Today we are sharing a few themes or ideas which you can use while writing stories during Thematic Apperception Test aka TAT. We have mentioned few themes which you can use based on the picture shown to you. Basically, these are the plots for your stories which you can include while writing stories during TAT.
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Ideas for Thematic Apperception Test Based on Picture
- Scene of Factory or Workshop
- Modification of Factory
- Quick Order Delivery
- New Invention
- New design
- Scene of Office Meeting/ Phone Calls
- Board of director
- Presenting new idea
- Inventions
- New techniques
- New education system
- Planning attack
- Scene of Fight/Running/Knife in hand/ Pistol in hand/Catching the Throat
- Yoga
- Karate
- Commando attack
- Learning martial arts
- Scene of Defence Forces /Army Soldiers
- Patrolling
- Planning
- Attack
- Destroying enemy target
- Destroying Amn dump
- Getting information of enemy
- Scene of Vehicle Car/ Bike
- Car/Bike rally
- New design of an engine
- Pollution free vehicles
- Less competition
- Multi fuel design
- Group of Girls/women
- Vocational training center
- Cottage industries
- Handicraft industry
- Health/hygiene training
- SSB selection training
- Modeling
- Dramatics
- Folk dancing
- Family Planning
- Scene of Boat/River/lake
- Boating competition
- New design of boat
- Racing
- Rafting
Scene of Bridge
- Repair of bridge
- New design
- Widening of bridge
- Bridge inauguration
Scene of Mountains
- Mineral/Oil discovery
- Plantation/forestation
- Tourism/archeological
- Hiking, skiing, study of historical structure
Water/river
- Pollution
- Creating lake
- Reservoirs
- Tourist resort
- Boating
- Flood control
- Digging
- Navigation/waterway
Land
- New technology of agriculture
- Drip irrigation
- Digging canal
- Creation Reservoir for water
- Plantation
- Windmill
People/Villager
- Cottage industries
- Small scale industries
- Handicraft Industries
- Agricultural Industries
- Teaching new agricultural Method
- Education/Family planning/Child Marriage menace
Road/traffic/accident
- Widen road
- One- way traffic
- Bus facilities
- Street- lights
- Encroachment removal
- Zebra crossing
- Traffic lights
- Evacuation of hospital
Boys scouts/cycle/car
- NSS Camp
- Flood relief
- Cycle rally
- Car rally
- Picnic
- Jogging
- Peace march
- Blood donation
- Rescue operation
Sitting in Office
- Planning
- Research
- Relief operations i.e. flood, earthquake etc.
SAMPLE STORY
The Story: The conglomerate of Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management has actively participated in the Student Exchange Programs between India, Japan, Germany, France and many other nations. Suraj Dev, a first-year student from IIM Ahmedabad enrolled in the Post-Graduation Diploma course in Management, represented the Institute and was a team leader in the IIM conglomerate for inter athletic meet in Japan 2017. Suraj has been a meritorious student graduating from the Sri ram college of commerce, New Delhi, and DPS R K Puram. He always has been enthusiastic about participation in sports, debates, event management and was very keen for Motion photography. In his graduation days, Suraj won the best photograph in Motion Category from the National Geographic channel. He understood the concepts of physics and the relevance of timing in such genre of photography. As a part of the team lead, Suraj was responsible to be a part of the organizing committee of the athletic meet in Japan along with the Management Institute of Japan. His merit, experience of teamwork enabled him to gel easily in the overseas culture and set the event to perfection along with all delegates. The event started with the run where Suraj photographed the person from the most prominent position. After returning to India, Suraj was felicitated for his exemplary dedication to the event and this picture was framed in the “Hall of Fame “wall of IIM Ahmedabad sports zone.
Story Interpretation:
| Officer Like Qualities | Relevance to the mentioned story |
| Effective Intelligence | This story does show effective intelligence in various forms. Suraj’s candidature in IIM Ahmedabad, his representation at the International Student exchange program, his quick adaptability in the overseas culture etc and the narration as well. |
| Reasoning Ability | Suraj got correct hold of the situation, understood what needs to be done, went ahead with cooperation with other delegates from Japan and set the event to perfection |
| Power of Expression | The story expresses each event in a proper way. |
| Self Confidence | Confidence is shown here by virtue of participation and winning. Also representing something at an international level and concluding it with perfection shows the blend of confidence. |
| Determination | Suraj is determined to conclude things with perfection. He is also determined to make the best out of the situation. As for the case of this story, his dedication to participation, winning in National Geographic Photography Competition, making the best in organizing the Inter athletic meet in Japan etc shows the level of determination |
| Organizing Ability | Suraj is well acquainted with the availability of the resources and his ability to organize the event in cooperation with other delegates from other country shows this trait. |
| Initiative | This officer like quality is also displayed in the story but in a minimal amount |
| Courage | Representing our own entity at a global level needs a good amount of courage. This story exudes courage at that level where Suraj represented and participated in the athletic meet at the international level |
| Cooperation | This trait is observed in the part of the story where Suraj is organizing the event in cooperation with the other delegates who are from Japan |
| Sense of Responsibility | This trait is visible in multiple points as Suraj, being a team lead, exhibited a responsible position |
| Stamina | Organizing something and keeping it going with perfection till the end takes a lot amount of both physical and mental stamina |
| Group Influencing Ability | The hero’s experience of teamwork enables him to exhibit this trait as well |
| Liveliness | This trait is shown by the interest of Suraj to participate in all type of activities right since his childhood etc. |
| Social Adaptability | Social adaptability is shown by his interest and ability to participate in organizing activities. |
Conclusion
While there are many tips in the market to attempt TAT, the key idea behind this is to keep the stories in line with the PIQ and reflect the same set of thinking in WAT and SRT. For better formation of themes, divide pics into 5 categories and apply one category to any pic shown in the test. For having a wide range of theme as per your PIQ, refer to the Better India and adopt themes related to your PIQ from there.
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All these are themes or plots for a story based on the picture shown to you. You are suggested to take utilize these themes as per the picture and mix your story with a perfect combination of ideas you are getting. If you have any other suggestions, do share them below.
