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My Target Service Selection Board (SSB)

o The body: This is the most important part as it carries the main message. Make it as

interesting as possible. A dull treatment loses its effectiveness. A touch of humor may
be helpful.
o Summary and conclusion: A summary serves to wrap up the material you have

presented. It is not only helpful at the end, but is useful in the beginning and at the
end of each phase of your talk.
8. Rehearse your lecture and limit it to the time allotted.

Lecturette isn't hard if you go with some preparation, topics in lecturette are very common and

general, always choose a convenient topic and prepare well in the given time.
How to Perform Well in Lecturette

In defence officers are expected to lead a large force and for its success its necessary that individual
should have a skill to communicate his or her thoughts properly to men and people around. The
same is simulated through the exercise that we are about to discuss now. The important thing here
is that it’s an individual assessment round where you need to perform all alone. Candidates should
emphasis especially on such rounds where GTO officer has full time to analyses the personality of
individual. Other such rounds are psychology, PI, GPE, IO, command task, at such places you
should perform with utmost perfection as full views and qualities are observed and confirmed at such
places. Unlike to say aspirant’s performance should be flawless in full process, but these rounds
need special care as in other rounds group and team performances are judges which can be
managed through other qualities.

Speaking is an art which every leader should have and communication skills should be good along
with it. Effective communication can spread confidence in team and everyone will have faith over the
effectiveness of the leader. Every aspirant would be asked to pick a card which has four topics to
select from. Time to think is given for about 2-3 minutes and then the aspirant is given 3 minutes to
express his /her views on the same. The following can help:

1. Clarity of thought, knowledge confidence and depth can fetch you extra marks. So prepare
accordingly beforehand by making reading your habit.

2. Public speaking needs to be developed and it needs time. Keep reading news dailies and be
updated.
3. Introduction, main body and conclusion should be the part of your script in those 3 minutes and it
should be beautifully structured.

4. Don’t ever try to look at the assessor, just look in to the participants eyes who are your fellow
mates. Eye contact should be proper with full audience sitting in the semi-circle manner.

5. A bell would be ringed when 30 seconds are remaining. Don’t just try to wrap immediately. Don’t
ever show sense of urgency to finish, once the bell is wrung. Always maintain the same flow during
your lecture.

6. Proper ending and a good show at this stage add a lot of value to your referral by the officer, so
keep self-prepared.