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NABARD Development Assistant Syllabus 2026

The complete NABARD Development Assistant syllabus for 2026 — 6 sections and 69 topics in all, organised exactly as the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) prescribes. Use it as your revision checklist, then test yourself with a free NABARD Development Assistant mock below.

Reasoning Ability (Stage I + Stage II)11 topics

  • Puzzles — linear arrangement, circular arrangement, floor-based, scheduling (days/months), comparison
  • Seating arrangement — facing same direction, facing opposite, two-row arrangement
  • Syllogisms — two-statement, three-statement, possibility syllogisms (only/only a few/some)
  • Inequalities — direct, coded, mixed; binary logic
  • Blood relations — coded and uncoded, 3-4 generation family-tree problems
  • Direction sense — distance + direction calculation, shortest distance
  • Order and ranking — top-down, bottom-up, age-based ranking
  • Coding-decoding — letter-shifting, symbol-based, sentence coding, word-formation
  • Input-output — number/word arrangement with shifting rules (clerical-tier difficulty)
  • Data sufficiency — 1-statement and 2-statement, decision-making style
  • Series — alphabetic, alphanumeric, mixed series; missing-element identification

Quantitative / Numerical Ability (Stage I + Stage II)14 topics

  • Simplification and approximation — BODMAS, square/cube roots, percentages, decimal-fraction conversion
  • Number series — missing number, wrong number identification
  • Quadratic equations — comparison of two quadratics (X vs Y relation)
  • Data Interpretation — tables, bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, mixed DI, caselet (clerical-tier difficulty, no advanced DI)
  • Percentage — basic conversion, successive percentage, percentage change
  • Ratio and proportion — simple ratio, compound ratio, partnership
  • Average — basic, weighted, age-based averages
  • Profit, loss and discount — simple calculation, successive discounts
  • Simple interest and compound interest — yearly, half-yearly, instalments
  • Time, work and wages — pipe-and-cistern variants, efficiency-based
  • Time, speed, distance — boats and streams, trains, relative speed
  • Mensuration — area and volume of basic 2D and 3D shapes
  • Mixture and alligation — ratio-based concentration problems
  • Number system — divisibility, HCF/LCM, remainder theorems (basic)

English Language (Stage I + Stage II objective + Stage II descriptive)10 topics

  • Reading comprehension — 1-2 passages with inference, synonym, antonym, theme questions
  • Cloze test — paragraph with 8-10 blanks (vocabulary + grammar mix)
  • Error spotting — sentence split into 4-5 parts, identify the part with grammatical error
  • Sentence improvement — replace the underlined portion with the correct alternative
  • Para-jumbles — 5-6 sentences to be arranged in logical sequence
  • Fillers — single-fill, double-fill, sentence completion with paired words
  • Word usage — vocabulary, idioms, phrasal verbs, one-word substitution
  • Spelling errors — identify the misspelt word from options
  • Active-passive voice and direct-indirect speech transformation
  • Descriptive English (Stage II) — Essay writing (200-300 words on banking/rural/social/current-affairs themes), Letter writing (formal — RBI/NABARD/bank correspondence; informal — personal letters), Precis writing in some cycles

Computer Knowledge (Stage II)10 topics

  • Generations of computers — first to fifth, key components per generation
  • Hardware components — CPU (ALU, CU), memory (RAM, ROM, cache, registers), storage devices (HDD, SSD, optical, flash)
  • Operating systems — Windows basics (XP, 7, 10, 11), Linux basics, mobile OS (Android, iOS)
  • MS Office — Word (formatting, mail merge), Excel (formulas, functions, charts), PowerPoint (slides, animations)
  • Networking — LAN, WAN, MAN, PAN; topology (bus, star, ring, mesh); OSI 7-layer model basics; TCP/IP
  • Internet and email — protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP), email components, web browsers
  • Database basics — DBMS concepts, SQL basics (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE), primary/foreign keys
  • Cyber security awareness — viruses, malware, phishing, ransomware, firewall, antivirus, two-factor authentication
  • Computer abbreviations — full forms of common computing acronyms (CPU, RAM, ROM, BIOS, IP, DNS, URL, HTML, etc.)
  • Banking-specific computer applications — CBS (Core Banking Solution), NEFT, RTGS, IMPS, UPI, NACH backend basics

General Awareness (Stage II — high weight)10 topics

  • Banking and financial awareness — RBI (Governors, monetary policy, repo/reverse repo/CRR/SLR rates), commercial banks structure, types of banks (commercial, cooperative, RRBs, SFBs, Payment Banks, NBFCs)
  • NABARD-specific awareness — establishment under NABARD Act 1981 (commenced 12 July 1982), HQ Mumbai, current Chairman, subsidiaries (NABFINS, NABKISAN, NABCONS, NABVENTURES, NABSANRAKSHAN), key schemes
  • RBI policies — monetary policy framework (4% +/- 2% target), MPC composition, recent rate decisions, regulatory circulars
  • National current affairs — Government schemes (PM-KISAN, PMFBY, PMJDY, PM-KUSUM, PM Surya Ghar, etc.), recent legislation, Union Budget highlights
  • International current affairs — recent G20, BRICS, SCO, QUAD summits; major international economic and political events
  • Sports — Olympics/Asian Games/CWG/World Cup events, Indian medal-winners, recent appointments in sports bodies
  • Awards — Bharat Ratna, Padma awards, Nobel Prizes (Indian connection), Magsaysay, Booker, Jnanpith, sports awards
  • Summits and conferences — bilateral and multilateral; G20 India 2023 outcomes, COP outcomes, IMF/World Bank annual meetings
  • Books and authors — recent releases, autobiographies, books in news
  • Deaths, appointments, important days — current 6-8 month window

Economic & Social Issues + Agriculture & Rural Development (Stage II combined section)14 topics

  • Indian Economy basics — GDP, sectoral composition, structural transformation, 1991 reforms, current growth trajectory
  • Inflation — CPI, WPI, core inflation, monetary policy response, recent inflation trends
  • Indian financial system overview — RBI, NABARD, SIDBI, EXIM, NHB, commercial banks, RRBs, cooperative banks, NBFCs, MFIs
  • Indian Agriculture — share in GDP, cropping pattern (Kharif/Rabi/Zaid), agro-climatic zones, cropping intensity
  • Minimum Support Price (MSP) — 23 crops, CACP role, recent MSP announcements
  • Crop insurance — PMFBY: farmer premium 2% kharif food, 1.5% rabi food, 5% commercial/horticulture
  • Kisan Credit Card (KCC) — interest subvention 2% PRI + 3% prompt repayment = effective 4% on loans up to Rs 3 lakh
  • Rural credit architecture — 3-tier short-term cooperative credit (StCB → DCCB → PACS); RRBs; commercial banks
  • Priority Sector Lending — RBI 40% PSL target for commercial banks (75% RRBs), 18% agriculture sub-target
  • NABARD's role — refinance, supervision (StCBs/DCCBs/RRBs), development (FPO, SHG-BLP)
  • Rural infrastructure — RIDF (NABARD-administered), PMGSY rural roads, PMAY-G housing, SVAMITVA land records
  • Government rural schemes — MGNREGA, NRLM, PM-KISAN, PMAY-G, PMGSY, PMJDY (financial inclusion data)
  • Social development — Education (NEP 2020 highlights), Health (Ayushman Bharat / PM-JAY), Women & Child (Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, POSHAN Abhiyaan)
  • Sustainable Development Goals — 17 SDGs overview, India's progress on SDG India Index

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