SSB is a place where a person gets opportunity to analyse himself easily. Its spread over a period of five days and all the tests are designed to test few of the qualities of the aspirant. All tests are psychologically designed and they are meant to look for the qualities that an officer should possess to sustain the work conditions that the defence sector would give to individuals. Hence officers are tested on such grounds and these tests have the capability to extract the hidden motives and choose the best among the crowd. It is said that the candidate is judged over fifteen OLQ’s or the officer like qualities and if he or she possess them then only he could be recommended. The qualities are widely spread in different domains of human personality and cover various aspects like Social adaptability, effectiveness, how one does planning and how he is at organising things.
The examination is strict and no exception is there for missing qualities. The presence of such qualities is noted through three types of exams which aim at judging the coordination between heart, mind and body. Three different rounds are made to check all possible ways for presence of these qualities. The aspirant would face PI, Psychology and GTO rounds where different assessors would assess the candidate for appropriateness and fit in service. Different assessors are kept so that the element of favouring or luck factor is minimised as those who judge are also humans but trained specially to assess. The list of fifteen expected qualities is as follows:
- Effective intelligence
- Sense of responsibility
- Organising ability
- Self- confidence
- Liveliness
- Power of expression
- Social adaptability
- Courage
- Speed of decision
- Cooperation
- Initiative
- Reasoning ability
- Ability to influence the group
- Determination
- Stamina
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