Updates as of September 22, 2026
Physics is the largest science allocation in the KVS PGT cadre under Recruitment Notification 01/2025, with 213 posts split 89 UR, 21 EWS, 57 OBC (NCL), 31 SC and 15 ST. Chemistry follows at 227 across all categories, Biology at 146 and Mathematics at only 80. Coaching portals later reported a revised Physics figure of 239 posts.
KVS/NVS Notification 01/2025No KVS application window is open on 22 September 2026. Registration for Notification 01/2025 ran from 14 November to 4 December 2025 and was extended to 11 December 2025 by a CBSE public notice that also harmonised several KVS and NVS qualifications and allowed candidates to apply to both organisations at once. No successor notification exists.
CBSE Public Notice, 4 December 2025The cycle has reached its last stage. CBSE published Tier-2 results phase by phase from 17 August 2026, releasing the Phase 11 final answer key and result on 5 September 2026, and began issuing Tier-3 interview call letters on 7 September 2026. Results are retrieved from examinationservices.nic.in with the registration number and password.
Prepp (coaching portal)Notification 01/2025 is a joint KVS and NVS advertisement covering 15,762 posts in all, of which 9,921 belong to Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan and 5,841 to Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti. Physics applicants who applied to both bodies after the December corrigendum therefore compete in two separate merit lists drawn from the same Tier-1 and Tier-2 papers.
Testbook (coaching portal)KVS hires at long intervals. The preceding drive was advertised in December 2022, with applications for Principal, PGT, TGT and Librarian posts closing on 2 January 2023 after a one-week extension, roughly three years before Notification 01/2025. Physics aspirants should treat the next opening as unscheduled rather than annual.
Careers360KVS PGT Physics paper at a glance
| Stage | Content | Questions / Marks | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier-1 (qualifying) | Reasoning, numeric ability, computer literacy, general knowledge, English and Indian language | 100 questions, 300 marks | 2 hours |
| Tier-2 objective | Physics subject knowledge at postgraduate level | 60 questions, 60 marks | Part of a 2.5-hour paper |
| Tier-2 descriptive | Written answers in Physics | 10 questions, 40 marks | Part of the same 2.5-hour paper |
| Interview and demo | Personal interview with demonstration lesson | 15 per cent of final merit | Scheduled by CBSE |
Not one Tier-1 question is on Physics; the subject appears only in Tier-2, where all 100 marks are Physics and 40 of them call for written answers. The Tier-2 paper is set bilingually in Hindi and English. Tier-1 deducts one mark of the three on offer for a wrong answer, Tier-2 objective deducts 0.25 of one.
Source: KVS/NVS Notification 01/2025
Dates and windows
| What | When | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Notification 01/2025 released | 13 November 2025 | Closed |
| Application window: notified close, extension, then reopening | 14 November to 4 December 2025, 23:50 as notified; extended to 11 December 2025, 23:59; reopened 13 to 15 December 2025, 23:59 for candidates blocked by the KVS/NVS qualification mismatch | Closed |
| Tier-1 examination | 10 and 11 January 2026 | Closed |
| Tier-1 provisional answer key and result | Answer key 31 January 2026; result 28 February 2026 | Closed |
| Tier-2 subject examination | 27 to 31 March 2026 | Closed |
| Tier-2 results, phase-wise | From 17 August 2026; Phase 9 on 1 September, Phase 11 on 5 September 2026 | Confirmed |
| Tier-3 interview and demonstration lesson | Call letters from 7 September 2026 | Confirmed |
| Next KVS PGT notification | Not announced | Tentative |
This schedule is common to every subject and post in Recruitment Notification 01/2025 and is not specific to Physics: the same Tier-1 was sat by PGT Mathematics, PRT and Principal applicants on the same two days. Dates after Tier-1 are reported by coaching portals citing CBSE announcements rather than drawn from a notice we could read on the KVS site. 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
Physics applicants most often misjudge what the large vacancy count means. With 213 notified posts, a 1:10 Tier-2 shortlist lets roughly 2,100 candidates through and a 1:3 interview shortlist roughly 640, so the competition survives deep into the process rather than thinning early. The second error is preparing the old composite paper: Tier-1 now contains no Physics whatsoever.
The subject only appears in Tier-2
Under Notification 01/2025 the Physics paper is Tier-2 alone: 60 objective questions for 60 marks and 10 descriptive questions for 40 marks, two and a half hours, no sectional time limits, set in both Hindi and English. Tier-1 is a two-hour general paper of 100 questions for 300 marks covering reasoning, numeric ability, basic computer literacy, general knowledge and language competency in English and one modern Indian language. Tier-1 marks do not enter the final merit, which is 85 per cent Tier-2 and 15 per cent interview. The practical consequence is that a strong physicist can be eliminated by general knowledge and computer literacy before writing a single line of subject content.
Numerical fluency helps twice over
Physics candidates hold an unusual advantage in Tier-1 because the numeric ability part is 20 questions for 60 marks, a fifth of the qualifying paper, and covers arithmetic reasoning rather than physics. That is 60 marks a Physics postgraduate should be securing close to fully while spending revision time on the two parts that do not come free: 20 questions of basic computer literacy and 20 of general knowledge, also 60 marks each. Together those two parts are 120 of the 300 Tier-1 marks and are the most common reason a subject-strong applicant does not reach Tier-2. They respond to a few weeks of plain factual revision, unlike the subject paper.
Descriptive Physics is a third of the selection
The ten descriptive questions carry 40 of Tier-2's 100 marks, and since Tier-2 is 85 per cent of the final merit those questions are about a third of the entire selection. For Physics this means derivations written out properly, diagrams labelled, assumptions stated and units carried through, in an examination hall where many candidates have not written long-form physics since their master's examinations. The remaining 60 marks are one-mark objective questions with a 0.25 penalty, which is a mild enough ratio that reasoned elimination pays. Time allocation is the real risk: two and a half hours split across 70 items leaves little room to rescue the descriptive block at the end.
Postgraduate standard, official syllabus on the KVS site
The notification fixes the Tier-2 standard for PGT posts at postgraduate level, as against graduation level for TGT and senior secondary for PRT, and says the detailed syllabus is published under the recruitment heading on the KVS and NVS websites. We could not open the Physics-specific syllabus document from the official syllabus page, so we will not reproduce a unit list we have not read. Coaching summaries describe the scope in broad headings such as mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, optics and modern physics, which is indicative rather than authoritative. Download the official PDF from kvsangathan.nic.in before fixing a revision sequence.
What the old Physics cut-off does and does not tell you
The PGT Physics cut-off most often quoted, 120 for unreserved candidates with 111 for OBC, 99 for SC and 87 for ST, comes from the 2018-19 cycle and was set under the earlier pattern where the written test carried 70 per cent of merit and the interview 30. It is not transferable to a paper marked out of 100 with 85 per cent weighting. For the current cycle coaching portals describe Tier-2 qualifying marks lying somewhere between 67 and 113 across posts and categories. The one stable inference from the older data is relative: Physics sat in the lower band of PGT subject cut-offs, well below language subjects such as Hindi at 143.
Common questions
How many KVS PGT Physics vacancies are there?
Recruitment Notification 01/2025 lists 213 PGT Physics posts in Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, made up of 89 unreserved, 21 EWS, 57 OBC (non-creamy layer), 31 SC and 15 ST. Coaching portals later reported a revised figure of 239 Physics posts as part of the revision that raised the KVS total from 9,126 to 9,921 vacancies. The 213 figure is the one printed in the notification we read; treat 239 as a reported revision and verify it against any corrigendum published on the KVS recruitment page.
What is the KVS PGT Physics exam pattern in the current cycle?
Two tiers followed by an interview. Tier-1 is a qualifying OMR paper of 100 questions for 300 marks in two hours, covering general reasoning, numeric ability, basic computer literacy, general knowledge and language competency in English and a modern Indian language, with one mark deducted per wrong answer. Tier-2 is the Physics paper, 60 objective questions for 60 marks plus 10 descriptive questions for 40 marks over two and a half hours, with 0.25 deducted per wrong objective answer. Final merit is 85 per cent Tier-2 and 15 per cent interview with demonstration lesson.
Is the KVS PGT Physics syllabus at graduation or postgraduate level?
Postgraduate. The notification sets the Tier-2 standard at postgraduate level for PGT posts, graduation level for TGT posts and senior secondary level for PRT posts, and refers candidates to the detailed subject syllabus published under the recruitment heading on the KVS and NVS websites. We could not retrieve that Physics document from the official syllabus page while compiling this note, so candidates should open it directly on kvsangathan.nic.in rather than plan around the abbreviated topic lists that coaching sites publish.
How many Physics candidates get shortlisted for Tier-2 and the interview?
The notification sets shortlisting for Tier-2 at a ratio of 1:10 against notified vacancies and shortlisting for interview at 1:3 from Tier-2. Applied to the 213 notified Physics posts, that implies roughly 2,100 candidates called for the Tier-2 subject paper and roughly 640 called for interview and demonstration lesson. Those ratios are stated in the notification; the resulting numbers are arithmetic from them and the actual counts depend on the revised vacancy figure and on category-wise distribution.
Can I apply for KVS PGT Physics in September 2026?
No regular vacancy is open. Applications for Notification 01/2025 closed on 11 December 2025 after an extension, and KVS has not announced a fresh recruitment notification. The 2025-26 cycle is at its interview stage, with Tier-2 results released in phases from 17 August 2026 and Tier-3 call letters from 7 September 2026. The only live hiring is contractual: individual Kendriya Vidyalayas are registering contractual PGT, TGT and PRT candidates through the Samvida Sathi portal, with walk-in interviews and deadlines running into October 2026.
Does KVS conduct PGT Physics recruitment every year?
It has not done so recently. Notification 01/2025 was released on 13 November 2025; the drive before it was advertised in December 2022, with the application deadline extended to 2 January 2023, a gap of about three years. One widely read exam portal describes KVS recruitment as annual, but the dated notifications do not support that. Physics aspirants are better served by keeping their eligibility current, including the master's percentage and B.Ed. requirement, and watching the recruitment page on kvsangathan.nic.in rather than assuming a yearly cycle.
