Aspirants, how many of you are going to clear SSB and join the forces? I am sure all of you! So what about doing some preparations. Tighten your seat belts and get ready to get the 15 Killer tips which will come handy for you to clear the SSB interview in order to pave way for you to become future officers in the armed forces:
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- Get that killer confidence: Confidence is an important part of an effective personality. If you are a confident person you’ll be able to present yourself in an impressive way in front of others, also you’ll be able to project the better things of your personality in an effective manner. Confidence is important from SSB point of view as well. It helps you to perform well. Why else do you think many of us are not able to speak well in the GD or interview? So tell yourself everyday that yes you are the best and you are going to make it, anyhow!
- You can’t know the world better until you know yourself: Self-introspection is very important if you want to get through SSB. So introspect yourself, find out your strengths and weaknesses, then work on your strengths to enhance them and on your weakness to diminish them. The person who knows you the best is yourself, so use this to your advantage and find out your abilities.
- Have a look around: In SSB’s you’ll be asked a lot questions related to your family, friends and closed ones. So it is better to go prepared. The questions will range from their occupation to what do they like/ dislike in you, what you like/dislike in them etc. Hence you are advised to have a look around yourself and be prepared for such questions.
- Presentation is the secret my friend: You might be having ample amount of knowledge but it is of no use until you know the way to present it. To be able to present something in an orderly way you must practice doing so. Now by practice I mean that try to write the points and practice answering the expected interview questions. In this way you’ll be prepared thoroughly to present your thoughts in the interview.
- Channelize your thoughts: By channelizing here I mean that give your thoughts a rights direction. You must be aware that the answers you are going to give or anything that you are going to say in the SSB must have adequate proof to prove it. So for this you need to think in a right direction. Keep on checking that whether the thing which you are thinking is correct, what all cross questions can be raised from them and can you answer/tackle those questions.
- Get set and Go: SSB is a test of five days, it involves long duration of testing. The days are going to be tiring and you’ll be asked to do a lot of physical exercises as well (individual obstacles, snake race) so for these thing you need stamina. Start going for a jog, or running in order to build stamina.
- North East West South: Yes! I am talking about the news. Knowing the current affairs and what is going on in the national and international front will always keep you in an advantageous state, so spare some time to listen to the news or read the newspaper.
- Get a good essay book: A good essay book will help you to build knowledge about different subjects. Now this knowledge will help you again in the GD and in the lecture in the GT Series.
- Speak like a gentleman/lady: The way you speak tells volumes about you. Anybody who can communicate well his/her thoughts will definitely cast a better impression. Speak slow, in proper tone, give pauses while you speak, speak calmly and not in a haste. In this way you’ll develop a wonderful speaking style, so again it’ll help you to communicate your thoughts well to others, in GD, interview etc.
- Time yourself: The psychological testing the SSB is a time based test, there are many sample SRT, WAT and TAT present on our website. Download them and time your responses.
- The forces work on planning: Military planning or group planning is a very important exercise. It checks not only your basic intelligence but also your ability to deploy proper resources, and your ability to judge the importance and priority of any situation. The whole system of forces works on planning, nothing in the forces is done in an unplanned or haste manner. So be very logical and intelligent in the GPE.
- Practice reasoning: The officers Intelligence and Rating test in SSB is held in the screening part. You need to score well in it to get into stage two of the testing. While in some SSB OIR is a cakewalk, in a few like in Selection Centre Central, Bhopal, it is a bit tricky and difficult. It’ll be beneficial to go prepared for this test. You can check the details regarding this test on our website.
- Be friendly and Smile: Be friendly with the group mates. A good repo with your group will be helpful to you in the group tasks, since GT series is the longest exercise and you have to do it with your group, it is important that you guys gel well. Good co-operation in a group leads to more number of selections, never forget this!
- You are not a rebel: You are going in the SSB to get selected, and not become a rebel. Why I am saying this is because I have seen many candidates giving stupid suggestions and speaking illogical things in the conference when asked for suggestions. You are assigned to somebody who constantly asks your problem every day, you are even asked to write suggestions in the mess register, then what is the need to go and say that quality of food needs to be improved in the conference. You are going to join the forces, that is the purpose you are going for, never forget it. Moreover always remember that if you give any suggestion in the conference, there are 15 officers sitting to answer it, read again, 15 officers!
- Never forget your purpose: The reason why you want to join the forces, never forget it. Never forget the purpose you have gone in the SSB with, i.e. to get selected. Take care of yourself, perform well, eat and sleep on time, bound them to take you in!
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It’s really hard to find key points they check in you… My brother is lieutenant in Indian Army, he cracked SSB last year… still i have doubts about interview 🙁
why people from south are often not selected?
hmmmmmmmmmm well said mam