NABARD Complete Guide

2024-25 +
ARD, ESI, GA & DM Special Batch

Study Plan
NABARD 3 Months (Ph 1 + Ph 2) Study Plan

Dear Students,
Success in competitive exams demands discipline in routine, unwavering consistency in
study habits, and persistent motivation. Embrace a structured plan, stay committed, and let your
daily efforts propel you toward triumph. The journey may be challenging, but remember, each
focused step brings you closer to your well-deserved success.

All the best

Kailash

Prelims Exam Pattern

Mains

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ARD & ESI topics to be covered weekly

Week ARD Topics ESI Topics

1 Introduction, Crop Production Principles Current Affairs, Schemes
2 Crop Production (All Topics), Cropping Systems Economy & Banking, Budget
3 Seed Production, Agro-meteorology, Agro-climatic Sustainable Development Goals
Zones
4 Soil Science, Farm Irrigation Economy & Inflation, Reports & Indices
5 Rural Development Introduction, Trends, Schemes for Rural Development
Occupations
6 Horticulture, Agri-Engineering, Agro-forestry Population & Development, Kurukshetra
Magazine
7 Animal Husbandry, Fisheries Industrial Policy
8 Agri-economics, Farm Management Rural Banking & Institutions
9 Agri-Extension, Climate Globalization
10 Revision of Week 1 Topics Social Structure
11 Revision of Week 3 & 11 Topics Social & Economic Issues
12 Revision & Mock Tests Prepare for Exams

Batch 3 from 1st June 2024

1 1 June Saturday Intro 5:00 PM NABARD Preparation Strategy & Approach
2 3 June Monday ESI 4.00 PM NABARD ESI PYQ Analysis
3 4 June Tuesday ARD 4.00 PM NABARD Previous Year Paper Analysis and Learning
4 5 June Wednesday GA 4.00 PM GA Road map and focus points based on Previous
year paper
5 6 June Thursday ARD 4.00 PM ARD questions and Syllabus- What to Focus
6 7 June Friday ESI 4.00 PM ESI Questions and Syllabus- What to Focus
7 8 June Saturday Quants 4.00 PM Quants 2021, 2022, 2023 analysis - Structure &
Roadmap
8 10 June Monday English 4.00 PM Role of English in Prelims and Mains based on
previous year paper
9 11 June Tuesday ARD 4.00 PM Introduction to agriculture & Agronomy
10 12 June Wednesday ESI 4.00 PM Nature of Indian Economy Part-1
11 14-Jun Friday Reasoning 4.00 PM Reasoning 2021, 2022, 2023 analysis - Structure &
Roadmap
12 17-Jun Monday DM 4.00 PM Decision Making- Crucial for Prelims- Roadmap
13 18-Jun Tuesday ESI 4.00 PM Nature of Indian Economy Part-2
14 20-Jun Thursday ARD 4.00 PM Classification of crops and Factor affecting crop
Production
15 21-Jun Friday DM 4.00 PM Meaning & Process of DM
16 22-Jun Saturday Computer 4.00 PM Computer Awareness approach -History and
Awareness Generations of computer
Components of computer
17 24-Jun Monday ARD 4.00 PM Growth of agriculture - Union Budget & Economic
Survey
18 25-Jun Tuesday DM 4.00 PM Types of Decisions
19 26-Jun Wednesday ESI 4.00 PM Inflation
20 28-Jun Friday ARD 4.00 PM Seed Production
21 1-Jul Monday ESI 4.00 PM Poverty & Employment Generation
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22 2-Jul Tuesday ARD 4.00 PM Soil & Details

23 3-Jul Wednesday DM 4.00 PM DM Styles & Manager's Roles
24 4-Jul Thursday ESI 4.00 PM Population
25 6-Jul Saturday ARD 4.00 PM Plant Nutrition & Deficiencies
26 8-Jul Monday ESI 4.00 PM Industrial Policy
27 9-Jul Tuesday DM 4.00 PM Techniques of DM
28 10-Jul Wednesday ARD 4.00 PM Horticulture & Details
29 12-Jul Friday ESI 4.00 PM Rural Banking & Financial Institutions
30 14-Jul Sunday ARD 4.00 PM Post Harvest Management in Horticulture
31 16-Jul Tuesday ESI 4.00 PM Globalisation of Economy Part-1
32 18-Jul Thursday ESI 4.00 PM Globalisation of Economy Part-2
33 20-Jul Saturday ARD 4.00 PM Animal Husbandry - Breeds of livestock
34 22-Jul Monday ESI 4.00 PM Social Structure of India Part-1
35 24-Jul Wednesday ARD 4.00 PM Fisheries Science
36 26-Jul Friday ESI 4.00 PM Social Structure of India Part-2
37 28-Jul Sunday ARD 4.00 PM Agroforestry
38 30-Jul Tuesday ESI 4.00 PM Revision ESI - MCQ
39 1-Aug Thursday ARD 4.00 PM Agri Extension
40 3-Aug Saturday ARD 4.00 PM Rural Development

Daily Quants Reasoning & English Classes from 9.30am to 12.30 am & GA 2-3 Classes in
a week

NABARD- ARD (Syllabus and approach)

Static topic to study
1- Study of all branches of agriculture with their Latin/Greek name
2- Classification of crops based on season i.e., Kharif, Rabi & Zaid and examples
3- Crop production, important crops like- Wheat, Paddy, Sugarcane, Millets, pea, soybean,
gram etc.
4- Seed production- generations and color of tags
5- Agri meteorology, Instrument used in meteorology
6- Soil classification based on color, with characteristics and states
7- Dryland Watershed classification and details
8- Soil Erosion & details
9- Irrigation types, methods and efficiency & Classification of irrigation projects
10- Agri engineering and uses in Agriculture, solar energy, biofuel and watershed
11- Horticulture – branches, classification and examples, Plantation crops and examples
12- Animal husbandry classification, common terms related to livestock and Classification of
breeds and examples
13- Poultry production and classification, terms related to poultry and diseases
14- Mixed farming and classification
15- Fisheries – classification based on salinity with examples, terms related to fisheries
16- Forestry terms branches and classification
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17- Agriculture extension, role of KVK in Agri extension

18- Ecology and climate change, GHGs, IPCC, UNFCCC, CoP etc
19- Agri economics, Agri marketing & Farm management

Dynamic Agriculture

1- Agri production data asper latest advance estimates

2- State rank in production of various Agri and Horti commodities
3- ISFR 2021, Agri census, Livestock Census, handloom census
4- ARD schemes by Min of Agri, cooperation and farmers welfare. Ministry of rural
development, Ministry of Panchayati raj, Ministry of MSME, Ministry of Jal shakti etc.
5- Kurukshetra magazine
6- Union Budget- ARD
7- Economic Survey- food and agriculture management
8- Latest Agri news in newspaper and PIB

Rural Development

1- Concept of Rural Area, Structure of the Indian Rural Economy

2- Rural population in India; Occupational structure, Farmers, Agricultural Laborer
3- Panchayati Raj Institutions – Functions and Working
4- Schemes of Min of Rural Development- MGNREGA, DAY-NRLM, PMAY, Swatch Bharat,
SPMRM etc

ESI Syllabus & Topics

Important ESI topics- Static

1. Nature of Indian Economy
2. Globalization - Economic Reforms in India & Privatization.
3. Inflation - Trends in Inflation
4. Poverty Alleviation and Employment Generation in India.
5. Population Trends - Population Growth and Economic Development
6. Agricultural performance - Issues in Food Security in India
7. Non-Institutional and Institutional Agencies in rural credit.
8. Public Sector Enterprises.
9. Rural banking and financial institutions in India - Reforms in Banking/ Financial
sector.
10. Globalization of Economy
11. Role of International Funding Institutions - IMF & World Bank - WTO - Regional
Economic Co-operation.
12. Social Structure in India
13. Urbanization and Migration
14. Social Infrastructure -Education, Health and Environment.
15. Education - Status & System of Education Educational Policy for India.
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16. Problems of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes

17. Positive Discrimination in favour of the under privileged

Dynamic Schemes & Reports

1. Ayushman Bharat, PM Fasal Bima Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Rashtriya
Vayoshri Yojana, MGNREGA, E-SHRAM Portal, Mission Antyodaya-NRLM, Deen Dayal
Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY), Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana, Oxfam
Report, Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan
Yojana,Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana, PM Employment Generation
Programme (PMEGP), Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan (RGSA), MUDRA Yojana, PM
Gati Shakti, Jal Jeevan Mission, SVAMITVA, Soil Health Card Scheme Mid-Day Meal
Scheme (PM Poshan) etc

2. RBI SEBI NABARD Top Officials Appointment, COP28, Green Initiatives, Four Labour
Codes, NFHS, Gender Inequality Index IMF, IMF Reports, SDR s, SECC, Global Hunger
Index
3. PIB Summary, Budget 2024-25
4. Farms Laws and Related Issues
5. CRR SLR Repo Reverse Repo LTRO TLTRO

Institutions
• National Housing Bank, Indian Gas Exchange (IGX), SCO, BIMSTEC, WTO, Recent
Development
• Universal Basic Income (UBI), Ease of Doing Business Index
• Public Sector Enterprises, PSBs, Maharatna, Navratna, Urban Cooperative Banks

General Awareness
Order or Priority:
Beepedia > PIB Videos > Economic Banking and Finance Current Affairs > Live classes
on Previous Year Questions + GA + Govt Schemes (Everyday)

• Beepedia: - Comprises of all current affairs related to all sectors and specially banking
and finance sector. It is expected from you to study daily Beepedia, weekly Beepedia and
monthly Beepedia.
• PIB current affairs: - Compilation of all important PIB news, watch to cover PIB
current affairs specially June, July and august
• Economic and financial affairs (Current & Static): - cover both as it is
important part not only for GA but also Dynamic part of ESI.
• Union Budget & Economic Survey: - This is important section, must cover
both documents specially related to Agri and rural development. This part is also covered
under Current agriculture data & Reports (Agriculture)

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• Schemes: - Cover all important schemes specially related to ARD and also Education,
Transport, health and infrastructure

Decision Making
Topics to study

• Meaning of decision making

• Steps in decision making process
• Systematic decision making and Bounded rationality
• Types of decisions
• Decision making techniques
• Decision making theories
• Leadership styles related to decision making
• Biases in decision making

Note - Decision making is a small topic. 2-3 readings and lot of practice of questions can easily
prepare you for this part.

Mistakes to avoid:

• Totally neglecting this part can land you in trouble by missing qualifying for Phase 1
• Overly focusing on this part and studying multiple books would take up a lot of time which
is not the right strategy to crack this exam

Strategy - Maintain a balance; maintain regularity and practice every week in small part

ENGLISH (Syllabus and approach)

Basic topics to study

1. Parts of Speech
2. Tenses
3. Rules of Grammar
4. Articles (Along with exceptions)
5. Direct and Indirect speech
6. Active/Passive Voice
7. Reading and vocabulary to be done EVERYDAY
8. Idioms and Phrases

For reading and vocabulary practice, read newspaper editorial article every day and note
down the difficult words. Find the meaning, synonym and antonym of these difficult words
and make a new sentence using that word, to understand its usage.

Types of questions to practice

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1. Fill in the blanks (All Patterns)

a. Single Fillers
b. Double fillers
c. Triple fillers
d. Two words in one blank (6 suggestions given, 2 need to be chosen)
e. Two words in two blanks (5/6 suggestions given, 2 need to be chosen)
f. One word in one blank of each of the two given sentences
g. One or more than one word in each of the two blanks (6 suggestions and a
sentence with two blanks given, in options, combination of words that can fill the
blanks are given)
h. 2 similar appearing words (homophones) in one blank each of three sentences
i. Idioms or phrasal verb based
2. Error Detection (All Patterns)
a. Identify error in one part of a sentence divided in 4 parts
b. Choose the set of parts that do not have an error
c. Error only in highlighted parts, identify the part
d. Errors in 3 sentences
e. Errors in 4 sentences
f. Choose the combination of Error-free sentences (3 sentences given)
g. Choose the combination of Error-free sentences (4 sentences given)
h. Error or no error in 2 sentences given
i. Spelling or context error in highlighted words/phrases
j. Error in more than one part of a sentence divided in 5 parts
3. Word Swapping
4. Correct Word usage
5. Sentence Rearrangement (Old and new pattern)
6. Sentence improvement / Correction (Old and New pattern)
7. Match the column
8. Cloze Passage
9. Connectors
10. Reading Comprehension

To practice reading comprehension either practice from free ixambee mock tests or you can try
reading chapters from English NCERT books and solve the back questions of those chapters. It
will help you evaluate if you are able to understand what you read.

Quantitative Aptitude (Syllabus and Approach)

➢ Quantitative Aptitude - Order of Priority:
▪ Series > Simplification > Quadratic Equations > Percentage > Profit & Loss > SI &
CI > Alligation > Time and Work > Average > Ratio & Proportion > Ages > Partnership >
Permutation & Combination > Probability > Mensuration > Number System > HCF –LCM

Pre-Preparation

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1. Shortcuts Tricks (squares, cubes, square root, cube root, multiplication tricks, addition
tricks etc.)
2. Learn Squares upto 40
3. Learn Cubes upto 20
4. Learn Tables upto 20
5. Learn percentage fractions upto 20
a. Note: -Most of these things are provided in the end of pdf

More tips to clear Quant section

1. In every week, try to do minimum 10 sets of DI

2. Sunday is the revision day for all the work done in the last 6 days.
3. Make your notes for all formulas, basics & Tricks so that it will be easy for you to revise

Remember, QRE, Computer & Decision Making is qualifying, So plan for Quant accordingly.

Reasoning
Reasoning Ability: You should master all chapters other than Puzzles and Seating
arrangement. However, if possible, parallelly, practise Puzzles and Seating Arrangement daily.

Priority order – Blood Relations > Inequalities >Syllogism > Distance & Directions > Puzzles
& Seating arrangement > Analytical reasoning > Machine input High level reasoning

Computer awareness

Study the following topics and try to do maximum MCQs from practice tests.

1. History of computer
2. Generation of computer
3. Software
4. Hardware
5. Different Types of Computers
6. Shortcut Key
7. Computer Language
8. Networking
9. MS office
10. MCQs related to MS office
11. New Generation Technology
12. MCQs based on New Generation Technology

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NABARD Mock Tests & Previous Year Paper

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