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combined studies and help one another. For example, one of my friends helped me in mathematics and
I helped him in physics. We go out for movies together and normally stay together. All teachers in my
school and college have been good. I have had very good relationship with them and they too have a
very positive view about me. My education is financed through a bank loan which I am now repaying

or which I want to repay through my own earnings.

Sequence 3

This sequence is about family details and early home background. It is believed that early home
background has great impact on development of personality of a person. The question will be
somewhat similar to the following:-

“Now I will be interested to know about your family. You please tell me about your parents i.e
about your father and mother, their occupation, the other members of your family like brother, sister,
grandparents, etc. How do you spend time together, your activities at home, whom do you approach

for help when you have problems or when you want to confide in? Normally, what are the activities
in which you get personally involved with your family? How do you meet your monetary requirement
i.e, how much money you need a month and how do you spend it? Who are your friends in your
neighborhood and what social, cultural or other activities you have undertaken in their company?”

Remember the sequence

(a) Father’s and mother’s occupation

(b) No. of brothers and sisters

(c) Time spent together and activities at home

(d) Whom do you approach for help?

(e) Activities you get involved with the family

(f) How you meet your monetary requirements

(g) Friends in neighborhood and the social/cultural or other activities A typical answer to this
question could be

Sir, My father Mr. Ratan Singh is a head clerk in State Bank of India. My mother is a housewife. I
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have a brother and a sister both younger to me. Brother is studying in class 12 and sister in class
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10 . My grandparents stay with us. We make a very happy family. During the week days we remain
very busy in college and studies. It is normally on Sundays that we are home and get to spend some
time with each other. On week days we make it a practice to have dinner together and on Sundays we
normally have lunch together. Between the brothers and sisters we have good relationship and I being
the eldest guide the younger ones in studies. I am more close to my mother and often approach her for