J&K Combined Competitive Examination (Junior Scale, J&K Administrative Service)

Official exam info

Jammu & Kashmir Public Service Commission's Combined Competitive Examination for the Junior Scale of the J&K Administrative Service (and allied J&K Police/Accounts Gazetted Services) — the Union Territory's senior administrative-service exam. Mains has a qualifying-only English paper, an Essay paper, 4 compulsory General Studies papers (GS1 Heritage/Culture/History/Geography, GS2 Governance/Constitution/Polity/IR, GS3 Technology/Economy/Environment/Security, GS4 Ethics/Integrity/Aptitude) — all four verbatim-identical in structure to UPSC's own Mains GS papers, carrying no J&K-specific clause at all — and 2 papers in a candidate-chosen optional subject. Study material reuses UPSC's own extensive GS1-4 citation corpus (culture, modern India, world history, geography, polity, international relations, GS3 economy/tech/security, and the complete GS4 ethics paper) plus the verified national content pool, with 1 chapter authored fresh for J&K's own geography, constitutional/administrative history, governance structure, and culture (Kashmir Valley/Jammu/Ladakh regions, the 2019 reorganisation into two Union Territories, Panchayati Raj, and the region's Sufi, Dogra and Ladakhi Buddhist cultural traditions).