Karnataka Administrative Service (Gazetted Probationers Group A/B Main Examination)

Official exam info

Karnataka Public Service Commission's Gazetted Probationers Main Examination for the Karnataka Administrative Service — the state's senior administrative-service exam. Mains has an Essay paper plus 4 compulsory General Studies papers (History & Culture including Karnataka, Geography/Constitution/Public Administration, Science & Technology/Agriculture/Environment, and Ethics/Integrity — optional subjects were removed in a recent amendment), with qualifying-only Kannada and English language papers. Karnataka-specific material is woven throughout — the state's own dynastic history from the Kadambas to Tipu Sultan, its freedom movement and 1956 Unification, its post-independence politics and social-justice commissions, and its own geography and economy. Study material reuses the verified national content pool and UPSC's own Geography corpus wherever the underlying material is genuinely national, plus 4 chapters authored fresh for Karnataka's own history/culture, freedom movement/unification, geography/economy, and post-independence politics, and 6 further chapters contributed to the national pool (ancient India's religions and civilization/science/arts/cultural-diffusion, Indian social-change/rural sociology, Indian political-system/decentralisation theory, Public Administration theory, Animal Husbandry/Horticulture/Sericulture, and Special Economic Zones/science-led rural upliftment).