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Karnataka Departmental Examinations Study Material

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Karnataka Departmental Examinations · checked 19 September 2026

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Karnataka Departmental Examinations: the facts that matter now

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Karnataka Public Service Commission
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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
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State government servants and permanent employees of state corporations, boards, local bodies and universities — not Group D, not the public
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Karnataka Departmental Examinations — Study material for this exam

What to work from, by family.
Family	Source	Note
Accounts, SAS and treasury	The Karnataka financial and treasury rules and the accounts codes, as government publications	Government textbooks only in the hall.
Revenue and registration	The Land Revenue Act and rules, the revenue manuals, the Registration Act	Higher and lower levels set on the same texts at different depth.
Departmental papers	The department’s own Act, manual and code	The forest papers were re-specified in 2016; the syllabus annexure lists the Acts.
Law	The Acts the 1974 rules name for General Law, the Contract Act, and the tribunal rules	Check the session’s annexure for any substitution.
Kannada language	The sixth-standard reader and the short-story collection; the tenth-standard reader for all-India officers	The commission publishes the latter.