Alerts and Updates for KVS PGT History

The PGT History paper at a glance

Tier-1 runs two hours for 100 questions and 300 marks with one mark deducted per wrong answer; Tier-2 runs two and a half hours for 70 questions and 100 marks with 0.25 deducted on the objective half only. No History appears in Tier-1, and Tier-1 scores do not survive the shortlist: merit is computed from Tier-2 at 85 per cent and the interview at 15. The post is Level-8 in the pay matrix, Rs 47,600 to Rs 1,51,100, with an upper age limit of 40 years. The nineteen History themes described on this page come from the separate Tier-II syllabus document published on the KVS and NVS sites, not from Notification 01/2025 itself, which carries the scheme of examination and the vacancy tables but no subject syllabus.

Dates and windows

Apart from the result line, every date here is common to the whole of Recruitment Notification 01/2025: one notification, one application window and one pair of examinations covering PGT, TGT, PRT and the non-teaching posts across both KVS and NVS. Result dates diverge by subject because CBSE published Tier-2 outcomes in twelve phases between 17 August and 14 September 2026, and History fell in the third, two days into the sequence. The Tier-1 examination dates are as reported by Career Power; the rest come from CBSE and KVS notices. The application window closed in three stages: 4 December 2025 as notified, extended to 11 December 2025 by the CBSE notice of 5 December, and reopened until 15 December 2025 by the CBSE notice of 13 December for candidates whom the KVS/NVS qualification mismatch had blocked, after Corrigendum-2 aligned the two sets of qualifications.

What this means for your preparation

The single most costly assumption in PGT History is that the paper is an Indian history paper. It is not. Roughly half the listed syllabus is world history, running from third-millennium Mesopotamia to twentieth-century East Asia, and it is set thematically rather than as a chronological survey. Candidates who arrive from a civil-services preparation habit, where Indian history dominates, walk into a paper where Rome, the Mongols and the European Renaissance are worth as much as the Mughals.

The world history half, theme by theme

The syllabus is the separate Tier-II document on the KVS and NVS sites, not the notification, and it organises the world component as discrete themes rather than a narrative. Writing and city life in third-millennium Iraq, and the historiographical argument about what writing was for. An empire across three continents, meaning Rome from 27 BCE to 600 CE, its political evolution, economy, religion and late antiquity, with the scholarly debate on slavery attached. Nomadic empires, the thirteenth and fourteenth-century Mongols, and what nomadism means for state formation. The three orders of western Europe from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, feudal society and the debate about feudalism's decline. Changing cultural traditions in fourteenth to seventeenth-century Europe and the historiography of the Renaissance. Displacing indigenous peoples in North America and Australia. Paths to modernisation in East Asia, Japanese militarisation against the Chinese communist alternative.

The Indian half is source-anchored

The Indian themes are not framed as dynasties but as problems approached through named evidence. Harappan archaeology and site reports. Early states from the Mauryas to the Guptas, read through inscriptions and the decipherment of script. Kinship, caste and class using the Mahabharata as a social source. Thinkers, beliefs and buildings, with Sanchi and the Buddhist, Vedic, Jain, Vaishnava and Shaiva traditions. Travellers' perceptions through Al Biruni, Ibn Battuta and Francois Bernier. Bhakti and Sufi traditions. Vijayanagara and the architecture of Hampi. Mughal agrarian society through the Ain-i-Akbari. Colonialism and the countryside through official archives and the Permanent Settlement. 1857. Gandhi and the nationalist movement from 1918 to 1948. Framing the Constitution through the Constituent Assembly debates.

Know the sources, not only the events

Because nearly every Indian theme in the syllabus is tied to a specific body of evidence, the objective half is well suited to questions about the source itself: who compiled the Ain-i-Akbari and when it was translated, what kind of document a Constituent Assembly debate is, which traveller recorded what and in which language, how a site report differs from a chronicle. These are finite, learnable facts and they are exactly what a syllabus written around sources invites a paper-setter to ask. Preparing a one-page card for each named text and archive, covering author, date, language, provenance and limitation, is disproportionately productive against a 60-question objective paper.

Historiographical debates carry the written marks

Several themes in the syllabus explicitly name a debate rather than a set of events: what writing was for in Mesopotamia, the nature of Roman slavery, how to read nomadic societies, why feudalism declined, how to interpret the Renaissance, the impact of settler colonisation, and competing models of East Asian modernisation. That is where the ten descriptive questions, worth 40 of the paper's 100 marks and around a third of the final merit position, are most naturally placed. A four-mark answer on a debate needs a named position, a counter-position and a line of evidence, written inside the pressure of 70 questions in 150 minutes, so practise them as compact structured paragraphs rather than essays.

A small subject with no published cut-off

History is one of the smallest PGT blocks in this notification, with 75 KVS posts against 164 for English and 213 for Physics. Since Tier-1 shortlists at one to ten against notified vacancies, a small subject means a small Tier-2 cohort and sharper competition per place; the 110 NVS History posts advertised in the same notification partly offset that. CBSE has published no subject-wise Tier-2 cut-off and no category-wise qualifying marks. For interview posts, the phase notices say the result shows shortlisting status only, with marksheets due within fifteen days of the final result, so History candidates shortlisted on 20 August still do not hold a score. Coaching cut-off tables quoting PGT figures out of 150 marks do not match the 100-mark paper.

Common questions

When was the KVS PGT History Tier-2 result declared?

CBSE declared it on 20 August 2026, in the third phase of its Tier-2 result release for Recruitment Notification 01/2025, in the same press note as PGT Economics and TGT Work Experience. It was the first of the four humanities PGT subjects to be published. Results are viewed through the candidate login on the application portal. Since PGT History carries an interview, the release conveys shortlisting status rather than marks, with marksheets promised within fifteen days of the final result.

How many KVS PGT History posts were advertised?

Recruitment Notification 01/2025 lists 75 PGT History posts in Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan: 32 unreserved, seven EWS, 20 OBC (NCL), 11 SC and five ST, with one locomotor disability, one visual impairment, two hearing impairment and one other PwBD reservation. Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti advertised a further 110 PGT History posts in the same notification. Across all twelve KVS PGT subjects the notification carries 1,465 posts, making History one of the smaller subject blocks.

What does the KVS PGT History syllabus cover?

The subject syllabus is not in Notification 01/2025; it is a separate Tier-II syllabus document on the KVS and NVS sites, and it lists nineteen History themes in two halves. World history: Writing and City Life in third-millennium Iraq, An Empire across Three Continents on Rome from 27 BCE to 600 CE, Nomadic Empires on the thirteenth and fourteenth-century Mongols, The Three Orders in western Europe, Changing Cultural Traditions in fourteenth to seventeenth-century Europe, Displacing Indigenous People in North America and Australia, and Paths to Modernization in East Asia. Indian history runs from Bricks, Beads and Bones on the Harappan civilisation through to Framing the Constitution.

Is there any History in the KVS PGT Tier-1 paper?

No. Tier-1 is 100 questions for 300 marks in two hours, comprising General Reasoning, Numeric Ability, Basic Computer Literacy and General Knowledge at 20 questions and 60 marks each, plus Language Competency in English and in a Modern Indian Language at ten questions and 30 marks each. Subject knowledge appears only in Tier-2. Tier-1 is purely a screening test, shortlisting candidates at one to ten against notified vacancies, and its marks play no part in the final merit list.

How much world history is in the PGT History paper?

A substantial share, on the evidence of the syllabus, which devotes seven distinct themes to it against the Indian themes. They span third-millennium Mesopotamia, Rome from 27 BCE to 600 CE, the thirteenth and fourteenth-century Mongols, feudal western Europe, the European Renaissance, settler colonisation in North America and Australia, and modernisation in Japan and China. Candidates who prepare Indian history heavily, as civil-services preparation encourages, are exposed here. Each world theme also names an associated historiographical debate, which suits the descriptive half of the paper.

How is the PGT History final merit list prepared?

The notification states merit is computed by giving 85 per cent weightage to Tier-2 and 15 per cent to the interview. Tier-2 carries 100 marks over two and a half hours: 60 objective questions of one mark each with 0.25 deducted for a wrong answer, and 10 descriptive questions of four marks each. The interview carries 100 marks and is conducted only for shortlisted candidates. Tier-1 determines who reaches Tier-2, at a one-to-ten ratio against notified vacancies, and then drops out of the calculation.