Karnataka PUC Exam 2026 - Time Table, Hall Ticket, Syllabus, Result

Accountancy: Unit 01

Accountancy: Unit 02

Accountancy: Unit 03

Accountancy: Unit 04

Accountancy: Unit 05

Accountancy: Unit 06

Accountancy: Unit 07

Business studies: Unit 01

Business studies: Unit 02

Business studies: Unit 03

Business studies: Unit 04

Business studies: Unit 05

Business studies: Unit 06

Business studies: Unit 07

Business studies: Unit 08

Business studies: Unit 09

Physics: Unit 01

• Introduction, electric charge, conductors and insulators, charging by induction, basic properties of electric charge, Coulomb’s law, forces between multiple charges, electric field, electric field lines, electric flux, electric dipole
• Dipole in a uniform external field, continuous charge distribution, Gauss’s law, applications of Gauss’s law, field due to infinitely long straight uniformly charged wire, field due to uniformly charged infinite plane sheet

Physics: Unit 02

• Introduction, electrostatic potential, potential due to a point charge, potential due to an electric dipole, potential due to a system of charges, equipotential surfaces, potential energy of a system of charges, potential energy in an external field
• Electrostatics of conductors, dielectrics and polarisation, capacitors and capacitance, the parallel plate capacitor, effect of dielectric on capacitance, combination of capacitors, energy stored in a capacitor

Physics: Unit 03

• Introduction, electric current, electric currents in conductors, Ohm’s law, drift of electrons and the origin of resistivity, limitations of Ohm’s law, temperature dependence of resistivity, electrical energy, power, cells, EMF, internal resistance
• Cells in series and in parallel, Kirchhoff’s rules, Wheatstone bridge, meter bridge, potentiometer

Physics: Unit 04

• Introduction, magnetic force, motion in a magnetic field, motion in combined electric and magnetic fields, velocity selector, magnetic field due to a current element, Biot-Savart law, magnetic field on the axis of a circular current loop
• Ampere’s circuital law, the solenoid and the toroid, force between two parallel currents, the ampere, torque on current loop, magnetic dipole, the moving coil galvanometer

Physics: Unit 05

• Introduction, the bar magnet, the magnetic field lines, magnetism and Gauss’s law, the Earth’s magnetism, magnetisation and magnetic intensity

Physics: Unit 06

• Introduction, the experiments of Faraday and Henry, magnetic flux, Faraday’s law of induction, Lenz’s law and conservation of energy, motional electromotive force, energy consideration: A quantitative study, Eddy currents, Inductance, AC generator

Physics: Unit 07

• Introduction, AC voltage applied to a resistor, representation of AC current and voltage by rotating vectors-phasors, AC voltage applied to an inductor, AC voltage applied to a capacitor, AC voltage applied to a series LCR circuit, LC oscillations
• Transformers

Physics: Unit 08

• Introduction, electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic spectrum

Physics: Unit 09

• Introduction, refraction, total internal reflection, refraction at spherical surfaces and by lenses, refraction through a prism, some natural phenomena due to sunlight, the rainbow
• Optical instruments (except resolving power microscope and astronomical telescope)

Physics: Unit 10

• Introduction, Huygens principle, refraction and reflection of plane waves using Huygens principle, coherent and incoherent, addition of waves, interference of light waves and Young’s experiment, diffraction, the single slit
• Seeing the single slit diffraction pattern, the validity of ray optic

Physics: Unit 11

• Introduction, electron emission, photo electric effect, experimental study of photoelectric effect, photoelectric effect and wave theory of light, Einstein’s photoelectric equation: Energy quantum of radiation, particle nature of light: The photon
• Wave nature of matter

Physics: Unit 12

• Introduction experiment, alpha particle, scattering and Rutherford’s nuclear model of atom, atomic spectra, Bohr model of the hydrogen atom, the line spectra of the hydrogen atom, De-Broglie’s explanation of Bohr’s second postulate of quantisation

Physics: Unit 13

• Introduction, atomic masses and composition of nucleus, size of the nucleus, mass energy and nuclear binding energy (except binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number), nuclear force, nuclear energy

Physics: Unit 14

• Introduction, classification of metals, conductors and semiconductors, intrinsic semiconductor, extrinsic semiconductor, p-n junction, semiconductor diode, application of junction diode as a rectifier, special purpose p-n junction diodes
• Optoelectronic junction devices, digital electronics and logic gate

Biology: Unit 01

• Reproduction in organisms: Sexual reproduction
• Sexual reproduction in flowering plants
• Human Reproduction
• Reproductive health

Biology: Unit 02

• Principles of Inheritance and Variation
• Molecular basis of Inheritance

Biology: Unit 03

• Human health and disease
• Microbes in human welfare

Biology: Unit 04

• Biotechnology: Principles and processes
• Biotechnology and its applications

Biology: Unit 05

• Organisms and Populations
• Biodiversity and conservation

Chemistry: Unit 01

• General characteristics of solid state, amorphous and crystalline solids, classification of crystalline solids, crystal lattices and unit cells, number of atoms in a unit cell, close packed structures, packing efficiency
• Calculations involving unit cell dimensions, imperfections in solids

Chemistry: Unit 02

• Types of solutions, expressing concentration of solutions, solubility, vapour pressure of liquid solutions, ideal and non-ideal solutions, colligative properties and determination of molar mass

Chemistry: Unit 03

• Electrochemical cells, Nernst equation, conductance of electrolytic solutions, electrolytic cells and electrolysis (excluding elementary idea of laws of electrolysis)

Chemistry: Unit 04

• Rate of a chemical reaction, factors influencing rate of a reaction, integrated rate equations

Chemistry: Unit 05

• Adsorption, colloids, classification of colloids, colloids around us

Chemistry: Unit 06

• Group 15 elements, dinitrogen, ammonia, oxides of nitrogen (excluding structure), nitric acid, group 16 elements, dioxygen, simple oxides, ozone, sulphur-allotropic forms, sulphur dioxide, oxoacids of sulphur, sulphuric acid; chemical properties, uses
• Group 17 elements, chlorine, hydrogen chloride, oxoacids of halogens, interhalogen compounds, group 18 elements

Chemistry: Unit 07

• Position in the periodic table, electronic configurations of the d-block elements, general properties of the transition elements (d-block), the lanthanoids: Electronic configuration, oxidation states, lanthanoids contraction, reasons and consequences
• The actinoids; actinoid contraction, some applications of d-and f-block elements

Chemistry: Unit 08

• Werner's theory of coordination compounds, definitions of some important terms pertaining to coordination compounds, nomenclature of coordination compounds, bonding in coordination compounds, bonding in metal carbonyls, stability of coordination compounds

Chemistry: Unit 09

• Classification, nomenclature, nature of C–X bond, methods of preparation, physical properties, chemical reactions

Chemistry: Unit 10

• Classification, nomenclature, structures of functional groups, alcohols and phenols, ethers

Chemistry: Unit 11

• Nomenclature and structure of carbonyl group, preparation of aldehydes and ketones, physical properties, chemical reactions, uses of aldehydes and ketones, nomenclature and structure of carboxyl group, methods of preparation of carboxylic acids
• Physical properties, chemical reactions, uses of carboxylic acids

Chemistry: Unit 12

• Amines: Structure of amines, classification, nomenclature, preparation of amines, physical properties, chemical reactions

Chemistry: Unit 13

• Carbohydrates, classification of carbohydrates, monosaccharides, preparation of glucose, structure of glucose, cyclic structure of glucose, structure of fructose, proteins, nucleic acids

Mathematics: Unit 01

• Introduction, types of relations, types of functions, binary operations

Mathematics: Unit 02

• Introduction, basic concepts principal values

Mathematics: Unit 03

• Introduction, matrix, types of matrices, operations on matrices, transpose of a matrix, symmetric and Skew symmetric matrices, invertible matrices

Mathematics: Unit 04

• Introduction, determinant, area of a triangle, minors and cofactors, adjoint and inverse of a matrix, applications of determinants and matrices

Mathematics: Unit 05

• Introduction, continuity, differentiability, exponential and logarithmic functions, logarithmic differentiation, derivatives of functions in parametric forms, second order derivative

Mathematics: Unit 06

• Introduction, rate of change of quantities, increasing and decreasing functions, tangents and normals, maxima and minima

Mathematics: Unit 07

• Introduction, integration as an inverse, process of differentiation, methods of integration, integrals of some, particular functions, integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, definite integral, fundamental theorem of calculus
• Evaluation of definite integrals by substitution, some properties of definite integrals

Mathematics: Unit 08

• Introduction, area under simple curves

Mathematics: Unit 09

• Introduction, basic concepts, particular solutions of a differential equation, methods of solving first order, first degree differential equations

Mathematics: Unit 10

• Introduction, some basic concepts, types of vectors, addition of vectors, multiplication of a vector by a scalar, product of two vectors

Mathematics: Unit 11

• Introduction, direction cosines and direction ratios of a line, equation of a line in space, shortest distance between two lines, plane coplanarity of two lines, distance of a point from a plane

Mathematics: Unit 12

• Introduction, linear programming, problem and its mathematical formulation, different types of linear programming problems

Mathematics: Unit 13

• Introduction, conditional probability, multiplication theorem on probability, independent events, Bayes' theorem

Economics-Microeconomics: Unit 01

Economics-Microeconomics: Unit 02

Economics-Microeconomics: Unit 03

Economics-Microeconomics: Unit 04

Economics-Macroeconomics: Unit 01

Economics-Macroeconomics: Unit 02

Economics-Macroeconomics: Unit 03

Economics-Macroeconomics: Unit 04

Education: Unit 01

Education: Unit 02

Education: Unit 03

Education: Unit 04

Education: Unit 05

Education: Unit 06

Electronics: Unit 01

Electronics: Unit 02

Electronics: Unit 03

Electronics: Unit 04

Electronics: Unit 05

Electronics: Unit 06

Electronics: Unit 07

Electronics: Unit 08

• Modulation, amplitude modulation (AM), derivation for the instantaneous voltage of an AM signal, modulation by several sine waves

Electronics: Unit 09

• Exclusive or (XOR) and exclusive NOR (XNOR), digital course, arithmatic logic circuits, simplication of Boolean expression, sequential logic circuits

Geology: Unit 01

• Introduction, definition of a rock, general classification of rocks into igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic types, rock cycle

Geology: Unit 02

• Introduction-(a) definition of magma and lava, (b) composition of magma, (c) forms of igneous rock: (i) Extrusive-lava flows, (ii) intrusive-concordant (still) and discordant (Dyke)
• Structures-definition, types-vesicular, amygdaloidal, columnar, ropy and pillow, classification of igneous rocks: (i) Volcanic, (ii) hypabyssal and, (iii) plutonic with examples, brief description of important igneous rocks: (a) Volcanic-basalt and pumice
• Brief description of important igneous rocks: (b) Hypabyssal-dolerite and porphyry, (c) plutonic-granite and syenite, uses of igneous rocks, significance of igneous rocks

Geology: Unit 03

• Introduction, definition, processes and formation of sedimentary rocks: Weathering, erosion, denudation, transportation, deposition, compaction, lithification and diagenisis, structures: Stratification, lamination, graded bedding, current bedding
• Structures: Ripple marks and mud cracks, brief description of sedimentary rocks viz. conglomerate, breccia, sandstone, shale, limestone and shell limestone

Geology: Unit 04

• Introducation-definition of metamorphism, agents of metamorphism-temperature, pressure and chemically active fluids, zones of metamorphis –epi, meso-and hypo-zones, description of important metamorphic rocks: (a) Slat, (b) marble, (c) quartzite
• Description of important metamorphic rocks: (d) Gneiss, (e) schist, (f) charnockite

Geology: Unit 05

• Introduction: (a) Attitude of beds-strike and dip, (b) outcrops, inliers and outliers Brunton compass and its uses, folds-definition, parts of a fold viz. hinge, axis, axial-plane, limbs, crest, trough and plunge
• Types of fold viz, anticline, syncline, symmetrical and asymmetrical, faults-definition, parts of a fault viz. fault plane, fault line, foot-wall and hanging-wall, types of fault-normal, reverse, step, horst and Graben, importance of geological structures

Geology: Unit 06

• Definition, principles of stratigraphy-(a) law of order of superposition, (b) uniformitarianism, (c) conformable and unconformable beds, geologic time scale, salient features of: (a) Precambrian-Archaean and Proterozoic
• Salient features of: (b) Phanerozoic-Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, and Cainozoic

Geology: Unit 07

• Introduction-(a) conditions for preservation, (b) possession of hard parts, (c) immediate burial, (d) suitable environment, types of fossilization-(a) mummification, (b) mould and case, (c) carbonization, (d) entire skeleton remaining unchanged
• Types of fossilization-(e) petrification, (f) tracks, trails and footprint, general morphology and range in age of following fossiss: (a) Corals-calceola (c) gastropods-fusus
• Plant fossils-brief morphology and range in age of the following: (a) Glossopteris, (b) ptillophylum, significance and uses of fossils

Home science: Unit 01

Home science: Unit 02

Home science: Unit 03

Home science: Unit 04

Home science: Unit 05

Home science: Unit 06

Home science: Unit 07

Home science: Unit 08

Home science: Unit 09

Home science: Unit 10

Inductive logic: Unit 01

Inductive logic: Unit 02

Inductive logic: Unit 03

Inductive logic: Unit 04

Inductive logic: Unit 05

Inductive logic: Unit 06

Psychology: Unit 01

Psychology: Unit 02

Psychology: Unit 03

Psychology: Unit 04

Psychology: Unit 05

Psychology: Unit 06

Sociology: Unit 01

Sociology: Unit 02

Sociology: Unit 03

Sociology: Unit 04

Sociology: Unit 05

Sociology: Unit 06

Sociology: Unit 07

Sociology: Unit 08

Statistics: Unit 01

Statistics: Unit 02

Statistics: Unit 03

Statistics: Unit 04

Statistics: Unit 05