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your story will have a fight between desirable and not desirable one and in totality since your earlier
stories are mostly ‘NOT DESIRABLE’ hence this story will not possess the merit to become the
desirable one.
Answer; again when an army officer will start operating against the smugglers then who will fight
the war, insurgency operation, infiltration, terrorism etc. Please again try to understand. We have
multitier security crisis managing agencies, when all the security agencies are failed then army comes in
the operation. What will happen to other agencies, which are responsible and duty bound for internal
operations. Smuggling is purely internal affair not the external and whereas army is always used for
external affairs. Therefore including smuggling in the story where army operation is not required, goes
out of question.
Picture No. 4—“Ajit was a hardworking student. He passed
the entrance test for a boarding school and joined the school. He
always liked to participate actively in sports games and co-
curricular activities. When Ajit was in hostel there was dramatic
competition. He was made incharge of the house dramatic team.
Ajit directed the Hindi drama and also other cultural events. Ajit
also played the lead role in the play. On the final day his team
performed excellently and his house won the dramatics
competition. Ajit team was also selected to represent the school in
state level dramatic competition. His school also won the State
level competition.”
Evaluation of the Story—You are not being tested for the managerial and executive job. Here
your qualities are being tested by virtue of that you are able to manage the crisis. The demand of the
system is to choose a saviour and to find out the right men for the right job, all these pressure tests have
been created. To support the testimony of my statement I am quoting the contents of my article
published in The Times of India in 1995 under the heading of, “attack the problem to achieve your
goal” (SSB Guidance, TAT).
The psychologists lay emphasis on conditions of hardships (forest scene) just to know how the
particular candidate is confronting or facing the situations when he is in a jungle, because in services
these situations are to be confronted. The forest scene will also denote that how the persons will deal
with difficult and odd situation.
As far as ‘tank’ and suspicious scenes are concerned, they are projected just to test the boldness,
aggressiveness, adventures and also to test the intellectual perfections of the candidate along with stress
resistance.
The scene pertaining to pointing of hands in angry mood, accidents, no vacancy and grave yards
are shown just to test the attitude of the candidate in apparently negative situations.
Whereas ambiguous situations are concerned, in these set of pictures, each projection shows ‘two’
persons or ‘three’ or may be a single one in frustrating situations of the common occurrence. One
person in each picture is represented as making a statement which either helps in describing the
frustration of the second individual or itself frustrating to the latter. The caption box above the second
or third individual is blank. The features and expressions in all figures are omitted. Interpreting the
ambiguous stories, one is bound to reveal the aspects of his own personality, of which he is not aware.
In creating stories based upon ambiguous pictures the individual organises the contents of his personal
experiences.
Explanation—The responses denoting the frustrated pictures are intended to show the individuals
frustration tolerance, which signifies the absence of observable disorganisation in response to the
frustrating situations or adequacy and efficiency of responses despite frustrations.
Frustrations are the common experiences. Modes of adjustment to them are significant in
understanding behaviour and personality organisations, since these modes reveal ways of coping with
tensions.