Syllabus
NABARD Grade A Syllabus: Sections and Topics Covered
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development: Assistant Manager, Grade A (RDBS, General)
Three of these eight sections decide your rank and five only qualify you, so read the coverage with that split in mind. Economic and Social Issues, Agriculture and Rural Development, and General Awareness are the ranking sections, and they are also the ones no general banking preparation covers. Reasoning, English, Computer Knowledge, Quantitative Aptitude and Decision Making carry minimum cut-offs you must clear and nothing above them that counts.
Sections official, topics ours. The section names and counts below are from the official pattern. The topics under them are what this site's own tests cover, not a list the exam body publishes.
Reasoning
20 questions · 20 marks- • Blood Relations
- • Classification
- • Coding-Decoding
- • Direction Sense
- • Inequality
- • Number Series
- • Ranking and Order
- • Syllogism
- • Alphanumeric Series
- • Data Sufficiency
- • Puzzle
- • Seating Arrangement
12 topic labels across 40 questions built here.
English Language
30 questions · 30 marks- • Fill in the Blanks
- • Active and Passive Voice
- • Cloze Test
- • Idioms and Phrases
- • One Word Substitution
- • Spot the Error
- • Antonyms
- • Reading Comprehension
- • Sentence Improvement
- • Spelling Correction
- • Synonyms
- • Direct and Indirect Speech
12 topic labels across 60 questions built here.
Computer Knowledge
20 questions · 20 marks- • Cybersecurity
- • Database Concepts
- • Internet Fundamentals
- • MS Excel
- • Networking
- • Computer Memory
- • Computer Viruses
- • Data Storage Units
- • Digital Banking Technology
- • Digital Payments Technology
- • Email Fundamentals
- • Generations of Computers
- • Number Systems
- • Operating Systems
- • Software Types
15 topic labels across 40 questions built here.
Quantitative Aptitude
20 questions · 20 marks- • Average
- • Data Interpretation
- • Number System
- • Percentage
- • Profit and Loss
- • Ratio and Proportion
- • Simple Interest
- • Time and Distance
- • Time and Work
- • Compound Interest
- • Mensuration
11 topic labels across 40 questions built here.
Decision Making
10 questions · 10 marks- • Conflicting Instructions
- • Crisis Response
- • Data Discrepancy
- • Ethical Dilemma
- • Field Supervision
- • Loan Appraisal
- • Policy Implementation
- • Resource Prioritisation
- • Stakeholder Communication
- • Team Management
10 topic labels across 20 questions built here.
General Awareness
20 questions · 20 marks- • Banking Awareness
- • Banking Institutions
- • Banking Regulation
- • Banking Sector Reforms
- • Currency
- • Currency and Payments
- • Deposit Insurance
- • Financial Regulators
- • Financial Terms
- • Geography
- • Government Institutions
- • Government Schemes
- • Indian Polity
- • International Organisations
- • Monetary Policy
- • Space and Science
- • Sports
- • Union Budget
18 topic labels across 40 questions built here.
Economic and Social Issues
40 questions · 40 marks- • Agricultural Credit
- • Census and Data
- • Cooperative Banking
- • Cooperative Movement
- • Crop Insurance
- • Digital Financial Inclusion
- • Direct Benefit Transfer
- • Direct Income Support
- • Education
- • Employment Statistics
- • Farmer Producer Organisations
- • Financial Inclusion
- • Financial Inclusion Index
- • Gender and Social Development
- • Health Insurance
- • Human Development
- • Inflation Measurement
- • Interest Subvention
Showing 18 of 40 topic labels, the ones carrying the most of the 80 questions built here.
Agriculture and Rural Development
40 questions · 40 marks- • Cropping Seasons
- • Agricultural Census
- • Agricultural Exports
- • Agricultural Extension
- • Agricultural Marketing
- • Agricultural Mechanisation
- • Agricultural Research
- • Agricultural Trade
- • Climate-Resilient Agriculture
- • Contract Farming
- • Cropping Patterns
- • Dairy Cooperatives
- • Fertiliser Subsidy
- • Fisheries Development
- • Food Processing
- • Food Procurement
- • Green Revolution
- • Horticulture Development
Showing 18 of 39 topic labels, the ones carrying the most of the 80 questions built here.
Section pattern source: the official notice, checked 6 August 2026.
Frequently asked questions
What sections does the NABARD Grade A syllabus cover?
There are 8 sections: Reasoning, English Language, Computer Knowledge, Quantitative Aptitude, Decision Making, General Awareness, Economic and Social Issues and Agriculture and Rural Development. Those names, and the question counts and marks beside them, come from the official pattern, checked 6 August 2026. What sits under each of them on this page is a different thing: 157 topic labels drawn from the 400 questions built here for this exam, which is a map of what you can practise rather than a list the exam body published.
Is this the official NABARD Grade A syllabus?
No, and the page says so rather than leaving you to work it out. The section pattern is official and linked to the notice it came from; the topics beneath it are the ones this site's own tests cover. They are useful for two things: seeing what you can practise here, and checking a syllabus you already have for gaps. For the syllabus itself, read the exam body's own document, because a topic list assembled from a question bank can be narrower than the syllabus and never wider in a way you should trust.
How many questions are there in the NABARD Grade A paper, and how long is it?
The Phase I stage is 200 questions for 200 marks in 120 minutes. Wrong answers are penalised 0.25 per question. Knowing that alongside the syllabus is what turns a topic list into a plan: it tells you how many marks each section is actually worth and how many minutes you can afford per question.
How do I practise the NABARD Grade A syllabus?
Sit a full mock before working down any topic list. A list tells you what can be asked; it does not tell you which parts are costing you marks, and that is rarely where a candidate expects. There are 18 free tests for NABARD Grade A here, and the sectional ones let you rebuild a single section once the full paper has shown you which one needs it.