KVS NVS Teacher Tier-1 & Tier-2 Exam Pattern Explained

Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) Updated: 06 Sep 2026

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Tier-1 in full — six parts, 100 questions, 300 marks ↑

This is the scheme of examination as it stands in clause 11 of CBSE's Recruitment Notification 01/2025 for KVS and NVS, dated 13 November 2025. In the tables below, the left column carries the notification's own wording; the explanation on the right is written by us. This structure is identical for every post except NVS Multi-Tasking Staff — PRT, TGT, PGT or Principal alike.

Tier-1 part (as printed in the notification)	What it means
Part-I General Reasoning — 20 questions, 60 marks	The reasoning block — series, coding-decoding, relationships, direction, Venn diagrams. Twenty questions but sixty marks, because each one carries three; treating this part as light is expensive.
Part-II Numeric Ability — 20 questions, 60 marks	Numeric ability — percentage, ratio, average, profit and loss, time and work at school level. Speed matters here, because the whole paper has just two hours.
Part-III Basic Computer Literacy — 20 questions, 60 marks	Basic computer literacy — twenty questions, sixty marks. Note that this part sits in the Tier-1 of every post, whether you are sitting for PRT or for Principal.
Part-IV General Knowledge — 20 questions, 60 marks	General knowledge — twenty questions, sixty marks. This is a subject to run a little every day, not one to finish in a sitting.
Part-V Language Competency Test (English) — 10 questions, 30 marks	English language competency — only ten questions, thirty marks. This part comes in English medium alone, whatever language you have opted for.
Part-VI Language Competency Test (One other Modern Indian Languages) — 10 questions, 30 marks	Competency in one other modern Indian language — ten questions, thirty marks. You pick the language on the application form, and this part comes only in that language.
Total — 100 questions, 300 marks	One hundred questions and three hundred marks in all — three marks a question. Those six parts are the entire paper.
Duration: 02 hours, without any time limit for each part of the test individually	Two hours in all, with no separate time limit on any one part. That means you divide the time between parts as you choose — giving your weakest part more of it is your own call.
Mode: OMR (Objective)	The whole of Tier-1 is objective, on an OMR sheet — a paper of darkened circles, not of writing.
Status: Preliminary (Qualifying) Examination	Tier-1 is a screening paper only. Its marks do not enter the final merit list; it decides nothing except whether you reach Tier-2.

Tier-2 — the Subject Knowledge Examination, 70 questions and 100 marks ↑

Tier-2 is the exam that counts, because the final merit is built from it. One thing said plainly here: the topic-wise subject syllabus is not printed in this notification — the notification itself points to the KVS and NVS websites for it. So you will not find an invented topic list on this page either.

Tier-2 provision (as printed in the notification)	What it means
Subject Knowledge Examination (combination of Pen-Paper and OMR Based)	Tier-2 is the paper on your own subject, and it is a mixed one — part of it objective on OMR, part of it written out on paper.
Objective — 60 questions, 60 marks	The objective block carries sixty questions of one mark each. It is the larger half of Tier-2.
Descriptive — 10 questions, 40 marks	The descriptive block has only ten questions but forty marks — an average of four marks each. This is the part that needs writing practice, not recall.
Total — 70 questions, 100 marks	Seventy questions, one hundred marks. For the posts that carry an interview, 85 per cent of the final merit is built out of these hundred marks.
Duration: 2½ hours, without any time limit for each part of the test individually	Two and a half hours in all, with no separate time set for either part. So you have to protect time for the descriptive block yourself — no bell will do it for you.
Detailed syllabus on KVS and NVS website under Recruitment Heading	The notification does not print the subject syllabus itself — it places it on the KVS and NVS websites under the Recruitment heading. That is why this page invents no topic list either: what is not in the document does not appear here.
There will be separate Tier–2 for each post	Tier-2 is a separate paper for each post. A candidate shortlisted for two posts sits two different papers.
Medium: bilingual i.e. in Hindi & English	The Tier-2 paper is printed in both languages together — Hindi and English. You do not have to choose a medium for it.
For PGT (Modern Indian Language) and TGT (3rd Language), the medium of test will be in language concerned	There is one exception: for PGT (Modern Indian Language) and TGT (3rd Language) the paper comes in the language of the post itself — because the language is the subject.

How marks are earned and lost — the marking scheme of both tiers ↑

Both tiers carry negative marking, but at different rates — and that is where candidates lose the most marks. Each rule is set out on its own line below.

Rule (as stated in the notification)	What it means
Tier-1 — each question carries 3 marks	Every Tier-1 question is worth three marks. A hundred questions times three makes the three hundred.
Tier-1 — 1/3rd marks (i.e. 1 marks) will be deducted for each wrong answer	A wrong answer costs one mark — a third of what a right one earns. Put plainly: three wrong answers eat one right answer.
Tier-1 — unanswered questions will not be given any marks	An unattempted question neither earns nor costs. Where you have no idea at all, leaving it costs you nothing.
Tier-1 — filling up/darkening more than one response in any question will be treated as wrong response and One (01) mark as wrong response will be deducted	Darkening two circles for one question counts as a wrong answer and costs one mark. That is the risk in erasing and re-marking an OMR sheet — erase it cleanly.
Tier-2 — in objective type question each question carries 1 mark	In the Tier-2 objective block each question is worth one mark — unlike Tier-1, where each was worth three.
Tier-2 — 1/4th marks (i.e. 0.25 marks) will be deducted for each wrong answer	In Tier-2 a wrong answer costs 0.25 — a quarter. Four wrong answers undo one right one.
Tier-2 — unanswered questions will not be given any marks	Here too an unattempted question carries no deduction.
Tier-2 — filling up/darkening more than one response in any question will be treated as wrong response and 1/4th marks (i.e. 0.25 marks) as wrong response will be deducted	In Tier-2 as well, two darkened circles count as a wrong answer and cost 0.25.
There is only one correct response for each question	Each question has exactly one correct response. Even when two look right, only one may be marked.
There is no provision of re-evaluation for objective (OMR based) examination of Tier-1	There is no re-evaluation of the Tier-1 OMR sheet. No request on this is entertained after the result.
There is no provision of re-evaluation for objective (OMR)/written/descriptive examination part of Tier-2	The descriptive part of Tier-2 is not re-evaluated either — worth noting, because candidates usually expect re-evaluation on a hand-marked paper.

Selection Process

For PRT, TGT, PGT, and other posts listed as "two-tier + Interview": final merit = 85% Tier 2 marks + 15% Interview marks (Interview is out of 100 marks).
Candidates are shortlisted for interview from Tier 2 at a 1:3 ratio against notified vacancies.
Note: TGT and PRT posts follow the same 85:15 (Tier-2 + Interview) formula per this notification — earlier aggregator claims that "TGT has no interview" do not match the official 13 Nov 2025 notification, which lists TGT (including Librarian) and PRT under the two-tier-plus-interview category. Do not carry the "no interview for TGT" claim without re-checking a future post-specific notification.

Which post takes which route — interview, skill test, or Tier-2 alone ↑

The notification puts the posts into three groups, and the whole arithmetic of your preparation rests on which group you are in. If your post has no interview, the merit is built entirely from Tier-2, and nothing but subject knowledge can move your position.

Two tier examination followed by Interview	What it means
Assistant Commissioner (KVS) · Assistant Commissioner (Academics) (NVS)	Notified in both organisations. Its Tier-1 and Tier-2 are held in Delhi/NCR only, and the merit list is 85 per cent Tier-2 plus 15 per cent interview.
Principal (KVS and NVS)	In both. This exam too is held in Delhi/NCR only, and the same 85:15 arithmetic applies.
Vice-Principal (KVS)	This post is on the KVS side only — the NVS column against it is blank in the notification's own table. The exam is in Delhi/NCR.
PGT (KVS and NVS)	Post Graduate Teacher, in both organisations. An interview follows the shortlisting, and it carries 15 per cent weight.
TGT including Librarian (KVS) · TGT (NVS)	Read this one carefully: on the KVS side, Librarian is written inside the same TGT entry. That puts a Librarian candidate on the interview route as well.
PRT (KVS)	Primary Teacher. In this table the post appears on the KVS side only, and it too falls in the interview category.
Administrative Officer (KVS)	A non-teaching post, KVS only. Same route — two tiers and then an interview.
Finance Officer (KVS)	A non-teaching post, KVS only, with an interview.
Assistant Engineer (KVS)	KVS only. One thing shown as it stands: the post is listed here as 'Assistant Engineer', but the clause that sets the Tier-1 level names it 'Assistant Engineer (Civil)', while the qualification accepts both Civil and Electrical. We show the document as it is rather than quietly correcting it.
Junior Translator (KVS)	KVS only. It is also in the interview category.
Merit weightage — 85% to Tier-2 and 15% to Interview; the interview will be of 100 marks	The formula for all ten of these posts: 85 per cent of the final merit from Tier-2, 15 per cent from the interview. The interview is out of 100 marks, so its real contribution is up to 15 marks.

Two tier examination followed by Skill Test	What it means
Stenographer (Gr. I & II) — KVS	Two tiers followed by a skill test, not an interview.
Junior Secretariat Assistant — KVS · Junior Secretariat Assistant (HQ/RO) / (JNV) — NVS	Present in both organisations. On the NVS side it is notified in two separate cadres — HQ/RO and JNV.
Merit list will be prepared according to the marks obtained by candidates in Tier-2, subject to qualifying the skill test	The skill test's marks do not enter the merit list — it only has to be cleared. The ordering comes entirely from Tier-2.

Neither Interview nor Skill Test	What it means
Assistant Section Officer (KVS)	Neither interview nor skill test. The Tier-2 marks are everything.
Senior Secretariat Assistant (KVS)	The same route — the two tiers and nothing more.
Lab Attendant (NVS)	NVS only. Its Tier-1 is pitched at senior secondary level.
Multi-Tasking Staff (NVS)	NVS only, and its Tier-1 paper is built differently from every other post's — it is given in its own table below.
Merit list for these posts will be prepared on the basis of marks obtained by candidates in Tier-2 only	For these four posts the entire merit comes from Tier-2. So the whole weight of preparation belongs on subject knowledge.

The level Tier-1 questions are pitched at, post by post ↑

The six parts of the paper are the same for every post. What changes is how deep the questions in those same subjects go. The notification sets out four levels.

Expected knowledge level and posts	What it means
Post Graduation level — Assistant Commissioner, Principal, Vice-Principal, PGT	For these posts the Tier-1 questions are pitched at post-graduation level. Note that the parts of the paper stay the same; only the difficulty changes.
Graduation level — TGT, Administrative Officer, Finance Officer, Assistant Engineer (Civil), Assistant Section Officer, Junior Translator, Stenographer Grade-II, Stenographer Grade–I, Senior Secretariat Assistant	Nine posts sit at graduation level. For candidates in a combined paper this is the line that tells them how deep the questions are expected to go.
Senior Secondary level — PRT, Junior Secretariat Assistant, Lab Attendant	Three posts, Primary Teacher among them, sit at the level of class twelve.
Secondary level — Multi-Tasking Staff	Multi-Tasking Staff sits at the level of class ten, and its paper is built differently too.

Tier-1 for NVS Multi-Tasking Staff — a different, four-part paper ↑

This is the one post whose Tier-1 paper differs from the structure above. The totals are the same — 100 questions and 300 marks — but there are four parts instead of six, and the weight is split quite differently.

Tier-1 part for Multi-Tasking Staff	What it means
Part - I General Awareness & Current Affairs — 20 questions, 60 marks	General awareness and current affairs — twenty questions, sixty marks.
Part-II Basic Knowledge of Computer Operation — 40 questions, 120 marks	Basic computer operation — forty questions and one hundred and twenty marks: forty per cent of the whole paper sits in this one part. It is the single largest block in this post's paper.
Part-III Language Competency Test (English) — 20 questions, 60 marks	English language competency — twenty questions, sixty marks. In every other post's paper this part was only ten questions.
Part-IV Language Competency Test (One other Modern Indian Languages) — 20 questions, 60 marks	Competency in the chosen Indian language — twenty questions, sixty marks.
Total — 100 questions, 300 marks	The same hundred questions and three hundred marks — only the split between parts differs.
Duration: 02 hours, OMR (Objective) mode, Preliminary (Qualifying) Examination	Time, mode and standing are the same as for every other post — two hours, OMR, and a screening paper only.

The language rules — which part comes in which language ↑

The paper does not come in one language throughout, and it turns on a choice made at application that cannot be changed afterwards. The rule is set out in full below.

Language provision (as printed in the notification)	What it means
Part I to IV (i.e. question no. 1 to 80) of question paper of Tier-1 for all other posts will be bilingual in English and one of the 12 other Bhartiya Bhasha	The first eighty questions are printed in two languages at once — English and the Indian language you opted for. Each question appears twice, and you may read whichever version you follow.
Part I & II (i.e. question no. 1 to 60) of question paper of Tier-1 for Multi-Tasking Staff will be bilingual	In the Multi-Tasking Staff paper this covers the first sixty questions rather than eighty, because its parts are split differently.
The 12 Bhartiya Bhasha: Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odiya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu	These twelve are the choices. Picking one is compulsory — the field cannot be left blank on the application form.
Part V (i.e. question no. 81 to 90) pertaining to Language Competency Test (English) will be only in English medium	The English part comes in English alone — no translation of it is provided. That is worth noting for anyone planning to read the whole paper in their own language.
Part III (i.e. question no. 61 to 80) for Multi-Tasking Staff — English medium only	In the Multi-Tasking Staff paper the English block falls here, and it too is in English alone.
Part VI (i.e. question no. 91 to 100) will be only in concerned Language opted by the candidates	The last ten questions come only in the language you opted for — there is no English version of them.
Part IV (i.e. question no. 81 to 100) for Multi-Tasking Staff — opted language only	In the Multi-Tasking Staff paper this block runs to twenty questions, not ten.
The option of Medium, once filled, will not be changed under any circumstances	Both the medium and the language are chosen once, at application, and are not changed afterwards under any circumstances. On the form, this is the field to think hardest about.
The details of Medium opted by candidates for Part – VI will also be mentioned on their admit card	Which language you chose is printed on the admit card — it is worth checking that line before the exam.

The shortlisting ratios and the arithmetic of the final merit list ↑

Read this block closely — it is where your marks turn into a position. And the last three lines cover the step that comes after the exams and is missed most often: filling in your post preference.

Provision (as printed in the notification)	What it means
Tier-1 will be screening test to shortlist the candidates for Tier-2 in the ratio of 1:10 (relative to notified vacancies)	Ten candidates go through to Tier-2 for every one notified vacancy. The ratio is applied against notified vacancies, not against the number of applicants.
Candidates securing marks equal to the last candidate in the range of 1:10 under each category will also be shortlisted	If several candidates tie on the cut-off mark, all of them go through, even if the count then runs past 1:10. It is applied category by category.
For Interview, candidates will be shortlisted from Tier-2 in the ratio of 1:3 (relative to notified vacancies)	Three candidates per vacancy are called for interview. The same allowance for candidates tied on the cut-off applies here.
For Skill Test, candidates will be shortlisted from Tier-2 in the ratio of 1:5 (relative to notified vacancies)	For the skill-test posts, five candidates per vacancy are called.
Weightage of 85% and 15% to the marks obtained by candidates in Tier-2 and Interview respectively	The merit formula for the interview posts. Eighty-five per cent of your Tier-2 score out of 100, plus fifteen per cent of your interview score out of 100, added together give the final order.
The interview will be of 100 marks	The interview is out of 100. Since it carries fifteen per cent weight, it can move the final merit by at most fifteen marks.
Combined Tier–1 may be conducted for some of the posts; however, based on the performance of candidates, separate post-wise/subject-wise merit list will be prepared	One Tier-1 paper may serve several posts, but a separate merit list is drawn for each post and each subject. The practical gain is that one sitting can count towards the shortlist for more than one post.
Candidates will have to mandatorily submit their preference of posts in KVS and NVS in the online portal	If you are in the merit list for more than one post, or in both organisations, filling the preference is compulsory. The link opens inside your application log-in for a notified period.
A candidate will be allotted only one post as per his/her choice filled on the link according to merit	However many papers you sat, you are allotted one post only — by your preference and your merit.
The candidates who do not fill their choice within the notified period will not be considered in merit and no post will be allotted to them	Not filling the preference is the same as being out. It is the easiest step in the whole process to miss, so watch for the date.
The request for change in choice will not be accepted for whatsoever reason	Once submitted, the preference is not changed.
No waiting list shall be maintained	No waiting list is kept. If a selected candidate does not join, the next in line does not move up automatically.

The Skill Test — typing, shorthand and computer proficiency ↑

This block applies only to the Stenographer and Junior Secretariat Assistant posts. There is no skill test for the teaching posts — PRT, TGT or PGT.

Skill test norm (as printed in the notification)	What it means
Junior Secretariat Assistant (KVS) — Typing Test, only on computer; Net typing speed English-35 w.p.m. or Hindi-30 w.p.m.	The typing is on a computer, not a typewriter. It is net speed that is measured — speed after errors are taken out.
Junior Secretariat Assistant (KVS) — Computer Proficiency Test (Bilingual – English/Hindi), 100 marks; candidates will have to obtain minimum 40% marks in CPT	The computer proficiency test is out of 100 and at least 40 per cent is required. Those marks do not enter the merit list; the test only has to be cleared.
Junior Secretariat Assistant (NVS) — Typing Test, only on computer; Net typing speed English-30 w.p.m. or Hindi-25 w.p.m.	The NVS speed requirement is lower than the KVS one — thirty English or twenty-five Hindi. The notification lists no computer proficiency test against this post, so we do not add one.
Stenographer Grade-I and Grade-II — Shorthand Test: Dictation 10 minutes @ 80 w.p.m.	Ten minutes of dictation at eighty words a minute. That is the first stage of the shorthand test.
Stenographer Grade-I and Grade-II — Transcription: 50 minutes English / 65 minutes Hindi, on computer	The time allowed to transcribe that dictation on a computer — fifty minutes in English, sixty-five in Hindi.
Stenographer Grade-I and Grade-II — Typing Test, only on computer; Net typing speed English-40 w.p.m. or Hindi-35 w.p.m.	The typing requirement is highest for the stenographer — forty English, thirty-five Hindi.
Stenographer Grade-I and Grade-II — Computer Proficiency Test (Bilingual – English/Hindi), 100 marks; minimum 40% marks required	The stenographer sits the same hundred-mark computer proficiency test with the same forty per cent requirement.
Computer Proficiency Test content — MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Power Point and internet	These five are what the computer proficiency test covers. MS Access is named separately, and it is the one usually left out of preparation.

Exam-day rules, the centre and the admit card ↑

These are the rules that need no preparation, only attention — and not knowing them costs as much as not preparing at all.

Rule (as stated in the notification)	What it means
All calculations/writing work is to be done only in the space available in test booklet	Whatever working you need has to fit inside the question booklet itself. A habit of scribbling on the OMR sheet will not survive this rule.
No separate sheet will be provided at the Examination Centre to any candidate	No separate sheet is given. Keep that in mind while preparing the numeric part — working in a small space is a habit that has to be built.
The examination center for Tier-1 and Tier-2 for the post of Assistant Commissioner (Academics), Assistant Commissioner, Principal and Vice-Principal will be at Delhi/NCR only	Both papers for these four posts are held in Delhi/NCR alone. A candidate applying from anywhere else has to plan the travel in advance.
The cities of examination for the other notified posts will be decided according to number of applicants; the allotment of examination city to the candidates will be done on random basis	For the other posts the cities are fixed by how many people applied, and the allotment is random — a preferred city cannot be asked for.
The examination city/centre once allotted shall not be changed under any circumstances	Once a city or centre is allotted it is not changed, whatever the reason.
The information related to examination city shall be displayed 15 days before examination on the website of CBSE, KVS and NVS	The city is displayed fifteen days before the exam — in practice that is your notice for arranging travel and a place to stay.
The admit card with centre details and schedule of examination shall be displayed 02 days before examination	The admit card, the full address of the centre and the schedule arrive only two days before. The city comes fifteen days ahead; the address, two.
The e-Admit cards for Tier-I/Tier-II/Interview/Skill-Test will be made available only in the candidates' application log-in. No hard copy or email/SMS will be sent	The admit card appears only inside your application log-in. It does not come by post, email or SMS — so keep those log-in details safe.
The status of shortlisting for Tier-II/Interview/Skill-Test will also be made available only in the application log-in	Whether you were shortlisted shows in the same place. Nobody is told separately.
Prohibited — any stationery item (any kind of Paper/Stationery/Textual material/printed/written material), communication device, accessories, eatable items, ornaments	No paper, no printed or written material, no communication device, no accessories, no food and no ornaments may be taken inside.
Prohibited — Mobile Phone/Earphone/Microphone/Pager, Calculator, DocuPen, Slide Rules, Log Tables, Camera, Tape Recorder, Electronic Watches with facilities of calculator, any metallic item or electronic gadgets/devices	This list is named item by item in the notification. Note that log tables and a calculator watch are on it — both are commonly carried in by mistake.
Un-fair means includes impersonation, copying, canvassing, and assisting other candidates	Having someone else sit the exam, copying, canvassing, and helping another candidate are all counted as unfair means.
Punishment — disqualified for this examination; may also be debarred for a period of 02 (two) years from future examinations of recruitment in KVS and NVS; also liable for criminal prosecution	The punishment runs in three layers — out of this exam, barred for two years from future KVS and NVS recruitment exams, and liable to criminal prosecution.
The result of the candidate(s) who indulge in Un-fair-means Practices will be cancelled and will not be declared	Such a candidate's result is cancelled and is not declared at all.

The OMR sheet, the answer key and the challenge window ↑

This part of the process matters as much as the result, and it carries the tightest deadline in the whole recruitment — two to three days.

Provision (as printed in the notification)	What it means
In case of Objective Type (MCQ) Tests of Tier-1 and Tier-2, the scanned copy of OMR answer sheet and the Answer Keys will be displayed on website of CBSE, KVS and NVS	A scan of your own OMR sheet and the answer key are both put on the website. That means you can check your own filled paper against it.
A public notice will also be issued on the websites	A public notice announces when. No date is fixed in advance, so the website has to be watched.
The Answer Keys are likely to be displayed for two to three days	The window to challenge is only two or three days. It is the shortest deadline in the whole process.
Challenge fee — a non-refundable prescribed fee of Rs.1000/- per question as processing charges	Challenging one question costs a thousand rupees, and it is not returned — unless your challenge is upheld.
Challenges without payment of fee and those submitted on any other medium (viz. email/letter/representation) will not be considered	A challenge without the fee, and a challenge sent by email, letter or petition, are simply not looked at.
The challenges received will be placed before the subject expert for finalization of answer keys	Challenges go before subject experts, and it is they who settle the final key.
The decision of subject experts on the challenges shall be final and no further communication will be entertained	The experts' decision is final; there is no correspondence after it.
If the challenge of answer key is accepted, the fee shall be refunded to the candidates who have submitted such claim	If a genuine mistake is found in the key, the fee comes back. A correct challenge does not cost you money.
The candidates will not be informed individually about the status of their challenges	You are not told individually what happened to your challenge — the final key is where you find out.
The result will be declared according to the final answer keys prepared by the subject experts	The result is built on the final key, not the provisional one. So do not treat the score you worked out from the provisional key as settled.
No grievance with regard to answer key(s) after declaration of result will be entertained	After the result, no grievance about the key is heard. That is exactly why those two or three days matter so much.
If any misprinting or ambiguity in any of the question is noticed by the subject experts, a policy decision will be taken as per the recommendation of subject experts	If a question is found misprinted or ambiguous, what is done about it is decided as a matter of policy on the experts' recommendation. The notification does not say whether such a question is dropped or awarded to everyone.

Provisions for candidates with disabilities — scribe and compensatory time ↑

The notification sets these provisions out at length, and several of the steps have to be completed before the exam rather than on the day. That is why they are given here in full.

Provision (as printed in the notification)	What it means
The facility of Scribe/Reader/Lab Assistant would be allowed to any person with benchmark disability who has limitation in writing including that of speed	Where there is a limitation in writing, including a limitation of speed, a scribe, reader or lab assistant is allowed.
In case of blindness, locomotor disability (both arm affected-BA) and cerebral palsy, the facility shall be given, if so desired by the person	For these three categories the facility follows on request; no separate medical certificate is required for it.
In case of other categories, the provision can be allowed on production of a certificate that the person has physical limitation to write, as per PROFORMA-V-D	For the other categories a certificate from the Chief Medical Officer or Civil Surgeon of a government health institution, on the prescribed form, has to be produced.
Centre Superintendent would make reserve panel of scribes and make the scribe available as and when required	If you are not bringing your own, the Centre Superintendent provides a scribe from a panel kept for this.
Qualification of the scribe should not be more than the minimum qualification criteria of the post	A panel scribe cannot be more qualified than the post's own minimum requirement — so that the scribe cannot supply answers.
The qualification of the scribe/reader should always be matriculate or above	But the scribe must at least have passed class ten.
In case the candidate brings his own scribe, the qualification of the scribe should be one step below the qualification of the post	If you bring your own scribe, that scribe must be one step below the post's qualification — a slightly different rule from the panel one, so read the two separately.
The candidates desirous of using scribe should meet the Centre Superintendent to verify the suitability of scribe one day before examination	The scribe has to be taken to the Centre Superintendent for approval a day before the exam, not on the day itself.
The scribe has to produce a valid ID proof (PAN, Aadhar Card, Driving Licence etc.) in original at the time of examination	The scribe brings an original photo ID, and a signed photocopy of it goes in with the prescribed form.
Compensatory time — 40 minutes for 2.00 hours duration	Forty extra minutes on a two-hour paper. Tier-1 runs two hours, so this is the line that applies to it.
Compensatory time — 50 minutes for 2.30 hours duration	Fifty extra minutes on a two-and-a-half-hour paper. Tier-2 runs two and a half hours.
Compensatory time — 60 minutes for 3.00 hours duration	An extra hour on a three-hour paper.
No extra time will be provided during skill test	No extra time is given in the skill test — the typing and shorthand tests are outside this provision.
There will be separate Question Paper in large font for Visually Impaired candidates	A large-font paper is kept for visually impaired candidates, and the normal paper is available at the centre as well — which one to use is the candidate's choice.
The disability certificate should be produced before the centre superintendent before commencement of examination	The certificate must be shown before the exam begins. Without it neither the scribe nor the extra time is given.
No reservation will be given to such candidates, who are having temporary disability certificate	A temporary disability certificate does not carry reservation.

Pay level and age limit, post by post ↑

This is not part of the exam pattern, but it comes from the same notification and it is what people check before starting to prepare. Age and qualification are counted as they stood on 4 December 2025, not on the date of the exam.

Post, pay level and age limit	What it means
Assistant Commissioner (KVS) — Level-12 (Rs.78800-209200); upper age not exceeding 50 years	The most senior post in this recruitment, and it requires prior service as a Principal.
Assistant Commissioner (Academics) (NVS) — Level-12 (Rs.78800-209200); upper age not exceeding 45 years	The same pay level, but on the NVS side the age ceiling is five years lower.
Principal — Level-12 (Rs.78800-209200); minimum 35 years and maximum 50 years	This post has a floor as well as a ceiling — nobody under thirty-five may apply.
Vice-Principal (KVS) — Level-10 (Rs.56100-177500); minimum 35 years and maximum 45 years	The Vice-Principal post also has a floor of thirty-five, with a ceiling of forty-five.
PGT — Level-8 (Rs.47600-151100); upper age not exceeding 40 years	Forty is the ceiling for a Post Graduate Teacher.
PGT (Computer Science, Physical Education – Male/Female and Modern Indian Language) — Level-8 (Rs.47600-151100); not exceeding 40 years	The notification keeps these subjects in a separate block, but the pay level and the age ceiling are the same.
TGT (Hindi, English, Sanskrit and 3rd Language) — Level-7 (Rs.44900-142400); not exceeding 35 years	The language branch of the Trained Graduate Teacher post.
TGT (Maths, Science, Social Studies) — Level-7 (Rs.44900-142400); not exceeding 35 years	The same pay level and the same age ceiling, a different subject.
TGT (Computer Science, Music, Art, Physical Education, Work Experience) — Level-7 (Rs.44900-142400); not exceeding 35 years	The notification groups these five together in one block.
Special Educator (TGT) — Level-7 (Rs.44900-142400); not exceeding 35 years	The Special Educator post at TGT level.
PRT — Level-6 (Rs.35400-112400); upper age not exceeding 30 years	Primary Teacher — the tightest age ceiling among the teaching posts in this recruitment.
PRT (Music) — Level-6 (Rs.35400-112400); not exceeding 30 years	The Primary Teacher for music, at the same level and the same age.
Special Educator (Primary Teacher) — Level-6 (Rs.35400-112400); not exceeding 30 years	The Special Educator post at primary level.
The candidate should have attained minimum 18 years of age	Eighteen is the floor across all posts, over and above the post-specific floors given above.
The Cut-Off date for determining various eligibility criteria (Educational Qualifications, Experience, age limit etc.) will be the closing date for submission of online application (i.e. 04th December 2025)	Age, qualification and experience are all counted as they stood on 4 December 2025, not on the date of the exam. This is the point candidates most often get wrong.

Examination fee and the rules on paying it ↑

Fee provision (as printed in the notification)	What it means
Assistant Commissioner, Principal, Vice Principal — Examination Fee Rs.2300/- plus Processing Fee Rs.500/-	The three senior posts carry the highest fee — 2,800 rupees in all.
PGT, TGT, Librarian, PRT, Assistant Engineer, Finance Officer, Administrative Officer, Assistant Section Officer, Junior Translator — Examination Fee Rs.1500/- plus Processing Fee Rs.500/-	Nine posts, the main teaching ones among them — 2,000 rupees in all.
Senior Secretariat Assistant, Stenographer Grade-I, Stenographer Grade-II, Junior Secretariat Assistant, Lab Attendant, Multi-Tasking Staff — Examination Fee Rs.1200/- plus Processing Fee Rs.500/-	Six posts — 1,700 rupees in all.
No examination fee is required to be paid by candidates belonging to SC/ST/PwBD and Ex-Servicemen category; however, the processing fee of Rs.500/- will have to be paid by each and every applicant	SC, ST, PwBD and ex-servicemen pay no examination fee, but the 500-rupee processing fee is payable by every applicant without exception.
In case a candidate is applying for similar post in KVS and NVS both, he/she will have to pay fee for single post	Applying for the same post in both KVS and NVS costs the fee once, not twice.
GST as applicable will be charged extra by the Bank	The bank adds GST on top, so the amount debited will be a little more than the figures above.
Fee once deposited, shall not be refunded under any circumstances	The fee is not refunded under any circumstances — not if the application is rejected, not if you skip the exam.
Mode of Payment: By Online-mode (Payment by Debit Card/Credit Card/Net Banking); fee submitted by any other mode like money order, demand draft, IPO etc. will be rejected	Payment is online only. A fee sent by money order, demand draft or IPO is rejected.

The only dates this notification carries ↑

Four dates, and no more. No examination date appears in this document — any site showing you one on the strength of this notification has brought it from somewhere else.

Date (as printed in the notification)	What it means
Registration Open — 14th November 2025 (10.00 AM)	Applications opened on this day.
Registration Closes — 04th December 2025 (11.50 PM)	The last date to apply — and the same date on which all eligibility is counted.
Fee deposit opens — 14th November 2025 (10.00 AM)	The fee window opened along with the application window.
Fee Closes — 04th December 2025 (11.50 PM)	And closed with it. No examination date appears in this notification — these four are the only dates in it.

What this notification does not state — and we will not invent ↑

The items below are what a reader would expect on an exam-pattern page, and this document does not contain them. Many websites fill them in by guesswork. We will not — a study plan built on a guessed pattern costs a candidate a year. Take these from the official announcement when it is issued, and from nowhere else.

Not given	Status
Tier-1 and Tier-2 examination dates	No exam date appears in this notification. It gives only the registration and fee window (14 November to 4 December 2025). The date comes in a separate announcement, and the full centre details on the admit card two days before.
The subject-wise Tier-2 syllabus	Clause 11(r) states plainly that the detailed syllabus sits on the KVS and NVS websites under the Recruitment heading. It is not printed in this document — so there is no subject-wise topic list on this page either. Sites that show one have brought it from somewhere else.
Qualifying marks or a cut-off score for Tier-1	No minimum score is stated. The shortlisting is by the 1:10 ratio rather than by a fixed line — so the cut-off is made each time by how candidates performed, and cannot be known in advance.
Negative marking on the descriptive part of Tier-2	The negative marking rule is written for objective questions only. Nothing is said about the ten descriptive questions, so we say nothing about them either.
A tie-breaking rule for candidates with equal marks	How the order is settled when two candidates finish on the same marks is not stated in this notification.
Normalisation of scores across shifts or sessions	If the exam runs in more than one shift, no formula for equalising scores appears anywhere in this document.
Any limit on the number of attempts	No limit on how many times this exam may be attempted is written anywhere.
The structure or content of the Interview	Only the interview's weight (15 per cent) and its total (100 marks) are given. What is asked in it, by whom, and for how long is not described at all.
Part-wise qualifying marks in Tier-1	The paper has six parts and no separate time limit for any of them — but whether any one part has to be passed on its own is not stated.

Turning this pattern into a study plan — our own advice ↑

This part is not from the official document. It is our own reading of it, and should be taken as such.

Start by working out which group your post falls in. If it carries no interview, your entire merit comes out of Tier-2's hundred marks — and pouring most of your preparation into Tier-1 is then the wrong call. Tier-1 exists to get you past a 1:10 shortlist; its marks are counted nowhere after that.

The descriptive half of Tier-2 is the most neglected. Ten questions, but forty marks — four marks a question on average, against one mark a question in the objective half. Without practice at writing answers out, those forty marks slip away.

Treat the negative marking as two separate habits. In Tier-1, three wrong answers eat one right one, so a blind guess is expensive there. In Tier-2, four wrong answers equal one right one, so a considered guess costs less. Build that difference into your practice papers.

Part-III Basic Computer Literacy sits in every post's Tier-1, whatever the subject. Candidates who put everything into their teaching subject tend to leave this sixty-mark block for the last week — and it is the most easily gathered sixty marks in the paper.

Think the language choice through while filling the form. Part-VI comes only in the language you opted for, and that choice cannot be changed later; do check it once on your admit card.

And last — do not miss the preference link after the exams. The notification says plainly that a candidate who does not fill it within the notified period is not considered in the merit at all. Clearing two papers and then falling at that one step is the bitterest way out.

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