KVS Recruitment

Varies by post: upper limit from 27 years (Junior Secretariat Assistant, Stenographer Gr II) to 50 years (Assistant Commissioner, Principal); Principal 35–50 and Vice-Principal 35–45 years, counted as on Closing date of online applications, printed as 4 December 2025, as per the Recruitment Notification 01/2025 – Recruitment of various Teaching & Non-Teaching posts in Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan and Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (combined notice; KVS parts used). Category-wise upper age relaxation is given in the notice.

PGT: Master's degree (or integrated PG course) in the subject with at least 50%, and B.Ed. with at least 50% (or an integrated B.Ed.-M.Ed.). TGT: Bachelor's degree in the required subjects with at least 50%, B.Ed. with at least 50%, and CTET Paper-II. PRT: Class 12 with at least 50%, a 2-year Diploma in Elementary Education (or 4-year B.El.Ed. or 2-year D.Ed. Special Education), and CTET Paper-I. Librarian: Bachelor's degree in Library Science (or Library and Information Science) with at least 50%. Junior Secretariat Assistant: Class 12 pass and typing 35 wpm English or 30 wpm Hindi on computer. Assistant Section Officer, Senior Secretariat Assistant, Administrative Officer, Finance Officer, Stenographer Gr I and Vice-Principal also need set years of regular service or experience, as printed for each post. All qualifications must be held on the cut-off date (closing date of online applications).

Online application closes (as extended by the public notice of 4 Dec 2025): 11 December 2025 (11.59 PM); originally 4 December 2025, as per the notice published on 13 November 2025 (cbse.gov.in); Corrigendum-I 21 Nov 2025, Corrigendum-2 4 Dec 2025, Corrigendum-3 10 Dec 2025. Applications are made only on kvsangathan.nic.in.

Tier-1 (screening, OMR): Part I: General Reasoning, Part II: Numeric Ability, Part III: Basic Computer Literacy, Part IV: General Knowledge, Part V: English Language Competency, Part VI: One other Modern Indian Language, Total (2 hours). 3 marks per correct answer; 1 mark deducted for each wrong answer. Tier-1 only shortlists for Tier-2 (1:10). The notification prints no minimum qualifying marks. Tier-2 (subject knowledge, pen-paper and OMR): Objective questions, Descriptive questions, Total (2 hours 30 minutes). Objective questions: 1 mark each, 0.25 deducted per wrong answer. Bilingual (Hindi and English), except language papers. A separate Tier-2 paper is set for each post.

9,921 KVS posts after Corrigendum-3 (our sum: 8,714 teaching and 1,207 non-teaching). The original notification tables add up to 9,126. Vacancies are tentative and may increase or decrease., according to the Recruitment Notification 01/2025 – Recruitment of various Teaching & Non-Teaching posts in Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan and Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (combined notice; KVS parts used).

After Corrigendum-3 the KVS tables add up to 9,921 posts (8,714 teaching and 1,207 non-teaching). The original notification tables added up to 9,126. The notice does not print a single KVS total; these are sums of the printed post totals.

Yes. Recruitment Notification 01/2025 is a common notification for KVS and NVS, run by CBSE. If you are in the merit list for both, you must give your preference in the online portal within the notified period.

PGT: not more than 40 years. TGT: not more than 35 years. PRT: not more than 30 years. Women of all categories get 10 years' relaxation for these posts, and SC/ST, OBC, PwBD and other categories get the relaxations printed in the notice.

Yes for TGT (CTET Paper-II) and PRT (CTET Paper-I), including Special Educators. The notification does not list CTET for PGT.

It depends on the post: PRT Level 6 (₹35,400–1,12,400), TGT Level 7 (₹44,900–1,42,400), PGT Level 8 (₹47,600–1,51,100), Principal Level 12 (₹78,800–2,09,200). The notice does not print an in-hand figure.

Tier-1: 100 questions, 300 marks, 2 hours, with 1 mark deducted per wrong answer. Tier-2: 60 objective and 10 descriptive questions for 100 marks in 2 hours 30 minutes. Then an interview or a skill test, depending on the post.

No. Tier-1 is a screening test that shortlists candidates for Tier-2 in the ratio 1:10. For interview posts the final merit is 85% Tier-2 and 15% interview.

₹2,300 (AC, Principal, VP), ₹1,500 (PGT, TGT, PRT, Librarian and some office posts) or ₹1,200 (SSA, Stenographers, JSA), plus a ₹500 processing fee. SC, ST, PwBD and Ex-Servicemen pay no exam fee but must pay the processing fee.

No. ASO needs 3 years' regular service as UDC/SSA in Level 4, and SSA needs 3 years' regular service as JSA/LDC in Level 2, in Central Government or its autonomous bodies.

It is not printed in the notification. KVS published a separate Tier-2 syllabus document for all teaching and non-teaching posts on its website.

Direct recruitment of teachers (PGT, TGT, PRT, Librarian), school leaders (Assistant Commissioner, Principal, Vice-Principal) and office staff for Kendriya Vidyalayas, held through a common CBSE-run exam with Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti in the 2025 cycle.

Postgraduates and graduates with B.Ed. (and CTET for TGT and PRT), Class 12 pass candidates with an elementary education diploma and CTET Paper-I, and graduates or Class 12 pass candidates for the office posts.

Selection runs through a Tier-1 screening test, a Tier-2 subject test and then an interview (teaching posts and senior office posts) or a skill test (Junior Secretariat Assistant and Stenographers). For interview posts the final merit is 85% Tier-2 and 15% interview.