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HOW TO APPROACH PSYCHOLOGY

TESTS?

SSB aspirants focus on individual aspects of the test. They focus separately

on WAT, SRTs, TAT and self description. They try to plan strategy to excel in

them. They are unable to understand any connection between them. From

the perspective of the assessor there is little relevance of isolated responses.

The assessor constructs a holistic and cohesive profile of the individual based

on the consistency of responses. All the 15 OLQs are assessed in this way. In-

consistent and coached responses will have no positive impact on the as-

sessment. Such responses get ignored.

Assessment of an individual is done based on the entire written tests and not

piece meal, like separate assessment of WAT, TAT and SRT. Personality of an

individual is one whole and the various inputs help to construct it. For exam-

ple, If a candidate consistently only reports matters to authority and waits for

others to do something and avoids personal action to resolve problems in

TAT and SRTs then his leadership abilities and courage maybe of a low order.

Now that the approach to Psychology Tests is clear, let us learn about the

tests.

Screening Process

The screening process can be assumed to be of approximately of 100 marks.

Then the division of marks will be :

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