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My Target Service Selection Board (SSB)

a cakewalk, in a few like in Selection Centre Central, Bhopal, it is a bit tricky and difficult. It’ll be

beneficial to go prepared for this test. You can check the details regarding this test on our
website.

13. Be friendly and Smile: Be friendly with the group mates. A good repo with your group will be
helpful to you in the group tasks, since GT series is the longest exercise and you have to do it
with your group, it is important that you guys gel well. Good co-operation in a group leads to
more number of selections, never forget this!

14. You are not a rebel: You are going in the SSB to get selected, and not become a rebel. Why I
am saying this is because I have seen many candidates giving stupid suggestions and

speaking illogical things in the conference when asked for suggestions. You are assigned to
somebody who constantly asks your problem every day, you are even asked to write
suggestions in the mess register, then what is the need to go and say that quality of food needs

to be improved in the conference. You are going to join the forces, that is the purpose you are
going for, never forget it. Moreover always remember that if you give any suggestion in the
conference, there are 15 officers sitting to answer it, read again, 15 officers!

15. Never forget your purpose: The reason why you want to join the forces, never forget it. Never
forget the purpose you have gone in the SSB with, i.e. to get selected. Take care of yourself,
perform well, eat and sleep on time, bound them to take you in!

Essential Tips to Crack SSB – Part 1

Clearing SSB is not an easy task but we all know for a soldier nothing is impossible too. The ones
who clear it and become officers are also human beings like us. They are not at all different but yes
the living way the way they feel and think about situations differs and that makes them different from
the crowd. They possess what is being searched in SSB, the officer like qualities which only few
have. But this simply does not mean you cannot inculcate them.
Everyone is unique and different in perusal of life, but at SSB they are looking for only certain
parameters where they check if you could be trained and molded in a way of officer’s life that is
ready to shed everything for the motherland. What to do if you are planning to go for SSB:

1. What is SSB? : If you are a fresher know the test in and out because now day’s people

prepare beforehand before going for the competition because of the severity and high reduction
rate at SSB. So don’t think you are going on a paid vacation as every attempt counts in your
account and then the elite tag of fresher also goes off and next visit if you plan for SSB would
be with repeaters. For repeaters also take the assessment of whether you are doing things

rightly or moving in wrong direction. If you have a good mentor who can judge your individual
personality you are really lucky. Because in classroom sessions and at places where many

people sit simultaneously it’s difficult to get the assessment done cumulatively.