KAS Exam Pattern You Might Want to Know About

KAS Exam Pattern:

The Karnataka Public Service Commission is responsible for conducting the Karnataka Administrative Services examination. For the innumerable candidates appearing for the exam, the KAS exam pattern is of utmost importance.

Date of release of notification: 31^st January 2020

Date of start of registration of application: 6^th February 2020

Last date to submit completed application: 6^th March 2020

The KAS Exam is modelled after the UPSC Civil services exam. It comprises of 3 phases which include the following:

• Preliminary exam
• Main exam
• Personality test/ interview

KAS Exam pattern:

Preliminary exam:

• The preliminary exam is a pen and paper based offline examination.
• The exam consists of multiple choice objective questions.
• The candidate is provided with an OMR sheet to mark the answers to the questions asked.
• The medium of the exam is English/ Kannada.
• The exam will consist of 2 papers which includes:
• General studies 1
• General studies 2
• The exam will consist of 100 questions each.
• The duration of the exam is 2 hours/ 120 minutes each.
• The weightage of the exam is 200 marks for each paper.
• The marking scheme is as follows:
• Correct answer: + 2 marks
• Incorrect answer: – 0.25marks will be deducted

Paper	Name of the Subjects	No. of questions	No. of Marks
Paper I	General Studies related to National and International importance	40	80
Humanities	60	120
Paper-II	General Studies related to State Importance	40	80
General Science & Tech, Environment & Ecology	30	60
General Mental Ability	30	60
Total	200	400

Main exam:

• The main exam is a pen and paper based offline exam.
• The exam consists of descriptive and subjective questions.
• The medium of the exam is Kannada/ English.
• The KAS Main exam consists of 8 papers. These include the following:
• Kannada
• English
• General Studies 1
• General studies 2
• Optional subject A 2 papers
• Optional subject B 2 papers
• The total weightage of the exam is 2100 marks.
• The duration of the exam is 3 hours each.

KAS Language paper:

Qualifying Papers	Language	Marks	Duration
Kannada	150	2Hrs
English	150	2Hrs

KAS compulsory papers:

Papers	Subject	Marks	Duration
Paper 1	Essay ( 2Nos. 125 each)	250	3Hrs
Paper 2	General studies 1	250	3Hrs
Paper 3	General studies 2	250	3Hrs
Paper 4	General studies 3	250	3Hrs
Paper 5	General studies 4	250	3Hrs
Paper 6	KAS Optional subject paper 1	250	3Hrs
Paper 7	KAS Optional subject paper 2	250	3Hrs
Total (Written exam)	1750 Marks

For any further details regarding KAS exam pattern check the website at http://www.kpsc.kar.nic.in/ .

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