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My Target Service Selection Board (SSB)

Observe-Analyze-Adopt
This is the mantra of getting success in SSB. You have to first observe the OLQ’s what they are and
how many of them and in what extent they are present in your personality. You have to observe the
Personality of an officer and compare yourself to his/her personality. Then comes the analysis part,
now you have to analyze that what is the amount of OLQ’s which are missing in you, and you have
to find out ways to develop them. Imagine yourself as an officer and then think what is missing in
you. Then comes the adopting part. Adopt these OLQ’s in your personality.

So the right time to prepare for SSB is the time when you get to know what your aim is, the time
when you decide that yes I have to be an Officer. Defense can’t be put as an option in career; you’ll
get in only if you have made it the first priority. Making it the topmost priority in your life will always
urge you to prepare well for it. Remember that even for a post of a very small private job there are a
hundred more that are there to compete, hence in SSB there are always a lot more people who have
put in all their efforts to get into it, so it is always the survival of the fittest.

You have to concentrate and prepare for SSB, from the day you decide what your aim is, i.e. Fauj.
Give ample amount of time to know yourself, and analyze your positives’ and negative’s. Remember
you can’t fake it in SSB so either you have the personality they want or you don’t. It is important to
become a kind of person who is suitable in reality instead of faking it. For e.g. if you are lazy and
have a habit of getting up late then you must try to change and be lively and active, because if you
are not and you are telling a lie in SSB that you are active and blah-blah then also you’ll be caught
by the Interviewer or the Psychologist. So it’s better to be the desired kind of person instead of lying
there
Start preparing now! It’s better to be late than never.

Recapitulation

Do I Really Require SSB Interview

Coaching?

Time and again people ask the same question. Today I would try to settle the debate once and for
all. There are mainly three types of candidates for SSB interview or any other exam. One, who are

very confident about themselves (sometimes too much confident) and have been the front runners at
various activities in their school & college. They have won many prizes in sports and cultural
activities. They are extrovert, and can easily befriend people. The second category candidates are

shy, meek and introvert. They find it very difficult to speak in public despite having adequate
knowledge. They are screened out more often than not.
The third category candidates lie in between the above two categories. They are neither good nor

bad. They are a bit confused more often than not.

Now the question arises, which category requires coaching and which doesn't.