JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA ADMISSION TEST

 

JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA ADMISSION TEST -2021

Class VI Admission test

Government of India started Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs). Presently the JNVs are spread in 27 States and 08 Union Territories. These are co-educational residential schools fully financed and administered by Government of India through an autonomous organization, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti. Admissions in JNVs are made through the JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA SELECTION TEST (JNVST) to Class VI. The medium of instruction in JNVs is the mother tongue or regional language up to Class VIII and thereafter English for Mathematics and Science and Hindi for Social Science. Students of the JNVs appear for board examinations of the Central Board of Secondary Education.

, Government of India started Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs). Presently the JNVs are spread in 27 States and 08 Union Territories. These are co-educational residential schools fully financed and administered by Government of India through an autonomous organization, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti. Admissions in JNVs are made through the JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA SELECTION TEST (JNVST) to Class VI. The medium of instruction in JNVs is the mother tongue or regional language up to Class VIII and thereafter English for Mathematics and Science and Hindi for Social Science. Students of the JNVs appear for board examinations of the Central Board of Secondary Education.

In respect of wards of Government employees other than exempted category (Students of classes VI to VIII, all SC/ST & Girl students and wards of BPL families) Vikas Nidhi will be charged @Rs.1500/- per month or actual children education allowance received by the parent per month whichever is less. However, VVN shall not be less than Rs.600/- per student per month.

A maximum of eighty students are admitted in Class VI in each Vidyalaya through a Selection Test subject to availability of suitable candidates. The Samiti reserves the right to reduce the seats to forty or to withhold result and/or withhold admission and/or conduct of JNVST in case adequate accommodation is not available.

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Selection Test – 2021

 JNV Selection Test for admission to Class-VI in JNVs for the academic session 2021-22 will be held in On Saturday, the 10 th April, 2021 at 11.30 A.M in one phase for all Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas.

The last date to submit online application is 15th December 2020.

The last extended to 29^th December 2020

WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO THOS JNV TEST :

A candidate seeking admission must not have been born before 01-05-2008 and after 30-04-2012 (Both dates are inclusive). This will apply to candidates of all categories, including those who belong to the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Class (OBC). In case of doubtful cases of overage in comparison to the age recorded in the certificate, they may be referred to the Medical Board for confirmation of the age. The decision of the medical board will be treated as final.

A candidate appearing for the selection test must be studying in Class-V for the whole of the academic session 2020-21 in a Government/Government aided or other recognized schools or ‘B’ certificate competency course of National Institute of Open Schooling in the same district where he/she is seeking admission.

A candidate must successfully complete Class-V in the session 2020-21.

A Candidate claiming admission under rural quota must have studied and passed classes III, IV and V from a Govt. / Govt. aided / recognized school spending one full academic session each year in a school located in rural area.

Candidates passing ‘B’ certificate competency course of National Institute of Open Schooling on or before 30th September 2020 are also eligible to write admission test provided they are in the prescribed age group.

The rural status of a child from National Institute of Open Schooling will be decided on the basis of a certificate to be issued by Tehsildar/District Magistrate of the District indicating that the child has been residing in rural areas for the last three years.

Students studying under the above scheme and residing in urban and notified areas are not eligible for obtaining seat in rural quota.

Candidate who has not been promoted and admitted to Class-V before 15th September, 2020 is not eligible to apply.

No candidate is eligible to appear in the selection test for the second time, under any circumstances.

FOR RURAL CANDIDATES:

At least 75% of the seats in a district will be filled by candidates selected from rural areas of the district and remaining seats will be filled from the Urban areas of the district.

A candidate seeking admission under the rural quota must have studied in Classes-III, IV and V completing full academic session from the Government/ Government Aided/Government recognized schools located in rural areas. However, the candidate should study full academic session in Class-V from the same district where admission is sought.

Candidates studying under the schemes of National Institute of Open Schooling should produce their rural status certificate issued by District Magistrate/Tehsildar/Block Development Officer.

FOR URBAN CANDIDATES :

A candidate who has studied in a school located in an urban area even for a single day of session in Class-III, IV and V will be considered as an urban candidate. Urban areas are those which are so

defined in 2011 census or through a subsequent Government notification. All other areas will be considered as rural.

FOR TRANSGENDER CANDIDATES:

 No separate reservation for transgender category candidates is provided and they will be included in Boys category for reservation purpose, under various sub-categories viz Rural, Urban, OBC, SC, ST and Divyang.

HOW TO APPLY FOR JNV SELECTION TEST:

The submission application through online only.

Registration can be done free of cost through the admission portal of NVS linked through www.navodaya.gov.in and navodaya.gov.in/nvs/en/Admission-JNVST/JNVST-class/

The eligible candidates have to fill up the online form and upload the certificate with the photograph along with signatures of both candidate and his/her parent/guardian. The attachments should be uploaded in jpg format of the size between10-100 kb only.

In all JNVs a help desk will be available to assist the candidates/parents to upload application free of cost.

Issue of Admit Cards :

The admit cards will be made available as per date decided by NVS in due course which will be displayed on application portal. The admit cards shall be downloaded free of cost by the candidates/parents before the conduct of JNVST.

Language of the Examination:

Name of the State/UT	Languages
ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS	Hindi, English, Tamil, Urdu, Bengali
ANDHRA PRADESH	Hindi, English, Telugu, Marathi, Urdu, Oriya, Kannada
ARUNACHAL PRADESH	English, Hindi
ASSAM	English, Hindi, Assamese, Bodo, Garo, Bengali, Manipuri (Bangla Script),Manipuri (Meitei Mayek)
BIHAR	English, Hindi, Urdu
CHANDIGARH	English, Hindi, Punjabi
CHHATTISGARH	English, Hindi
DELHI	English, Hindi
GOA	English, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada
GUJARAT	English, Hindi, Gujrati, Marathi
HARYANA	English, Hindi
HIMACHAL PRADESH	English, Hindi
JAMMU AND KASHMIR	English, Hindi, Urdu
JHARKHAND	English, Hindi, Urdu, Oriya
KARNATAKA	Hindi,    English,   Kannada,   Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil	Urdu,
KERALA	Hindi, English, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada
LAKSHADWEEP	Hindi, English, Malayalam
MADHYA PRADESH	English, Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Gujarati
MAHARASHTRA	English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Urdu, Telugu, Gujrati
MANIPUR	English, Hindi, Manipuri (Meitei Mayek)
MEGHALAYA	English, Hindi, Khasi, Garo, Bengali, Assamese
MIZORAM	English, Hindi, Mizo
NAGALAND	English, Hindi
ODISHA	English,Hindi, Telugu, Oriya, Urdu
PUDUCHERRY	English, Tamil, Telugu, Malyalam, Hindi
PUNJAB	English, Hindi, Punjabi
RAJASTHAN	English, Hindi
SIKKIM	English, Hindi, Nepali
TELANGANA	Hindi, English, Telugu, Kannada, Marati, Urdu
TRIPURA	English, Hindi, Bengali
UT Ladakh	English, Hindi, Urdu
U T OF DADAR  & NAGAR HAVELI and Daman and Diu	English, Hindi, Gujrati, Marathi
UTTAR PRADESH	English, Hindi, Urdu
UTTARAKHAND	English, Hindi, Urdu
WEST BENGAL	English, Hindi, Bengali, Nepali, Urdu

 Test pattern                                                                              

The selection test will be of two-hour duration from 11:30 am to 01:30 pm and will have 3 sections with only objective type questions. There are 80 questions in all for 100 marks. 

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

 A single test booklet comprising of all the three sections will be given to each candidate. Additional time of 30 minutes will be allowed for “Divyang students” (differently-abled students)

Result of the Selection Test :

  The result of JNV Selection Test 2021 is expected to be announced by June 2021. Candidates can get the result from the admission portal. The result will also be displayed in the offices of the concerned: 

i.                        Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya 

ii.                       District Education Officer

iii.                     District Magistrate 

iv.                    Deputy Commissioner, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti of the Region. 

v.                      The website of the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti www.navodaya.gov.in. The Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya concerned, will also inform the selected candidates through SMS on the registered mobile number followed by a speed post. 

RESERVATION OF SEATS:

a)            At least 75% of the seats in a district are filled by candidates selected from rural areas and remaining seats are filled from urban areas of the district.

b)            Reservation of seats in favour of children belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes is provided in proportion to their population in the district concerned provided that in no district, such reservation will be less than the national average (15% for SC and 7.5% for ST) but subject to maximum of 50% for both the categories (SC & ST) taken together. These reservations are interchangeable and over and above the candidates selected under open merit.

c)            27% reservation shall be provided to the OBC students over and above reservation of SCs and STs. The reservations to the OBC students shall be implemented as per Central List, as applicable from time to time. The OBC candidates not included in Central list would apply as General Candidate.

d)            Minimum One third of the total seats are filled by girls.

e)            There is a provision for reservation for ** Divyang children (i.e.

Orthopedically Handicapped, Hearing Impaired and Visually Handicapped) as per GOI norms.

** “Blindness” refers to a condition where a person suffers from any of the following conditions namely:-

(i)          Total absence of sight; or

(ii)        Visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses; or

(iii)       Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or worse.

** “Hearing Impairment” means loss of sixty decibels or more in the better ear in the conversational range of frequencies.

** “Locomotors disability” means disability of the bones joints or muscles leading to substantial restriction of the movement of the limbs or any form of cerebral palsy.

** “Person with disability” means a person suffering from not less than forty percent of any disability as certified by a medical authority.

 

DOCUMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED AFTER SELECTION :

 

The parents of the candidates who are provisionally selected for admission will have to submit the following documents at the time of admission for verification: -

 

i)                 Proof for date of birth. 

ii)               Proofs for eligibility as per the conditions of NVS.

iii)              For candidates seeking admission under rural quota, the parents will also have to submit a certificate from the competent authority to the effect that the child had studied in an Institution / School located in a rural area.

iv)             Residence Certificate in prescribed proforma in case of NIOS studies only

v)              Any other documents required.

SYLLABUS☹ MODEL PAPER :

Section-1Mental Ability Test (MAT)

This is a non – verbal test. Questions are based on figures and diagrams only. Questions are meant to assess general mental functioning of the candidates. The section is divided into ten parts having 4 questions each.

PART-1: ODDMAN OUT

PART-2: FIGURE MATCHING

PART-3: PATTERN COMPLETION

ART-4: FIGURE SERIES COMPLETION

PART-5 ANALOGY

PART-6: GEOMETRICAL FIGURE COMPLETION

PART-7: MIRROR IMAGING

PART-8: PUNCHED HOLD PATTERN-FOLDING/ UNFOLDING

PART-9: SPACE VISUALISATION

PART-10 : EMBEDDED FIGURE.

Section 2: Arithmetic Test  :

The main purpose of this test is to measure candidate's basic competencies in

Arithmetic. All the Twenty questions of this test will be based on the following 15 topics

1.               Number and numeric system.

2.               Four fundamental operations on whole number.

3.               Fractional number and four fundamental operations on them.

4.               Factors and multiples including their properties.

5.               LCM and HCF of numbers.

6.               Decimals and fundamental operations on them.

7.               Conversion of fractions to decimals and vice-versa.

8.               Measurement of length, mass, capacity, time, money etc.

9.               Distance, time and speed.

10.            Approximation of expressions.

11.            Simplification of Numerical Expressions,

12.            Percentage and its applications.

13.            Profit and loss.

14.            Simple interest.

15.            Perimeter, area and volume.

Note:- Emphasis will be more on testing of understanding and application of the concepts and skills involved. In order to provide some guidance to the candidates on the types of questions that are expected in Arithmetic Test.

 

Section 3: Language Test:

The main purpose of this test is to assess reading comprehension of the candidates.

The test consists of four passages. Each passage is followed by 5 questions.

Candidates shall read each passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

 

WEBSITE : www.navodaya.gov.in