Page 87 - Failure to Triumph - Journey of A Student

My Target Service Selection Board (SSB)

o Name

o Father’s name
o Father’s occupation
o Family background

o Schooling and education
o Currently what are you doing
o Where are you from and hobbies?

Cover all these points in 45 seconds and do not stumble anywhere, have a good profound fluent

voice, look at your friends and do not make any hand gestures. Limited hand gestures can be
made at the time of lecture but not many
Don’t get tense and panic while delivering lecture instead keep a smiling face. Duration is per
candidate = 3 mints, total about 30 -35 mints.

Golden Tips for Lecturette

Lecturette is a task from the Group Testing/GTO series. In this a candidate is asked to deliver

a short talk on any one of the topic given to him/her out of the four topics. The GTO has as
much number of cards as there are candidates in a group. Each card has four topics written on

it. Each candidate is expected to pick up one card and give a short talk of about 3 minutes on
any one of the given topics.
The first candidate as per numerical sequence will come and pick up one card, go a little away
from the group, prepare for a maximum time of 3 minutes or less and when ready can come

back and return the card to the GTO and speak for maximum three minutes. As soon as the first
candidate is ready the second one can come pick up the card and start preparing.

What is Officers' Intelligence Rating Test?

As soon as two and half minutes

are over the GTO will a ring a bell.
This indicates that the candidate
must wind up soon. After three

minutes GTO rings two bells, with
this the first candidate sits down

and second stands up.