
Analysis of NABARD Officers exam
Below is a review of NABARD Officers exam from our academic experts. This is a section-wise analysis and you can see the questions asked in GA section at the end of this post.
Expected Cutoffs :
General | OBC | SC | ST | |
Quantitative Aptitude | 15 | 12 | 10 | 9 |
Reasoning | 20 | 18 | 16 | 14 |
English & Computer Knowledge | 25 | 22 | 19 | 17 |
General Awareness | 20 | 17 | 16 | 14 |
Total | 125 | 115 | 95 | 85 |
Overall Analysis:
Overall, the exam was easy to moderate. A good number of attempts in the exam were 130-140.
Quantitative Aptitude:
Overall, the Quantitative Aptitude section was moderate to difficult and a good number of attempts in this section were 18-25. Topics from which the questions were asked:
- Profit Loss, Time, Speed & Distance, Mixture, Age, Geometry: 11
- Series: 6
- Speed Calculation:6
- Data Interpretation: 21
- Quadratic Equations: 6
Reasoning:
Overall, the Reasoning section was easy to moderate. A good number of attempts in the exam were 25-30. Topics from which the questions were asked:
- Syllogisms:6
- Seating Arrangement:6
- Data Sufficiency:2
- Input – Output:6
- Puzzles:20
- Inequality:6
- Logical Reasoning :4
English and Computer Knowledge:
Overall, the English section was easy and a well prepared candidate could attempt 20-25 questions. Topics from which the questions were asked:
- Reading Comprehension:5
- Cloze Test:10
- Spotting the errors :5
- Sentence Correction :5
- Fill in the blanks :5
Overall, the CK section was easy and a well prepared candidate could attempt 20-25 questions. The main areas from which questions were asked were: MS word, networking, input output devices, virus, Acronyms like ASCII, ISDN, etc.
General Awareness:
Overall, the GA section was moderate and a well prepared candidate could attempt 28-33 questions.
- Who is the chairman of 7th pay commission? – Ashok Kumar Mathur
- State with highest GDP? – Maharashtra
- Per capita milk production highest in which state? – Punjab
- SWIFT started in? – Brussels
- Head of Expenditure Management committee? – Bimal Jalan
- Name the Foreign secretary of India? – S Jaishankar
- Headquarters of UNICEF? – New York City
- World Cup 2015 venue ? – Australia & New Zealand
- Contactless card was recently launched by which bank? – ICICI Bank
- Baba Ramdev was recently appointed as brand ambassador by which state? – Haryana
- Samsung belongs to which country? – South Korea
- Tagline of Vistara airlines? – ‘Fly the new Feeling’
- Paulina Vega who was crowned Miss Universe recently is from which country? – Colombia
- Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas 2015 was hosted by? – Gujarat
- Who will sign on the new one rupee notes? – Finance Secretary
- Minimum capital required for small bank? – Rs.100 crore
- Name of scheme for direct benefit transfer? – PAHAL
- Rate at which banks borrow money from RBI? – Repo Rate
- Name of bank account for “beti bachao beti padhao”? – Sukanya Samriddhi
- New censor board chairperson :- Pahlaj Nihalani
- No of teams in cricket world cup 2015 :- 14
- Indian scheme to get registered in Guinness Book of World Record – Jan Dhan Yojana
- Only Indian to score century against Pakistan in WC – Virat Kohli