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also. He has qualified CDSE and has got the call for IMA. Now-a-days he is very good to all of us and
for others. It happened due to my class teacher who happened to be his teacher also. My class teacher
taking my parents into the confidence counselled him thrice in a month.
In SSB, failure does not spell disqualifications. SSB is not a competition where you are to compete
with others. Let me explain you the meaning of the word “recommendation”. In the SSB, the system
says that, we do not select or reject a candidate, we only recommend or not recommend for the armed
forces, which means we pass a verdict whether the candidate’s personality and attitude is suitable for an
army officer or not. This verdict again is not final as the candidate may be having the qualities but he
may not be able to display them due to some reasons or the other. The very fact that many people clear
their SSB in the 10th, 12th or 13th attempt, bears testimony to the fact. The only difference between
recommended and non-recommended candidate is that the recommended candidates suit our
requirements slightly in a better way. And once again remember that we are not passing a judgment on
your personality in a general context, so there is no reason to feel dejected in a case when you are not
through. It was just one of the various avenues that was available to you. And those of you who feel that
you have missed by a narrow margin, can try again. But, for that you should do some serious
introspection of your past performance and identify your areas of strengths and weaknesses.
And yes, you must enjoy doing your mistakes because if you don’t enjoy doing mistakes you can’t rectify
them.
I have derived these above contents from the opening address of the SSB just to make you bold, increase
guts, boost up confidence and finally to induce in you to admit the shady things of life in a courageous way
because this is one of the strong instrument which may push you to reach above the certain scale of parameter.

Candidate—Sir, I got my call letter Sir on 23 Sept., 2005 Sir.
Here the word, ‘Sir’ has been used regularly. Now it becomes over courteous and amounts to an
artificial courtesy rather it is an impression management. The responses should be as below :—
Being a projective technique in every projection the behavioural pattern plays a prime role to
translate into an acceptable graded projection. Since projection is bedded with behaviour and can’t be
groomed up without behavioural aspect, hence I will explain behavioural pattern as here under :—
The moment you attain/reach the adolescent stage, you become friendly to your parents,
sometimes only with your mother or may be with your father or even with teachers/seniors. While
conversing you become natural and submissive similarly why don’t you become friendly with the
President/Deputy President or the interviewing officers, whereas this is the demand of the profession. I
am citing an example of point No. (D) How Aspect —How ?
How a candidate should answer and behave—Endorse with ‘Sir’ while saying, ‘Sir’, please be
submissive, give a pause with a proper gap (leaving gap between or after the word or sentence, allows
audience or listeners to grasp or to get convinced) after saying ‘Sir’ maintain the eye contact while
smiling & being pleasant. Please remember, no coaching school in our country is imparting
training/guidance on projection embedded with behavioural pattern, where as without it

recommendation is not possible. Either you practice it or you should have IT in you, find

yourself quite balanced, comfortable, pleasant and smiling with reasonable command over your power
of expression then your interview will go smoothly like this :—

In your projective answers, your I.Q. (Intelligence Quotient),
E.Q. (Emotional Quotient), M.Q. (Moral Quotient) and the 4th is
S.Q. (Situational Quotient) is being evaluated.
I am exemplifying the first set of questions in order of sequence :—Sir, I received my call letter
(before the word call letter’, use ‘my’ call letter not alone ‘the’ call letter as the word ‘my’ call letter,
particularly ‘my’ reveals emotional quotient and attachment and your interest etc) on 23 Sept., 2005, I