“SSB is a battle, fight it bravely” ~~ Jayendra Pratap Singh. Truly SSB is a battle of survival, I call it so because the winners survive and succeed till the end. No one realises the magic of SSB that it’s so tough an exam but still looks so easy, you will never realise what went wrong and why few amongst you would be selected and why few were not.
Even the predictions in the night during the last day at centre at the dormitory turns out wrong. It is so because you are judged for certain OLQ’s only and the assessors are specially trained to do so. They have a vast experience for judging the people from almost all the corners of country who come and live their dream. Aspirants come there and go and they are from every state of India, hence they have rich experience of judging vast family background, diversity and culture. I have thought of few suggestions which might help to sustain the battle:
- Do not try to pose what you are not. Be truthful and be yourself. Else you will be caught anyway
- Be natural and don’t try to fake anything. Same things are tested so many times there that you will not realise where to speak what
- Don’t be a parrot to rattle out things whenever not needed. Apply common sense and then speak. Even if you speak less but whatever you say if it has quality no one can stop you from clearing.
- Don’t try to over perform in GTO. Remember it’s not the place to prove individual potential, but it’s something where you need to carry the group across and that will only provide you access through the GTO rounds. SSB is such a exam where you are tested individually and i group also. Perform equally well. An officer cannot be individualistic.
- In PI you will get sufficient chance to prove yourself as the interviews normally last for 45min to 1 hour and you will be judges on many aspects. You need to revisit your whole life in an interview and after coming out you will realise how great you were in all the phases and what more could be done to improve.
- The various psychological rounds will test how as a person you are and how you pursue things in life. The family background, the values and moral you follow might also be tested as it has a greater impact in your life. Psychology is not fixed and varies as per the situation and the phase you are going through in life. The psychologist just suggests being a positive thinker in even the harsh situations of life and excelling because such situations test the courage.
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Jayendra Singh, Editorial Team
