Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) and Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) run a joint recruitment for their clerical posts, and for the Junior Secretariat Assistant and Junior Assistant posts that recruitment includes a typing test on a computer. The requirement was clarified in Corrigendum-2 to Recruitment Notification 01/2025, dated 4 December 2025. This article explains what that corrigendum says, what the numbers mean in key depressions, and how to prepare on the KVS and NVS JSA typing test page.
Who takes this test
The typing requirement applies to two posts in the 2025 cycle:
- Junior Secretariat Assistant (JSA) at KVS
- Junior Assistant at NVS
Corrigendum-2 lists both posts in a single row with the same typing requirement, so the preparation is the same whichever organisation you have applied to. Stenographer posts in the same notice take a shorthand test instead; this article is not about those.
The 2025 recruitment was conducted by CBSE on behalf of KVS and NVS, and the notice also includes a Computer Proficiency Test for these posts. The corrigendum does not change that; check the notice for the proficiency test's pattern, because it is a separate paper with its own syllabus.
The numbers from Corrigendum-2
| Language | Required speed | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| English | 35 words per minute | On computer |
| Hindi | 30 words per minute | On computer |
That is the whole of what the corrigendum states on speed. It does not state the duration of the test, whether editing keys may be used, or how errors are counted. Those details are set by the test instructions for your cycle, and they are the first thing to read when your admit card arrives.
Two things about the table are worth saying plainly. The test is qualifying for these posts: extra speed does not add marks or replace the written paper. And the requirement is 35 or 30, not both: you take the test in one language, and how that language is chosen is described in the notice.
WPM and key depressions per hour
Many government notices, including older KVS ones, express typing speed in key depressions per hour (KDPH) rather than words per minute. If you have seen the figures 10,500 and 9,000 quoted for this test, that is where they come from. The conversion is simple:
- 1 word = 5 key depressions (the standard convention; a space counts as a depression)
- 35 WPM × 5 × 60 minutes = 10,500 KDPH (English)
- 30 WPM × 5 × 60 minutes = 9,000 KDPH (Hindi)
Those KDPH figures are our conversion at five depressions per word; Corrigendum-2 itself gives the requirement in words per minute. The conversion matters because practice software reports speed in different units. If your tool shows characters per minute or key depressions, WPM vs CPM: the maths behind typing speed walks through the arithmetic so that you compare like with like.
Choosing English or Hindi
The corrigendum sets 35 WPM for English and 30 WPM for Hindi. The lower Hindi figure is not a discount: Hindi words are typed with more keystrokes per word on average (matras, half letters and conjuncts), so 30 WPM Hindi is a comparable amount of work. Choose the language you already type faster in, not the one with the smaller number.
If you are considering Hindi, confirm in the notice and instructions which keyboard layout is permitted, and practise only on that layout. Switching between Remington and Inscript a month before the test costs more than it gains. English to Hindi typing: Mangal, Remington and GAIL explains the layouts and what the transition involves.
TypingHub's KVS page runs English practice on a 10-minute timer. For Hindi, use a tool that supports the layout your notice specifies, in Unicode, and apply the same routine described below.
What 35 WPM looks like over ten minutes
The official duration is not in the corrigendum, so our page uses a 10-minute practice timer, which is common for clerical typing tests. At 35 WPM that is 350 words of office or school-administration English: notices, letters, circulars, the kind of text a secretariat assistant actually handles.
A good practice target is 40 to 45 WPM at 97% accuracy or better. The margin covers the speed most people lose in an exam hall on an unfamiliar keyboard. If you are currently under 30 WPM, build the base first with the 30-day touch-typing roadmap; speed built on a broken finger map does not survive a timed test.
A four-week routine
Thirty to forty-five minutes a day, most days, beats a three-hour Sunday. The routine below assumes you already touch-type at any speed.
- Week 1 — accuracy. Run the 15-minute daily routine with Backspace on and eyes on the screen. Target 97% accuracy before you look at the speed number. Three times this week, do one full 10-minute sitting on the KVS test page to get a baseline.
- Week 2 — duration. Every session ends with a full 10-minute sitting. Watch minutes seven to ten: that is where accuracy drops. If it does, slow down in the final minutes rather than pushing.
- Week 3 — office English. Switch your drills to administrative text: dates, reference numbers, capitalised names, commas in lists. These are the keystrokes that generic quote-typing never trains and that school-office passages are full of.
- Week 4 — rehearsal. One timed sitting a day, at the time of day your test is scheduled, on a desktop keyboard if you have been practising on a laptop. Log Net WPM, accuracy and mistake count every day.
Across all four weeks, the number to watch is the mistake count, not the gross speed. A session at 42 WPM with twelve mistakes is worse than one at 38 WPM with three.
Common mistakes in KVS and NVS preparation
- Practising only on a phone or laptop. The test is on a desktop computer. Laptop keys are shallower and closer together; spend the last two weeks on a desktop keyboard.
- Preparing for the typing test and forgetting the Computer Proficiency Test. The 2025 notice includes both. Read the proficiency test syllabus in the notice and schedule time for it.
- Trusting a number from another exam. KVS and NVS share the 35/30 WPM figure with some other central recruitments (EPFO SSA and recent AIIMS notices use the same pair), but the duration, error rules and passages differ. Prepare for your notice, not for a friend's.
- Skipping punctuation in practice. Commas, apostrophes and capital letters are the cheapest mistakes to make and the easiest to eliminate; this list of common typing mistakes covers the fixes.
What to confirm in your own notice
Before test day, find these four things in the notice, the corrigenda and the admit card instructions, in that order:
- The duration of the typing test and whether a trial session is given.
- Whether Backspace or other editing keys may be used.
- How mistakes are counted and how net speed is worked out.
- Any provisions for PwBD candidates, and the certificates required to claim them.
Requirements can change between cycles, and corrigenda can change them within a cycle, as Corrigendum-2 did. The figures in this article are from the 2025 recruitment; if you are reading this for a later notification, check it before relying on any number here.
Start with one full sitting on the KVS and NVS JSA typing test, write down the mistake count, and begin week one tomorrow.
