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My Target Service Selection Board (SSB)

Techniques to improve your Lecturette

Most important thing is practice, more practice, and daily practice. And few others are:-

1. Friends make good reading habits, be updated, talk to your friends in English, make your
mastery on the common topics like Indo Pak relations, drug abuse, global warming, power of
press, Indian missile development program, etc. a list is available on SSB Crack so you can

follow that link also.
2. Be in touch with people whom you meet at different SSB and keep asking them about their all 4
Lecturette topics. Make writing habits.

3. Use camera or mobile phone to make video of yourself wear a short and t shirt and give
Lecturette on topic of your choice even try to give you introduction. And watch it carefully.
Because you can’t watch yourself while speaking. So how you will correct your mistakes.

Analyze your standing posture, facial expression, hand gestures and also listen if you are
hesitating in speaking. It will help you to introspect, remove your hesitation and also it is a fun
activity. You can judge yourself and can be more presentable and impressive.

Tips for Lecturette in SSB Interview

This is the last task of GTO 1 day and this is the most exhausting day. This task can be

considered outdoor but is actually a sitting indoor task. The task means to delivering a small
lecture on a topic to be selected from a chit on which 4 topics are written (topmost = most
difficult, next two = difficult and easy, last = easiest), for a span of 3 mints continuously and

fluently only in ENGLISH.

Tips for Lecturette in SSB Interview

1. Choose any of the topics but advised to select 2 or 3 for convenience.
2. Give a brief introduction , actual cause and nature of topic selected, deep mature thought

over its ascent over mankind, its +ve and -ve effects , a small example if possible to
explain clearly your perceived thought.
3. While giving your lecture, report your topic to the GTO and then proceed. Look into the

eyes of group members and not the GTO while giving lecturette.
4. While preparing make sure you have taken the above points in consideration.

5. Make a prior preparation of one topic which you like in case that you cannot speak on any
of the topics given then ask for permission from GTO to talk on your topic.
Just before the actual task starts the GTO asks for a brief introduction of all candidates one by
one in the following format,