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The Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) on July 17 started the registration for Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Selection Test (JNVST) 2025. Interested and eligible candidates can register for admission to Class 6 at the Navodaya Vidyalaya for the academic session 2025-26 on the official website – navodaya.gov.in.
The JNVST 2025 admission application form will be available to candidates till September 16. Candidates will have to apply only once, meaning if a student has applied for admission the previous year their candidature will rejected.
According to the official prospectus the exam will be held in two phases, first on January 18, 2025 at 11.30 am and the second phase exam will be conducted on April 12 at 11.30 am.
— The applicants must have been born between May 1, 2013, and July 31, 2015 (both the dates are inclusive)
— The applicants seeking admission must not be a class repeaters, i.e. not passed class 6 before academic session 2024-25
— 75 per cent of the district seat is reserved for rural area candidates, while the remaining is open for both rural and urban candidates.
— Students seeking admission through rural quota should have finished their classes 3, 4 and 5
— Candidates applying under the rural quota must have completed their classes 3, 4 and 5 at from a government school or recognised rural school.
—Their Class 5 must be completed in the same district where they are seeking JNVST class 6 admission.
— National Institute of Open School (NIOS) students have to submit their rural status certificate, mentioning a minimum of three years of residency and education in the area issued by the concerned local authority.
— Students who received schooling from urban area (even for a day) in classes 3, 4 and 5 will be considered urban candidates.
| Type of Test | Number of questions | Marks | Duration |
| Mental ability test | 40 | 50 | 60 minutes |
| Arithmetic test | 20 | 25 | 30 minutes |
| Language test | 20 | 25 | 30 minutes |
| Total | 80 | 100 | 2 hours |
The exam will held for a total of two hours from 11.30 am till 1.30 pm containing a total 80 objective types of questions for 100 marks from all three sections. 40 minutes will be provided to students with disability (divyang students).
