Six days can prove to be a great turning point for you, your career and your dreams. However to succeed in these six days, you need to prepare in a systematic and regular manner. The question is how many days before your SSB you should start your preparation, and how many days are enough. The answer is that it depends on you, your efforts and your abilities. Nonetheless, extra preparations have never caused a hard. It is a common go-to line between students that if we’ll study from long before, we’ll forget it by the time the exams come. SSB is an exam for personality, and you need to work on your personality before anything. Let us see how you can prepare for SSB in thirty days:
Initial 3 Days
Know what all it takes: If you know your enemy well, you have won the war already. This is true for exams too, only that there is no enemy and no killing. If you know what all is going to come in SSB, what all is there is the tests, then you can obviously prepare well for it. So devote these days to know the SSB. Read all what you can to understand what all is there in each test. What is the pattern, what is the syllabus?
Start your fitness regime: Start mild jogging and stamina building exercises. Getting into shape takes time. You’ll need a lot of stamina and strength for the long duration of tests in SSB. Also the Ground Tasks require a decent fitness level.
Next 7 Days:
Start with GA: You have start working on your General Awareness. Start reading the newspaper, make notes regarding important points. Collect information on probable topics of GD and lecturette. Read as much as you can.
Self-Awareness: Write down everything you need to know about yourself and your near ones. This includes your positives, negatives, achievements. Basically an introspection of your personality. Your hobbies, interests and information related to that. Information related to your friends, family and their likes dislikes, and your likes and dislikes in them.
Time yourself: Start with the PPT’s available for TAT, WAT and SRT. They come with an automatic timer. You can time yourself to perform in certain duration as required in the SSB. Every Psychological test in SSB is time bound, and that is their way of creating pressure on you. You need to practice to think fast at the spur of the moment. Write your SDT as well.
Public Speaking: Start practicing lecturette, this will not only help in lecturette but in every task that requires public speaking. 
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The following Days:
Read about the Forces: Gather basic and important information related to the Armed Force you have applied for. This will include information like commands, Chief of staff, recent procurements and ranks etc.
Continue with what all you have been doing, such as practicing for psychological tests, lecturette, interview etc. See what all documents you’ll need for SSB. Make sure you have them. You can anytime refer to various articles available on our website regarding any help with any test. For any queries post your questions in the comment box below. Keep calm and give your best!
