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NABARD Pre & Mains 2016 Preparation Tips & Strategy

National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has unrolled the recruitments for its institution for the post of Development Assistant. It has offered job opportunity for 85 vacancies which will be filled to the posts vacant all over India. The candidates who aspire to hold job in NABARD will have to undergo the phases of recruitment that is preliminary and mains exam.

NABARD PRE EXAM

Sections

Number of Questions

Maximum Marks

Duration

1 hour

English Language

40

40

Test of Numerical Ability

30

30

Test of Reasoning

30

30

Total

100

100

NABARD MAINS EXAM

Section

Number of Questions

Maximum Marks

Duration

Composite time of 90 minutes for objective tests and 30 minutes for descriptive test

Test of Reasoning

30

30

Quantitative Aptitude

30

30

General Awareness (with special reference to agriculture, rural development and banking)

50

50

Computer Knowledge

40

40

Test of English Language

Essay, Report/Letter Writing

50

Total

200

Looking Closely at the Topic Distribution Section Wise

The candidate needs to prepare for the NABARD exam with proper time management and distribution according to each section and also question wise. We will follow the preparation tips with adequate time distribution section and topic wise. Let us go section wise and learn the most important topics that need major share of your time.

Reasoning Ability :

Topics

Difficulty Level

Scoring Level

Average Time to Complete Questions

Puzzle and Seating Arrangement

High

High

2-3 min

Syllogism, Statement and Conclusions

Moderate

High

1 min

Coding Decoding

High

Moderate

1 min

Alpha numeric Series

Moderate

Moderate

30-40 sec

Coded Inequalities

Low

Low

40 seconds

Blood Relations

Low

Low

40 seconds

Embedded Figures, Mirror Images, Water Images

Low

Moderate

30 seconds

Quantitative Aptitude :

Topics

Difficulty Level

Scoring Level

Average Time to Complete Each Question

Data Interpretation

Moderate

High

2-3 min

Ratio & Proportion, Mixture and Alligation, Age, Partnership

Moderate

Moderate

40-50 sec

Profit & Loss, Percentage, Simple Interest and Compound Interest

Moderate

Moderate

40-50 sec

Time and Work, Time and Distance, Average

Easy

Low

40 seconds

Number System, LCM HCF, Simplification

Moderate

Moderate

40-50 seconds

Bar Graph and Pie Chart

Moderate

High

1 min

English Language :

Topics

Difficulty Level

Scoring Level

Average Time to Complete Each Question

Reading Comprehensions

Easy

High

1 min

Spotting Errors-Grammar check

Moderate

High

40-50 sec

Sentence Completion

Moderate

High

40-50 sec

Para jumbles

Easy

Moderate

40-50 sec

Idioms, one word substitution, synonyms, antonyms

Moderate

Moderate

40-50 sec

Letter Writing, Essay Writing, Report Writing in Mains

Moderate

High

2-3 min

General Awareness :

Topics

Difficulty Level

Scoring Level

Average Time to Complete Each Question

Current Affairs of past six months

Easy

Moderate

10-15sec

News of Appointments in Banking Sector and Ministries

Easy

Low

10-15sec

Banking and Financial Awareness

Moderate

High

10-15sec

Information of latest government development policies specially in reference to agriculture industry and fiscal policies

Moderate

High

10-15sec

General Knowledge in context of latest awards, recognitions, policies, appointments

Easy

Low

10-15sec

The mains exam will also have a paper of Computer Knowledge which will embrace topics like development in computer technology, knowledge of the software and hardware, computer programmes, computer arithmetic, computer languages. The candidate is required to be updated with the latest versions of software, systems and other technologies.

Simple and Smart Study Plan to Crack NABARD Exam

1. Combination of Subjects: The best way to study is to learn the concepts in an easy manner that can allow you to retain it for long. If you are taking two difficult topics or subjects, for instance if you practice the puzzles and the data interpretation on same day you will feel hectic. To resolve this problem, you can choose the combination of one difficult topic of mathematics and one simple topic of reasoning a day and vice versa. Similarly you can also choose the combinations like mathematics and English a day and on the alternate day you can study reasoning with general awareness topics and computer knowledge.

2. Time Allotment: The time allotment for each subject and topic is crucial, you have to make sure that you are not giving unnecessary time for only one topic. First of all make sure that you are giving more time to high weightage topics but amidst this don’t forget to pay attention to moderate scoring topics. Give adequate time to those topics as well.

3. Daily Newspaper Reading: If you are reading newspaper daily and focusing on the special section that is banking, fiscal and development policies and going through the magazines that give information on the latest appointments and development in the banking and agriculture sectors would help you. You just need to give half an hour to newspaper reading daily.

4. Separate Notes and Crisp Rule Book: While making notes and doing notes make sure that you are doing it in separate notebooks. You can make a separate rule book for English section and note down the special questions that you confront while practice and note down there in the notes. Similarly, write down the formulae, tricks and methods for reasoning and quantitative aptitude, it will help you to have a glance over it before going for the exam and all the concepts will get refresh once again in your mind.

5. Regular Mock Tests: You need to practice doing the mock tests and solving the previous year papers that will help you in getting the idea of the strength of each topic, type of questions, and your own level of solving questions. You can also do the section wise mock test and solve each section within limited time, like try to solve the quantitative aptitude and reasoning section in 20-25 minutes for each section for pre exams. And for English section try to solve in 15 minutes.

Tricks to Solve Questions in Less Time

1. Solving Questions in Mind: It is a smart exercise that you can try while practicing papers at home. Try to use the pen and paper least and do the calculations in your mind and try to unlock the hidden idea to solve question mentally. It will reduce your time to solve the exam and will enable you to solve maximum questions with proper accuracy. Make sure you do such practice only when you are confident enough.

2. Thorough Learning of Multiplication Tables: The candidates should thoroughly learn multiplication tables, squares, cubes, percentage table as this will help them to reduce major share of time for solving data interpretation questions, numeric series in reasoning and these questions will enable you to fetch huge marks.

3. Checking the Latest Trend: Make sure that you know the latest pattern of topic distribution in other such competitive exams. This will help you to focus on the important topics and you will be prepared for the best. You can analyze the question papers of IBPS, Indian post office exams and you can check question papers of other banks’ exams as well.

4. Write down Basic Rules on Exam Sheet: Have you observed that you are given some decent amount of time before the actual commencement of exam? You will be given with blank sheets to do rough work and that time you can utilize in writing down the alphabetic series, squares and cubes, and difficult formulae that you feel that can get fade away in pressure later while doing the paper. This will help you to see the information in front of your eyes and you will not feel pressurized in the time constraint.

5. Revise Daily: Apart from doing the practice you should also revise the topics that you have covered, no matter if you master them but revising the content helps in retaining the matter for long. You can revise the rules of English grammar that generally students forget as they are not able to judge while rule to apply when and where. Making a rule book and revising it on alternate days or weekly would help you.

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