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My Target Service Selection Board (SSB)

6. If you don’t drink, how you adjust with your friends in parties? And in the profession you are opt

most of the officers drink, then how you will adjust? And if you drink which is your favorite
brand?

7. What are qualities that you have but your father don’t have?
8. Utilization of pocket money or salary, how much you spend on yourself?
9. Any disagreement you had with friends, and how did you solve it?
10. Any mischief you and your friends did in college? Describe.

11. What are dimensions of this room?
12. Give an example when you were in problem and your friends helped you?

Friends every SSB is a new opportunity to learn analyze and correct our approach. All such
questions are to check our observations and presence of mind. Any question can be handled if mind

is cool and calm at that time. Confidence, smile, being attentive and good command over language
is a key for making mind respond appropriately. Best way to achieve this is to inculcate these things
in day today life.
Defence Related Questions for SSB Interview

When we go to SSB, we see a lot of candidates having immense knowledge about the forces. That
gives us a complex, many times, as we are not having so much of knowledge. Many of you are from
a civilian background, many of you go there for getting a job and rather are not that passionate about
the forces. Many of yours’ childhood dream was probably not the forces. But then there are people
who have knowledge about everything in the forces, right from the trainers, to the fighters, from
squadrons to regiments, from the oldest weapons to the latest ones, from the historic wars to the war
heroes, practically everything. You on the other hand are awestruck. We’ll look into detail on what is
important and what not, and does having knowledge about the forces really help?
What is essential?

There are a few things which you are expected to know about the certain organization which you are
going to join. These things include:
1. Commands, headquarters. (Of the service you are going to join)
2. Ranks
3. A few aircrafts/guns/weapons/ships
4. Few missiles
5. Chief of staff
6. Information about anything related to defence, if you have in your city.
7. Recent Defence deals
8. Name of the defence minister
9. Major wars
10. What your job profile will be
If you are from a defence background or any of your family member/close friend is in defence you
need to know a few additional things:

Fine details about the work of the person you know.