NOTIFICATION (PROSPECTUS) FOR ADMISSION OF STUDENTS IN CLASS-IX AGAINST VACANT SEATS LIKELY TO BE AVAILABLE IN JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDYALAYAS FOR THE SESSION 2025-26 THROUGH SELECTION TEST.
How to apply for admission in Class-IX in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya…
The candidate can fill the online application form directly on NVS website www.navodaya.gov.in.
Last date to apply for class IX Lateral Entry Selection is 30th October, 2024.
Candidates/ parents are advised to go through the notification cum prospectus before applying and ensure the fulfillment of eligibility criteria. Please note that selection test is against the vacant seats only, subject to availability of accommodation in the JNV concerned.NVS.
The following documents in soft form (JPG format of size between 10 to 100
kb) may be kept ready for registration:-
Photograph
Signature of parent
Signature of candidate
EXAMINATION :-
- Date of Examination – Saturday, 08th February 2025.
- Duration – 2½ hours. However, in respect of candidates with special needs (Divyang), additional time of 50 minutes will be provided, subject to the production of certificates from the competent authority.
- Centre for examination shall be the JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA of the district concerned/ any other centre allotted by NVS.
- Medium of Language for Examination will be English/Hindi. Medium of language shall not be hanged after filling up the form.
- Students have to answer in OMR sheet.
COMPOSITION AND NATURE OF THE SELECTION TEST :-
Selection Test will consist of questions from the subjects of Mathematics, General Science, English and Hindi. Difficulty level of the test paper shall be of Class VIII.NVS.
The test will be of objective type with 2 ½ hours duration without any break. The candidate has to score minimum qualifying marks as per NVS criteria in all the 04 subjects. However, the merit list will be prepared on the basis of marks obtained in three subjects, Mathematics + Science +One of the two languages in which candidate has scored more marks.
If there is a tie with the same marks out of 100, the following criteria will be
followed in the same order of sequence.
- a) Female candidate will be preferred over male candidate. b) If tie still exists, candidate who has scored higher marks out of 30 (twosubjects) excluding Mental Ability Score, will be preferred.
- c) Even then if tie exists, candidate who has scored higher marks out of all four subjects, i.e. out of 100, will be preferred.
- d) If tie is not yet resolved, candidate whose age is less will be preferred.
PROVISIONAL SELECTION AND ADMISSION :-
a. Provisional selection in the test will not vest any right on the candidate to secure admission into the JNV. At the time of seeking actual admission, each provisionally selected candidate will have to produce all relevant original certificates, as prescribed by the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti. The
7 selection is provisional only, until admission is confirmed. Candidates are advised to apply for TC from parent school, only after the verification of documents and confirmation of admission by the respective JNV.
b. In case of any dispute, the decision of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti shall be final and binding on the candidates.NVS.
c. There is no provision for re-evaluation of the answer scripts or re-totaling of marks, since the result is processed through computer and sufficient care is taken to ensure accuracy through various checks while processing the result. Marks scored in the selection test will not be communicated.
d. All students must submit the residence proof issued by competent Govt. authority of the district where he/she has studied class VIII and applied for Lateral Entry Selection Test.
e. If it is found that the provisionally selected candidate has submitted any fraudulent document at the time of verification, no admission will be given to the candidate. Further, if any candidate has suppressed / hide any information or submitted fraudulent document and later on it is found that the information or document(s) is fraudulent or not as per NVS admission norms, then his/her admission will be cancelled at any stage even if he/she has taken the admission.
f. Date of birth of the candidate must be between 1stMay 2010 to 31st July 2012 (both days inclusive). He/She has to produce a copy of the birth certificate issued by Government authority concerned at the time of admission. In case of doubtful cases of overage, they may be referred to
the Medical Board for confirmation of the age. The decision of the medical board will be treated as final and binding.
g. Candidates belonging to the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Class (OBC) & Divyang category will have to produce a certificate from competent authority to support their claim at the time of seeking admission, if provisionally selected. Candidates selected under
OBC category will have to submit the OBC certificate of central list as issued by Govt. of India. Such certificate should be obtained from the competent authority well in advance, so that it may be submitted to the Principal of JNV concerned at the time of verification of document. The candidates belonging to OBC category, have to submit the OBC 8 certificate whose category is mentioned in the Central list for OBC.NVS.
h. Candidates applying for admission under Rural Category will have to produce a certificate issued by competent authority of District Administration to the effect that the school where candidate has studied Class-VIII is located in Rural Area.
i. Candidates belonging to the Divyang category (Orthopaedic, Hearing and Visual), if provisionally selected, will have to produce a medical certificate signed by Chief Medical Officer of the District concerned at the time of admission in appropriate format.
j. Candidates belonging to transgender category will have to submit a certificate from the competent authority prescribed by the concerned State Govt. with regard to their gender. No separate reservation is made for this category.
k. No request for change of JNV/category/Area/Gender etc. will be entertained and the candidature will be considered only on the basis of data provided at the time of registration.
l. Under purview of section 4(4)(b)(ii) of Aadhaar act for which Ministry of Electronics& Information Technology (MeitY) has notified the Aadhaar Authentication for Good Governance (Social Welfare, Innovation, Knowledge) Rules, 2020 on 05-08-2020 and in pursuance of section 7 of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 (18 of 2016), a child desires of availing the benefits under the scheme shall be required to furnish proof of possession of the Aadhaar number or undergo Aadhaar authentication. Necessary notifications vide no. 33004/99 dated 09.01.2023 and dated 21.10.2022 in respect of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti have already been released by the respective Ministry. Any child who does not possess the Aadhaar
Number or has not yet enrolled for Aadhaar, shall be required to make application for Aadhaar Enrolment before registering for the scheme, provided that he/she is entitled to obtain Aadhaar as per section 3 of the said Act and such children shall visit any Aadhaar Enrolment centre (list
available at UIDAI website: www.uidai.gov.in) to get enrolled for Aadhaar. The JNVs are also having facility to register for Aadhaar Enrolment. This facility may be used for Aadhaar enrolment with necessary documents by the candidates.