Karnataka Judiciary — Previous-Year Papers
Every Karnataka Judiciary paper we have, free to read and download. 8 prelims and 7 mains papers — each one also available as a clean, branded PDF.
Karnataka Judiciary · Prelims
What the Karnataka prelims actually tests
One 100-question, 100-mark objective screen — qualifying only (the marks count solely toward eligibility for the Mains, in a ~1:10 filter; clear 60% / 50% reserved), and it is all law plus a small GK head, with no English-comprehension or aptitude block. Built on the site's second-deepest archive — 800 questions across eight papers (2014-2022), effectively seven distinct (2014 and 2016 are the same paper). Bars show share of the whole paper; the line tracks each subject over those eight years.
This is a procedure exam first — and CPC has run away with it. The Code of Civil Procedure doubled from 13% in 2014/16 to a settled 22-26% from 2018 on — now about one question in five. Stack it with CrPC, IPC and Evidence and the four procedural/penal codes are ~55% of the paper. Master CPC's Orders and rule numbers cold; the civil-substantive heads (TPA, Contract, SRA, NI Act) are each smaller but examined every single year, so none is optional.
The Kannada gate is in the Mains, not here — but the new codes already are. Karnataka's language requirement is a full 100-mark English↔Kannada Translation paper, but it sits in the Mains and never touches this prelims screen; the only state law inside prelims is the small Karnataka Rent Act, 1999. On substance, all eight papers (latest 2022) test the IPC, CrPC and Evidence Act, yet the current notification now pairs them with the BNS, BNSS and BSA — so the ~35% the three codes carry will go forward on the sanhitas. Use the PYQs for topic patterns, then re-map each section onto its new-code equivalent.