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PPDT – Picture Perception & Discussion Test 2023

Now we will discuss PPDT, what is PPDT and how to write and speak during PPDT. This would help freshers who certainly miss or get confused during PPDT story writing, narration and group discussion.

What is PPDT? How to perform in PPDT? How to write PPDT Stories? PPDT also known as Picture Perception and Discussion Test is one of the two tests conducted in stage one testing of SSB interview, another one is the officer intelligence rating test. Officer intelligence test consists of written test in verbal and non-verbal questions which is very easy and do not count much for screening, but PPDT plays an important role in screening.

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Now we will discuss PPDT, what is PPDT and how to write and speak during PPDT. This would help freshers who certainly miss or get confused during PPDT story writing, narration and group discussion.

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What is PPDT?

  • PPDT stands for picture perception and discussion test, as the name suggests, you need to write a story on the picture shown, narrate it and then discuss among group members to make a common story.
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How to write a Story in PPDT?

  • You will see the picture for 30 secs and then you will get 1 min to note down a few details and then 4 mins to write your story on the page provided by the SSB.
  • In 1  minute you have to write down the details like the gender of the characters you have seen, their age, mood, and circle the character you have seen first.
  • All these details have to be marked inside the box printed on the sheet provided by SSB.
  • Write M/F/P for male/female/person(if the gender is not clear).
  • Write +/-/0  for positive/negative/neutral mood.
  • Write their age assumed by you and as per the picture showed.
  • Circle the details of the character you have seen first.
  • On the right-hand side of the sheet, you have to write the action happening in your story, it could be in 3-4 words like ” saving a child”, “Enjoying in vacation”, “helping a poor” etc
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Picture Perception [Story Writing]

A sample of the PPDT story sheet:

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Assume that you have seen the picture(above) during story writing, it will be displayed for 30 secs and then 1 min for noting down a few details. Assumptions may vary from person to person, but try to assume practical and logical, if you find the character as a female, then write it as a female but male.

Details in the Box

  • According to the picture, I have seen a female[F] character first on the very left side of the frame with positive mode and age around 26 years. So you can see what I have mentioned it in the box given.
  • I have also seen another female[F] on the right-hand side of the frame with little sad facial expression (negative mood) and age around 40 years.
  • I have seen another character in the middle of the frame, I not able to guess the gender so I marked it as a person [P] but I guess the age would be 45 years and mood is neutral.
  • These assumptions may vary from person to person, one may see only two characters and other may assume it as a battleground, so it depends on how you think and respond to what you see.
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Action Part

Coming to the action part, I find the scene of an agricultural land, so my story is related to farming/ agricultural. After seeing the picture few keywords came to my mind like farming+poor+agriculture+help+fertilizers+drought+earning+livelihood  etc, so based on that I assumed some story in my mind and based on that I wrote the action in very short.
Your Story
Once you are done with the above, you will get 4 mins to write the story, keep your story relevant to the picture and characters mentioned by you. Sometime you may not be able to finish the story in time, but that’s okay, you can add the missing parts while narrating but again make sure you do not change your story completely, but try to keep it relevant.

 

Discussion Test [Individual Narration + Group Discussion]

This part of screening which can make most of us nervous, as a matter of fact, individual narration and group discussion decides whether you stay for the day or screened out. So, use your full ability to perform well enough during narration and discussion.

This part consists of two things, one is individual narration and another is the group discussion. After the story writing, candidates will be divided in a group of 12 -14, all group members are supposed to sit in a semi-circular fashion. You will be getting a chance to read your story again just to revise before the individual narration starts.

Individual narration:

  1. Candidate with the least chest number start narrating his/her story, once finished, the next candidate will start his/her narration. This will proceed till the last candidate.
  2. Once the narration starts, assessors will not interrupt and you are supposed to look or talk to assessors.
  3. You will be getting sufficient instructions from assessors before the narration starts.
  4. Try to keep your story short and to the point, you may get maximum 1 min to finish your narration.

Group Discussion:

  1. As soon as the last candidate completes his/her narration, group discussion begins among group members without any interruption from assessors.
  2. Generally, it starts with 6-7 candidates speaking/yelling at the same time, you are supposed to keep your calm and show maturity.
  3. The motto of the group discussion is to make a common story out of the picture shown.
  4. If the group discussion becomes fish market, assessors may divide the group into two halves. This makes the discussion easier because of fewer candidates in each group.
  5. You may get 5-10 mins for discussion.
  6. At last assessors will stop the discussion and tell the group to move out of the room.
     
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PPDT/Screening Result:

  1. You will get your results after a few hours, those who are selected stay back for next few days for stage-II testing.
  2. Don’t lose hope if you are not selected. Try to learn from your experiences.

PPDT and TAT

  • PPDT is conducted in stage 1 testing and TAT is conducted during stage 2 testing.
  • In both you need to write a story, PPDT has one picture but TAT has a set of 12 pictures.
  • In PPDT you need to write certain thing on your answer sheet like mood, sex, age etc but in TAT you just need to write a plain simple story based on what you saw.
  • PPDT has a narration and group discussion part but TAT is just the story writing.

Also Read:

  1. PPDT & TAT Sample Stories
  2. How to pass the screening test in SSB

Please share you screening experiences and thoughts in the comments box below.

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49 COMMENTS

  1. Rani was a btech student and her father was a farmer. While she going to college through her father’s fields for the first time. she saw all the farmers including her father were using old technics she went to them and explained about the advantages of new technology. But everyone didn’t accept it because they don’t trust them for a good crops. Then rani shown some examples of way of agriculture using the technology from the web. Then everyone got a hope and wanted to buy them. Then they ordered some equipments and tryed them the rudely was good and they ordered more. Then her village is developed and she felt satisfied.

  2. Man’s mood depends on think him that he think about lady .age of both can any else but my mood focus only driving

  3. There was a village with small family of husband with age 38,wife with age 32 and his daughter with age 19.every time wife use to think about the struggle of his husband for his family and about the higher education of her daughter ……..she had a responsibility to keep his husband and daughter happy…….so she use to manage the money brought by his husband..by saving some money with in their salary …when her daughter grown up she gave the saved money to her husband and said him to join their daughter for higher education so that their daughter would study well and financially lead their family..after some days.this family is happy with their daughter ‘s result in her education and support given to her father ..and the girl’s mother is thanking to god about what all happen in the past and what all sacrifices done by them to educate their daughter for this fruit full life….

  4. Nivedita was an ambitious girl. She belonged to a poor farmer family but that did not stop her from dreaming big.
    She is a final year engineering graduate student and she has always acknowledged the pain that her farmer father has encountered in paying her graduation fee. Today is the final exam of her final semester and before going to the college she takes a last look at her family. It is evident from the picture that her her father is ploughing the field and her mother is standing, looking. She dreams of getting a good job and pulling her family out of poverty. She takes her final exam passes out of the college and gets a good job as manager in a reputed firm. Finally her family enjoys a better standard of living. She fulfills her dream.

  5. Really u r story is very good and i want to appreciate for your positive thinking about a situation of field and farmer .

  6. nettu is a graduate,there was a famine in the village and his parents decided to sell the land at lower rate as they dont have enough money but neetu opposed it and said we should take loan from bank and also govt also helping affected people by providing subsidy on various farming things and so the family decided to sow the field again and they have a very good harvest next time.

  7. Rohit is 15 year old boy studying in 9th class.he was like to play violin very much.one day he came to home but the was not interested to play violin.he thought about the incident which he saw in the way of his school that a poor man sat on rode side and very hungry ,poor man could not walk a single step.after some time his mother came in to the room and asking to him what happened then he said all the things to his mother.he want to help him and he went with his mother and gave him some food to eat when poor man eat all the food he returned to home with cheerful mood.

  8. Ayasha belongs to poor family of remote region for which her family totally depends on agriculture income.When she was in school,she got to know that her father used old Technics of farming for which her family income was very low.After school she joined clg and later she did B.sc in agriculture on govt. scholarship.When she came back to her village,she knew that her father still also using same (old) farming technics.Then one day she talked to her father about knew modern farming Technics,if we use this technics then govt. also gives some subsidery in new quality of seeds,farming tools and machinery.In this way Ayasha got success to convinced her father and also her father are ready to use this technics .In this way Ayesha first took the trial on her farms and for god blessed she got good production. Then she talked to village head person for arranging the gramsabha,for which she too try to convince them.Afterthis she arranged gramsabha and told about new technics of farming and their benefits also,she also told about her farms for which she firstly applied there and got good result ,initially she faced some trouble,but later on she convinced all of them.so in this way everyone was ready to use this technics,after one year Ayasha came to knw that the village farm production was increase.Ayasha felt hapy for her hardwork.

  9. My story revolves around vikram who is a bsc agriculture student and lives with his mother. His family income only came from agriculture. There was no other elder supporting their family. He has helped his mother since his childhood in farming and day to day work with his studies too going parallel. He opted for agriculture as he wanted to know the knew techniques In farming and improve the financial condition of his village as well as family.completing his degree he introduced modern ways of farming like use of bio pesticides and tissue culture leading to productivity increase and less dependency on chemicals. He spread his message by doing demo in gram panchayat and encouraged people to adopt it. It was wel understood by the villagers and with passing years the change was seen and his village ranked first in productivity on global platform. He was also awarded for his work by the prime minister on republic day and he is stil spreading his message to other villages in country.

  10. Vicky ,a science graduate student, was going to his college suddenly he saw a girl got injured by a biker and bikers run away .He immediately note down the bike no.and gave first aid to injured girl.He pick the girl in his car and admitted her in a nearby hospital,in between vicky informed the girl’s parents and police also.Girl’s mom came and saw her daughter and asked about the bikerrs.Vicky and girls mom went to police station for an fir and told about bikerrs.Police caught the bikers immediately with the help of bike no..Vicky and girls mom returned to the hospital and doctor them that girl is fine.Vicky dropped girl and her mom in her house and departured towards his college.

  11. story on shubhankar roy ppdt, rate it plz..
    Ekta and sumit lives in a flat in ajmer. both have a 3 years old kid. before having kid, she used to work as sales manager in a reputed company. now she wants to start a business that can be handled at home so that the she can better take care of her son too. so she decides to buy the handicrafts from rajasthan villages and sale it to bigger companies. sumit also supports her for this. in starting she had to face some difficulties in setting up but due to support of her husband and her determination now she handles it from net at home. today she has completed her biggest consingment. the man is from the client company who came their to give payment. ekta is very happy and eagerly waitng her husband to come nd njoy..:)

  12. Rate my story plz..
    Neha is the youngest and very brilliant daughter of patel family. this family depnds on farming only.from 5 years the adequate crops were not growing in the village.neha is doing her b.tech from a govt college on scholarship and she is aware of the village situation. so from 2 years she along with her frnds are working on developng a chemical that can increase crops quality nd maintain the fertility. finaly in last year they got success, and convince the villagers to try it. earlier villagers rebel but she was able to convince them. this year the crop is really good. everyone is happy nd feelng proud on patel’s daughter. in college her group is awarded with best project..:) Now she is seeking towards further experiments..:)

  13. No you should not join in…. keep calm and speak when all of them stop… there will be a time in each discussion where the entire batch will bark their hearts out … that is a golden chance… and when you face a fish market.. Sport a smile n look for opportunity… Good luck

  14. Sir, please tell me how to write a story from personal experiences on a picture which shows a girl/lady/woman as the lead character, when the story writer is a male. I heard somewhere that the lead character should reflect you. is it true?

  15. Can you tell me-
    i) have you ever stayed in a village?
    ii) Have you taken any such initative in any field? if yoy say yes then its a very well written story . you are a person wwho take tinitative, leader ship, helping nature, motivation,caring etc. You are a sutiable person to be an officer.From my side you are recommended provided you shows all others quailty of yours in other task.
    All the very best of luck.

  16. Mahesh was a young graduate student.He lived in a remote village with his parents n two sisters.Despite being blessed with all geographical advantages the economic condition of his village was not good. As they dnt kow how to utilise the resources.Consequently his village lagged behind in all raspect.This sight dnt please the student in him.He knew tat education is the antidote to all problems.So he met the sarpanch n askd for the permission to use the community hall to run a night school where people,of all religion,caste,sex can sit n grasp the right to education.He was readily given the permission.He started the school with all enthusiasm n began the things from the scratch.He also asked his friends too to come n teach them.He lead emphasis on girl education n told the farmers the advanced use of scientific meathods of farming.With the passage of time situations changed favourably.people learnt the art, use of skills n knew their rights in various fields.Hence drops made the ocean so the village got onto the wheels of progress.

  17. Preeti was in school when her father used to work hard in the farms and earn their livelihood. She was aware of the financial constraints that her family was facing. As her family was dependent on agriculture, she decided to take B.Sc agriculture as her higher qualification and utilize the knowledge gained in helping her father. She took the course, and started working on the fields with her father. while working she noticed that the technique used in farming was very old and labourious. The yield was also not good, hence lower income to the family. She talked to her father about this and convinced her to apply new methods of farming. Father agreed and the methods were applied. The results were positive and crop was good. Preeti felt happy by helping her family overcome the constraints.

  18. Ridhhima was a final year B.SC agriculture student who is doing research on old farming techniques practised by rural farmers.She was given 5 villages as a research project work.She was in daulatpur village for more then a month and observed many things on the basis of what data she collected from farmers and labourers which can be used to enhanced the cropping methods.She told farmers about the various schemes run by the government which provides subsidy and schemes on farming tools ,seeds and irrigation methods.She helped them to find the way to get such facilities.Soon the village started using high yielding methods and ridhhima now moved on to next village by telling them about forum from where they can collect such useful information regarding new farming techniques.

    • my friend u can take the hero from outside….,,,,likewise in this picture (above showed)(a girl is going with some books in her hands, a person working in the field and a lady stood in front of the field) so we can assume the hero from outside….

      Ajay was a college student. Once he went to his native village to his grandfather. There he saw some girls were working as laborer in the agriculture field. he met to a girl and ask to her for go to school. by talking her he came to know that parents of those girls did not allow to go school because of their lack of knowledge. he decided to grow up this matter and arranged a meeting of villagers with the help of headman. in that meeting he gave knowledge about girl education and told them benefits of their education and also listened their problem and gave them proper solution ways. By this girls of village started to go school. with this ajay was happy with his work.

  19. In the Discussion, What if entire group of 15 starts barking at once, and the assessor tells all of us to get lost from the room. our discussion was like the one that i mentioned, it was not even for a minute, i kept calm seeking a chance to speak. but at last i was out. so i think we should join in the fish market

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