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daily routine and on a working day and on a holiday? What are your reading
habits and TV watching habits?”

Remember the sequence

a. How do you spend your spare time?

b. Prominent interests, hobbies and level of proficiency

c. Preference for team games or individual games and level of proficiency

d. Routine on both normal days and holidays

e. Reading habits — newspapers, books, magazines

f. TV programmes and movies

Remember a good candidate is the one who spends his/her spare time
constructively and has creative hobbies and interests which he/she pursues

whenever he/she gets time. He/She plays team games with friends (team
games are better than individual games) and spends his/her normal days and
holidays wisely, reads good magazines and newspapers and watches good TV

programmes, etc. If you do not do this, then you must start this practice
sooner rather than later and make it your normal habit.

A typical answer to this could be:

Sir, on weekdays my schedule is very tight as I get up at 6 in the morning,
go for a jog, and leave for college/office by 8.30. I come back home at 6 in
the evening, and after a little break, I settle for my studies. By 9 I have my

dinner with my family, watch TV news and study once again till about 11 in
the night. On Sundays and holidays, I spend some time with family members,
go out with friends, watch some good TV programmes etc. My interests and

hobbies are photography and painting. I have won awards at local levels. One
of my photographs was selected for a national level competition though I did
not get any prize. I prefer to play cricket/hockey/football. When I was in

school, I used to play regularly, but now I do not get time to play much. I
read magazines like Outlook and The Week, and read The Times of India

regularly. (If you say this, then make sure that you have read the recent issue
of the magazine and that day’s paper which will be available in the SSB.) I
normally watch channels like NDTV 24 × 7, Discovery and Animal Planet. I