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My Target Service Selection Board (SSB)

2. Practice hard: If you have tentatively followed step 1, get ready to practice as it only makes a

man perfect and tell you where you stand in the crowd. If it is monitored and assessed nothing
better than that. Personality is something which needs time to change and it is more of

dependent on the environment or the conditions you are presently living in. It cannot be
changed suddenly, hence keep sufficient time for preparation. I have seen people waiting for
SSB letter, if you are confident start preparing now because once you receive a letter you have
hardly a month to prepare and it’s too short a duration to achieve a change if needed.

3. General awareness: If you are ready for becoming an officer, you cannot ignore the
happenings around you. Prepare well the general knowledge as it is a vast field and needs time

for improvement. Hence do not ignore it and smoothen it.
Essential Tips To Crack SSB – Part 2

This is in continuation of the previous part of this series where three important factors were
discussed to crack and prepare for SSB. Let’s discuss some more factors to climb the success
ladder.

Academics are also essential: Groom yourself in remembering about your academic knowledge as
people tend to forget things very soon. If you are applying for technical branch or entry and you don’t
know what you did in your final year project do you think you should be selected. Working
professionals who are dissatisfied with their job always look for reasons that now they have left the
academic knowledge far behind, why should they remember it? But this simply means that if you
have such a good memory then after some years of being officer you will tend to forget you military
training. It seems to be a joke and don’t ever dare to say it in front of officer while in interview else
you have no right for getting selected. I know it’s difficult but the basics can always be refreshed and
it should be the part of your strategy to do that before going to SSB.

1. Know something about the place you are going: I have often seen people while mentoring
them personally that when any question related to force they want to join comes they say that

they don’t have a clear picture. Now does it simply means that you want to go to a place and
you don’t know the way or what you goanna do there. Prepare some latest information about
the force you are interested in and don’t feel embarrassed in front of interviewer. It’s easy to

say sorry sir I don’t know the answer but not for some obvious questions. It will always be
counted negative.
2. PIQ is most important form: The PIQ form is the most important entity for SSB as it’s your

reflection in front of an interviewer and Psychologist. It should be filled as such it’s you
marketing yourself about your qualities and telling them, in fact forcing them to think about

you. Now In course of my mentorship I have seen candidates taking it lightly and filling
incomplete information in it. Hence I have made compulsory to spend some time and get it
filled properly. Remember you should not escape this process and take it seriously. At the
other end it would give a complete picture to assessors whether you are an officer material or

not, hence it increases your chances definitely. Rest lies with them that how they confirm on