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Exam resources
NABARD Assistant Manager Grade A (RDBS), Food Processing discipline 2027
NABARD recruits Assistant Managers in Grade A for its Rural Development Banking Service, with a Food Processing discipline open to food technology and dairy technology graduates. Specialists sit a generalist Phase I and then a Phase II stream-specific paper whose objective part is 30 food-processing questions.
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) recruits Assistant Managers in Grade A for its Rural Development Banking Service (RDBS) in a general discipline and several specialist ones, including Food Processing. The 2025 advertisement (No. 05/Grade A/2025-26) had one Food Processing post. Selection has four phases: a 200-mark online Phase I (generalist, with merit decided by general awareness, economic and social issues, and agriculture and rural development), a Phase II with a descriptive English paper and a stream-specific Food Processing paper (30 objective questions plus descriptive answers), a psychometric test and a 50-mark interview. Final merit is Phase II plus interview.
- Conducted by
- National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), Mumbai
Who can apply
For the 2025 Food Processing post NABARD required a bachelor's degree in Food Processing, Food Technology or Dairy Technology with 60% (55% for SC/PwBD), or a postgraduate degree in those subjects with 55% (50% for SC/PwBD), and an age of 21 to 30 years on 01.11.2025.
- Qualification: Bachelor's degree in Food Processing / Food Technology / Dairy Technology with 60% marks in aggregate (SC/PwBD 55%), or a postgraduate degree in Food Processing / Food Technology / Dairy Technology with 55% (SC/PwBD 50%)
- Age: 21 to 30 years as on 01.11.2025 (born not earlier than 02.11.1995 and not later than 01.11.2004); upper limit relaxed by 3 years for OBC, 5 for SC/ST and ex-servicemen, 10 to 15 for PwBD
- Vacancies: Food Processing 1 (SC) of 85 AM (RDBS) posts in 2025
- Selection: Phase I (online), Phase II (online), psychometric test and 50-mark interview; final merit on Phase II and interview
A summary. Confirm the details in the current notice.
Source: NABARD Advertisement No. 05/Grade A/2025-26 ↗. Checked 2026-10-30.
Based on past papers, not an official scheme. Confirm in the current notice.
Every section is compulsory, with no choice between them, and the paper is timed at 30 minutes.
| Section | Questions | Marks | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stream-specific paper: Food Processing (objective) | 30 | 50 | Compulsory |
| Paper total | — | 50 |
Mock tests cover the objective part of the Phase II (Main) stream-specific Paper II for the Food Processing discipline: 30 questions for 50 marks in 30 minutes, five options, some questions worth 2 marks and some 1 mark, and a quarter of a question's marks lost for a wrong answer. In the real exam the descriptive part (4 of 6 questions, 50 marks, 90 minutes) follows immediately, and Paper I is a 100-mark descriptive English paper; neither is in these mocks.
Marking scheme
Some questions carry 2 marks and some 1 mark (30 questions, 50 marks). A wrong answer loses one quarter of that question's marks; a blank carries no penalty. An unanswered question scores zero. Our mocks for this exam are scored the same way.
Source: NABARD Advertisement No. 05/Grade A/2025-26, section V ↗ NABARD Information Handout, Grade A RDBS (Specialist) Main 2025 ↗
| Paper | Questions | Marks | Minutes | Sections | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NABARD Grade A Food Processing: Phase II Paper II (objective) Mock Test 1 | 30 | 50 | 30 | 1 | Open → |
| NABARD Grade A Food Processing: Phase II Paper II (objective) Mock Test 2 | 30 | 50 | 30 | 1 | Open → |
| NABARD Grade A Food Processing: Phase II Paper II (objective) Mock Test 3 | 30 | 50 | 30 | 1 | Open → |
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Manual of Methods of Analysis of Foods — Spices and Condiments
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Compendium — Food Additives Regulations (December 2022)
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Dairy technology
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Manual of Methods of Analysis of Foods — Milk and Milk Products
Official laboratory methods for milk analysis and adulteration tests.
FAO
Milk and Dairy Products in Human Nutrition
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Manual of Methods of Analysis of Foods — Oils and Fats
Official methods for acid, iodine and saponification values and related tests.
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Class 11 Biology — Biomolecules
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Official and open resources
1 resourceOfficial syllabus
NABARD illustrative syllabus: Food Processing
The official topic list for the stream-specific paper.
Core food science
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Textbook of Food Science and Technology (ICAR)
Covers most of the syllabus units at the depth NABARD asks.
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Core food science
Food Science by B. Srilakshmi
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Microbiology
Food Microbiology by M. R. Adams and M. O. Moss
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Food engineering
Unit Operations in Food Processing by R. L. Earle
Fluid flow, heat transfer, evaporation, drying.
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Dairy
Outlines of Dairy Technology by Sukumar De
Milk composition, condensed and dried milks, cheese and fermented milks.
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Fruit and vegetable technology
Preservation of Fruits and Vegetables by Girdhari Lal, G. S. Siddappa and G. L. Tandon
Squashes, jams, pickles, canning and tomato products in the fruit.
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