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Karnataka Departmental Examinations Preparation

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Karnataka Departmental Examinations · checked 19 September 2026

Karnataka Departmental Examinations at a glance, from the official notices

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

Strategy

Karnataka Departmental Examinations — How to prepare

From the schedule to the certificate

  1. Read Schedule II for your cadre The 1974 rules name the examinations each department’s posts must pass. The notification says to apply for those and no others.
  2. Check the Kannada position If you passed SSLC with Kannada, or hold a listed certificate, claim the exemption — and still apply and pay for the Kannada code as the notification requires.
  3. Register on Seva Sindhu and apply in the window About a month, in Kannada, with a head-of-office certificate for the SAS papers. The 2026 window was extended twice; do not count on it.
  4. Aim at sixty in the paper you know best It buys two years for the rest of that examination at thirty-five.
  5. Download the certificate Through Seva Sindhu and DigiLocker, with the register number and PAN. No marks statement is posted; the marks are on the result.

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.

Exam resources

Everything for Karnataka Departmental Examinations

Six resource pages, each kept in step with the latest official notification.

Karnataka Departmental Examinations SyllabusKPSC departmental examination syllabus — the accounts, revenue, departmental, law and Kannada language papers, as the 1974 rules and the annexures set them.Karnataka Departmental Examinations Exam PatternKPSC departmental examination pattern — objective and descriptive papers, their durations, the with-books rule, the 35% pass and 60% exemption rule.Karnataka Departmental Examinations Previous PapersKPSC departmental examination previous papers — the Kannada language papers the commission publishes, and how to practise the rest from the codes.Karnataka Departmental Examinations Mock TestsKPSC departmental examination mock tests — timed practice in the paper’s mode, with only government textbooks for the with-books papers.Karnataka Departmental Examinations PreparationKPSC departmental examination preparation — reading Schedule II for your cadre, applying through Seva Sindhu in the window, and using the exemption rule.Karnataka Departmental Examinations Study MaterialKPSC departmental examination study material — the government textbooks and codes each paper is set on, and the Kannada readers.

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