The TAT was originally designed to determine the degree to which people wrote about themes relating to achievement, affiliation, and power. Although there are a series of different TAT pictures, this one is somewhat related to each of these themes — although most people make up a story with achievement themes. For example, some people emphasize the nature of the experiment or scientific discovery (reflecting the writer’s interests in achievement and success); others may focus on the nature of the friendship between the two women (interests in affiliation); yet others may focus on the status differences of the two women (reflecting the writer’s concerns with status and power); By analyzing the words that you use, we can get a rough sense of your interest in each of these themes.

Here is a short analysis of your word use.

Need for Achievement. The typical person generally scores between 4.5 and 8.5, with an average of 5.7. The higher your number, the more you wrote about achievement-related themes.

Need for Affiliation. Because this picture typically elicits themes associated with achievement, most people don’t pay too much attention to human relationships in their story. In fact, the typical person scores around 1.2 on this dimension. Indeed, 30% of participants score 0.00.

Need for Power. Most people score between 0.8 and 2.7, with the average being 1.7. High scores on the need for power dimension hint that the writer is concerned with who is or is not in control and who has the most status.

Self-references: People who use a high rate of self-references tend to be more insecure, nervous, and possibly depressed. They also tend to be more honest.

Social words: Social words are words that make reference to other people (e.g., they, she, us, talk, friends). Generally, people who use a high level of social words are more outgoing and more socially connected with others.

Positive emotion words: The more that people use positive emotion words (e.g. happy, love, good), the more optimistic they tend to be. If you feel good about yourself, you are more likely to see the world in a positive way.

Negative emotion words: Use of negative emotion words (e.g., sad, kill, afraid) is weakly linked to people’s ratings of anxiety or even neurotic. People who have had a bad day are more likely to see the world through negatively-tinted glasses.

Big words (words with more than 6 letters): Use of big words is weakly related to higher grades and standardized test scores. People who use a high rate of big words also tend to be less emotional and oftentimes psychologically distant or detached.

Source: http://www.utpsyc.org

Don’t: 

• No lies/false hood please. 
• You have no bad points except to over work to get perfection in any task under taken. 
• Do not waste your time unnecessarily read some magazines. 
• Don’t be tense take it easy, always think before you answer.

Group discussion is the first and foremost test in GTO series. Being the first test in GTO, group discussion is the most important for candidate to show his OLQs effectively. This is also your first chance to create a good impression in front of Group Task Officer. As always, first impression is the last impression

A Group Discussion can be defined as a formal discussion involving ten to 12 participants in a group. It is a methodology used by an organization to gauge whether the candidate has certain personality traits and/or skills that it desires in its members. In this methodology, the group of candidates is given a topic or a situation, given a few minutes to think about the same, and then asked to discuss the it among themselves for 15-20 minutes.

Also Read: OLQs to Show During Group Discussion

Qualities Judged during Group Discussion

• How good you are at communication with others.
• How you behave and interact with group.
• How open minded are you.
• Your listening skill.
• How you put forward your views.
• Your leadership and decision making skills.
• Your analysis skill and subject knowledge.
• Problem solving and critical thinking skill.
• Your attitude and confidence.

SSB Interview Group Discussion during GTO

Do’s and Don’ts of Group discussion

1. Make eye contact: Do not look at the evaluators only. Keep eye contact with every team member while speaking.
2. Try to Initiate the GD: Initiating the GD is a big plus. But keep in mind, Initiate the group discussion only when you understood the GD topic clearly and have some topic knowledge. Speaking without proper subject knowledge is bad impression.
3. Give chance to others to speak: Do not interrupt anyone in-between while speaking. Even if you don’t agree with his/her thoughts do not snatch their chance to speak. Instead make some notes and clear the points when it’s your turn.
4. Be clear: Speak politely and clearly. Use simple and understandable words while speaking. Don’t be too aggressive if you are disagreeing with someone. Express your feelings calmly and politely.
5. Keep the discussion on track: If by any means group is distracting from the topic or goal then simply take initiative to bring the discussion on the track. Make all group members aware that you all need to come to some conclusion at the end of the discussion. So stick to the topic.
6. Positive attitude: Be confident. Do not try to dominate anyone. Keep positive body language. Show interest in discussion.
7. Speak sensibly: Do not speak just to increase your speaking time. Don’t worry even if you speak less. Your thoughts should be sensible and relevant instead of irrelevant speech.
8. Be a good listener: Speak less and listen more! Pay attention while others are speaking. This will make coherent discussion and you will get involved in the group positively. You will surely make people agree with you.
9. Keep it simple: Some basic subject analysis is sufficient. No need to mention exact figures while giving any reference. You have limited time so be precise and convey your thoughts in short and simple language.
10. Formal dressing: Do not take it casually. No fancy and funny dressing. You should be comfortable while speaking in group. Positive gesture and body language will make your work easy.

As in a football game, where you play like a team, passing the ball to each team member and aim for a common goal, GD is also based on team work, incorporating views of different team members to reach a common goal.

How do you face SSB interview GD, do share your success tips in the comment box below.

Also Read

1. How to Tackle Group Discussion In PPDT
2. Important Lecturette and GD Topics in SSB Interview

In SSB Command Task, a leader can pick up a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 3 persons out of the group excluding himself. But normally 2 persons plus the leader will do. A plank and a balli is given to help out. The difficulty of your command task depends on your past performance, if you get a difficult command task, that says that you are going good in GTO.

How Command Task is Conducted

• Group Officer will call each candidate in a random fashion.
• He will ask few basic questions mostly based on your PIQ form, may be to cross check what you have written.
• He can also ask you about your previous attempts and what do you feel about present attempt.
• Then he will give instructions on your command task and ask you to call any 2 subordinate for help.
• As soon as your subordinates report you, your Command task will begin.
• You will get around 10 -15 mins to complete your command task, it also depends on the difficulty level of command task.

Command Task

Tips for Command Task

• There is always a solution, do not panic if you are not getting any idea. Just keep trying.
• Talk loud and clear while addressing your subordinates. 
• Don’t ask for help, use your brains.
• Treat your subordinates well.
• Make sure you lead from the front, don’t send your subordinates to test an unstable plank. Instead, you must take the risk.
• Try to use all helping material wherever possible.

One more interesting test in the GTO series to show your individual ability, one should face  obstecles in this test individually, these obstacles are 10 in number and the time given to 3 mins only.These 10 obstacles are usually in an ascending or a progressive order in as much as the higher or farther one goes , the more difficult the obstacles will be.

Total Marks : 55
Time            : 3 mins
Obstacles     : 10
these obstacles starting from the one which carries 1 mark right up to the 10th obstacle which carries 10 marks.

Objective of the test is to check:

1 Ability
2 Physical toughness
3 Courage
4 Planning
5 Obstacle Tackling sense

What is the Procedure?

1  GTO show the obstacles one bye one to the group before conducting the test .
2  Candidates needs to check the obstacles and plan simultaneously according to their ability.
3  GTO later starts with first candidate, first candidate has to run and stand in front of the obstacle he          wants to attempt first.
4  To start the task GTO blow the whistle once.
5  After 2 and half minutes, he will shout next. This means the next candidate should go to the obstacle  from where he wants to start.
6  After 3 mins, GTO will again blow the whistle and this indicates the time up for the 1st candidate.
7  This way the rest of the candidates continue till last .

Important points:

1  Wear proper sport shoes with good grip.

2  Make plan in advance to do obstacles.

3  Run fast between obstacles and do not waste much time/energy in running.

4  If possible try to attempt task first which has more points, they look difficult but tackle them with proper planning and courage.

5  While attempting do not get double minded, just go for it.

6  After completing 10 obstacle you can repeat again to get more marks .

Type of Obstacles:

1 Jumping from a small plank

2 High Jump

3 Long Jump ( over drums or wires )

4 Balance beam

5 double ditch

6 Monkey crawling

7 Tarzan swing

8 Tiger leap

9 Barma bridge

10 Commando walk

In Air force 2 obsracles are different ” Hanging Tyre ” and ” “rope climbing” [25 -30 feet]