KPSC KAS — last-minute checklist

🎒 What to carry

• ✅Admit card (hall ticket / call letter), printed — the instructions printed on it override anything on this page
• ✅Original photo ID with the same name as your admit card (Aadhaar, PAN, voter ID, passport or driving licence — your admit card lists which it accepts); a photocopy alone is not enough
• ✅Leave your phone, smartwatch, earphones and other electronic gadgets at home or outside — they are not allowed in the exam hall, and do not count on a cloakroom at the centre
• ✅Reporting time and gate-closing time are printed on your admit card — late entry is refused, so plan to reach well before
• 🔎Passport-size photographs, if your admit card asks for them — use the same photo you uploaded in the application
• 🔎Pen: an offline OMR sheet needs a ballpoint pen of the colour your admit card names (usually black); computer-based tests generally give you a pen and rough sheet at the centre — check your admit card
• 🔎Transparent water bottle, sanitiser or a simple wrist watch: allowed at some exams and banned at others — check your admit card before you pack
• 🔎Using a scribe or compensatory time? Carry the certificate and the scribe's own photo ID in the format your admit card or notice asks for

✅ true of every exam hall · 🔎 varies by exam — check your admit card or notice. The night before: no new topics, and sleep.

🎫 Admit card

Prelims Admit Card (expected): 1 Nov (expected)

From the tracker row: Admit card typically released 1-2 weeks before Prelims exam

📝 Exam pattern on our records

Karnataka Administrative Service (KAS) Prelims

200 questions, 400 marks, 240 minutes

Marking: On our records +1 per question over 200 scored questions does not add up to the paper's 400 marks — different papers or sections of KPSC KAS score differently.

Subjects on our syllabus

1. General Studies (Paper 1)
2. Karnataka — History, Culture, Geography & Administration
3. General Studies II / CSAT (Paper 2)

Languages: English, Kannada

KPSC KAS Prelims — two papers (GS Paper 1, CSAT-style Paper 2). 200 MCQs each, 2 hours each.

Patterns can change between cycles — this cycle's official notice is final.

🔑 After the paper

• Answer key: not announced yet
• Result: 15 Jan 2027 (expected)
• Next stage — Mains Exam (expected): 15 Apr 2027 (expected)

🔗 Official portal and useful links

Official portal: Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) ↗