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My Target Service Selection Board (SSB)
What You Need To Do To Be Successful In
SSB?
Even the predictions in the night during the last day at centre at the dormitory turns out wrong. It is
so because you are judged for certain OLQ’s only and the assessors are specially trained to do so.
They have a vast experience for judging the people from almost all the corners of country who come
and live their dream. Aspirants come there and go and they are from every state of India, hence
they have rich experience of judging vast family background, diversity and culture. I have thought of
few suggestions which might help to sustain the battle:
o Do not try to pose what you are not. Be truthful and be yourself. Else you will be caught
anyway/
o Be natural and don’t try to fake anything. Same things are tested so many times there that you
will not realize where to speak what
o Don’t be a parrot to rattle out things whenever not needed. Apply common sense and then
speak. Even if you speak less but whatever you say if it has quality no one can stop you from
clearing.
o Don’t try to over perform in GTO. Remember it’s not the place to prove individual potential, but
it’s something where you need to carry the group across and that will only provide you access
through the GTO rounds. SSB is such an exam where you are tested individually and i group
also. Perform equally well. An officer cannot be individualistic.
o In PI you will get sufficient chance to prove yourself as the interviews normally last for 45min to
1 hour and you will be judges on many aspects. You need to revisit your whole life in an interview
and after coming out you will realize how great you were in all the phases and what more could
be done to improve.
