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Karnataka Departmental Examinations Previous Papers

The commission publishes the Kannada language papers and nothing else from this series. For the other papers, the document the paper is set on is the practice material.

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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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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

Past papers

Karnataka Departmental Examinations — Reading previous papers properly

The commission’s question-paper page holds the departmental Kannada language Paper 1 and the Paper 2 set for all-India officers — a 2021 first-session booklet of fifty-five questions in two hours for 100 marks. No other departmental paper was found on the site. For the accounts, revenue, law and departmental papers, the syllabus names the code or Act, and the questions are drawn from it.

How to practise without papers

Work the code as a question bank — chapter by chapter, writing the questions an examiner would ask and answering from the text under time.
For with-books papers, practise finding — the government textbook on the desk, a stopwatch, and a provision to locate. The skill is navigation.
For the Kannada papers, use the published booklets — they show the level — the school readers — and the question types, and the viva follows the same syllabus.