NABARD Gr A: 5 Important Quant Topics

NABARD Grade A 2021 Exam: The quantitative section does not have the same weightage as other banking exams. There will be 20 questions for 20 marks in phase 1 of NABARD Grade A. Nonetheless, it’s still imperative to get quant questions right as it will affect your overall journey as we advance in these exams. In this article, we will share the top 5 quantitative aptitude topics which you shouldn’t miss at any cost whatsoever.

Key Points for today’s blog:

What are these five important quant topics?
What’s the safe bet to secure qualifying marks?
Why are these topics important?
How to prepare these topics?
How are these topics related to solving other quant topics as well?

What are these five essential quant topics?

Note: Data Interpretation is obviously included here. It hasn’t been mentioned separately because these five topics will indirectly cover DI.

What’s the safe bet to secure qualifying marks?

Ideally, we don’t know what should be the ideal score for the quants section. However, getting 8-10 questions is being considered a safe bet. In order to get 8-10 questions correct, you will have to cover the five mentioned quant topics with utmost sincerity.

Why are these topics important?

The justification for these topics lies in their comparison of last year’s NABARD papers.

Topic Wise Comparison Year Wise

Exam Year	Simplification	Number/Wrong Series	Quadratic Equation	Percentage	Ratio	Data Interpretation
NABARD Grade A 2017	5	–	3	–	2	5
NABARD Grade A 2018	–	4	4	–	–	5
NABARD Grade A 2019	–	3	3	1	–	6
NABARD Grade A 2020	3	3	3	–	–	3

The above table represents the importance of all these 5 or 6 topics which are crucial from the examiner’s point of view.

How to prepare these topics?

Simplification Tips and Tricks

Learn to make tables by yourself – For example – make the table of 87 using speed math tricks. This way you will not have to mug up the tables.
Sum, sub, multiply, divide
Square values till 25, Cube values till at least 20, Square roots, Cube root
Basic fractions
Basic percentage and ratio

Some resources for speed maths

List of cube values till 30

Number	Cube Value	Number	Cube Value
1	1	16	4096
2	8	17	4913
3	27	18	5832
4	64	19	6859
5	125	20	8000
6	216	21	9261
7	343	22	10648
8	512	23	12617
9	729	24	13284
10	1000	25	15625
11	1331	26	17576
12	1728	27	19683
13	2197	28	21952
14	2744	29	24389
15	3375	30	27000

List of the percentages and their fractional values till 15

1/1	1	100%
1/2	0.5	50%
1/3	0.33	33.33%
1/4	0.25	25%
1/5	0.2	20%
1/6	0.167	16.7%
1/7	0.143	14.3%
1/8	0.125	12.5%
1/9	0.11	11.11%
1/10	0.1	10%
1/11	0.0909	9.09%
1/12	0.083	8.33%
1/13	0.077	7.7%
1/14	0.0714	7.14%
1/15	0.0667	6.67%

Number Series Tips & Tricks

A question of number/wrong terms series

Direction: Find the wrong term in the given series: 800, 678, 579, 497, 434, 385, 349

Things to learn:

Logics – Notice the pattern of the series. If it’s based on addition, subtraction, cubes, square, etc.
Sequence to implement these logics – Follow a step-based protocol for recognizing the sequence.

Step-based protocol for sequences (Missing terms)

Check if the sequence is based on square, cube, square +, sqaure -, cube +, cube –

Check if the sequence is based on Multiplication +-, Division +-

Look for double/triple series is being used

Look for illogical series is given (rarely given)

Now look for logics as well during these steps. However, for wrong term series you can directly just follow the steps.

Percentage tips & tricks

Learn about conversion of fraction into percentage
Learn about conversion of percentage into fraction
Focus on conceptual building as percentage can help you in solving a lot of quant questions apart from this very topic.

Ratio tips & tricks

Ratios are all about learning about basic formations. There are many basic rules you can learn such as – if we multiply or divide the ratio by same number it doesn’t change, if we add the same number in the ratio it will change, etc.