Selection Center East (SCE) is located in Allahabad and consists of five service selection boards 11 SSB, 14 SSB, 18 SSB, 19 SSB and 34 SSB, which are all the selection boards of Indian Army. This is, by far the biggest Selection board of Indian Army. In case of NDA and CDSE the candidates who give their first priority as Army might be asked to report to this Selection Center. In case of special entry schemes, technical entry schemes and direct entry schemes of Indian Army, candidates might be called to this selection board for the interview. As this is a very large selection center, so there are a lot of candidates reporting here. There is a general myth among the candidates that this selection board is a rejection board. While some others say that this board is a rejection board. Let us look into further details of this point:
- Since this is a very large selection center, where there are five boards under it, so the number of candidates reporting is high naturally. This speaks volumes about the large number of rejections that happen here. Since the number of rejection that happen in SSB is directly proportional to the number of candidates reporting so it is self-explanatory.
- There is no term like rejection board. The Selection boards work on a set procedure. They’ll take all the candidates if they have OLQ’s and reject all if they don’t have. So SSB is a game of OLQ’s and not numbers.
- The Board consists of officers who are responsible for the selection. There is a set procedure of transfers on which the forces work.. no officer can remain at the same board for indefinite period of time. He/she is bound to get a transfer. Since officers are the people who make a selection board and they are the functional units behind the working of a selection board so it again explains why a board can’t be all the same throughout many years.
- If it would have been a rejection board then there will be no selections happening. But certainly this is not the case. There are candidates who get selected from this selection center also.
- There is no concept of a hard board. All the boards are the same. As mentioned above, they select candidates based on their performance in certain tests; these tests are common for all the boards. The standards which a candidate should qualify to are also common. So this clearly tells that all the boards work on the same kind of principle.
