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8. To raise the level of aspirants.
9. To strengthen the combat forces of the country.
10. To change the stagnant old procedure.
Result Of The SSB After Commissioning Of New Screening Test
This new system is a step towards making system more fool-proof and those who naturally possess
the requirements of the services either by birth or had acquired with diligence will be easily
recommended by the selection centres. At present 70–80% of the candidates are screened out as they
are neither achievers in academic nor in outdoor activities. To improve the result now the candidates
have to introspect themselves along with sincere efforts and intelligent approach to qualify.
Why the procedure is applicable for NDA/IMA/OTA and other entries : If we test the
flexibility we will find that more rigidity does not suit the regimentation but degrades the emotional
stability as well.
An NDA candidate is immature, highly flexible, trainable and he can be easily moulded into the
regimentation system of the defence forces.
In IAF & Naval entry job requirements are different and in former SSB tests the flying aptitude and
in later besides technical apitiude, dynamism is tested.
As far as the IMA/OTA direct entries/university entries, women entry is concerned, maturity level,
social effectiveness, frustration tolerance is high and thereby E.Q. gets degraded and if candidates
possessing high I.Q. with low E.Q. are inducted, the level of officers in the services will degrade.
The intention behind this test is to sort out a balance personality possessing all the O.L.Qs.
Induction in NDA/IMA/OTA and in other entries are more thereby forming the 75% of the total
strength of the services and with high strength high profile prestigious jobs in the eyes of the country’s
men cannot be degraded.
How To Take The PP & D.T. ?

Interdynamic performances in total 3 tests under PP & DT at the acceptable level, makes an
aspirant to qualify the screening tests. Among battery of screening tests PP & DT is the most
important test of screening.
The fundamental aim of the PP & DT is to see and evaluate the degree and quality of perception
and observation. In all the SSBs, PP & DT is being undertaken mostly in a similar manner with minor
variations.
In PP & DT the candidate’s perception and observation is tested. You are given the time of 4 and a
half minutes. For half a minute you have to see the picture very carefully and you are not allowed to
write in this duration. The picture may be clear or slightly hazy and if you cannot interpret it clearly,
then your perception and observation goes wrong.
In the second step you have to write about the characters in the picture. You have to perceive their
age, sex and mood and then write the action, and don’t write the story into. And finally write the story
in the space given.
Difference Between PP & DT And TAT
Perception and apperception both are at sake in the SSB. Perception is an ability to perceive
whereas apperception denotes to the act and process of apperceiving. Perception is a backformation
after the concept perception, while apperception relates to the state or the fact of the mind in being
conscious of its own consciousness. You can’t appercept unless you perceive. Therefore perception
being the 1st stage of the psychological and mental process has stood up in picture perception test of
SSB.
In PP & DT only one picture is projected and that too a hazy, semi hazy or may it be a clear one. In
that depiction you have to visualise or perceive the gap and interpret the image of character which that
picture is expressing. Since “clue” is very important phenomenon in PP & DT and TAT both, hence I
would interpret the clue as under.