KSRP Constable — 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

Admit card (expected): 10 Sept — was expected — not confirmed

From the tracker row: Typically released 7-10 days before exam date; check cetonline.karnataka.gov.in/kea

📝 Exam pattern on our records

Karnataka KSRP Special Reserve Police Constable (SRPC)

100 questions, 100 marks, 90 minutes

Marking: +1 per correct answer, −0.25 per wrong answer

Subjects on our syllabus

1. General Studies
2. Mental Ability

Languages: not on our records — check the official notice

Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) Special Reserve Police Constable recruitment 2026: 1,455 posts outside Kalyana Karnataka (1,382 men, 73 women), plus 859 Kalyana Karnataka posts filled through one combined test (KSRP 334, KSISF 364, IRB 161). Applications and the written test are run by the Karnataka Examinations Authority. Written test on 20 September 2026 (non-Kalyana Karnataka 10:30–12:00; Kalyana Karnataka 15:00–16:30, revised): 100 objective questions, 100 marks, 90 minutes on OMR, 0.25 deducted per wrong answer. The notifications do not state the question paper's language. The notification names the paper 'General Studies and Mental Ability' and gives no topic list; Shishya's practice follows the topics listed by the 2026 Civil and CAR/DAR constable notifications (general knowledge, science, geography, history, Indian Constitution, national freedom movement, mental ability and moral education). Then physical standard and endurance tests at 1:5 (qualifying), a 1:2 shortlist on written marks and a medical examination. Non-exempt candidates must pass a separate Kannada language test (held 22 August 2026). Eligibility: 2nd PUC or equivalent; age 18–33 (35 for SC/ST/Category-1/2A/2B/3A/3B, 38 for forest tribals).

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

🔑 After the paper

• Answer key: not announced yet
• Result: 1 Dec (expected)

🔗 Official portal and useful links

Official portal: Karnataka State Police — KSRP recruitment (applications and written test by the Karnataka Examinations Authority) ↗