technology | 9.25 | – | 8.50 | 19.75 | 26.25 | ||||
| Rajbhasha | 10.25 | - | – | – | 23.50 | – | 22.50 | -- | -- |
NABARD Grade A 2021 Cut Off -Prelims (Section wise)
| Category | Qualifying Section | Merit Section | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RE | EL | CK | QA | DM | GA | ES | AR | |
| 20 | 30 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 40 | 40 | |
| Unreserved and EWS | 3.75 | 11.25 | 3.25 | 5.00 | 1.25 | 3.00 | 4.50 | 6.50 |
| OBC, ST, SC, PWBD | 1.25 | 7.50 | 2.00 | 2.50 | 1.00 | 1.75 | 1.00 | 3.00 |
NABARD Grade A 2021 Cut Off -Mains
| Discipline | SC | ST | OBC | EWS | UR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General | 109.67 | 109.83 | 114.08 | 115.50 | 118.42 |
| Agriculture | 116.83 | 116.75 | 124.67 | 122.33 | 127.92 |
| Agriculture Engineering | 121.00 | -- | 127.33 | -- | 129.58 |
| Animal Husbandry | 107-83 | -- | 120 | 114.92 | 134.50 |
| Fisheries | 100.33 | -- | 104.33 | -- | 117.08 |
| Forestry | 107.42 | -- | -- | -- | 120.25 |
| Plantation/ Horticulture | 97.83 | -- | 110.83 | 90.75 | 112.67 |
| Land Development/ Soil Science | -- | -- | 123.75 | -- | 130.08 |
| Water Resources | -- | -- | 89.92 | -- | 121.75 |
| Finance | 91.83 | 93.75 | 105.17 | 94.67 | 113.33 |
| Computer/ Information Technology | 98.33 | Considered under UR Category | 109.25 | 103.00 | 112.58 |
| Rajbhasha | 96 | No candidate qualified | Considered under UR Category | No candidate qualified | 102.67 |
NABARD Grade A Agriculture Exam Admit Card
NABARD Grade A exam admit card will be released a few days prior to the exam. You can download your call letter through, i.e. Registration Number and Password/Date of Birth. Please note that no hard copy of the NABARD Grade A call letter/ Information Handout will be sent by post/ courier. Also, separate call letters for both Online Preliminary and Online Main examinations and interviews will be released by NABARD.
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