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    <h2>Updates as of September 22, 2026</h2>
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        <p>The Tier-2 result for PGT Physics was declared on 23 August 2026, in the fifth phase of CBSE's release for Recruitment Notification 01/2025, in the same press note as Vice-Principal and Stenographer Grade-II. Physics was the third PGT subject published and the first of the core science subjects, ahead of Chemistry on 21 August and Biology on 28 August.</p>
        <a class="nvs-pgt-physics-updates-222026-cite" href="https://www.cbse.gov.in/cbsenew/documents/Press_Note_5_KVS_NVS_2025_23082026.pdf">CBSE Press Note, 5th Phase</a>
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        <p>Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti advertised 186 PGT Physics posts: 78 unreserved, 18 EWS, 50 OBC non-creamy-layer, 27 SC and 13 ST, with two locomotor disability, two visual impairment, two hearing impairment and two other PwBD reservations. Physics is the one large subject in this drive where Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan notified more, at 213, than NVS did.</p>
        <a class="nvs-pgt-physics-updates-222026-cite" href="https://cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s32d2ca7eedf739ef4c3800713ec482e1a/uploads/2025/11/2025111348.pdf">KVS/NVS Notification 01/2025</a>
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        <p>Physics produced the largest Tier-2 field of any teaching subject in this recruitment. CBSE's shortlisting statistics of 24 March 2026 give 4,524 PGT Physics candidates once the category columns are added, against 399 posts across the two organisations, compared with 2,868 in Mathematics and 2,014 in History.</p>
        <a class="nvs-pgt-physics-updates-222026-cite" href="https://www.cbse.gov.in/cbsenew/documents/KVS_NVS_Shortlisted_Tier_2_2025_24032026.pdf">CBSE Tier-2 Shortlist Statistics</a>
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        <p>An NVS post is residential. The notification records 653 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas functioning across India except in Tamil Nadu, requires teachers to stay on the Vidyalaya campus with rent-free accommodation as available, and adds House Mastership, remedial and supervisory studies, co-curricular organisation, escorting students on migration and student welfare to the teaching duties, all assessed during probation.</p>
        <a class="nvs-pgt-physics-updates-222026-cite" href="https://cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s32d2ca7eedf739ef4c3800713ec482e1a/uploads/2025/11/2025111348.pdf">KVS/NVS Notification 01/2025</a>
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        <p>A public notice of 4 December 2025 extended the deadline to 11 December 2025 and recorded that KVS and NVS had aligned qualifications so a candidate could apply to both; a notice of 13 December 2025 reopened the portal until 15 December 2025 for those previously unable to apply to the second organisation. The fee was charged once for the same post in both bodies.</p>
        <a class="nvs-pgt-physics-updates-222026-cite" href="https://www.cbse.gov.in/cbsenew/documents/Public_Notice_13122025.pdf">CBSE Public Notice, 13 December 2025</a>
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        <p>The most recent CBSE entry for the drive is a provisional Tier-2 admit card link dated 17 September 2026, published without a covering notice. Interview schedules and call letters are described as due in candidate logins after finalisation with KVS and NVS, and no Physics interview dates have been announced.</p>
        <a class="nvs-pgt-physics-updates-222026-cite" href="https://www.cbse.gov.in/cbsenew/recruitment.html">CBSE Recruitment</a>
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The NVS PGT Physics selection, stage by stage

No Physics appears in Tier-1, which is a two-hour screening paper awarding three marks a correct answer and deducting one for a wrong one, with shortlisting at 1:10 and no carry-forward into merit. Tier-2 runs two and a half hours for 100 marks, set bilingually in Hindi and English, and carries 85 per cent of the final merit against 15 per cent for the interview. The post is Level-8, Rs 47,600 to Rs 1,51,100, upper age limit 40 years, requiring a master's degree and a B.Ed. each with at least 50 per cent marks.

<p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s32d2ca7eedf739ef4c3800713ec482e1a/uploads/2025/11/2025111348.pdf">KVS/NVS Notification 01/2025</a></p>

Every date except the result is shared with the rest of Notification 01/2025 and with both organisations: a single notification, one application window and one pair of examinations covering PGT, TGT, PRT, Principal and the non-teaching posts in KVS and NVS alike. Physics candidates for the two bodies sat identical papers. Subject result dates diverge only because CBSE published Tier-2 outcomes in twelve phases between 17 August and 14 September 2026. 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.

<p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://www.cbse.gov.in/cbsenew/documents/Public_Notice_KVS_NVS_Admit_Card_08012026.pdf">CBSE Admit Card Notice, 8 January 2026</a> &middot; <a href="https://www.cbse.gov.in/cbsenew/documents/Public_Notice_Tier_2_11032026.pdf">CBSE Tier-2 Schedule Notice</a> &middot; <a href="https://www.cbse.gov.in/cbsenew/documents/Press_Note_5_KVS_NVS_2025_23082026.pdf">CBSE Press Note, 5th Phase</a> &middot; <a href="https://www.cbse.gov.in/cbsenew/documents/Public_Notice_Qualification_Date_Ext_KVS_NVS_05122025.pdf">CBSE Public Notice, 5 December 2025</a> &middot; <a href="https://www.cbse.gov.in/cbsenew/documents/Public_Notice_13122025.pdf">CBSE Public Notice, 13 December 2025</a></p>

Physics candidates most often misjudge what a large vacancy count means. With 186 NVS posts and 213 in KVS, a 1:10 Tier-2 shortlist let 4,524 candidates through, the biggest subject field in the whole drive, and a 1:3 interview shortlist still leaves several hundred people competing for the Navodaya posts. Competition here survives deep into the process instead of thinning early. The second error is preparing a composite paper: Tier-1 contains no Physics whatsoever.

The one subject where KVS is the bigger employer

Physics is the exception to the pattern in this notification. NVS notified 186 posts against 213 in KVS, whereas Navodaya outnumbered Kendriya Vidyalaya in both History, 110 to 75, and Mathematics, 167 to 80. The NVS split is 78 unreserved, 18 EWS, 50 OBC non-creamy-layer, 27 SC and 13 ST, with eight PwBD reservations spread evenly across locomotor, visual, hearing and other categories, the largest PwBD allocation of the three subjects. A candidate choosing between the two organisations in this cycle was therefore not trading vacancy volume in Physics so much as trading a day school posting for a residential campus one.

The largest Tier-2 field in the recruitment

CBSE's shortlisting statistics of 24 March 2026 record 4,524 candidates carried into the Physics Tier-2 paper across both organisations: 1,802 unreserved, 1,221 OBC non-creamy-layer, 628 SC, 420 EWS, 302 ST and 151 in the PwBD columns. That is larger than Mathematics at 2,868 and more than twice History at 2,014, and it is a direct consequence of the 1:10 ratio applied to 399 posts. At a 1:3 interview shortlist roughly 560 candidates should be called against the Navodaya posts. The practical reading is that a Physics candidate cannot rely on the subject paper thinning the field; it has to be won on marks.

Tier-1 has no Physics and eliminates physicists

Tier-1 is 100 questions for 300 marks in two hours: General Reasoning, Numeric Ability, Basic Computer Literacy and General Knowledge at 20 questions and 60 marks each, plus English and one Modern Indian Language at 10 questions and 30 marks each, with three marks for a correct answer and one deducted for a wrong one. PGT candidates sat it in the 11 January 2026 morning shift. A Physics postgraduate ought to take the 60 Numeric Ability marks nearly in full, since that part is arithmetic reasoning rather than physics. The reliable losses are Basic Computer Literacy and General Knowledge, together 120 of the 300 marks, and they answer to weeks of ordinary factual revision, not to subject depth.

Written Physics is about a third of the selection

Tier-2 is 70 items for 100 marks in two and a half hours: 60 objective questions of one mark with 0.25 deducted for error, and 10 descriptive questions of four marks each carrying no penalty. Since merit is 85 per cent Tier-2 and 15 per cent interview, the descriptive block is close to a third of the entire selection. For Physics that means derivations written out, diagrams labelled, assumptions stated and units carried through, in a hall where many candidates have not written long-form physics since their master's examinations. The objective penalty is mild enough that reasoned elimination pays; the real hazard is leaving the descriptive section to the final twenty minutes.

A residential science posting, anywhere in India

The notification records 653 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas functioning across the country except in Tamil Nadu, largely rural, fully residential and co-educational, and requires teachers to stay on the campus with rent-free accommodation as available. In addition to teaching, the listed duties are House Mastership, remedial and supervisory studies, organising co-curricular activities, escorting students on migration and other official purposes, and student welfare generally, and the notification says performance in all these areas is assessed during probation along with teaching ability. Initial posting may be anywhere in India and a request to change station or region will not be entertained under any circumstances, which is a materially harder transfer position than the Kendriya Vidyalaya equivalent.

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