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JKPSC KAS

Cycle 2025

OFFICIAL PARTIAL

DRAFT — unverified

Unverified — pending official notification check.

Pattern from commission website and official notifications.

Exam pattern

1.Preliminary Examination

OFFICIAL PARTIAL

General Studies Paper I

Main Session

Sections & timing

SectionTimingQuestionsMarks / QNegativeNature
General StudiesNot timed separately1002−0.333Scored
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Timing & navigation rules

  • One 2 hr overall timer for the whole paper. No sectional locks — the section split is indicative only.
  • You can move freely between sections and questions at any time.
  • The timer cannot be paused once started.

CSAT Paper II (Qualifying)

Main Session

Sections & timing

SectionTimingQuestionsMarks / QNegativeNature
Civil Services Aptitude TestNot timed separately802.5−0.333Scored
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Timing & navigation rules

  • One 2 hr overall timer for the whole paper. No sectional locks — the section split is indicative only.
  • You can move freely between sections and questions at any time.
  • The timer cannot be paused once started.

2.Main Examination

OFFICIAL PARTIAL

Descriptive papers as per JKPSC pattern.

3.Interview

OFFICIAL PARTIAL

Personality test.

Notes from the official source

Preliminary Examination · General Studies Paper I · Main Session — qualifying criteria

Merit paper for Mains shortlisting.

Preliminary Examination · CSAT Paper II (Qualifying) · Main Session — qualifying criteria

Qualifying: 33% required.

Main Examination — note

Descriptive papers as per JKPSC pattern.

Interview — note

Personality test.

Official syllabus

Source: Official JKPSC KAS notification/syllabus PDF (jkpsc.nic.in); topic text verified against the official document as reproduced · official document

Prelims

General Studies Paper I (200 marks, 2 hours — counts for merit)

  • Current events of national and international importance
  • History of India
  • Indian National Movement
  • General Science
  • Indian and World Geography — Physical, Social, Economic Geography
  • Indian Polity and Governance — Constitution, Panchayati Raj, Political System, Public Policy, Rights Issues etc.
  • Economic and Social Development — Poverty, Demographics, Sustainable Development, Social Sector Initiatives etc.
  • Environmental ecology, Biodiversity and Climate Change
  • Questions about Jammu & Kashmir

General Studies Paper II / CSAT (200 marks, 2 hours — qualifying, minimum 33%)

  • Comprehension
  • Interpersonal skills including communication skills
  • Logical reasoning and analytical ability
  • Decision-making and problem-solving
  • General mental ability
  • Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude etc. — Class X level)
  • Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. — Class X level)
Mains

Paper I: General English (300 marks — Qualifying)

  • Comprehension
  • Usage and vocabulary
  • Precis writing
  • Short essay

Paper II: Essay (150 marks — Merit)

  • Essays on current topics of regional, national and international relevance

Paper III: General Studies I (300 marks — Merit)

  • Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society

Paper IV: General Studies II (300 marks — Merit)

  • Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International Relations

Paper V: General Studies III (300 marks — Merit)

  • Technology, Economic Development, Biodiversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management

Paper VI: General Studies IV (300 marks — Merit)

  • Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude

Paper VII & VIII: Optional Subject Paper I & II (Merit)

  • Two optional subjects chosen from the official optional list (Agriculture, Botany, Chemistry, Economics, Geography, History, Law, Management, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science & IR, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Statistics, Zoology, engineering subjects, literatures incl. Dogri, Kashmiri, Urdu, etc.)
Interview

Prelims: two papers of 200 marks each, 2 hours each; Paper II qualifying at 33%; candidate must appear in both papers. Negative marking 1/4 (0.25) per wrong answer in the official scheme (some sources say 1/3 — official notification governs). Mains: 8 conventional papers; Paper I General English (300) is qualifying; Interview 250; final merit out of 2000 (1750 written + 250 interview). Official syllabus PDF: jkpsc.nic.in/pdf/Syllabus34.pdf.

Previous cutoffs

Source: JKPSC official CCE result notices as reproduced by studyiq — official cut-offs publish with result PDFs on jkpsc.nic.in

CCE 2022· Prelims

ALC
70.49
RBA
73.25
SC
74.45
SLC
73.71
ST
69.33
Unreserved
93.21

JKPSC publishes category-wise cut-offs with the CCE prelims result on jkpsc.nic.in. Only the 2022 cycle figure was found (as reproduced by studyiq) — not re-verified against the official JKPSC notice in this pass, and the exact scale (out of 200 vs percentage) was not stated in the reproduction. No officially published category-wise prelims cut-offs were found for the 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024 or 2025 cycles. Qualifying standard in Paper II is 33%.

Sources

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