JKPSC KAS 2021: The JKPSC (Jammu Kashmir Public Service Commission) released a short notice on 8 January 2021 on its official website for conducting combined competitive exam (KAS – 2021). The preliminary exam is tentatively scheduled to be held in July 2021 and mains is scheduled for October 2021. In this post, we cover all the details regarding JKPSC KAS exam including Eligibility criteria, Syllabus for the Preliminary and mains, Exam date, Total Vacancies, Previous years question papers, Cut off.
The JKPSC released the following number of vacancies for direct recruitment:
| (i) Junior Scale of J&K Administrative Service: | 56 Posts. |
| (ii) J&K Police (Gazetted) Service: | 141 Posts. |
| (iii) J&K Accounts (Gazetted) Service: | 60 Posts. |
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Important Dates
| Release of Official Notification | January, 2021 |
| Start of Online Application | to be announced |
| Last Date to apply | to be announced |
| Prelims Date | July, 2021 (Tentative) |
| Mains Date | October, 2021 (Tentative) |
Eligibility Criteria:-
In order to be eligible for the examination, a candidate must satisfy the following conditions,
(i) that he is a permanent resident of the State;
(ii) that he has attained the age of 21 years but not attained the age of 32 years on 1st January of 2021.
Note, However age relaxation is given to the candidates other than Open Merit.
Important Details
| Number of Vacancies | 257 |
| Application Mode | Online |
| Conduct of Examination | Offline |
| Number of Attempts (for OM) | 6 |
| Upper Age | 31 (for General) |
JKPSC KAS Examination Process
The Combined Competitive Examination shall comprise of two successive stages:-
- Combined Competitive (Preliminary) Examination (Objective Type) for the selection of candidates for Main Examination; and
- Combined Competitive (Main) Examination (Written and Interview) for the selection of candidates for the various services and posts.
Preliminary Examination
This examination is meant to serve as a screening test only. The marks obtained in the Preliminary Examination shall count only for short-listing of the candidates for the Main examination.
| Paper | Marks | Duration |
| Paper 1 | 200 Marks | 2 Hours |
| Paper 2 | 200 Marks | 2 Hours |
Both the question papers will be of the objective type (multiple choice questions).
The Paper-II of the Combined Competitive (Preliminary) Examination will be a qualifying paper with
minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33%.
Main Examination:
The written examination will consist of the following 8 papers:
| Paper | Marks | Duration |
| English (Qualifying Paper) | 300 Marks | 3 Hours |
| Paper-I Essay | 250 Marks | 3 Hours |
| Paper-II General Studies–I (Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society) | 250 Marks | 3 Hours |
| Paper-III General Studies –II (Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International relations) | 250 Marks | 3 Hours |
| Paper-IV General Studies –III (Technology, Economic Development, Bio-diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management) | 250 Marks | 3 Hours |
| Paper-V General Studies –IV (Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude) | 250 Marks | 3 Hours |
| Paper-VI Optional Subject – Paper -I | 250 Marks | 3 Hours |
| Paper-VII Optional Subject – Paper-II | 250 Marks | 3 Hours |
| Sub Total (Written test) | 1750 Marks | 3 Hours |
| Grand Total: | 2000 Marks |
Optional Subjects for JKPSC KAS
Candidates may choose any one of the optional subjects from amongst the list of the subjects given below:-
- Agriculture
- Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science:
- Anthropology:
- Botany:
- Chemistry:
- Civil Engineering:
- Commerce and Accountancy:
- Economics:
- Electrical Engineering:
- Geography:
- Geology;
- History:
- Law;
- Management;
- Mathematics;
- Mechanical Engineering;
- Medical science;
- Philosophy;
- Physics;
- Political Science & International Relations;
- Psychology;
- Public Administration:
- Sociology;
- Statistics;
- Zoology;
- Literature of any one of the following languages:
Arabic, Dogri, English, Hindi, Kashmiri, Persian, Punjabi, Sanskrit and Urdu.
JKPSC KAS 2021 Syllabus
Download the syllabus from this link:
Previous Question Papers of JKPSC KAS
You can download the previous Years Question papers from official link: http://jkpsc.nic.in/static/forms/Old_questionPapers.html
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