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III Citation : This is the IIIrd phase in which we would like to know that what your
unconscious mind has told you. We would like you to give your natural
feelings. Don’t try to elaborate the picture but give a practical meaningful
story in the given blank paper. In the left side write the age, sex determined
by you & also write their mood ‘+’ for happiness, ‘–’ for seriousness and ‘O’
for neutral and ‘?’ means you are stuck. Time to see the picture is 30 seconds
and to determine sex, age and mood is one minute and to write the story in
three minutes.
For the adequate analysis/evaluation of the candidate’s personality a thorough analysis of
perception and apperception is being conducted in the SSB.
THE REASONABILITY AND POSITIVITY WITH ACCEPTABILITY OF SUCCESS IN A
STORY CAN ONLY BE DERIVED FROM THE ACCURACY OF PERCEPTION BY THE
FACULTIES OF MIND WITH THE ABILITY OF THE OBSERVATION AND
APPERCEPTION.
Differences between PP&DT and TAT
The common concept of perception is an ability to perceive whereas apperception denotes the act and
process of apperceiving. Perception is a back formation 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 percept. Therefore, perception being the 1st stage of the psychological and mental process has stood
up in the picture perception test of SSB.

PP & DT
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1. 4 minutes time.
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2. minutes to see the picture. 1 minute to determine, sex, age, mood and an ‘Action’. 3 minutes to
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describe the story.
3. Only one picture is shown.
4. Length of the story goes to 6 to 10 lines, it may be more depending on the communicating ability of
a candidate. (in words it may range between 40 to 60) words.
5. Here you are to describe the picture because it is Picture Perception and Description Test. In the
Services Selection Board some Assessors at the time of giving the instructions speak it as a Picture
Perception and Description Test and some pronounce it as a Picture Perception and Discussion
Test. Both are applicable ‘Description’ as well as ‘Discussion’.
6. The story in PP & DT is never meant for evaluation, it is only there to defend your perception and
arguments for the example what you have perceived ? How you have perceived ? How many
human figures you have perceived ? and after the perception, how you have determined their sex,
age, mood and action.
7. In PP & DT your narration and interactional behavioural pattern is more important rather than your
individual story.
8. If you are able to convince the board that how you have perceived two or three human figures, their
sex, age, mood, and action with means available like jeep, car, bike and environment like village,
forest, school etc. then you are acceptable. The homogeneous mix and sound interplay of
perception and observation produces accuracy in perception for the example a jeep is the jeep, car
is a car, motorcycle is motorcycle, it may be HeroHonda, Yamaha, Bajaj Kawasaki but motorcycle
can’t be a scooter or cycle or rickshaw. When G.D. is undertaken your perception becomes the
subject of discussion, if your perception becomes wrong then you have to face more disagreement
in discussion and that may discourage you or may deteriorate your confidence, therefore your
perception should be reasonable.