KREIS Teacher Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2026

Updated: 09 Sep 2026

Every topic matched to the official PDF Official notice, cetonline.karnataka.gov.in

199 topics, each explained 17 units

Official syllabus PDF cetonline.karnataka.gov.in

KREIS teacher recruitment 2026 fills Group 'C' teaching posts in the residential schools run by the Karnataka Residential Educational Institutions Society — the Morarji Desai, Kittur Rani Chennamma, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indira Gandhi and Dr B. R. Ambedkar residential schools. The Karnataka Examinations Authority conducts the recruitment for KREIS and issued two notifications on the same day, 10.07.2026: one for the Residual Parent Cadre with 767 posts across eight subjects, one for the Kalyana-Karnataka local cadre with 320 posts across nine. Selection is a written examination of two papers, both offline on OMR sheets: Paper-1 is the same general paper for every post, and Paper-2 is the subject you applied for. The one line worth fixing in your head before you plan a week of study: a candidate must score at least 35 percent in the competitive examination to stay in the selection process at all.

Exam Pattern

Paper	Subject	Total questions	Total marks	Duration
Paper-1	General knowledge of matters relating to current events; general science; geography; social science; Indian society and the history of its development; the history of India and of Karnataka; the Constitution of India and public administration; practical knowledge and mental ability (SSLC standard); the social and cultural history of Karnataka; land reforms and social change in Karnataka after independence; Karnataka's economy, its strengths and weaknesses and its present state; rural development, Panchayat Raj institutions and rural cooperative institutions; the role of science and technology in effective administration in Karnataka; Karnataka's environmental problems and development; mental ability	100	100	2 hours
Paper-2	The specific paper — the subject you applied for. Its syllabus is published separately, subject by subject, and is set out in full below	100	100	2 hours

Three rules decide more marks here than any chapter you revise. First, the minimum: the notification says in bold that scoring at least 35 percent in the competitive examination is compulsory, and candidates below it are out of the selection process. Second, the marking: every question carries four options, one mark each, and 0.25 is deducted for a wrong answer. Third — and this one is unusual enough that candidates lose marks to it without knowing — the OMR sheet carries a FIFTH circle for questions you do not want to answer. Five extra minutes are given after the last bell to shade it, and if a question is left with no circle shaded at all, 0.25 marks are deducted for it. On this paper, leaving a question blank and marking it as unanswered are two different things. Separately, the compulsory Kannada language paper is not part of your merit: it carries 150 marks, you need 50 to clear it, it is set at SSLC first-language Kannada standard, and the notification states its marks count neither for seniority nor for selection. Candidates who studied Kannada as a first or second language up to SSLC, or studied in Kannada medium, or have already passed a compulsory Kannada test of a commission, are exempt from it.

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Full Syllabus

1 Paper-1 — the same paper for every post (100 questions, 100 marks) 100 Q

Compulsory for every candidate, whichever subject you applied for. §10 of both notifications prints these fifteen areas as one cell and gives the paper 100 questions, 100 marks and 2 hours. It does not say how many questions come from each area — see 'What this pack does not cover' below.

What the syllabus lists	What it means and how to prepare
current events	General knowledge of matters relating to current affairs. Karnataka's own year — its budget, schemes, appointments and awards — is asked here as often as national news, so read one Karnataka paper alongside a national one.
general science	School-level physics, chemistry and biology asked as everyday facts, not as theory. Even if you are applying for a language post, this section is common to every candidate.
geography	Physical and economic geography. Karnataka's rivers, districts, soils, crops and mineral belts repay study more than world geography does, because the paper is set by a state authority.
social science	The school social-science subjects taken together — history, civics, geography and economics — at the level a Class 10 textbook sets them.
Indian society and the history of its development	How Indian society took its present shape — caste and community, reform movements, education, the position of women. Read it as a story of change, not as a list of dates.
the history of India and of Karnataka	The notification names both in one line, and the Karnataka half is where the marks are won: the Kadambas, Chalukyas, Hoysalas, Vijayanagara, the Mysore rulers and the state's part in the freedom movement.
the Constitution of India and public administration	Fundamental rights and duties, the Union and the states, the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, and how a government office actually runs. A teacher's paper still asks it, because every government servant is examined on it.
practical knowledge and mental ability (SSLC standard)	This is the one place in Paper-1 where the notification fixes a level, and it fixes it at SSLC. Number series, coding, direction sense, blood relations, percentages, ratio, time and work — Class 10 arithmetic done fast, not competitive-exam mathematics.
the social and cultural history of Karnataka	Listed separately from political history, so treat it separately: Vachana and Dasa literature, temples and architecture, folk arts, festivals and the state's reform traditions.
land reforms and social change in Karnataka after independence	A narrow, nameable topic — the tenancy laws, the abolition of intermediary tenures, and what they changed in the villages. Few candidates read it, and it is printed as its own item.
Karnataka's economy — its strengths, its weaknesses and its present state	The state's own economic survey in short: agriculture and irrigation, industry and IT, regional imbalance between north and south Karnataka, employment and poverty.
rural development, Panchayat Raj institutions and rural cooperative institutions	The three-tier panchayat system, its elections and finances, and the cooperative societies that run rural credit. Karnataka's own panchayat legislation is the part worth naming correctly.
the role of science and technology in effective administration in Karnataka	e-governance as the state practises it — land records, online services, digital payments in government offices, and the schemes built on them.
Karnataka's environmental problems and development	The Western Ghats, forests and wildlife, water disputes, drought and city pollution — asked as the state's problems, with the laws and bodies that address them.
mental ability	Printed a second time as the closing item, after the SSLC-level entry. Treat it as the reasoning half — series, analogies, odd one out, coding-decoding, seating, and simple data interpretation — and practise it against a clock.

2 Paper-2 — Kannada Language Teacher

Your Paper-2 is 100 questions for 100 marks in 2 hours, and this is the whole of its printed syllabus: three units, headed ಘಟಕ-1, ಘಟಕ-2 and ಘಟಕ-3 in the syllabus document, which prints this subject in Kannada.

What the syllabus lists	What it means and how to prepare
Unit-1 — the history of Kannada literature	The syllabus divides it by period — Halegannada (old Kannada), Nadugannada (middle Kannada) and Hosagannada (modern Kannada) — and asks for the poets and the works of each. Prepare it as a table of period, poet and work rather than as prose.
Unit-2 — poetics and prosody	Kavya mimamse and chandassu: the categories by which Kannada criticism judges a poem, and the metres it is written in. Learn to identify a metre from a line, because that is how it is asked.
Unit-3 — Kannada language and grammar	The grammar a Kannada teacher is expected to teach: sandhi, samasa, cases, verb forms, figures of speech and correct usage.

3 Paper-2 — English Language Teacher

100 questions, 100 marks, 2 hours. The syllabus prints this subject as one continuous line of twenty-four items; they are set out one by one here, in the printed order. Note that the last three are about teaching, not about English.

What the syllabus lists	What it means and how to prepare
Pronunciation	Sounds, stress and the phonetic symbols a trained teacher is expected to read. Questions usually ask which word carries a given sound or stress pattern.
Spelling	Commonly misspelt words and the rules behind them — doubling, silent letters, British versus American forms.
Parts of Speech	Naming the eight classes and, more often, spotting which class a word belongs to in a given sentence.
Time and Tense	The twelve tense forms and, separately, the difference between grammatical tense and real time — the distinction an English teacher is examined on.
Modals	Can, may, must, should, ought to and the rest, tested through meaning — permission, obligation, possibility — rather than through form.
Prepositions	The small words that decide whether a sentence sounds native. Learn them in phrases, not singly.
Articles	A, an and the, including the cases where no article is used — the error most often planted in error-detection questions.
Phrasal Verbs	Verb-plus-particle combinations whose meaning is not the sum of their parts. Only reading and use fix these; rules will not.
Reported Speech	Turning direct speech into indirect and back, with the shifts in tense, pronoun and time words that go with it.
Agreement	Subject-verb agreement, including the traps — collective nouns, either/or, distances and amounts treated as singular.
Grammar and Usage	The general grammar paper: voice, narration, clauses, conditionals and the standard correction exercises built on them.
Functional English	Language for real situations — requests, apologies, instructions, notices, dialogue — which is what a school classroom actually needs.
Synonyms	Word-meaning questions where the trap is the near-miss option, so learn words with a sample sentence attached.
Antonyms	The same skill in reverse. Prefix-formed opposites (un-, dis-, in-) are the easy half; the rest have to be read.
Idioms and Phrases	Fixed expressions asked as meaning-in-context. A list learnt without context is the commonest wasted effort here.
Prefixes and Suffixes	Word formation — how one root gives a noun, an adjective and a verb. It also quietly answers many synonym and antonym questions.
Error Detection	Finding the one wrong part in a sentence. Read the sentence for its structure first — subject, verb, object — and only then look at the underlined parts.
Comprehension	A passage with questions on it. The marks are in reading the question before the passage and hunting only for what it asks.
Cloze	A passage with blanks, where each blank is decided by the sentence around it — grammar and collocation together.
Shuffling Sentence Parts	Reordering the parts of one jumbled sentence. Find the verb and its subject first; the rest usually falls into place.
Shuffling sentences in Paragraphs	The same puzzle one level up: ordering sentences into a paragraph, decided by pronouns and linking words rather than by meaning alone.
Testing and Evaluation	The teaching half of this paper: types of tests, formative and summative assessment, reliability and validity, and how a question paper is built.
Methods/Techniques	Methods of teaching English — structural, communicative, direct, bilingual — and the classroom techniques that go with each.
ELT Terms	The vocabulary of English Language Teaching itself — the terms a trained teacher is assumed to know and define.

4 Paper-2 — Hindi Teacher

100 questions, 100 marks, 2 hours. The syllabus prints two heads — Bhasha Vignan, and Sahityaka Ithihas with five periods under it — and nothing more, so the whole paper is language science plus literary history.

What the syllabus lists	What it means and how to prepare
Bhasha Vignan	The science of language: sounds and their production, word formation, meaning, and the history and dialects of Hindi. It is the first of the two heads the syllabus prints.
Sahitya ka Itihas — Adikal	The earliest period of Hindi literature — its charan poetry, its Siddha, Nath and Jain streams, and the argument over what to call the period at all.
Sahitya ka Itihas — Bhakthikal	The devotional age and its four streams — saguna and nirguna, Ram and Krishna — with Kabir, Surdas, Tulsidas, Jayasi and Mira as the poets most often named.
Sahitya ka Itihas — Reetikal	The age of poetic convention — ritibaddha, ritisiddha and ritimukta poets, and the shringara that shapes almost all of it.
Adhunik kal (Gadhya)	Modern Hindi prose: the rise of the novel, the short story, drama and the essay, from Bharatendu and Premchand onward.
Adhunik Kal (Padhya)	Modern Hindi poetry: Bharatendu, Dwivedi, Chhayavad, Pragativad, Prayogvad and Nayi Kavita, each with its representative poets.

5 Paper-2 — Mathematics Teacher: the physics block

Read this before you plan: the syllabus document prints a PHYSICS block and a MATHEMATICS block under the single heading 'Syllabus for Mathematic Teacher', and the physics block comes first and is the longer of the two. It reaches degree level — quantum mechanics, relativity, nuclear physics — which fits the eligibility rule that a Mathematics teacher's degree must carry Mathematics and Physics as compulsory subjects.

What the syllabus lists	What it means and how to prepare
Mechanics	Motion, force, work, energy, momentum and rotation — the base every later physics topic in this list stands on.
Properties of matter	Elasticity, surface tension, viscosity and fluid flow.
Heat and Thermodynamics	Temperature and heat transfer, the gas laws, and the three laws of thermodynamics with their standard numerical problems.
Waves, Sound	Wave motion, superposition, beats, resonance and the acoustics of musical instruments.
Light, Optics	Reflection, refraction, lenses and mirrors, interference, diffraction and polarisation.
Electricity and Magnetism	Current, circuits, electrostatics, magnetic fields and electromagnetic induction.
Electronics and modern physics	Diodes, transistors and amplifiers on one side; the photoelectric effect, atomic models and the quantum picture on the other.
Theory of active and passive networks and devices, filters, power supply	Network theorems, filter circuits and the rectifier-and-regulator chain that makes a power supply — a degree-level block inside a school teacher's paper.
Digital electronics	Number systems, logic gates, Boolean algebra, flip-flops and counters.
Atomic Spectroscopy, Atomic structure, charge, mass and e/m	Spectral series, the structure of the atom, and the classic experiments that measured the electron's charge and its charge-to-mass ratio.
Molecular spectra, Lasers and masers	Rotational and vibrational spectra, and how stimulated emission gives a laser its beam.
X-rays and crystal structure	Production and properties of X-rays, Bragg's law, and the lattice types read off it.
Free electronic theory, semiconductors — Band theory	Why metals conduct and semiconductors half-conduct: the free-electron model, energy bands and doping.
Magnetic materials	Dia-, para- and ferromagnetism, hysteresis, and where each class of material is used.
Quantum mechanics — wave mechanics, matter waves, eigen functions, Schrodinger wave function	The de Broglie wavelength, the wave function and what it means, and the standard one-dimensional solutions.
Special theory of relativity — Lorentz contraction, time dilation, Doppler effect, ultimate speed, aberration, variation of mass	The printed list is the whole of it: the two postulates and the six consequences named here, each with its formula.
Properties of nucleus, detectors, accelerators, nuclear decays, nuclear models	Size, binding and stability of the nucleus; alpha, beta and gamma decay; and the liquid-drop and shell models.
Fission and Fusion, nuclear reactions — binding energy	The energy released in splitting and joining nuclei, reactor basics, and binding-energy calculations.
Cosmic rays, fundamental particles	Cosmic radiation and the particle families — leptons, hadrons, quarks — at naming level.

6 Paper-2 — Mathematics Teacher: the mathematics block

The second block under the same heading. Its level is school mathematics, not degree mathematics — the syllabus stops at mensuration, polyhedra and networks and never reaches calculus.

What the syllabus lists	What it means and how to prepare
Numbers and numerals — number systems, number sets, basic operations, properties	The foundation block: how numbers are written and classified, and the properties the later chapters take for granted.
Square numbers and square roots, cube numbers and cube roots, irrational numbers	Roots by factorisation and by division, and where an irrational number comes from.
Sets, Matrices	Set operations and Venn diagrams; matrix operations, determinants and their use in solving equations.
Mathematics in day-to-day activities	Percentage, profit and loss, interest, time and work and similar arithmetic set in everyday situations — the part that also feeds Paper-1.
Statistics	Mean, median, mode, dispersion and the graphs that present them.
Permutations and Combinations	Counting arrangements and selections — the chapter whose questions are short but easy to get backwards.
Modular arithmetic	Congruences and remainder arithmetic, printed as an item of its own in this syllabus.
Algebra — basic concepts, operations and properties, exponents, factors and factorization, surds	School algebra end to end, from indices to factorising and simplifying surds.
Equations — linear and quadratic equations	Solving, graphing, and the discriminant that tells you what kind of roots you will get.
Geometry — basic concepts, axioms and postulates, theorems	The deductive half: what may be assumed, what must be proved, and the standard proofs.
Triangles, circles, quadrilaterals and polygons — definitions, properties and theorems	Congruence and similarity, circle theorems, and the angle and side properties of polygons.
Mensuration	Area, surface area and volume of plane and solid figures — the most formula-heavy chapter here, so keep one sheet of formulas.
Polyhedra and Network	Solids and their faces, edges and vertices, with Euler's relation, and simple network traversal problems.

7 Paper-2 — Science Teacher: the chemistry block

100 questions, 100 marks, 2 hours. The syllabus opens this subject with chemistry in three parts — inorganic, physical and organic — which matches the eligibility rule that a Science teacher's degree must carry Chemistry as a compulsory subject with Botany or Zoology as the optional one.

What the syllabus lists	What it means and how to prepare
Atomic structure, periodic table	Where inorganic chemistry starts: shells and orbitals, and the periodic trends that explain almost every later answer.
Chemical bonding	Ionic, covalent and coordinate bonds, shapes of molecules and the forces between them.
Metallurgy	Ores, concentration, extraction and refining, with the standard metals asked by name.
d-block elements, f-block elements	Transition and inner-transition metals — variable valency, colour, magnetic behaviour and catalysis.
Co-ordination chemistry, industrial chemistry, analytical chemistry	Complexes and their naming; the big industrial processes; and the qualitative and volumetric analysis a school laboratory runs on.
Gases, colloids, surface chemistry	Gas laws and kinetic theory; colloidal states; adsorption and catalysis.
Thermodynamics	Enthalpy, entropy and free energy, and using them to say whether a reaction will go.
Nuclear chemistry	Radioactivity, half-life and the uses of isotopes.
Electro chemistry, indicators	Cells, electrolysis and electrode potentials; and the indicators that mark the end point of a titration.
Alkanes, alkenes and alkynes — IUPAC nomenclature	The hydrocarbon families and the naming system every organic question depends on.
Isomerism	Structural and stereo isomerism — same formula, different molecule.
Functional groups, aromaticity	The reactive groups and their conversions, and what makes a ring aromatic.
Vitamins, hormones, alkaloids, carbohydrates	Biomolecules at naming level — source, function and the deficiency or use each is known for.

8 Paper-2 — Science Teacher: the biology and botany block

The rest of the same subject, and the longer half: zoology by phylum, cell biology, biochemistry and then a full botany run. The scanned syllabus prints a few terms with obvious scanning errors; the standard spellings are used here and the two that could confuse a reader are named in place.

What the syllabus lists	What it means and how to prepare
Living World, Cytology, Micro Organisms, Life Processes	The opening block: classification of living things, the cell, microbes, and nutrition, respiration, transport and excretion.
Food Production & Management	Crop and animal production, storage and food security — asked as applied biology.
Environmental Science	Ecosystems, pollution, conservation and the biodiversity questions that overlap with Paper-1's Karnataka environment item.
Non-chordata — Protozoa, Porifera, Cnidaria, Acnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Aschelminthes	The first six phyla the syllabus names, each with its identifying features and one or two examples.
Non-chordata — Annelida, Arthropoda, Mollusca, Echinodermata	The four larger phyla, where most identification questions come from.
Chordata — characteristic features and outline classification	What makes an animal a chordate, and the outline the syllabus asks you to reproduce.
Prochordata — Urochordata, Hemichordata, Cephalochordata	The three sub-groups named in the syllabus, with their identifying features.
Vertebrata — Agnatha, Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves, Mammalia	The salient features of each class with examples — the syllabus asks for Agnatha specifically with examples.
Cell biology — cell and its organelles, mitosis and meiosis	The organelles and their jobs, and the two divisions compared stage by stage.
Fertilization, parthenogenesis, sex determination, sex determination in man, genetics	Reproduction and inheritance — Mendel's laws, chromosomes, and the XY mechanism the syllabus names separately for man.
Biochemistry — carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins, enzymes	The molecules of life, their structure and their role in the body.
Physiology, histology	How organ systems work, and the tissues seen under a microscope.
Environmental biology, terrestrial ecology	Populations, communities, food chains and energy flow on land.
Evolution of life, introduction to genetics, biotechnology	Theories of evolution and evidence for them, basic heredity, and modern biotechnology.
Protista, viruses, bacteria, mycology	The lower groups: protists, viral structure, bacteria and fungi with the diseases and uses attached to them.
Bryophytes — Hepaticae, Anthocerotae, Musci; Pteridophytes; Gymnosperms	The plant groups in the order the syllabus prints them, each with a type example and its life cycle.
Plant anatomy, tissues, embryology	Internal structure of root, stem and leaf; tissue types; and the development of the seed.
Ecology, plant succession, plant communities, phytogeography	How vegetation changes over time and how it is distributed over the earth.
Taxonomy of angiosperms, families, economic botany, plant propagation	Classification systems, the families asked by name, useful plants, and vegetative propagation.
Plant cytology — chromosomes, cell division, polyploidy, genetics, evolution	The same genetics again from the plant side, with polyploidy as the item candidates most often skip.
Plant physiology — enzymes, photosynthesis, respiration, protein synthesis, growth, photoperiodism; plant biotechnology	The working plant: how it makes food, breathes, builds protein and grows. The scanned syllabus prints the first and last of these as 'Xerox synthesis' and 'Xerox periodism' — they are photosynthesis and photoperiodism.

9 Paper-2 — Social Science Teacher: History

100 questions, 100 marks, 2 hours for the whole subject, and the syllabus divides it into four blocks — History, Civics, Geography and Economics. History is printed first and is much the longest; its items are not in chronological order in the document, so they have been read in the printed order and grouped here by period.

What the syllabus lists	What it means and how to prepare
Pre-historic period, ancient civilizations, Vedic age	Stone-age cultures, the Indus civilisation and the Vedic period. The syllabus prints these after the medieval items, but study them first — the rest follows from them.
Birth of new religions	Buddhism and Jainism — their teachings, their councils and their spread.
Mauryans, Kushans, Gupthas, Vardhana dynasty	The northern empires, with administration, art and the sources that tell us about them.
Southern dynasties	The Satavahanas, Kadambas, Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, Hoysalas and Cholas — the Karnataka half of this list is asked most.
Medieval India, Delhi sultans, Rajputs	The Delhi Sultanate dynasty by dynasty, its administration, and the Rajput kingdoms alongside it.
Bhakthi movement, religious and social reform movements	The saints and the reform societies, from the Bhakti and Sufi movements to the nineteenth-century reformers.
Vijayanagar empire, Bahamani Sulthans	Two Deccan powers a Karnataka paper cannot leave out — Hampi, the administration, and the travellers' accounts.
Great mughals, Marathas	The Mughal emperors and their administration, and the rise of the Maratha power.
Renaissance, Reformation, geographical discoveries, medieval Europe	The European block the syllabus prints in the middle of the Indian one — read it as the background to why Europeans arrived here.
Foreign invasion, rise of English, Mysore sulthans, Wodeyars of Mysore	How the English took power, and Karnataka's own rulers through that century — Hyder Ali, Tipu Sultan and the Wodeyar house.
First war of Independence, national movement — Gandhian era, partition and Independence	1857 onward: the Congress, the Gandhian movements, and the events that end in 1947.
Rise of Christianity and Islam, rise of revolutions and equality, constitution development in India, modern world — First and Second World War, contemporary world	The closing items, printed as one run: world religions, the age of revolutions, how our Constitution grew from the colonial acts, and the two world wars.

10 Paper-2 — Social Science Teacher: Civics

The second block, printed under the heading CIVICS — twelve items that run from the citizen to the Constitution.

What the syllabus lists	What it means and how to prepare
Social and economic development	The civics paper opens where economics ends — development as a social goal, and the measures used for it.
Man as a citizen	Citizenship, rights and duties, and how a citizen takes part in public life.
Democracy, democracy at work in India	Forms of democracy and how ours actually functions — elections, parties and pressure groups.
Local self government	Panchayats and municipalities, their powers and their finances — the same ground Paper-1 covers, so one round of study serves both.
Government at state level	Governor, chief minister, council of ministers and the state legislature.
Government at the centre	President, prime minister, Parliament and the Supreme Court.
Defense of the country, challenges and problems of India	The armed forces and internal security, and the social and economic problems the country is working on.
India and the world, world problems and India's policy, Constitution of India	Foreign policy and international bodies, closing with the Constitution itself — the syllabus prints it last but it is the most asked item in the block.

11 Paper-2 — Social Science Teacher: Geography

The third block. Its longest item is one line naming six continents with eight sub-heads to be studied for each — that single line is the biggest piece of work in this subject.

What the syllabus lists	What it means and how to prepare
Physical geography, layers of the earth	The earth's interior, landforms and the processes that make them.
Environment, human interaction with environment	How people use and change their surroundings, and what that costs.
Resources	Types of resources, their distribution and their conservation.
Natural regions of the earth, world climate, world natural vegetation	The climatic regions and the vegetation belt that goes with each — usually asked as match-the-pair.
Human occupations	Primary, secondary and tertiary activities, and where each dominates.
India and Asia	The physical divisions, climate, rivers, soils and population of India, set in its continent.
Africa, North America, South America, Australia, Europe and Antarctica — physical divisions, climate, natural vegetation and animal life, resources, agriculture, mineral and power resources, industrial development, transport and communication	One continent per sitting, always in the same eight headings the syllabus itself gives — that order is the fastest way to hold six continents in memory.
Layers of atmosphere, universe	The atmospheric layers with their properties, and elementary astronomy.

12 Paper-2 — Social Science Teacher: Economics

The fourth and last block, which ends by naming Sociology and Political Science without expanding them.

What the syllabus lists	What it means and how to prepare
Economics — meaning and definition, basic concepts	What economics studies, and the vocabulary — wants, utility, demand, supply — the rest of the block uses.
National income	How national income is measured, the three methods, and what each number does and does not say.
Forms of economic system, institutional set up	Capitalist, socialist and mixed economies, and the institutions India runs its economy through.
Infrastructure of Indian economy	Power, transport, banking and communication as the base on which output grows.
India — agriculture development, relation between agriculture and industry	Green-revolution onward: cropping, irrigation, credit, and how farm and factory depend on each other.
Trade — domestic and foreign trade of India	What India buys and sells, with whom, and the balance-of-payments idea behind it.
State and economic development	The government's role — planning, budgets, taxes and welfare spending.
Sociology, Political Science	The syllabus closes the social-science paper by naming these two subjects, so the basic concepts of each — social institutions, change, state, power and ideologies — are in scope.

13 Paper-2 — Physical Education Teacher

100 questions, 100 marks, 2 hours. The syllabus prints this subject as one paragraph; every item in it is set out below. Note the two ends of it — the science of training at one end and current sports affairs at the other.

What the syllabus lists	What it means and how to prepare
Scientific foundation of Physical Education	The biological and mechanical principles under training — why an exercise works, not just how it is done.
History of Physical Education	From ancient systems to the modern Olympic movement and physical education in India.
Anatomy	Bones, joints and muscles — the names and actions a teacher must use correctly while coaching.
Physiology	How the heart, lungs and muscles respond to exercise, and what training changes in them.
Health Education	Personal and school health, nutrition, and communicable disease. The scan of this page leaves one more word after this item unclear, so check that one against the PDF.
Safety Education and First Aid	Preventing injury on the field, and the first aid for the injuries that still happen.
Organisation and Administration in physical education	Running a school sports programme — budgets, facilities, equipment, and conducting a tournament.
Tests and measurements in physical education	Standard fitness tests and how their scores are recorded and compared.
Psychological principles in physical education	Motivation, learning of skills, anxiety and team behaviour.
Major games and sports — principles of officiating in football, hockey, kho-kho, kabaddi, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, shuttle badminton and cricket	Nine games named one by one: the field, the equipment, the rules and the officials' signals. Learn each as a one-page card — the questions are direct.
Recreation and camping and minor games	Camp organisation, recreational activities and the minor games used in school periods.
Yoga	Asanas, pranayama and their benefits, and how yoga is taught to a school class.
Individual special activities	Athletics, gymnastics, swimming and the other individual events a residential school runs.
National ideals, integration	The civic side of the subject — national values and the role of sport in national integration.
Sports current affairs	Recent tournaments, medals, awards and appointments — the one item that goes stale, so revise it in the last week.

14 Paper-2 — Computer Teacher: computer fundamentals and C programming

100 questions, 100 marks, 2 hours for the subject, and the syllabus splits it into three named blocks. This first one is a full C programming course, sub-head by sub-head. The Computer Teacher post appears in the RPC notification (57 posts); the Kalyana-Karnataka notification does not list it.

What the syllabus lists	What it means and how to prepare
Introduction to C programming	History of C, the structure of a programme, the character set, variables and keywords, and the types of constants and variables.
C instructions	Type declaration and arithmetic instructions, integer and float conversion, type conversion in assignment, operators and their hierarchy, and formatted and unformatted input-output.
Control structures	Decision structures, logical, conditional and relational operators, the while, do-while and for loops, break, continue, switch-case and goto.
Arrays and strings	One-dimensional and multidimensional arrays, declaration, initialisation and manipulation, bubble sort, and strings with the library functions for them.
Functions	Definition and prototyping, types of functions and arguments, recursion, passing arrays to functions, and the storage classes — automatic, register, external and static.
Pointers	Definition and notation, pointers and arrays, arrays of pointers, call by value against call by reference, and pointers to pointers.
Structures and unions	Declaring and accessing structure elements, arrays of structures, structures within structures, pointers with structures, unions, typedef and enum bit fields.
Bitwise operators	AND, OR, exclusive OR, complement, and the right and left shift operators.
C preprocessor	Types of preprocessor directives, macros and file inclusion.
Files	File operating modes, text and binary files, high-level and low-level file operations, and command-line arguments.

15 Paper-2 — Computer Teacher: data structures

The second block. It is a standard data-structures course and it names its own applications, so prepare the named ones — tower of Hanoi, infix to postfix, postfix evaluation — rather than a general reading.

What the syllabus lists	What it means and how to prepare
Introduction to data structures	Definition, classification, the operations performed on them, and a first look at time and space complexity.
Primitive data structures	Integer, character, float and strings — their memory representation, the primitive operations on them, and string handling with pointers.
Arrays as a data structure	Storage representation for one- and two-dimensional arrays, insertion and deletion, and the advantages and disadvantages of arrays.
Linked lists	Pointers and dynamic memory allocation, singly linked lists and their operations, insertion and deletion of a node, and an introduction to circular and doubly linked lists.
Stacks	Concepts and operations, sequential and linked implementation, and the applications named in the syllabus — recursion, tower of Hanoi, infix to postfix, and evaluating postfix expressions.
Queues	Concepts and operations, sequential and linked implementation, circular queues, priority queues and dequeues at introductory level, and applications of queues.
Trees	Definitions and concepts, binary trees, their sequential and linked representation, insertion and deletion, and traversal.
Graphs	Concepts, sequential and linked representation, and breadth-first and depth-first traversal.
Searching and sorting	Linear and binary search; selection, insertion, quick and merge sort — know which one needs sorted input and what each costs.

16 Paper-2 — Computer Teacher: operating system, and the seven subjects named at the end

The third block, and then a closing list. The syllabus expands the operating system in full and then names seven more subjects in single lines without expanding them — object-oriented programming in C++, databases, software engineering and system software, internet technology, Java and UNIX with an internet lab, computer graphics and computer networks. They are in the syllabus, so they are in scope; how deep is not stated.

What the syllabus lists	What it means and how to prepare
Operating system — history and types	Simple batch, multiprogrammed batch, time-sharing, personal computer, distributed and real-time systems.
Operating system structures	The command interpreter, operating system services, system calls and system programmes.
Process management	The process concept and process control block, process and CPU scheduling, and the scheduling algorithms the syllabus names — first-in-first-out, round robin, shortest job first, multilevel and multilevel feedback.
Storage management	Logical and physical address space, swapping, contiguous allocation, paging, segmentation, virtual memory and demand paging, page replacement and its algorithms, allocation of frames, and thrashing.
File system	File concept, access methods, directory structure, protection, file system structure, allocation methods and free-space management.
Input/output systems	An overview of input-output systems and interfaces, secondary storage structure, disk structure and disk scheduling.
Object-oriented programming using C++	The first of seven subjects the syllabus names in a closing list without expanding them: classes, objects, inheritance and polymorphism.
Database management system	The relational model, keys, normalisation and the query language.
Software engineering, system software	The development life cycle and testing on one side; assemblers, compilers and loaders on the other.
Internet technology	How the web works — protocols, addressing, browsers, servers and basic page authoring.
Basic Java and UNIX programming, internet lab	Java fundamentals, the UNIX shell and its common commands, and the practical laboratory work the syllabus attaches to them.
Computer graphics, computer networks	Drawing and transformation algorithms; and network topologies, layers and devices.

17 Paper-2 — Graduate Drawing Teacher and Diploma Drawing Teacher

These two posts appear only in the Kalyana-Karnataka notification (17 posts each), and their Paper-II is different from every other subject: the syllabus document heads it 'Communication' and prints three parts with maximum marks against each — 70, 70 and 60. It prints the same three parts for both the graduate and the diploma post.

What the syllabus lists	What it means and how to prepare
General Kannada — maximum marks 70	The largest of the three parts, along with General English. Grammar, comprehension and usage at the level a school teacher needs.
General English — maximum marks 70	The same weight as General Kannada, and the same kind of paper — grammar, vocabulary and comprehension.
Computer Knowledge — maximum marks 60	Basic computer literacy — parts of a computer, operating a document, spreadsheets and the internet.

The rules of the examination, as the notifications print them

Item	As printed in the notification
Mode of examination	Offline, OMR type. Both papers are objective and are taken on an answer sheet, not on a computer (§8.I).
Where it is held	At selected district centres in the state. The centres are announced later, and the notification says the centre will not be changed for any reason (§8.II).
What you must carry	The admission ticket downloaded from the authority's website, and one original photo identity card — PAN card, driving licence, Aadhaar card, passport, voter ID or a government service ID. Without them a candidate is not allowed into the centre (§8.II).
Minimum to stay in the process	At least 35 percent in the competitive examination is compulsory. Candidates who do not reach it are ineligible for the selection process (§10, note ii).
Options per question	Four alternatives, of which the candidate marks one (§11.i).
Negative marking	0.25 marks — one fourth — are deducted for each wrong answer (§11.i).
The fifth circle on the OMR sheet	The answer sheet carries a fifth circle for questions you leave unanswered. Five extra minutes are given after the last bell to shade it, and if a question is left with no circle shaded at all, 0.25 marks are deducted for that question (§11.ii).
The compulsory Kannada language paper	A multiple-choice paper of maximum 150 marks; a candidate must score at least 50 to qualify. It is set at the standard of first-language Kannada in SSLC. Candidates who are absent, or who score below the minimum, are not eligible for the selection process, and its marks are counted neither for seniority nor for selection to the posts (§9).
Who does not have to sit it	Candidates who studied Kannada as a first or second language in SSLC or in a higher examination, or who studied in Kannada medium and passed such an examination, or who have already passed a compulsory Kannada language test held earlier by a commission or another selection authority (§9).
Where that paper has reached	It was held on 22.08.2026 for the candidates of these posts, provisional marks were published on 29.08.2026, and the final marks list was published on 02.09.2026 — KEA's notice of that date names KREIS teacher posts fourth in its own list.
Who runs the steps after the written examination	KEA hands the candidates' marks list to the Karnataka Residential Educational Institutions Society, and KREIS conducts every process after the written examination as per rules (§22.XI).
Helpline	080-23460460, from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM. The notification says this number answers only for the notification, the written examination and the marks list (§23).

The posts and how many, as each notification prints them

Post	Residual Parent Cadre	Kalyana-Karnataka cadre	Pay scale
Kannada Language Teacher	103 (100 + 3 backlog)	62 (60 + 2 backlog)	₹54,175-99,400
English Language Teacher	108 (100 + 8 backlog)	69 (61 + 8 backlog)	₹54,175-99,400
Hindi Language Teacher	55 (50 + 5 backlog)	31 (26 + 5 backlog)	₹54,175-99,400
Mathematics Teacher	103 (100 + 3 backlog)	35 (29 + 6 backlog)	₹54,175-99,400
Science Teacher	106 (100 + 6 backlog)	32 (26 + 6 backlog)	₹54,175-99,400
Social Science Teacher	154 (150 + 4 backlog)	24 (16 + 8 backlog)	₹54,175-99,400
Computer Teacher	57 (50 + 7 backlog)	not listed in this notification	₹54,175-99,400
Physical Education Teacher	81 (75 + 6 backlog)	33 (28 + 5 backlog)	₹54,175-99,400
Graduate Drawing Teacher	not listed in this notification	17 (15 + 2 backlog)	₹49,050-92,500
Diploma Drawing Teacher	not listed in this notification	17 (16 + 1 backlog)	₹49,050-92,500
Total, as each notification prints it	725 + 42 backlog = 767	277 + 43 backlog = 320	—

Who can apply — the educational qualification for each post

Post	What the notification requires
Kannada Language Teacher	A bachelor's degree in arts from a recognised university with Kannada studied as an optional subject; or a pass in the four-year Kannada Pandit course of the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board — and, with either, a B.Ed in Kannada. A candidate who did not take Kannada as an optional subject in the degree must hold a postgraduate degree in Kannada.
English Language Teacher	A bachelor's degree in arts with English studied as an optional subject; or a pass in the postgraduate diploma certificate course in English of the Regional Institute of Education of South India — and, with either, a B.Ed with English as the main method. A candidate who did not take English as an optional subject in the degree must hold a postgraduate degree in English.
Hindi Language Teacher	A bachelor's degree in arts with Hindi studied as an optional subject, and a B.Ed. A candidate who did not study Hindi as an optional subject in the degree is treated as eligible only if all three hold: a postgraduate degree in Hindi, Hindi taken as the major subject in the degree, and a B.Ed in Hindi or in Hindi teaching methods.
Mathematics Teacher	A bachelor's degree in science with Mathematics and Physics as compulsory subjects and Chemistry studied as the optional subject, together with a B.Ed in the science method.
Science Teacher	A bachelor's degree in science with Chemistry compulsory and one of Botany or Zoology as the optional subject, together with a B.Ed in the science method.
Social Science Teacher	A bachelor's degree in arts with any two of History, Economics, Political Science, Sociology and Geography as optional subjects, together with a B.Ed in the arts method. The notification adds that because these residential schools run in English medium, a candidate for this post must have studied the degree in English medium and must produce a certificate to that effect from the university registrar or the college principal at document verification.
Computer Teacher	A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Science; or a Bachelor of Computer Applications; or a B.Sc with Computer Science, or a qualification equivalent to it.
Physical Education Teacher	A bachelor's degree from a recognised university and a bachelor's degree in physical education (B.P.Ed) from a recognised university.
Graduate and Diploma Drawing Teacher (Kalyana-Karnataka notification)	A bachelor's degree in fine arts (B.F.A.); or a bachelor's degree in visual arts (B.V.A.) from a recognised university; or the qualifications the notification lists under the government order of 21.03.2006 — the Technical Examinations Board's higher art examination (Art Master) diploma in drawing and painting, a commercial or applied-art diploma, or a diploma with special proficiency in painting.
An extra condition on six of the posts	For the Kannada, English, Hindi, Science, Mathematics and Social Science teacher posts — serial numbers 1 to 6 in both notifications — only candidates who have qualified in the Teacher Eligibility Test (Paper-2) conducted by the Karnataka Department of Primary and Secondary Education, or in the Central Teacher Eligibility Test conducted by CBSE, are eligible to apply. The notification does not place this condition on the Computer, Physical Education or drawing-teacher posts.
A condition on every post	Every post also requires Kannada: the candidate must have studied Kannada as a language in the postgraduate degree, the degree, the pre-degree course or SSLC, or hold a diploma in Kannada, or have passed the Kaava, Jaana or Ratna Kannada certificate examination of the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board or the Kannada Sahitya Parishat, Bengaluru.

Dates, fee, age and pay, as the notification prints them

Item	As printed in the notification
Online application opened	15.07.2026 (§4).
Last date to apply online	17.08.2026. The notification of 10.07.2026 had said 13.08.2026; KEA extended it by a notice dated 13.08.2026, issued separately for both cadres.
Last date to pay the fee	18.08.2026, extended from 14.08.2026 by the same notice, which adds that nothing else in the 10.07.2026 notification changes.
How the application is made	Online only, through the link on the Karnataka Examinations Authority's website. Once an application is submitted, no information in it can be changed or corrected at any stage (§3).
Fee — general merit and categories 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B	₹750 (₹500 application fee plus ₹250 processing fee) (§7).
Fee — SC, ST, category-1, ex-servicemen and third-gender candidates	₹500 (₹250 application fee plus ₹250 processing fee) (§7).
Fee — candidates with a disability	₹250, the processing fee only (§7).
Applying for more than one post	One online application covers the posts above: the fee is paid once for the first post, and ₹100 more for each additional post chosen. The marks scored are then considered for the subject posts whose fee was paid, and a separate final marks list is handed to the department subject by subject (§7).
Refund	The fee paid is not refunded (§7).
Minimum age	18 years completed on the last date fixed for applications (§2).
Maximum age — general merit candidates	45 years (§2).
Maximum age — categories 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B	48 years (§2).
Maximum age — SC, ST and category-1	50 years (§2).
The five-year relaxation	The three maximums above already include a one-time five-year relaxation in the upper age limit, granted under the government order of 29.01.2026 that the notification cites (§2).
Probation	Two years for candidates appointed through direct recruitment (§5.i).
Pay scale	₹54,175-1375-58,300-1500-64,300-1650-74,200-1900-85,600-2300-99,400, the 2024 revised state scale, for the teaching posts (§5.ii). The two drawing-teacher posts in the Kalyana-Karnataka notification carry ₹49,050-92,500.
Pension and provident fund	The National Pension Scheme applies, under the government order of 31.03.2006. The notification states that employees within the society's scope have no KGID scheme and no provident fund scheme (§6).

Not covered in this pack — where to find it

The date of the written examination	Not printed. Both notifications say only that a detailed timetable for the competitive examination will be published later on the authority's website, and that admission tickets are to be downloaded from there when announced. Official PDF ↗
The examination centres	Not printed. The notification says the written examination will be held at selected district centres in the state and that the details will be told later, adding that district centres may change for administrative reasons and that a candidate's centre will not be changed for any reason. Official PDF ↗
How many questions come from each area of Paper-1	Not printed. §10 gives Paper-1 100 questions and 100 marks for the fifteen areas taken together, and does not split them subject by subject. Official PDF ↗
Cut-off marks	Not printed. The notification gives only the 35 percent minimum required to stay in the selection process; a cut-off can only be fixed after the examination. Official PDF ↗
The post-wise and category-wise reservation break-up	Not in the notification. KREIS publishes it separately, and KEA has put both lists on the same page as the notification — 'KREIS teachers: classification of RPC posts' and the matching Kalyana-Karnataka list, both dated 11.07.2026. Each gives, for one post, the split by category and by rural, Kannada-medium, ex-servicemen, women, disability, project-displaced and third-gender reservation. Official PDF ↗
The reservation rules and the certificates each one needs	Printed in the notification but not reproduced here. Paragraphs 13 to 19 set out the caste and reservation certificates in Forms D, E and F with the dates they must be held by, and then the separate claims — ex-servicemen (10 percent of posts), rural candidates who studied classes 1 to 10 in a rural area, Kannada-medium candidates who studied classes 1 to 10 in Kannada, project-displaced candidates, candidates with a disability of not less than 40 percent (5 percent of Group 'C' posts), and third-gender candidates (1 percent of the posts in each category). Each claim has its own form and its own certifying authority, and the notification says a claim made without the certificate held by the last date is rejected. Official PDF ↗
The maximum age for the Hindi, Computer and Physical Education teacher posts	Not printed separately. The age table's own heading names the Kannada, English, Urdu, Mathematics, Science and Social Science teacher posts (the Kalyana-Karnataka table's heading adds the two drawing-teacher posts), and neither notification prints a different maximum for the remaining posts. Official PDF ↗
An Urdu language teacher post	Named in the heading of the age table in both notifications, but no Urdu teacher post appears in either post table. If you are looking for one, it is not in this recruitment. Official PDF ↗
How deep Paper-2 goes	Not stated. The syllabus document prints topic lists for each subject without a standard or a level; the only level named anywhere is 'SSLC standard', and that is printed for the practical-knowledge and mental-ability area of Paper-1. Official PDF ↗
The marks split inside Paper-2 for the eight teaching subjects	Not printed. Paper-2 carries 100 questions and 100 marks as a whole. The only subject for which a split is printed is the drawing-teacher paper — 70, 70 and 60 for General Kannada, General English and Computer Knowledge. Official PDF ↗

Free practice — 20 questions

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How is the KREIS teacher competitive examination 2026 conducted?
- A Online, on a computer
- B Offline, on an OMR answer sheet
- C Interview only
- D Online test followed by an interview
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B — Offline, on an OMR answer sheet

The notification says in §8 that the competitive examination for these posts is conducted offline, OMR type, at selected district centres in the state.

Exam Pattern
How many questions does Paper-1 carry?
- A 50
- B 75
- C 100
- D 150
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C — 100

§10 gives Paper-1 100 questions for 100 marks in 2 hours, covering the fifteen general areas listed there.

Exam Pattern
How long is Paper-2, and how many marks does it carry?
- A 2 hours, 100 marks
- B 2 hours, 150 marks
- C 3 hours, 100 marks
- D 90 minutes, 50 marks
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A — 2 hours, 100 marks

Paper-2, the specific subject paper, is printed with 100 questions, 100 marks and 2 hours — the same size as Paper-1.

Exam Pattern
What is the minimum a candidate must score in the competitive examination?
- A 25 percent
- B 30 percent
- C 35 percent
- D 40 percent
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C — 35 percent

The note under §10 says in bold that scoring at least 35 percent is compulsory, and that candidates below it are ineligible for the selection process.

Qualifying Marks
How much is deducted for a wrong answer?
- A Nothing
- B 0.25 marks
- C 0.33 marks
- D 1 mark
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B — 0.25 marks

§11 states that each question has four alternatives and that one fourth — 0.25 marks — is deducted for every wrong answer.

Negative Marking
What happens if a question is left with no circle shaded at all on the OMR sheet?
- A Nothing is deducted
- B 0.25 marks are deducted
- C 1 mark is deducted
- D The whole answer sheet is rejected
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B — 0.25 marks are deducted

§11.ii gives a fifth circle for unanswered questions, allows five extra minutes after the last bell to shade it, and deducts 0.25 marks for any question left with no circle shaded.

Negative Marking
What are the maximum marks of the compulsory Kannada language paper?
- A 100
- B 150
- C 200
- D 50
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B — 150

§9 sets the compulsory Kannada language paper at a maximum of 150 marks, of which a candidate must score at least 50 to qualify.

Kannada Language Paper
Do the marks of the compulsory Kannada language paper count in the merit?
- A Yes, they are added to Paper-1 and Paper-2
- B No — they count neither for seniority nor for selection
- C Only for candidates who studied in Kannada medium
- D Only half of them are added
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B — No — they count neither for seniority nor for selection

§9 says the marks obtained in the compulsory Kannada language examination are considered neither for seniority nor for selection to the posts — but a candidate who is absent, or scores below 50, is out of the selection process.

Kannada Language Paper
Which posts require a pass in TET Paper-2 or CTET?
- A Every post in the notification
- B The Kannada, English, Hindi, Science, Mathematics and Social Science teacher posts
- C Only the Computer and Physical Education teacher posts
- D Only the drawing-teacher posts
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B — The Kannada, English, Hindi, Science, Mathematics and Social Science teacher posts

The 'additional qualifications' clause names serial numbers 1 to 6 — the Kannada, English, Hindi, Science, Mathematics and Social Science teacher posts — and says only candidates qualified in TET Paper-2 or CTET may apply for them.

Posts and Eligibility
How many teacher posts does the Residual Parent Cadre notification print in total?
- A 320
- B 725
- C 767
- D 802
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C — 767

The RPC post table's own total row reads 725 posts plus 42 backlog posts, that is 767, across eight subjects.

Posts and Eligibility
How many posts does the Kalyana-Karnataka notification print?
- A 320
- B 767
- C 277
- D 363
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A — 320

The Kalyana-Karnataka post table totals 277 posts plus 43 backlog posts, that is 320, across nine subjects — the eight of the other notification minus the computer teacher post, plus the graduate and diploma drawing-teacher posts.

Posts and Eligibility
Which post appears in the Kalyana-Karnataka notification but not in the Residual Parent Cadre one?
- A Science Teacher
- B Computer Teacher
- C Drawing Teacher
- D Physical Education Teacher
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C — Drawing Teacher

The Kalyana-Karnataka table carries graduate drawing teacher and diploma drawing teacher posts, 17 each, on the ₹49,050-92,500 scale; the RPC table has no drawing post and has a computer teacher post instead.

Posts and Eligibility
What is the upper age limit for a general merit candidate?
- A 40 years
- B 45 years
- C 48 years
- D 50 years
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B — 45 years

§2 sets 45 years for general merit, 48 for categories 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B and 50 for SC, ST and category-1 — each already including the one-time five-year relaxation.

Age Limit
What is the upper age limit for SC, ST and category-1 candidates?
- A 45 years
- B 48 years
- C 50 years
- D 55 years
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C — 50 years

The age table prints 50 years for SC, ST and category-1 candidates, against 48 for categories 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B and 45 for general merit.

Age Limit
What is the fee for a general merit candidate?
- A ₹250
- B ₹500
- C ₹750
- D ₹1,000
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C — ₹750

§7 prints ₹750 for general merit and categories 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B — ₹500 application fee plus ₹250 processing fee — and says the fee is not refunded.

Fee
How long is the probation period for a candidate appointed through this recruitment?
- A One year
- B Two years
- C Three years
- D There is no probation
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B — Two years

§5 states that candidates selected through direct recruitment are on probation for two years, on the 2024 revised state pay scale of ₹54,175-99,400.

Pay and Probation
Whose Paper-2 syllabus prints a physics block along with a mathematics block?
- A Science Teacher
- B Mathematics Teacher
- C Computer Teacher
- D Social Science Teacher
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B — Mathematics Teacher

Under the single heading 'Syllabus for Mathematic Teacher' the syllabus document prints a PHYSICS block first and a MATHEMATICS block after it, and the physics block is the longer of the two.

Paper-2 Syllabus
What does Unit-1 of the Kannada language teacher's Paper-2 cover?
- A Poetics and prosody
- B Kannada language and grammar
- C The history of Kannada literature
- D Translation and composition
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C — The history of Kannada literature

The syllabus prints three units for this subject: Unit-1 is the history of Kannada literature, by the Halegannada, Nadugannada and Hosagannada periods with their poets and works; Unit-2 is poetics and prosody; Unit-3 is language and grammar.

Paper-2 Syllabus
The drawing teacher's Paper-II is headed 'Communication'. What are its three parts worth?
- A 50, 50 and 100
- B 70, 70 and 60
- C 40, 40 and 20
- D 100, 50 and 50
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B — 70, 70 and 60

For both the graduate and the diploma drawing-teacher posts the syllabus prints General Kannada 70, General English 70 and Computer Knowledge 60.

Paper-2 Syllabus
Who conducts the steps that follow the written examination?
- A The Karnataka Examinations Authority
- B The Karnataka Residential Educational Institutions Society
- C The Department of Public Instruction
- D The district administration
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B — The Karnataka Residential Educational Institutions Society

§22 says the marks list of the candidates is handed over to the Karnataka Residential Educational Institutions Society, and that KREIS conducts all processes after the written examination as per rules.

Selection Process

These questions are built from the official pattern and syllabus on this page. Every answer was independently re-solved before it was published.

FAQ — Your Questions, Answered

Where is the official syllabus published?

cetonline.karnataka.gov.in

How many questions come from Paper-1?

100

How many questions come from Paper-2?

100

The date of the written examination — where do I find this?

Not printed. Both notifications say only that a detailed timetable for the competitive examination will be published later on the authority's website, and that admission tickets are to be downloaded from there when announced.

The examination centres — where do I find this?

Not printed. The notification says the written examination will be held at selected district centres in the state and that the details will be told later, adding that district centres may change for administrative reasons and that a candidate's centre will not be changed for any reason.

How many questions come from each area of Paper-1 — where do I find this?

Not printed. §10 gives Paper-1 100 questions and 100 marks for the fifteen areas taken together, and does not split them subject by subject.

Every fact on this page is read off KEA's own documents and explained here in our own words: the detailed recruitment notifications of 10.07.2026 for the Residual Parent Cadre and for the Kalyana-Karnataka cadre, the Paper-2 syllabus document signed by the Executive Director of KREIS, the application-extension notices of 13.08.2026, and the Kannada language paper notice of 02.09.2026. All of them are Kannada documents, and the syllabus is a scan whose text carries a few obvious errors — where one could mislead a reader, this page says so in place. The notifications are linked from the KREIS Recruitment 2026 pages on cetonline.karnataka.gov.in; confirm anything that matters against the notification itself: KEA, KREIS recruitment notification 2026 (RPC), 10.07.2026 ↗

This exam recruits at these levels: Graduate

Note — Always confirm the syllabus and pattern against that year's official notification — changes are possible.

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By SarkariReady Editorial Team · Updated: 09 Sep 2026 · Source: cetonline.karnataka.gov.in