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My Target Service Selection Board (SSB)

What Is Lecturette?

Hello friends this article is about lecturette. As each test in SSB is equally important same thing
applies here. Ultimately GTO wants to collect enough data about our personality, through all these
tests, and our aim must be to provide him the things he wants to see in a candidate to pass him. So
through a good lecturette you can show him some of the most important qualities of your personality.

As in this test no one is going to interrupt you while speaking, so your performance depends totally
upon you. Your self-confidence, stamina level, expression without hesitation and not to forget your

knowledge about the topic will be tested here.

Arrangements of the test: rest of your group will be sitting and 1st candidate will get up take a card
and walk away from the group, now this card has four topics example

Now in these topics you are free to select any topic. My advice is select average topic and be

confident about that. As 2 out of four will be average topics and one will be below and one will be
above average. If you have very good general awareness then you can also go for the tougher one.
Now you have to select one topic and prepare a lecturette on it in 3 mints. After three minutes the

first candidate will come, stand facing the group and will talk over the topic for next 3 min. when he
arrive next candidate will take his card and will do the same.

While communicating to an ex GTO I found some useful information which I am sharing here:

Knowledge Good Average Poor

Fluency Good speaker and Satisfactory Hesitation and
expressive stammering

Self Good Average Under confident
Confidence
Stamina 3 min Between 2 and 2.30 min Less than 2 min

Result pass Border line fail