NABARD Grade B Syllabus 2026, Exam Pattern, Exam Date 2026

Detail Information about NABARD (National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development) has published notification 2026 for the recruitment of Manager (Grade B) vacancies. Those Candidates who are Interested to the following vacancy and completed all Eligibility Criteria can read the Notification & Apply Online. In this page we provide the Complete Syllabus of this Recruitment with Latest Update Exam Pattern and the Exam Date also.

NABARD Grade B Syllbus 2026 - Highlights

Conducted Authority	National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
Post name	Manager (Grade B)
Exam level	National
Exam Frequency	Once a year
Exam mode	Online
Selection process	Preliminary exam, mains exam, and Interview
Official Website	www.nabard.org

NABARD Grade B Syllabus 2026

Prelims Exam

Test of Reasoning :

1. Puzzles

2. Logical Reasoning

3. Direction

4. Seating Arrangement

5. Order and Ranking

6. Blood Relations

7. Coding-Decoding

8. Machine Input-Output

9. Syllogisms

10. Data Sufficiency

11. Inequalities

12. Alpha-Numeric symbol series

13. Number and System Conversions

English Language :

1. Passages
2. Reading Comprehension
3. Idioms & Phrases
4. Sentence Rearrangement
5. Error Spotting
6. Synonyms

Computer Knowledge :

1. Basic Hardware & Software

2. Computer Languages

3. Networking

4. Virus & Hacking

5. History of Computer

6. Devices

7. MS Office

8. DBMS

Quantitative Aptitude :

1. Inequalities

2. SI & CI

3. Approximation and Simplification

4. Problems on Age

5. Profit and Loss

6. Data Interpretation

7. Time & Work

8. HCF & LCM

9. Distance, Speed and Time

10. Probability, Mensuration

11. Permutation & Combination

12. Ratio & Proportion

General Awareness :

1. Science- Discoveries

2. National & International Current affairs

3. Awards & Honours

4. Sports

5. Important days

6. Budget

7. Countries and its Capitals

8. Books and the Authors

9. International and National Organizations

Economic & Social Issue :

1. Nature of Indian Economy

2. Globalization

3. Economic Reforms

4. Privatization, Inflation

5. Economic Underdevelopment

6. Social Infrastructure

7. Education, Social Justice

8. Human Development

9. Education

10. Social Justice

11. Social structure in India

12. Demographic trends

Agriculture and Rural Development :

1. Soil Erosion and Water Conservation

2. Water resource

3. Farm & Agri Engineering

4. Plantation & Horticulture

5. Animal Husbandry

6. Fisheries, Forestry

7. Agriculture Extensions Ecology & Climatic Changes

8. Present Scenario of Indian Agriculture

Mains Exam

Paper I :

English :

1. Essay writing, comprehension

2. Report writing

3. Paragraph writing

4. Letter Writing

Paper II (a) – Economic and Social Issues

1. Nature of Indian Economy:

a. Structural and Institutional features

b. Economic underdevelopment

c. Opening up the Indian Economy

d. Globalization

e. Economic Reforms in India

f. Privatization. Inflation

g. Trends in Inflation & their Impact on National Economy and Individual Income. Employment Generation in India

h. Rural and Urban

i. Measurement of Poverty

j. Poverty Alleviation Programmes of the Government.

2. Population Trends:

a. Population Growth and Economic Development

b. Population Policy in India.

3. Agriculture:

a. Characteristics / Status

b. Technical and Institutional changes in Indian Agriculture

c. Agricultural performance

d. Issues in Food Security in India

e. Non-Institutional and Institutional Agencies in rural credit.

4. Industry:

a. Industrial and Labour Policy

b. Industrial performance

c. Regional Imbalance in India's Industrial Development

d. Public Sector Enterprises.

5. Rural banking and financial institutions in India:

a. Reforms in the Banking/ Financial sector.

6. Globalization of Economy:

a. Role of International Funding Institutions

b. IMF & World Bank

c. WTO

d. Regional Economic Co-operation.

7. Social Structure in India:

a. Multiculturalism

b. Demographic trends

c. Urbanisation and Migration

d. Gender Issues Joint family system

e. Social Infrastructure

f. Education

g. Health and Environment.

8. Education:

a. Status & System of Education

b. Socio-Economic Problems associated with Illiteracy

c. Educational relevance and Page 8 of 25 educational wastage

d. Educational Policy for India.

9. Social Justice:

a. Problems of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes

b. socio-economic programs for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes and other backward classes.

10. Positive Discrimination in favor of the underprivileged:

a. Social Movements

b. Indian Political Systems

c. Human Development.

11. Current Economic & Social Issue

Agriculture and Rural Development:

1. Agriculture:

a. Definition

b. meaning and its branches

2. Agronomy:

a. Definition

b. meaning and scope of agronomy

3. Classification of field crops

4. Factors affecting crop production

5. Agro Climatic Zones

6. Cropping Systems:

a. Definition

b. types of cropping systems

7. Problems of dryland agriculture

8. Seed production

9. seed processing

10. seed village

11. Meteorology:

a. weather parameters

b. crop-weather advisory

12. Precision Farming

13. System of Crop Intensification

14. Organic farming

15. Soil and Water Conservation: Major soil types, soil fertility, fertilizers, soil erosion, soil conservation, watershed management;

16. Water Resource:

a. Irrigation Management:

i. types of irrigation

ii. sources of irrigation

iii. crop-water requirement

iv. command area development

v. water conservation techniques

vi. micro-irrigation

vii. irrigation-pumps

viii. major, medium

ix. minor irrigation.

17. Farm and Agri Engineering:

a. Farm Machinery and Power,

b. Sources of power on the farm:

i. human

ii. animal

iii. Mechanical

iv. Electrical

v. Wind

vi. Solar

vii. Biomass

viii. Biofuels

ix. water harvesting structures

x. farm ponds

xi. watershed management

xii. Agro-Processing

xiii. Controlled and modified storage

xiv. perishable food storage

xv. Godowns

xvi. Bins

xvii. Grain silos.

18. Plantation & Horticulture:

a. Definition

b. Meaning

c. Branches

d. Agronomic practices and production technology of various plantation and horticulture crops

e. Post-harvest management value and supply chain management of Plantation and Horticulture crops.

19. Animal Husbandry:

a. Farm animals and their role in the Indian economy

b. Animal husbandry methods in India

c. common terms pertaining to different species of livestock

d. Utility classification of breeds of cattle.

e. Introduction to common feeds and fodders- their classification, and utility.

20. Fisheries:

a. Fisheries resources

b. Management

c. exploitation - freshwater, brackishwater, and marine;

d. Aquaculture- Inland and marine;

e. biotechnology;

f. post-harvest technology.

g. Importance of fisheries in India.

h. Common terms pertaining to fish production.

21. Forestry:

a. Basic concepts of Forest and Forestry.

b. Principles of silviculture

c. forest mensuration

d. forest management

e. forest economics.

f. Concepts of social forestry

g. agroforestry

h. joint forest management.

i. Forest policy and legislation in India

j. India State of Forest Report 2015.

k. Recent developments under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

22. Agriculture Extension:

a. Its importance and role

b. methods of evaluation of extension programs

c. Role of Krishi Vigyan Kendra's (KVK) in the dissemination of Agricultural technologies.

23. Ecology and Climate Change:

a. Ecology and its relevance to man

b. natural resources

c. their sustainable management

d. conservation.

e. Causes of climate change

f. GreenHouse Gases (GHG)

g. major GHG emitting countries

h. climate analysis

i. distinguish between adaptation and mitigation

j. climate change impact agriculture and rural livelihood

k. carbon credit

l. IPCC

m. UNFCCC

n. CoP meetings

o. funding mechanisms for climate change projects

p. initiatives by Govt of India, NAPCC, SAPCC, INDC

24. Present Scenario of Indian Agriculture and Allied activities:

a. recent trends

b. major challenges in agriculture measures to enhance the viability of agriculture.

c. Factors of Production in agriculture;

d. Agricultural Finance and Marketing;

e. Impact of Globalization on Indian Agriculture and issues of Food Security;

f. Concept and Types of Farm Management.

25. Concept of Rural Area

26. Structure of the Indian Rural Economy

27. Importance and role of the rural sector in India- Economic, Social and Demographic Characteristics of the Indian rural economy, causes of rural backwardness.

28. Rural population in India;

29. Occupational structure,

30. Farmers,

31. Agricultural Labourers,

32. Artisans,

33. Handicrafts,

34. Traders,

35. Forest dwellers/tribes and others in rural India- Trends of change in rural population and rural workforce;

36. problems and conditions of rural labor;

37. Issues and challenges in Handlooms

Paper III (Development Economics, Statistics, Finance, and Management) :

1. Development Economics:

a. Measures of development,

b. Economic Development Models,

c. role of subsidies,

d. importance of savings and investment,

e. Importance of agriculture,

f. Terms of trade in agriculture,

g. Development issues in India – Post-2015 Agenda.

2. Statistics:

a. Basic statistical concepts,

b. Summarizing of data,

c. Frequency distribution,

d. Measures of Central Tendency,

e. Relative dispersion,

f. Elementary Probability,

g. Relative Frequency Approach,

h. sampling,

i. Axiomatic Approach,

j. Analysis of frequency distribution,

k. Correlation,

l. Regression,

m. Sampling Methods,

n. Time Series Analysis.

3. Finance & Management:

a. Financial system in India;

b. Regulation of Banks & Financial Institutions,

c. Banking and Financial Institutions in India;

d. financial system

e. Microfinance,

f. its significance and importance;

g. Union Budget;

h. Project finance

i. Concept of project cycle management,

j. Private and Social Cost-Benefit significance of development finance,

k. Financial Inclusion:

i. Concept of project cycle management,

ii. Private and Social Cost-Benefit significance of development finance,

iii. Financial Inclusion

4. Management:

a. its nature and scope;

b. The Management Processes;

c. Planning,

d. Organization,

e. Staffing,

f. Directing

g. Controlling;

h. The Role of a Manager in an Organisation.

i. Leadership: The Tasks of a Leader; Leadership Styles;

j. Leadership Theories;

k. A successful Leader versus an effective Leader.

NABARD Grade B Exam Pattern 2026

Prelims Exam Pattern

Duration : 120 minutes

Negative Mark : 0.25

S.No	Subject	No. of questions	Marks
1.	Test of Reasoning	20	20
2.	English Language	30	30
3.	Computer Knowledge	20	20
4.	Quantitative Aptitude	20	20
5.	Decision Making	10	10
6.	General Awareness	20	20
7.	Eco & Soc. Issues (with focus on Rural India)	40	40
8.	Agriculture & Rural Development with Emphasis on Rural India	40	40
	Total	200	200

Main Exam Pattern

Negative Marking : 0.25

Paper	Subject	No.of Question	Marks	Duration
Paper 1	General English (Descriptive)	03	100	90 Minutes
Paper 2	Economic and Social Issues & Agriculture and Rural Development (Objective)	30	50	30 Minutes
	Economic and Social Issues & Agriculture and Rural Development (Descriptive)	6 questions will be asked, of which candidates will be required to attempt 4 questions	50	90 Minutes
Paper III	Development Economics, Statistics, Finance, and Management (Descriptive)	30	100	120 Minutes

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