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(b) Courage—The ability to appreciate and take purposeful risks willingly; it includes :—
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(a) Ability to meet (b) Spirit of adventure, an (c) Capacity to keep oneself
appreciated danger. enterprising spirit and a composed in adverse situations
willingness or desire to enabling one to be steady in
dare or risk a hazard. facing and handling such
situations.
(c) Stamina—The capacity to withstand protracted physical strain; it emphasises endurance. It also
includes the ability to withstand mental stress. Stamina is of two kinds—Physical and Mental. Physical
Stamina is trainable but mental stamina is not trainable unless effective intelligence and determination
is dashly applied.

Lesson 7
Know Inside of G.T.O. Testing
(Role of Group Testing in the Selection Board)

Preamble
(1) The underlying rationale is that man is gregarious by nature. His behaviour is best observed in a
group. This envisages the study of not only the static pattern of an individual but to analyse and
interpret the dynamics of inter-relationship, to consider not only a man’s conscious appreciation of a
situation but his total adjustment to it. The study of personality which relates an individual to his social
surroundings gains added support from the fact that the development and growth of personality is the
result of passing from simple to larger and more complex fields i.e., from family to school,
neighbourhood and ultimately into the community. All this will shape and mould the personality of an
individual. Thus it may be said that an individual’s personality is the product of the environment.
Hence, if one would choose and control these environments one may endeavour to influence and
control the personalities therein. In the SSB, the word ENVIRONMENT is substituted by the word
GROUP. It is considered that if one can control the stresses to which a small group is exposed one can
hope to provide its members both opportunities for leadership and conditions that limit these
opportunities. From the ability of a person to take advantage of these opportunities and his adjustment
to the limiting conditions one can draw tentative estimates of his personality.
What a GTO seeks to observe and evaluate is called an individual’s ‘Group Effectiveness’ or
the sum total of an individual’s contribution to the group and its task.
(2) Group Effectiveness can be classified into the following three components :—

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Group
Effective Level
Cohesiveness, Stability
of Functioning
and