Karnataka Examination Authority has entrusted with duty of recruitment of 1242 posts of assistant professors in the department of collegiate education, Government of Karnataka. Here i will share complete details about the notifications, eligibility, Important dates, Application Submission, Study materials and Previous Question papers, Key answers  etc for upcoming  Assistant professor recruitment.

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The recruitment of assistant professors for Government first grade colleges of Karnataka will be done by Karnataka examination authority through Competitive exam. (There will be no interview as per the draft recruitment rules 2020)

   Aspirants with required qualification can download the syllabus and previous year question papers from bellow links and they can start their preparations.

    Assistant Professor Recruitment will be conduct by Karnataka state government, Department of Collegiate education on the basis  rules and regulations made by the University Grant Commission (UGC) from time to time.

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Karnataka Assistant professors recruitment Rules

          Karnataka state government has announced draft Recruitment rules for Karnataka Education Department Services 2020 (collegiate education department) for the recruitment of 1242 Assistant Professors  in the Government First Grade Colleges  of Karnataka. you can download the draft recruitment rules from the following link

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Number of Vacancies

Cadre	Total Posts
Residual Parent Cadre (NHK)	1021
Kalyana Karnataka/ HK	221

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Qualification/ Eligibility

• A Master Degree with minimum 55% of marks from recognized university
• 5% of relaxation for Schedule Caste (SC), Schedule tribe (ST), OBC (Non creamy layer), Person with Disability (PWD), PHD holder those who were completed their Master’s Degree before the date 19 Sept. 1991.
• Candidates should be successfully qualified in the “National Eligible Test” conducted by UGC or CSIR or other similar test accredited by UGC like “State eligibility test” or KSET
• PHD degree holders who has completed there PHD  in accordance with the UGC rules released from time to time  are exempted from the passing  NET or SET
• The Ph.D Degree of the candidates has been awarded in regular mode only. Distance mode Ph.D degree shall not be consider as valid.
• Education qualification prescribed by the University Grant Commission in regulations/ guidelines issued from time to time shall be applicable.

As per the latest circular from the MHRD & UGC, PhD is Compulsory to become assistant professors in the universities wef July 2021. However, the NET / SLET / PhD Continue to be the minimum eligibility for Assistant professors in Colleges across the Country.

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Age limit

• Lower age limit is 22 years
• Upper age limit will be as follows

SC, ST, Cat-1	45 years
IIA, IIB, IIIA, IIIB	43 years
General	40 years

Mode of Appointment 

• Competitive examination shall be conducted by KPSC / KEA for selection on the basis of Merit
• There shall be no interview

Karnataka Examination authority shall conduct the competitive exam for selection of candidates for the post of assistant professors in the govt first grade colleges of Karnataka. ( There will be no Interview)

Pattern of Examination

Compulsory papers: There will be two compulsory papers

Paper-I	Kannada	100 marks
Paper-II	English	100 marks

• Compulsory paper ( Kannada & English) shall be qualifying nature. For qualifying these papers minimum of 30% in each paper and 35% aggregate is required.
• Candidates who does not qualifies in Compulsory papers are not eligible for recruitment.
• Marks obtained in compulsory papers will not be considered for ranking.

Optional papers- There will be two optional papers.

Paper-III	General Knowledge	50 marks
Paper-IV	Optional paper	250 marks

• The Optional Paper Shall be set both in Kannada and English
• Optional Paper shall have Negative marking with deduction of 1/4^th marks for each wrong answer

Syllabus

you can download the syllabus of Compulsory Kannada & Compulsory English from the following link.

 Syllabus of Compulsory Papers

You can Download the syllabus of optional papers from the following Links.

Paper III: General Knowledge

• Current events
• General science
• Humanities
• Indian economy
• Matters of every day observation
• Practical knowledge

Paper IV: Subject Paper

 The Syllabus of this paper will be set by Subject Expert Committee which has constituted by Department of Collegiate education. Here is the syllabus for paper IV.

1.  Kannada

2.  English

3.  Hindi

4.  Urdu

5.  Sociology

6.  History

7.  Psychology

8.  Economics

9.  Political Science

10.  Geography

11.  Commerce

12.  Journalism & Mass Communication

13.  Social Work

14.  Management

15.  Physics

16.  Chemistry

17.  Mathematics

18.  Computer Science

19.  Zoology

20.  Tourism Administration

21.  Electronics

22.  Home Science

23.  Fashion Technology

24.  Criminology

Previous Question papers

Paper 1 : Compulsory Kannada 

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Paper 2 : Compulsory English 

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Paper 3 : Compulsory General Knowledge 

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Paper 4 : Subject Paper 

2017  Assistant Professor recruitment:   you can download the question papers from the following links

1. Kannada –	Master Question Paper,
2. English –	Master Question Paper,
3. Hindi –	Master Question Paper,
4. Urdu –	Master Question Paper,
5. Sociology –	Master Question Paper,
6. History –	Master Question Paper,
7. Psychology –	Master Question Paper,
8. Economics –	Master Question Paper,
9. Political Science –	Master Question Paper,
10. Geography –	Master Question Paper,
11. Commerce –	Master Question Paper,
12. Journalism –	Master Question Paper,
13. Social Work –	Master Question Paper,
14. Management –	Master Question Paper,
15. Physics –	Master Question Paper,
16. Chemistry –	Master Question Paper,
17. Mathematics –	Master Question Paper,
18. Computer Science –	Master Question Paper,
19. Zoology –	Master Question Paper,
20. Tourism Administration –	Master Question Paper,
21. Electronics –	Master Question Paper,
22. Home Science –	Master Question Paper,
23. Criminology –	Master Question Paper,
24. Fashion Technology –	Master Question Paper,
25. General Knowledge –	Master Question Paper,

Previous Key Answers

You can download the key answers for all the question papers of 2017 assistant professors recruitment from the bellow link.

Key Answer of above question paper