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My Target Service Selection Board (SSB)

 Sitting in Office
o Planning
o Research
o Relief operations i.e. flood, earthquake etc.

All these are theme or plot for a story based on the picture shown to
you. You are suggest to take utilize these themes as per the picture

and mix your story with perfect combination of ideas you are getting.
If you have any other suggestion, do share it below.

Golden Tips for writing stories in TAT

 First, look at the pictures carefully showing on the screen and relate to the pictures to form an
idea in your mind about the situation.
 Most likely, it is always easy to form an idea to drive it with a positive approach and then write
a story on that idea
 Write story on that idea which comes to your mind at the very beginning.
 Each story must have a central character with whom you can identify with. The hero should
act in a normal manner to find out the solution of the problem.
 The story should have some supporting character that can help the main character to come
out of the problem.
 Do not write pre-conceived stories, because the pictures stories are set to an accorded
pattern. And if one misses or skips through the loop, the psychologist can easily trace that
your story does not follow the psychological pattern which can get you out.
 To narrate the story, use names of people in your group as the central character. And do not
use RAM, SHYAM, SITA, and GEETA as the main character instead.
 The stories should always reflect your personality. As it will be crosschecked in the WAT,
SRT and self-description.
 FOR EXAMPLE- If in a story, you are writing that X is a sportsperson then you should also
have played sports in your life.
 If you are friendly and lively than it should reflect in the main character’s personality. He
should be fun loving and friendly in the story.
 An important note: Try to portray as many officers like quality you have in your personality in
the stories and let it appear in other psyche tests also.
 The main character has to be positive and bring out the story as a positive one.

Tips to follow when the ideas do not come to your mind, here I am using some examples:

 If in a picture: A boy’s hand is placed on his head. The idea is: X is a boy, who lost his job in
the time of recession. Now, he uses social networking sites to track HRs of different
companies, after few months he got an interview call.
 If in a picture: there are 2 girls. Then the idea is: To interpret one boy and then you can make
your situation accordingly to illustrate women empowerment, harassment issue, women
education like issues.
 If in a picture: 2 people are fighting. The idea is – they are performing under karate,
taekwondo, or a boxing match

So you can easily make a story by observing a picture carefully and by correlating with a practical
problem.