Dear PaGaLGuY readers,

As you all know recently, NABARD has
postponed the Online exam of Officers in Grade ‘A’ & Grade ‘B’. Now the Online Exam will be held on March 01 2015. Many of you have applied for the exam and to qualify it is necessary to know the pattern of the exam. So in
this article we are presenting you the detail pattern of the exam.

NABARD Officer Grade ‘A’ & ‘B’ Exam  selection process based on three phases:

1. Preliminary Examination (On-line Exam) – The Preliminary Examination is only
qualifying in nature and is meant to serve as a screening test. Candidates who
qualify and rank sufficiently high as decided by the National Bank, shall be
called for appearing in the Main Examination.

2. Phase II – Main Examination (Descriptive Test)

3. Phase III – Interview – Applicants qualifying in the Phase-II
Examination and securing sufficiently high rank in merit shall be short-listed
for interview.

Phase I – Preliminary Examination (On-line
Exam) Exam Pattern

Assistant Managers in Grade ‘A’
(RDBS), Assistant Manager in Rajbhasha and Assistant Manager in Legal Service
and Manager in Grade ‘B’ RDBS :

Online Exam – Total No. of Qs –
200     Total Marks – 200          Duration: 130 Minutes

1. Quantitative
Aptitude – 50 marks

 2. Test of Reasoning – 50 marks

3. English
Language & Computer Awareness – 60 marks (30 each)

4. General
Awareness – 40 marks  

Phase II – Main Examination (Descriptive) Exam
Pattern

Paper-I (Descriptive) General
English: (Common for AM (RDBS), AM (Rajbhasha), AM (Legal) and Manager
(RDBS)

Total Marks – 100          Duration: 3 hrs

Descriptive English paper consist
of –

1. Essay
writing

2. Comprehension

3. report
writing

4. Paragraph
writing

5. Letter
writing

Paper-II (Descriptive) Economic and Social Issues
: for Asst. Manager  and Manager in Rural
Development Banking Service  only

Total Marks – 100          Duration: 3 hrs

The paper will be set bilingually
in Hindi and English and can be answered either wholly in Hindi or English.

Paper-II (Descriptive) for Asst.
Manager (Rajbhasha) only

Total Marks – 100          Duration: 3 hrs

Proficiency in Hindi including
translation from English to Hindi and vice-versa. The analytical and drafting
ability of the candidate shall also be assessed from the descriptive paper.

For Manager (RDBS) Grade B only

Paper III (Descriptive) –
Analytical Paper on Development, Statistics,Finance and Management :

Total Marks – 100          Duration: 3 hrs

The paper will be set bilingually
in Hindi and English and can be answered either wholly in Hindi or
English.

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