DCET 2024 question paper with answers

This is the complete DCET 2024 question paper set by Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA), digitised question by question from the official booklet and graded against KEA’s own published answer key — so a score here is the score that paper would have given you. It runs to the real pattern: 100 MCQs · 3 hours · +1 mark · no negative marking. All 100 questions carry a worked explanation, so a wrong answer tells you why.

Section by section

DCET splits evenly across its sections, so the branch paper is worth no more than the four common ones — Electrical & Electronics 20, Engineering Mathematics 20, IT Skills 20, Project Management 20 and Statistics & Analytics 20 questions respectively.

Electrical & Electronics20 questions
Engineering Mathematics20 questions
IT Skills20 questions
Project Management20 questions
Statistics & Analytics20 questions

How this paper behaved

Counted from the digitised bank, not estimated.

easy questions70
medium questions30
With a circuit or figure1

Topics this paper tested

Every tagged concept in the 2024 paper. If you are revising against this year, this is the checklist.

  • Matrices & determinants
  • Straight lines
  • Trigonometry
  • Differentiation
  • Integration
  • Project fundamentals & types
  • Project organisation & roles
  • Planning tools & methods
  • Risk & overruns
  • Scheduling (PERT / CPM)
  • Monitoring, review & evaluation
  • Project life cycle & phases
  • Algorithms & flowcharts
  • Web development (HTML/CSS/JS)
  • Web browsers, servers & hosting
  • ERP & business software
  • Organisation structure & system analysis
  • Cloud computing
  • IoT
  • Cyber security
  • Data types & collection
  • Frequency distribution & graphs
  • Excel formulas
  • Python basics
  • Data cleaning
  • Quartiles, percentiles & dispersion
  • Measures of central tendency
  • Safety & first aid
  • DC circuits & Ohm's law
  • Protection devices
  • Motors & machines
  • Batteries & cells
  • Sensors & transducers
  • Semiconductors & diodes
  • Power supplies & rectifiers
  • AC fundamentals
  • Industrial automation
  • Energy & power calculations