JNVST 2027 Exam Date: 28 November, One Phase — Admit Card and Result

The Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Selection Test for admission to Class VI in 2027-28 — JNVST 2027 — will be held on Saturday 28 November 2026, from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM. Unlike JNVST 2026, which ran in two phases, it is one test day for the whole country: the prospectus says it will be held “for Summer bound and Winter bound JNVs in single phase”. This guide sets out every date that matters to a parent between now and the child’s first day at a Navodaya Vidyalaya, from NVS’s own documents, and flags the dates that other pages still get wrong.

NVS prospectus JNVST 2027; NVS admission portal.

Until last year, Navodaya held its test twice. JNVST 2026 had a first phase on 13 December 2025 for most of India and a second on 11 April 2026 for “winter-bound” areas — the hill and north-eastern districts whose schools follow a different academic calendar. For JNVST 2027 both groups sit on the same day. If you live in one of the areas below and remember an April test from last year, it does not apply this time.

The earlier test date also moves everything else forward. A child sitting on 28 November has roughly two weeks less preparation time than a phase-1 child had last year, but the family will know the result in the same March window — and the whole admission process has to finish by 31 August 2027 instead of running to the end of the year.

NVS says the admit cards “will be made available as per date decided by NVS in due course”, displayed on the admission portal and downloaded free of cost before the test. On 25 September 2026 no admit-card link or notice had appeared on the portal or on navodaya.gov.in. The admit card names the examination centre, and no change of centre is allowed. A child cannot sit the test without it. Download it as soon as it appears, check the name, photograph, date of birth and medium, and keep two printed copies.

Besides the admit card, the child must bring either the candidate’s Aadhaar card or the parent’s Government residence certificate that was uploaded in the application; the invigilator also matches the photo on the admit card with the child. Answers are marked on a separate OMR sheet with a blue or black ball-point pen — pencils are not allowed — so pack two working pens.

The result is “expected to be announced by end of March, 2027”. It is published on the admission portal and also displayed at the JNV, the District Education Officer, the District Magistrate and the NVS regional office, and on navodaya.gov.in. The Principal of the JNV also informs provisionally selected candidates by speed post. The marking is done by machine: NVS says there is no re-evaluation, re-totalling or manual scrutiny, so make sure the booklet number is copied correctly on the OMR sheet.

Selection is provisional until documents are verified. Parents will be asked for the child’s birth certificate (issued on or before the date of registration or the test), the parent’s residence certificate for the district, the child’s Aadhaar, a Head Master’s certificate of Classes III–V with the rural or urban location of the school, category and disability certificates where claimed, an undertaking about migration, and the transfer certificate. There are no wait lists in 2027: if a selected child does not take the seat or cannot produce the certificates, the next candidate in the same category and quota is “auto-populated” on the portal. The whole process closes by 31 August 2027.