KVS Principal Syllabus 2025 and New Exam Pattern

As per the official notification of the KVS recruitment, there are 134 posts in the Principal Posts. This is a good opportunity for those candidates who want to become principals in the KVS schools all over India. But this is not as easy an exam as we think. This post requires more responsibilities and dedication. If you want to crack this exam with good marks, you must have detailed information about the syllabus and exam pattern.

In the KVS Principal Posts, there would be three stages: one is the common as usual for all KVS posts, 2nd is the subject-oriented stage that contains 100 marks, and 3rd stage is the Interview stage that is mandatory for everyone.

KVS Principal Exam Pattern 2025

Before understanding the Syllabus of the KVS Principal post, you must know about the latest exam pattern and topics from where questions will be asked. Tier -1 is a qualifying, OMR-based objective test conducted for all applicants. The exam carries 100 questions, each worth 3 marks, making the total 300 marks. In this 1 mark from be negative if you mark any wrong. There would be 2 hrs time to complete the question and give the answer under the time frame.

Test Components	No. of Questions	Total Marks
Part I- General Reasoning	20	60
Part II- Numeric Ability	20	60
Part III – Basic Computer Literacy	20	60
Part V – Language Competency (English)	10	30
Part VI – Language Competency (Modern Indian Language)	10	30
Total	100	300

KVS Principal Tier-2 Exam Pattern 2025

Tier-2  will be conducted based on the Subject Knowledge Examination (combination of Pen-Paper and OMR-based) as per the details mentioned below. The exam duration will be 2.30 hours for the entire paper. This would be the major role to crack the principal exam in the first effort. So give more time to these topics and their related facts.

Components of Test	Type	No. of Questions	Total Marks
Subject knowledge	Objective	60	60
Subject knowledge	Descriptive	10	40
Total		70	100

Tier 3 Exam Pattern of the KVS Principal Posts

This is the final method for selecting KVS Principals. The interview would carry 100 marks if you crack the prelims and mains exams.

KVS Principal Syllabus 2025

Understanding the Learner

• Concept of growth, maturation, and development, including principles and debates of development.
• Development tasks and challenges with a focus on foundational, preparatory, middle, and secondary school children.
• Domains of development: physical, cognitive, socio-emotional, moral, and implications of developmental deviations.
• Role of primary and secondary socialisation agencies, plus steps to ensure home-school continuity.
• Mental health and well-being.

Understanding Teaching Learning

• Theoretical perspectives on learning: Behaviourism, Cognitivism, and Constructivism, with their implications on roles in the school setting.
  • Role of Principal
  • Role of Vice-Principal and HM (Headmaster)
  • Role of the teacher
  • Role of the learner
  • Nature of the teacher-student relationship
  • Innovative pedagogical practices
  • Productive classroom environment
  • Understanding discipline and power
• Factors affecting learning and their implications:
  • Designing classroom instructions
  • Planning student activities
  • Creating learning spaces in school

Planning and Organisation of Teaching-Learning

• Concept of syllabus and curriculum, addressing both overt and hidden curriculum.
• Preparation of the school timetable to ensure smooth functioning.
• Foundational literacy and numeracy, including early childhood care and education.
• Competency-based lesson planning that aligns with learning outcomes.
• Competency-based assessment methods for evaluating student achievement.
• Use of instructional material and resources for effective teaching.
• Integration of digital technology in teaching and learning practices.
• Classroom observation, feedback, follow-up, and the use of reflection and dialogue as part of constructivist teaching.

Creating a Conducive Learning Environment

• Inclusive education, covering concepts of diversity, disability, inclusion, understanding disability as a social construct, identifying types of disabilities, and intervention strategies.
• School mental health and well-being, focusing on curative, preventive, and promotive support for students and staff, plus guidance and counseling provision.
• Utilizing school and community as learning resources for broader educational engagement.
• Rights of Persons with Disability Act, 2016, including periodic amendments relevant to educational inclusion.

School Organisation and Leadership

• Leaders are reflective practitioners, team builders, initiators, coaches, and mentors.
• Perspectives on school leadership, including instructional, distributed, and transformative approaches.
• Vision building, goal setting, and the process of creating a school development plan.
• Utilising school processes and forums for strengthening teaching and learning, including annual calendar, time-tabling, parent-teacher forums, school assemblies, and teacher development forums. It also covers using achievement data for improvement and fostering school self-assessment.
• Creating partnerships with the community, industries, neighboring schools, and higher education institutes for forming learning communities.
• Concepts and processes for school accreditation.

Perspectives in Education

• The role of schools in achieving the aims of education.
• Overview of educational policies of the Government of India.
• National Education Policy-2020.
• National Curriculum Framework for Foundational Stage-2022.
• National Curriculum Framework for School Education-2023.
• NIPUN Bharat Mission.
• Guiding principles for child rights, ensuring safety and security, and provisioning for children’s rights in school environments.
• Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.
• Historical study of national policies in education with special reference to school education.
• School curriculum principles, including perspective, learning and knowledge, curricular areas, school stages, pedagogy, and assessment.

Management, Supervision and Leadership

• Nature and scope of management, including key processes: planning, organization, staffing, directing, and controlling.
• The role of a manager and tasks of leadership within an organization.
• Leadership styles and theories, and the distinction between successful and effective leaders.
• Human Resource Development (HRD): concepts, goals, performance appraisal, potential appraisal, and staff development, including rewards, employee welfare, and training.
• Motivation, morale, and incentives: theories of motivation, how managers motivate, concept of morale, and incentives in morale building.
• Communication: stages of the process, channels, oral vs. written, verbal vs. non-verbal, upward/downward/lateral, barriers, and the role of information technology.
• Class observation and school supervision.
• Ethics in school management and emotional intelligence.

Administration and Finance

• Office Procedure and Office Management.
• CCS (CCA) Rules 1965 and CCS (Conduct) Rules 1964.
• Fundamental and Supplementary Rules.
• TA (Travelling Allowance) Rules and Leave Travel Concession Rule.
• Principles of School Budgeting.
• Medical Attendance Rules and CGHS (Central Government Health Scheme).
• Right to Information Act 2005.
• Contract Labour (Abolition and Regulation) Act, 1970.
• Income Tax and GST (Goods and Services Tax).
• POSH (Prevention of Sexual Harassment) and POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Acts.
• Guidelines from MoE (Ministry of Education), NCPCR (National Commission for Protection of Child Rights), and NDMA (National Disaster Management Authority) for school safety and security.
• Constitutional provisions for PwBD (Persons with Benchmark Disabilities), EWS (Economically Weaker Sections), SC/ST, and other disadvantaged groups.
• General Financial Rules – 2017.
• CCS (Pension) Rules 2021 and NPS (National Pension Scheme).
• Human Rights.