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Conditions responsible to make a story undesirable and that too psychologically weak—Story
requires a hero. Hero means indirectly you, your alter ego, your deployed commander and further who
can represent you 100% that too always and everytime. There should be a similarity between you and
your hero, meaning thereby similarity in age, sex, mood, characteristics, emotions, feelings, attitude and
passions. When it is not found, your story does not deserve for recommendation. On one particular
picture more than 100 stories can be made. Your story should suit your socio-economic background,
environment you come from and more importantly story written by you should be a story of your own.
Story is the direct product of your intellectual imagination and further imagination is also a direct
product of your mind. Story being the direct product of your personality should reveal your capacity,
thoughts, emotions, thought process, actions and feelings etc. The instructions given by the scientist or
psychologist of the respective selection Boards will bear the testimony of my statement :

Gentlemen this is the first test of the battery of your psychological test known as TAT, Thematic
Apperception Test. This is purely the test of your imagination. A number of pictures will be shown to
you on the screen that is 11 + 1 = 12 and the last will be blank one. Each picture will be shown to you
for 30 seconds on which you are required to write a story on each picture within 4 minutes the way it
comes to your mind, around the persons and situations shown in the picture, answering three basic
thematic questions that is :

What led to the situation ?
What is happening ?
&
What the outcome will be ?

Please do not merely describe a picture but write a story. While writing the stories your hero and
characters will interact together then your thoughts, emotions, actions and feelings will come together
and that will become the material for our evaluation. Also do not write mugged up stories, borrowed one
or stories from books and derived from the films or serials.

Every situation is a situation and further qualifies to become a
situation as it involves a problem. The action demanded by the situation should be completed. What action a
particular situation demands depends on your power of intellectual imagination. However, there should be a logical
connection between the situation and the point of start.

In my earlier write-ups, I have exampled only good stories. Now, I will example two respective
stories which are not desirable and even does not have logical connection between the situation and the
point of start. And expressively this exampled story does not fulfil the demand of the situation.
Story written by Candidate Daleep Singh—Daleep Singh
is serving in the Army has been to SSB 4 times twice at
Allahabad, once in Bhopal and Bangalore but could not make the
mark.
Story written by the Candidate—Mahesh hailed from a
remote area. He was a hard working and sincere student, who
always thought about the development of his village. Mahesh
completed his studies and became an engineer. Mahesh got posted
to his distt. He saw that his village lacked the basic infrastructure
because of funds the village could hardly progress. Mahesh along
with his villagers approached the administration and requested for
roads and bridges on the river. Soon the Govt. sanctioned a bridge and a road to the village. Mahesh
being the engineer was made incharge of the construction work. Road and bridge was completed which
brought prosperity to the village. Village became a modern village.