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Karnataka Departmental Examinations Exam Pattern

A standard to meet, and a rule that gives two years to meet it.

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Karnataka Departmental Examinations · checked 19 September 2026

The dates, vacancies and rules below are read on the conducting body’s own site and rewritten as each notice appears. The guide beneath carries the full pattern, syllabus, cut-offs and free mock tests.

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Checked 19 September 2026

Karnataka Departmental Examinations: the facts that matter now

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Karnataka Public Service Commission
Conducted by
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Two a year — the first between January and June, the second between July and December, in principle; in practice the 2026 first session was…
Sessions
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First session 2026, notified 18 February; examined 17 July to 8 August 2026; no second-session notification at 11 September
Latest
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State government servants and permanent employees of state corporations, boards, local bodies and universities — not Group D, not the public
Who may sit

Pattern

Karnataka Departmental Examinations — How the paper is structured

The rules that apply across the series.
Rule	What it means
Objective papers on OMR or computer	At the commission’s discretion, session by session.
Descriptive papers in one language	Wholly in English or wholly in Kannada, in a question-cum-answer booklet.
Sixty per cent exempts a paper	For two years, while the remaining papers of that examination are passed at thirty-five.
With books means government textbooks	Private guides are prohibited.
Retotalling, not revaluation	Descriptive papers only, ₹100 a subject, within thirty days, online.

Confirm the structure against your own notification

KPSC and the state’s other recruiting bodies revise paper structure, marks, syllabus detail and eligibility between recruitment cycles, and have done so more than once in recent years. Everything here describes the shape the recruitment has held; the notification for the cycle you are sitting is the document that decides it. Read it end to end before you plan around any figure.

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