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My Target Service Selection Board (SSB)

steadily. Your voice should be neither high nor low. Maintain eye contact with your group

members.
o PRACTISE PAYS IN GOLD COINS. You should practice speech making and effective

speaking long before you come for SSB. Speak a lot and try to build up your store of
knowledge and pay special attention to the editorials written by Journalists. Take down notes if
necessary. Practice for GD will automatically improve your storehouse of knowledge.

Improving Communication Skills

SSB involves a lot of communication. You need to communicate your ideas, thoughts. You need
to interact with other candidates, be friendly with them and emerge as a leader in your group. For
doing any of these things you need to have good communication skills. Now communication skills
are not something which can be built in a day or two. You need to practice it continuously and
systematically for a long period of time. Here are a few tips on how to develop communication skill
for the SSB.
Voice and its tone

Your voice is what makes you different from the crowd. When 10 people are speaking
simultaneously then there is only one person who is listened to in the end, it’s like survival of the
bests. In order to be a good speaker/orator you first need to identify that at what level your voice
sounds the best. Of course while interacting with friends and the IO you must have a lower tone in
comparison to that which you’ll have in the GD. So identify that tone for yourself, and speak like that
only. If you have a shrill voice remember not to raise it much otherwise it’ll sound not that good.

Way and Manner
When you speak then you are either having a strong point to put or just making your presence felt.
This marks the difference between successful and unsuccessful candidates. In order to mark your
presence you must have a strong point to put in the GD’s or anywhere. So you need to organize
what you speak, to do this you must have a good knowledge about the general awareness type of
issues and things. Also while putting your point you must be capable enough to put the important
thing in beginning and less important one’s in the end.