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NABARD Grade A Quantitative Aptitude

NABARD Grade A Quantitative Aptitude Prelim Exam

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NABARD Grade A 2020 - Preliminary Examination, conducted in online Mode, has: a duration of 2 hours, a total of 200 questions, a maximum score of 200 marks, and consists of 7 sections, namely - Reasoning Ability, English Language, Computer Knowledge, General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude, Economic & Social Issues and Agriculture & Rural Development. There is a Negative marking in NABARD Grade A Preliminary exam and 0.25 marks are deducted for each wrong answer. Candidates must clear the cut-off in all the sections to qualify for the NABARD Grade A Main exam.

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S.No Name of Test Number of Questions Maximum Marks Duration
1 Reasoning 20 20 120 Minutes
2 English Language 40 40
3 Computer Knowledge 20 20
4 General Awareness 20 20
5 Quantitative Aptitude 20 20
6 Economic & Social Issues (with focus on Rural India) 40 40
7 Agriculture & Rural Development (with focus on Rural India) 40 40
Total 200 200
The NABARD Grade A Quantitative Aptitude section in the Prelims, has a total of 20 questions with a maximum of 20 marks. Below mentioned are the different categories of expected questions in the Preliminary Exam of NABARD Grade A Quantitative Aptitude Section.

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S.No. Topics
1 Number Systems
2 Averages
3 Percentages
4 Profit and Loss
5 Discount
6 Decimals and Fractions
7 Ratio and Proportion
8 Interest
9 Mensuration
10 Use of Tables and Graphs
11 Time and Work
12 Time and Distance
13 Computation of Whole Numbers etc.


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1. A number when divided by a divisor leaves a remainder of 24. When twice the original number is divided by the same divisor, the remainder is 11. What is the value of the divisor?
    A. 13 B. 59 C. 35 D. 37
Answer: Option D
2. When a student weighing 45 kgs left a class, the average weight of the remaining 59 students increased by 200 g. What is the average weight of the remaining 59 students?
    A. 57 B. 56.8 C. 58.2 D. 52.2
Answer: Option A
3. 30% of the men are more than 25 years old and 80% of the men are less than or equal to 50 years old. 20% of all men play football. If 20% of the men above the age of 50 play football, what percentage of the football players are less than or equal to 50 years?
    A. 15%15% B. 20%20% C. 80%80% D. 70%
Answer: Option C
4. Persons can repair a road in 12 days, working 5 hours a day. In how many days will 30 persons, working 6 hours a day, complete the work?
    A. 10 B. 13 C. 14 D. 15
Answer: Option B
5. A ship develops a leak 12 km from the shore. Despite the leak, the ship is able to move towards the shore at a speed of 8 km/hr. However, the ship can stay afloat only for 20 minutes. If a rescue vessel were to leave from the shore towards the ship and it takes 4 minutes to evacuate the crew and passengers of the ship, what should be the minimum speed of the rescue vessel in order to be able to successfully rescue the people aboard the ship?
    A. 53 km/hr B. 37 km/hr C. 28 km/hr D. 44 km/hr
Answer: Option B
6. The length, breadth and height of a room are in the ratio 3:2:1. If the breadth and height are halved while the length is doubled, then the total area of the four walls of the room will
    A. remains the same. B. decrease by 13.64% C. decrease by 15% D. decrease by 30%
Answer: Option D
7. There are 12 pipes attached to a tank. Some of them are fill pipes and some are drain pipes. Each of the fill pipes can fill the tank in 12 hours, while each of the drain pipes will take 24 hours to drain a full tank completely. If all the pipes are kept open when the tank was empty, it takes 2 hours for the tank to overflow. How many of these pipes are drain pipes?
    A. 6 B. 11 C. 4 D. 7
Answer: Option C
8. Two men, sitting on the dining table. One man has 7 eggs and other had 5 eggs. A third man passing by requested them to share their food in return for money. The three of them shared the eggs equally and the third traveller paid the other two a total of Rs 24. Find the difference between the amounts received by first two men?
    A. Rs 18 B. Rs 12 C. Rs 16 D. Rs 15
Answer: Option B
9. What decimal of an hour is a second?
    A. .0025 B. .0256 C. .00027 D. .000126
Answer: Option C
10. The average of 20 numbers is zero. Of them, at the most, how many may be greater than zero?
    A. 0 B. 1 C. 10 D. 19
Answer: Option D
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