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My Target Service Selection Board (SSB)

3. Have a look around: In SSB’s you’ll be asked a lot questions related to your family, friends

and closed ones. So it is better to go prepared. The questions will range from their occupation
to what do they like/ dislike in you, what you like/dislike in them etc. Hence you are advised to

have a look around yourself and be prepared for such questions.
4. Presentation is the secret my friend: You might be having ample amount of knowledge but it
is of no use until you know the way to present it. To be able to present something in an orderly
way you must practice doing so. Now by practice I mean that try to write the points and practice

answering the expected interview questions. In this way you’ll be prepared thoroughly to
present your thoughts in the interview.

5. Channelize your thoughts: By channelizing here I mean that give your thoughts a rights
direction. You must be aware that the answers you are going to give or anything that you are
going to say in the SSB must have adequate proof to prove it. So for this you need to think in a

right direction. Keep on checking that whether the thing which you are thinking is correct, what
all cross questions can be raised from them and can you answer/tackle those questions.
6. Get set and Go: SSB is a test of five days, it involves long duration of testing. The days are

going to be tiring and you’ll be asked to do a lot of physical exercises as well (individual
obstacles, snake race) so for these thing you need stamina. Start going for a jog, or running in
order to build stamina.

7. North East West South: Yes! I am talking about the news. Knowing the current affairs and
what is going on in the national and international front will always keep you in an advantageous
state, so spare some time to listen to the news or read the newspaper.

8. Get a good essay book: A good essay book will help you to build knowledge about different
subjects. Now this knowledge will help you again in the GD and in the lecture in the GT Series.
9. Speak like a gentleman/lady: The way you speak tells volumes about you. Anybody who can

communicate well his/her thoughts will definitely cast a better impression. Speak slowly, in
proper tone, give pauses while you speak, speak calmly and not in a haste. In this way you’ll
develop a wonderful speaking style, so again it’ll help you to communicate your thoughts well to

others, in GD, interview etc.
10. Time yourself: The psychological testing the SSB is a time based test, there are many sample
SRT, WAT and TAT present on our website. Download them and time your responses.

11. The forces work on planning: Military planning or group planning is a very important exercise.
It checks not only your basic intelligence but also your ability to deploy proper resources, and

your ability to judge the importance and priority of any situation. The whole system of forces
works on planning, nothing in the forces is done in an unplanned or haste manner. So be very
logical and intelligent in the GPE.
12. Practice reasoning: The officers Intelligence and Rating test in SSB is held in the screening

part. You need to score well in it to get into stage two of the testing. While in some SSB OIR is