Syllabus for Karnataka Public Service Commission

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Karnataka Public Service Commission KPSC Exam Syllabus

The Karnataka Public Service Commission Civil Service Examination is conducted at the following two levels namely:

Preliminary Examination
Mains Examination
Personal Test (Interview)

Preliminary Exam-

The Preliminary Examination of the KPSC Civil Services Exam is an objective type paper having multiple choice questions of 100 Marks.

The candidates will be given questions on the following sections

Paper I: General Studies & Humanities

Paper II: General Studies, General Science & Technology, and General Mental Ability

The Main Exam will be conducted for only those candidates who qualify in the preliminary examination. The Main Exam consists of questions on the following eight papers:

Paper I: Kannada of 150 Marks
Paper II: English of 150 Marks
Paper III & IV: General Studies of 300 Marks
Paper V, VI, VII & VIII of 300 marks each. Two subjects will be optional

List of Optional Subjects

Agriculture
Agricultural Marketing
Co-operation and Sericulture
Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences and Fisheries
Anthropology
Botany
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Commerce
Criminology
Economics
Electrical Engineering
Geography
Geology
History
Law
Management
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science and International Relations
Psychology
Public Administration
Rural Development
Sociology
Statistics
Zoology
One of the following Languages: Kannada, English, Hindi, Urdu

Personality Test (Interview)

The candidate will be interviewed by a Board who will have before them a record of his or her career except marks secured in their Main Examination. He/She will be asked questions on matters of general interest.

The object of the interview is to assess the personal suitability of the candidate for a career in public services by a Board of competent and unbiased observers.

Interview consists of 200 marks

Syllabus -

Preliminary Examination (Objective type)

Paper 1

Current events of National and International importance.
Humanities History of India Emphasis shall be on the broad general understanding of the subject in its social, economic, cultural and political aspects with a focus on Indian national movement with particular emphasis on Karnataka.
World Geography and Geography of India with a focus on Karnataka.
Indian Polity and Economy, including the countrys political system, rural development, planning and economic reforms in India-sustainable development, poverty alleviation, demographics, social sector initiatives, etc.

Paper 2

Current events of State importance and critical State Govt. programs.
General Science & Technology, Environment & Ecology contemporary developments in science and technology, and their implications including matters of everyday observations and experience, as may be expected of a well-educated person who has not made a special study of any scientific discipline, general issues on Health, environmental ecology, biodiversity, and climate change- that do not require subject specialisation.
General Mental Ability Comprehension, Logical Reasoning, and Analytical ability, Decision-making, problem-solving, Basic innumeracy (numbers and their relations, the order of magnitude, etc.,) and data interpretation ( charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency, etc., (Class X / SSLC level).

Karnataka PSC Aptitude Syllabus

Time and Work.
C.F. and L.C.M.
Profit and Loss.
Percentages
Problems on Ages.
Averages
Time and Distance.
Mixture and Alligation.
Boats and Streams.
Number Systems.
Problems on Trains.
Ratio and Proportion.
Simplification
Data Interpretation.
Simple & Compound Interest.
Discounts etc.

General Knowledge

Indian Economy.
Indian History.
Indian National Movement.
Indian Civilization.
Indian Constitution.
Geography & Natural Resources.
Indian Polity.
Current Events Regional, National & International.
Art & Culture
Science & Technology etc.
Infrastructural Development.
Sports

English Syllabus

One word substitutions
Spelling
Fill in the blanks.
Autonomy
Detecting Mis-spelt words.
Synonyms/ Homonyms.
Idioms and phrases.
improvements
Spot the error.
Cloze passage.
Comprehension passage.

Reasoning Syllabus

Number Ranking.
Decision Making.
Non-Verbal Series.
Analogy
Coding-Decoding.
Number Series.
Direction
Mirror Images.
Alphabet Series.
Blood Relations.
Clocks & Calendars.
Arithmetical Reasoning.
Cubes and Dice.
Embedded Figures etc.

Electrical Engineering Syllabus

Power Systems.
Control systems.
Electrical Circuits and Fields.
Measurements, Instrumentation and Transducers.
Electrical machines.
Computer Control of Processes, Networks
Industrial Instrumentation.
Power Electronics and Drives.
Analytical instrumentation.
Digital Electronics.
Digital Signal Processing.
Communication Engineering.

Mechanical

Strength Of Materials.
Fluid Mechanics And Machines.
Engineering Mechanics.
Air Compressor.
Heat Power.
Manufacturing Process.
Refrigerator and Air-Conditioning.
Welding And Allied Processes.
Machine Tools etc.

Civil Engg

Building Materials.
Surveying
Hydraulic
Estimating, Costing, and Valuation.
Transportation Engineering.
Soil Mechanics.
Concrete Technology.
Irrigation Engineering.
Environmental Engineering.
Structural Engineering.
Theory of structures.
Steel Design.