Kerala PSC Departmental Test Mock Test 2026: Online Practice Tests

Reading the Codes and Manuals is only half of Departmental Test preparation. The other half is practice under exam conditions. A mock test shows you how fast you can find a provision, how many questions you can answer without guessing, and where you lose marks to negative marking. The Entri app has mock tests to help you practise for the Kerala PSC Departmental Test 2026. This guide explains how the exam pattern shapes a good mock test, how to attempt one, and how to learn from your result.

Kerala PSC Departmental Test Online Mock Test 2026: Attempt Link

Practise by test and by paper so that your mock tests match your own Departmental Test. Mock tests can be attempted for areas such as:

• Account Test (Lower) and Account Test (Higher)
• Kerala Service Rules, Kerala Financial Code, Kerala Treasury Code and Kerala Account Code
• Manual of Office Procedure, Secretariat Office Manual and District Office Manual
• Divisional Accountants Test
• KSEB tests
• Revenue Test
• Judicial, Excise, Forest, Police and Jail tests
• Panchayat, Municipal and Local Fund Audit tests
• Other department-specific tests and language tests

Kerala PSC Departmental Test Mock Test 2026: Why It Matters

• Real pattern practice: Most Departmental Tests are objective (online or OMR), so you practise the same format you will face.
• Negative marking awareness: Each wrong answer costs 1/3 mark. Mocks teach you when to answer and when to skip.
• Time control: Most papers are 1.5 hours and some are 2 hours. Mocks train you to finish with time to review.
• With-books look-up speed: Timed practice shows how long you take to find a rule in a permitted book.
• Weak area detection: Your result shows which Code, Act or Manual needs more revision.

Kerala PSC Departmental Test Exam Pattern 2026

Your mock test practice should match the real pattern.

Kerala PSC Departmental Test Mock Test 2026: Model Questions

1. The Sanctioning of L.W.A. exceeding four months at a time will rest with

Ans: Government (Rule 64) Part I

2. Commuted leave is admissible to permanent and officiating officers with a completed service of —– years

Ans: 3 years R-86

3. Dies-Non means———-

Ans: No work No Pay

4. 29 years and one day will be rounded to years.

Ans: 30 years

5. Maximum days of Child Adoption Leave eligible to an adoptive mother is

Ans: 180 days R-102 A Part I

6. An officer appointed to hold a post has to perform all the administrative financial and statutory functions and duties of the post

Ans: Full Additional Charge

7. Payment received by an officer from a source other than the General Revenue of the state

Ans: Fee

8. Which authority is competent to accept the resignation

Ans: Appointing Authority

9. Annual Financial Statement is properly known as

Ans: Budget

10. Pension disbursing officer should avail the proof of continued existence of a pensioner at —–

Ans: Once in a year

Kerala PSC Departmental Test Syllabus

Kerala PSC Departmental Online Mock Test 2024

1. Action taken on the assurances given by Ministers on the floor of the house shall be communicated to the

A) Law Department

B) Office of the Chief Minister

C) Legislature Secretariat

D) Chief Secretary

2. Which rule is intended to protect the interest of a Govt. servant who is working out of his regular fine, by giving him promotion when his junior is promoted within his regular fine?

A) Next below rule

B) Rule 3 7(a)

C) Rule 28

D) Rule 28 A

3. The C&AG may undertake any additional audit in respect of anybody or authority on such terms and conditions settled between C&AG and the Govt. Concerned. This class of audit comes under the category of …..

A) Commercial Audit

B) Efficiency Audit

C) Performance Audit

D) Consent Audit

4. An officer joined duty on 31.3.1 987 and retired on 31.3.2016 on superannuation. The qualifying service for pension and D.C.R.G is:

A) 28 years

B) 31 years

C) 29 years

D) 30 years

5. Annual Financial Statement is properly known as

Bill b Bill J, d.

A) Money Bill

B) Appropriation Bill

C) Appropriators Account

D) Budget

6. The control of the resource operations of the Govt. Of India and of States vests in the

A) Central Treasury

B) Central Govt. and State Govt.

C) Union Govt.

D) Reserve Bank of India

7. A clerk in the Taluk office Nedumangadu got an increment on 17.2014 was on LWA without MC from 1. 1.2015 to 30.6.2015. His next increment will be due on:

A) 1.7.2017

B) 1.7.2016

C) 1.7.2015

D) 1.1.2016

8. An officer on tour is provided with free lodging at the outstation. The rate of DA admissible to him is

A) 25% of the normal rate

B) 50% of the normal rate

C) 75% of the normal rate

D) 2/3 of the normal rate

9. Whose orders are required for placing a case before the Council of Ministers for consideration?

A) Principal Secretary/Secretary to Government in charge of the Department

B) Minister concerned

C) Chief Secretary to Government

D) Chief Minister

10. When communications received contain adhesive stamps they shall be punched by the:

A) Assistant to whom the paper is marked

B) Typist attached to the section concerned

C) Peon attached to the section concerned

D) Office Section

11. Who is authorized to sign fair copies of Legislative Assembly Interpelations?

A) Additional Secretary to Government

B) Section Officer

C) Deputy Secretary to Government

D) Under Secretary to Government

12. Re-employed pensioners, drawing pension in addition to pay and allowances will be classified for the purpose of traveling allowance on the basis of

A) basic pay and dearness relief

B) basic pay

C) basic pay and pension

D) None of the above

13. When an officer deputed for a course of training which is treated as duty is promoted in the regular line of promotion while on training, he can draw pay in the promoted post without joining it:

A) From the date he receives the order of promotion

B) On completion of the training period

C) From the date his junior assumed charge

D) From the date of order of promotion

14. Incentive awards in the nature of cash awards for meritorious service will be given to:

A) lVth grade officers only

B) Non-Gazetted officers only

C) Gazetted officers only

D) Both Gazetted officers and non-Gazetted officer

15. Five-day rule means

A) Reply to the communication should be sent within five days

B) Paper received are put up to Officers for orders-within five days

C) Papers received should be registered within five days

D) Papers received should be disposed of within five days

How to Attempt a Kerala PSC Departmental Test Mock Test 2026

Before the test

1. Choose the mock test that matches your test and paper.
2. Keep only the books that are permitted for that paper within reach (for with-books practice). For without-books papers, keep nothing.
3. Set a quiet time and finish the test in a single sitting.
4. Use the real duration: 1.5 hours or 2 hours.

During the test

1. Round 1: Answer the questions you know without searching.
2. Round 2: For with-books papers, look up the questions that need a quick check.
3. Round 3: Revisit doubtful questions. Guess only when you can eliminate at least two options.
4. Keep a few minutes at the end to review.

After the test

1. Check your score and net marks after negative marking.
2. Note every wrong and skipped question with the correct rule and its location in the book.
3. Group your mistakes by Code, Act or Manual.
4. Revise those areas, then take the next mock test.

Kerala PSC Departmental Test 2026 Mock Test Strategy by Paper Type

With-books papers

• Practise finding provisions fast. Learn the layout of each book.
• Do not spend more than a minute or two on a single look-up. Mark it and move on.
• Use only government publications and permitted material, the same as in the real exam.

Without-books papers

• Revise your one-page notes before each mock test, then attempt the test without any book.
• Focus on definitions, time limits, powers and rule numbers.
• Repeat the questions you got wrong after a week.

Judicial and law-based papers

• Use bare Acts only.
• Practise with the new criminal laws: Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023.

Language and practical papers

• Language tests are descriptive, so practise writing translation, precis, comprehension and essays by hand within the time limit.
• Practical and viva voce papers (such as Jail tests and the Divisional Accountants viva) need drills and scenario practice, not online mocks.

Tips to Score More in Departmental Test Mock Tests

1. Take mock tests only after one full reading of the paper.
2. Treat every mock test like the real exam: same duration, same book rules.
3. Do not guess every doubtful question because of negative marking.
4. Keep a wrong-answer notebook with the rule and its location.
5. Revise the new criminal laws for any paper that includes BNS, BNSS or BSA.
6. Check the latest Time Table and Syllabus PDF so that your mocks match your test.

Choose the mock test that matches your test and paper, follow the real pattern and time limit, analyse every wrong answer, and repeat until you cross the 40% mark comfortably. Start practising on the Entri app, and keep checking the Kerala PSC website for the latest Time Table and Syllabus.