The Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) conducts Karnataka State Eligibility Test (KSET) to assess the eligibility of candidates for lecturers and assistant professors in universities and colleges in Karnataka. Candidates who plan to appear in the Karnataka set 2025 exam should go through a detailed course and exam pattern to score good marks and clean the exam. In this article, we have shared the details of the subject-syllabus.
Karnataka Set Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2025
The KSET exam is a state-level examination in Karnataka and will be conducted in offline mode with MCQS format. Any candidate who is appearing for this exam, should know about the syllabus and pattern of the exam. This paper is distributed in two parts IE Paper I and Paper 2. Candidates will be able to score better only when they cover their entire syllabus according to the exam pattern, which is provided in this article below.
KSET Course and Exam Pattern 2025- Highlights | |
Name of organization | Karnataka Examination Authority |
Exam name | Karnataka State Elimination Test (KSET) |
Examination level | state level |
post name | Lecturer and assistant professor |
Examination method | Offline |
Duration | 3 hours |
Examination phase | Paper 1- 100 digits Paper 2- 200 digits |
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KSET Paper 1 Syllabus 2025
The KSET syllabus 2025 has different subjects and subjects, candidates should go well through the complete list of subjects according to the exam for which they are visible. The preparation of the examination of the exam will help in getting good marks.
KSET Paper and Exam Pattern
Paper L will include 50 objective-type questions, each of which will have two digits and will be held for 60 minutes (1 hour). There will be no negative marking for each wrong answer. Check the subject-wise number questions and marks from the table below.
Subjects | Number of questions | Mark |
Teaching ability | 05 | 10 |
Research qualification | 05 | 10 |
reading comprehension | 05 | 10 |
Communications | 05 | 10 |
Argument (including mathematical) | 05 | 10 |
Logical logic | 05 | 10 |
data interpretation | 05 | 10 |
information and communication technology | 05 | 10 |
People and environment | 05 | 10 |
Higher Education System: Governance, Politics and Administration | 05 | 10 |
Total | 50 | 100 |
KSET Paper 1 syllabus and theme
Candidates who are going to appear for paper should be aware of the subject-wise course. KSET Paper I Exam includes qualification, data interpretation, logical logic, teaching people and environmentMore topics that have been discussed below.
Teaching aptitude syllabus
Here, below we have mentioned a list of some subjects that a candidate should study for the teaching qualification section in the KSET exam.
- Teaching
- Learning characteristics
- Teaching factor
- Teaching assistant
- evaluation system
Research qualification course
The subjects like workshop, Steps of Research, Thesis Writing, Method of Research, etc. are to be studied by the candidates to prepare the Research Qualification Section.
- Meaning of research
- Types and characteristics of research
- Research phase
- Research system
- Research ethics
- Papers and articles
- Conference and seminar
- Workshops
- Thesis writing
Understanding courses
A path of the story will be set with questions that need to be answered from within the paragraph.
Communication course
Candidates should study subjects like communication barriers, type of communication, nature of communication, effective classroom communication, etc.
- Nature of communication
- Type of communication
- Characteristics of communication
- Obstacles of communication
- Effective classroom communication
Curriculum
I have been given below the subjects that a candidate should prepare from the logic subject in KSET Paper I.
- Letter chain
- Number chain
- Coding-decoding
- Arithmetic
- Sequential principle
Logical logic course
Word analogy, ven diagram, analytical argument, oral classification, and some other subjects should be prepared by the candidates to score better marks in the logical logic section.
- Understand the structure of arguments
- Evaluate
- Oral analogy
- Word analogy
- Oral classification
- Friend chart
- Analytical argument
Data interpretation course
Check the list of subjects from data interpretation subjects that are important for the candidates to study while preparing the cassett paper I.
- Source, acquisition and interpretation
- Qualitative and quantitative data
- Positive representation
- Mapping data
Information and communication technology (ICT) courses
This section is the easiest section, candidates should have general and basic information about information and communication technology. Candidates should be studied by candidates like e-mailing, ICT meaning, advantages, disadvantages, etc.
- ICT Earth
- Use
- advantage and disadvantage
- General brief name and vocabulary
- Internet origin
- E -mail
People and environment courses
The questions asked in this section are very basic, candidates can easily try them and there is more likely to score better here. The list of subjects to be prepared for people and environment is given below.
- People and environmental conversation
- Source of pollution
- Effect on pollutant and human life
- Natural threats
- Exploitation of nature and energy resources
Higher Education System: Governance, Politics and Administration Courses
Check the topics for which the candidates who are present need to study Karnataka State Eligibility Test (KSET) from the subject of higher education system.
- Institute structure for higher education and research in India.
- Formal and distance education
- Technical, professional and general education
- Price Education: Politics, Governance, Administration
Karnataka Set Paper 1 (General Paper 1) Syllabus PDF
KSET Paper 2 Syllabus 2025
KSET Paper 2 Syllabus 2025 Paper is different from I syllabus. Before appearing for Paper 2 Examination, candidates should know the subject-wise course so that candidates can make a strategy for its preparation. Here we have covered all the subjects of paper II exam syllabus which will be asked in the exam.
KSET Paper 2 Exam Pattern
Candidates who cleaned the paper I exam will have to appear for the Paper II exam which will be for the total number of 200 marks. This paper has 100 questions and 2 hours are given to complete it. There is no negative marking in this paper.
KSET Paper 2 courses for all subjects
Karnataka State Eligibility Test (KSET) paper II examination will be subject-specific and will have questions based on the syllabus of the chosen subject. KSET Paper II varies according to the subject selected by the syllabus candidates. KSET Paper 2 includes Urdu, Commerce, Economics, Kannada languageAnd more which are given below the table.
- Women’s subject studies the course
- Visual arts courses
- Urdu subject syllabus
- Tourism administration and management subject courses
- Sociology subject courses
- Social work subject courses
- Sanskrit subject syllabus
- Public administration subject courses
- Psychology subject courses
- Political science subject courses
- Physics courses
- Physical education course
- Philosophy course
- Demonstration arts courses
- Music subject course
- Mathematical science subject courses
- Mass communication and journalism courses
- Marathi subject course
- Management subject course
- Linguistics
- Life science subject courses
- Library and information science subject courses
- Law subject course
- Kannada subject syllabus
- Home science subject courses
- History subject courses
- Hindi subject course
- Geography subject course
- Folk literature subject courses
- Environmental science subject courses
- English subject course
- Electronic science course
- Economics subject course
- Education subject course
- Earth science subject courses
- Criminal science courses
- Computer science and application courses
- Commercial subject course
- Chemical science course
- Archaeological courses
- Anthropology curriculum