This is in continuation of the previous part of this series where three important factors were discussed to crack and prepare for SSB. Let’s discuss some more factors to climb the success ladder. They are:
- Academics are also essential: Groom yourself in remembering about your academic knowledge as people tend to forget things very soon. If you are applying for technical branch or entry and you don’t know what you did in your final year project do you think you should be selected. Working professionals who are dissatisfied with their job always look for reasons that now they have left the academic knowledge far behind, why should they remember it? But this simply means that if you have such a good memory then after some years of being officer you will tend to forget you military training. It seems to be a joke and don’t ever dare to say it in front of officer while in interview else you have no right for getting selected. I know it’s difficult but the basics can always be refreshed and it should be the part of your strategy to do that before going to SSB.
- Know something about the place you are going: I have often seen people while mentoring them personally that when any question related to force they want to join comes they say that they don’t have a clear picture. Now does it simply means that you want to go to a place and you don’t know the way or what you goanna do there. Prepare some latest information about the force you are interested in and don’t feel embarrassed in front of interviewer. It’s easy to say sorry sir I don’t know the answer but not for some obvious questions. It will always be counted negative.
- PIQ is most important form: The PIQ form is the most important entity for SSB as it’s your reflection in front of an interviewer and Psychologist. It should be filled as such it’s you marketing yourself about your qualities and telling them, in fact forcing them to think about you. Now In course of my mentorship I have seen candidates taking it lightly and filling incomplete information in it. Hence I have made compulsory to spend some time and get it filled properly. Remember you should not escape this process and take it seriously. At the other end it would give a complete picture to assessors whether you are an officer material or not, hence it increases your chances definitely. Rest lies with them that how they confirm on those points and assess you for the qualities which should be left to them as they are experts in getting things out even if you want to hide.
The two parts have sufficiently covered about the essentials, start following and practicing if you seriously want to be an officer in Indian defence forces. Next and the last series of this write up will have other essentials too. For any help you can feel free to connect me on facebook.
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Jayendra Singh, Editorial Team
Jayendra is pursuing MBA from IIM Ranchi and is a die heart counsellor for defence aspirants. He was recommended in the first attempt for Indian navy UES entry and is willing to help aspirants to make use of his experience in this field.
