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Relevant in Phase I and Phase II, and the base for ARD and current affairs. By IIM Ahmedabad and IIT Bombay faculty.
NABARD Grade A 2027 ProgramThe complete NABARD Grade A syllabus in 356 pages and 232 hours, with time for three rounds of revision. Built for freshers and engineers with no ARD or ESI background.
Relevant in Phase I and Phase II, and the base for ARD and current affairs. By IIM Ahmedabad and IIT Bombay faculty.
The section that stops most people from applying. Have the facts at your fingertips with mnemonics and tables.
In the acads table format, not a 1,000-page schemes document.
The most underrated section: up to 30 extra marks in Phase II. Video lessons and a personalised, evaluated descriptive test series.
About 6% of Phase I. Do it, but don’t overdo it: 35 pages.
Mnemonics and memory tricks, not 100 pages.
Even IIT Bombay CS graduates need to study for it. Our notes finish it in 18 hours.
The whole NABARD Grade A syllabus in 356 pages and 232 hours.
The match between NABARD’s previous papers and the actual paper is one of the highest of any exam. The classification of farmers by holding size was asked four times in five years. PM Fasal Bima Yojana premiums were asked for Kharif, then for Rabi.
QRE for Phase I is not included. Since 2021, Phase II has been mostly descriptive and the interview carries more weight. Always check the latest NABARD notification.
RBI Phase II is now mostly descriptive, and NABARD followed. You don’t need model answers to memorise. You need a way to build an answer for a question you have never seen.
Break the question down, set aside what doesn’t matter, place it in the syllabus, reuse what you have solved before, then add detail. A 10-day cycle of diagnostic answers, one part at a time.
Three words for agriculture (FIRST, MSP MSP-ER, ICICI) open up 15 to 20 points. Templates exist for every major ESI and Finance and Management keyword.
Two Ds and four Cs: definitions and data, then committees, case studies, codes and mnemonics, and ready conclusions.
Questions from 20 years (2002 onwards), sorted into themes. In 2021 and 2022, 60 to 70% of the questions came from themes already asked.
Yes. Many toppers are engineers. The course breaks ARD and ESI down the way an engineer would.
Anyone can make 10,000 pages by copy-pasting. The hard part is doing the opposite. Toppers keep their sources few.
Yes, both, except Quant, Reasoning and English for Phase I.
Notes, on the web and Android. Video only for English descriptive, which in Phase II weighs as much as the other papers.
After the official NABARD notification with the syllabus and pattern. NABARD 2026 was notified in November 2025. Email nabard@acads.com to hear first.