The purpose of this examination is to examine the applicants' understanding of the terminologies, basic concepts, elementary mathematical ability, comprehension skills, and general awareness. The examination covers four subject areas.
Section Number of Questions
- Economics, Trade, and Industry - 30
- Banking and Finance - 30
- Basic Mathematics and Statistics - 20
- General Knowledge and ICT skills - 20
Subjects Covered by the Examination
Economics, trade and industry section
- The knowledge and understanding of the basic terminologies, concepts related to microeconomics, macroeconomics, business, trade, and industry.
- Nepalese economy, trade structure, balance of payments, exchange rate, remittance, public debt.
- The composition and structure of industries and business, foreign aid.
- Economic laws, development plans, and public policies.
Banking and Finance section
- Basic knowledge and understanding of the Nepalese banking system, Nepal Rastra Bank, laws and policies related to banking and finance in Nepal.
- Interest rates,
- Financial ratios, sources of finance, balance sheet.
- Money market, capital market,
Basic mathematics and statistics section
- Basic mathematical skills.
- Understanding of elementary mathematical and statistical concepts.
- Ability to reason quantitatively to solve problems.
- Integers, unitary method, profit, and loss, probability, permutation and combination, sets, fraction and decimal, percent’s, ratio and proportion, exponents and roots.
- Basic algebra, simple equation, quadratic equation, inequalities, indices, matrix, derivative and integration.
- Line and angles, triangles, polygons, circles, solid geometry, linear programming.
- Mean, median, mode, range, standard deviation, index number, correlation, and regression. Sampling
General knowledge and ICT skills section:
- General understanding about the economic, social, political, legal, scientific, technological, business, literature, demography, geography, history, climate change and current national and international events and affairs.
- General understanding of the Information and Communication Technology, Computer operating System, Office package, Internet, Intranet, Email, Website, etc.
