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⿞ A man asks you to save his dry haystack which has caught fire.

• ‘Rambo’ Tasks Attempted by Impractical Candidates: A large number of

candidates behave like ‘Rambo’ (Stallone movie character) & do tasks

like:

⿞ Catching terrorists.

⿞ Killing dacoits with 12 bore guns taken from villagers.

Avoiding Common Mistakes

To avoid common mistakes please make a realistic time plan & not undertake

stupid and ‘Rambo’ tasks. Let the ‘Rambo’ tasks be done by the police. You

should just inform the police.

Interesting Practical Problem

During the discussion stage in a group full of coached candidates not much

consensus is arrived at. A stupid individual who is convinced that he must

dominate the group appoints himself to be the consensus leader to narrate

the plan on behalf of the group. He is by no means the nominated leader.

The plan he narrates is his plan and not a consensus plan of the group. This

plan has obviously some serious shortcomings. The group does not object to

the disagreeable points of the plan narrated thinking that it will be wrong to

disagree with the plan of the leader. In some cases there are a few candi-

dates who are much more sensible and could have given a much better and

acceptable plan. The GTO at times asks them whether they agree with the

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