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Indian army has finally published the notification of Territorial Army 2019 and for the first time women can also apply for the Territorial army along with male candidates. Candidate who were looking for TA notification 2019 can find more detailed regarding territorial army exam and notification below. Applications are invited from gainfully employed young citizens for an opportunity of donning the uniform and serving the nation as Territorial Army Officers (Non Departmental), based on the concept of enabling motivated young citizens to serve in a military environment without having to sacrifice their primary professions. You can serve the nation in two capacities – as a civilian and as a soldier. No other option allows you such an expanse of experiences. Territorial Army Notification 2019 – For Male and Female
Note: Serving member of the Regular Army/ Navy/ Air Force/ Police/ GREF/ Para Military and like forces are not eligible.
DATE OF WRITTEN EXAMINATION: 28 JULY 2019. The date of holding the examination as mentioned above is liable to be changed at the discretion of the competent authority.
SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS:The Online Registration and Applications can be filed from 26 MAY2019to 25 Jun 2019till 11.59 PM after which the link will be disabled.
STANDARD AND SYLLABUS OF THE EXAMINATION:
STANDARD: The standard of the papers in Elementary Mathematics will be a Matriculation level. The standard of papers in other subjects will approximately be such as maybe expected of a graduate of an Indian university.
CANDIDATES TO ENSURE THEIR ELIGIBILITY FOR THE EXAMINATION: The candidates applying for the examination should ensure that they fulfill all eligibility conditions for admission to the Examination. Their admission at all the stages of the examination will be purely provisional subject to satisfying the prescribed eligibility conditions.Mere issue of Admission certificate to the candidate will not imply that his candidature has been finally cleared by the competent authority.
Exam Pattern and Syllabus of Territorial Army 2019
HOW TO APPLY. Candidates are required to apply online by using the website www.jointerritorialarmy.nic.in. Brief instructions for filling up the online Application Form (IAF(TA)-9 (Revised) Part1)have been given on the website.
EMBODIMENT FOR TRAINING: (a) One month basic training in the first year of commission. (b) Two months annual training camp every year including the first year. (c) Three months Post Commissioning training within first two years at IMA, Dehradun.
Hey, there young guns. This is me, Dikshant Pandey, pursuing B.Tech in CSE from Amity University Jaipur. I’m writing my own success story of SSB. I knew one day would come when I would be writing this thing, but never knew would have to wait for one whole year. I’m a repeater candidate, got recommended in my third attempt gentlemen. Only repeater’s would be able to understand the pain of getting conference out, that too twice.
Well, what’s the past is past. I was recommended for the NDA-134 course by 24 SSB Bangalore on 26th march 2015, medically fit for all type of aircrafts, for AF. I would like to share my views, and there would be a few tips too, in case you need them.
First and foremost, never lose hope. There would be times in life when you’ll feel what’s happening and why this is happening to me. Never say, “Why me. Say try me.”
Ok over with the ‘gyaan’. I’ll start now.
We had to report to Selection centre south, Bangalore on the 21st march by 2 PM. I reached on time there and found only 2 people besides me sitting there. The remaining candidates arrived by 5 o’ clock and then we were asked to fill the forms.
DAY 1: Screening Test
Our screening started with OIR tests. We were given 2 test booklets with different no. of questions. I was able to complete all of them in the stipulated time, and if you haven’t been able to do so till now, there’s no negative marking people. Write any option out of the blue, who knows maybe by gods grace it may be correct. After that we had our PP&DT, in which we were shown a picture where 2 people were discussing things over a cup of coffee. I wrote a story that Ram is a student who wishes to be a pilot and therefore he’s talking to a Wg. Cdr. for guidance. My narration was good, full of confidence, but then came the GD time. Ours was a group of 13 repeater’s. I think you can guess the scene, it was complete chaos. All 13 of us wanted to initiate the GD. The GTO had to divide us into 2 subgroups and I was in the first subgroup. There, 2 of us were the main speakers. One was me and the other was chest no 58. We just spoke for 2 mins, where I said let’s take up the topic on a social issue. After that the GTO didn’t allows us to speak and moved on to the second group. The other groups was all shouting and making it a fish market, then the GTO gave us 30 seconds to conclude and I somehow raised my voice so loud that everyone turned and started listening to me. I then just said we have agreed upon a social issue, take it up on swine flue as it is most prominent now. That was it. End of screening. A total of 24 candidates were screened in out of the 65. 5 repeater’s out of the 13.
DAY 2: PSYCHOLOGY
It all started with TAT. I just had one thing in mind while writing the stories, that each should be unique. When you are writing a story, remember you are the main character of the story. Don’t get way too happy and start writing stories that I’ll become an engineer and build a bridge to avoid accidents in future. This kind of stories should be avoided, according to me.
Then came the WAT. I was able to complete 59 of them, as the last word was something negative and I wasn’t able to make up anything for that. For this my suggestion would be, never learn any answers, I’ve seen aspirants doing that, and, believe me, that’s very bad for you only. Answers should be spontaneous but also do a lot of practice at home so that you can manage time, and in your practice only you would get to know what kind of sentences you form.
Then we had our SRT. I was able to complete all of them, but don’t fear if you aren’t able to complete all, my friend did only 37 and he’s recommended. Quantity doesn’t matter, quality does. Try doing as many as you can, and write the response as if you are the one in that situation. Also, what position the character holds matters. If you are the SP of your area, you exercise a lot of power. Keep these things in mind, and you’ll do good.
About the SD, prepare a very good SD beforehand. But please, don’t put high and mighty things in it which you aren’t. Believe it or not, the interviewer gets to know if you are bluffing. Remember, it can be your 10th attempt, his would be no less than 1000th.
Now comes the main part. The GTO tasks would start the next day, and I had to win him over this time so that I can get recommended. I needed to plan things. I had a plan in mind, I talked to my group mates. We were a group of 8 and I was the only repeater. So naturally they were listening to me. I asked nothing much of them, just that let’s do a GD now only, at candidate’s line. Then after the GD I pointed out a few things. Firstly, if someone has started speaking everyone else would be quiet. If you have a point, you’ll get a chance. Secondly, if you have spoken, let at least 3 other people speak, after that again put your point. Same for GPE, don’t impose your plan, be flexible and take into account other people’s viewpoints too. In PGT, if one has given a solution, let other’s come forward, don’t be the boss every time. Surprisingly, people obeyed me. And out of the 8 of us, 5 got recommended. So yeah, maybe my planning was good, coz out of the other 2 groups only 1 each was selected, and moreover I was the only repeater who got recommended.
DAY 3-4: GTO
It started with 2 GD’s, people performing as I had instructed. Then came the GPE, which also went smoothly, in GD you should try to initiate, but if you can’t, never worry. Just speak normally, put your points 3-4 times, that’s all. Same goes for GPE. In the PGT, be the first one to cross a hurdle when GTO says that 2 of you may cross to the other side, because from there you can work upon better plans. Snake race is just to test your group strength, help your fellow mates as much as you can. Lecturette is easy enough, just speak slow, clear and with confidence, include realistic figures even if you don’t know them, because most of the time the person sitting in front of you won’t.
Command task is performed in a better way if you command your fellows with conviction in your voice, you should sound and act like a commander. Ask your fellows not to speak unless asked by you. GTO isn’t very tough, make a good impression in the GD and GPE only. IO is something that isn’t very important, because my recommended batch mate did only 5, I myself did only 8. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be fit enough, stay fit, it would help you very much.
Interview
The most dreaded thing at the SSB, and which I feel is the most important thing in your recommendation, because the IO would generally be president or deputy president of the board. Prepare PIQ form beforehand, and your SD should be good, but honest. If you know your strength and weaknesses, you are bound to make it. My interview started with this statement or question, whatever you would like to call it, “I got what I wanted to know from your PIQ form, still we’ll talk a little. So Dikshant, you have no time constraint. Tell me something about yourself”.
I started rattling things, about me, parents, hometown and all. I spoke for 5-7 minutes, and in the meantime I told him that sir I represented CAC in inter command quiz competition and we came 3rd .(Brats would understand) At that time my GK was good sir but now a days since I’m in college, I don’t get newspapers, and my college is 40 km out of Jaipur, so I can’t subscribe to periodicals too.
I evaded GK questions this way, but you also don’t try this. Be updated with what’s happening around the world, it helps.
Be calm, composed, keep smiling even if he’s grilling you. Don’t stammer, and look at him while answering. And if you’ve said something, stick to it. Disagree with him, but with respect. “I beg to disagree with you sir, but….”. This can be one of the ways of disagreeing.
Just know yourself, I’m repeating this line, and it won’t harm if you prepare sample questions for interview and cross questions too. It helps, trust me.
D-Day: Conference
You’ll be briefed beforehand how to go in and sit there and all. There would be 14-15 officers there, could be 10 too. Don’t panic, you have to talk to that person only who took your interview.
A hint : If before calling you, a long discussion takes place, either you are recommended or borderline, but yeah, if you are called very quickly, don’t get disheartened. People who are clearly recommended are also called quickly.
In short, nothing can be said about the SSB. You can’t say why you were recommended, or why you weren’t. Just be yourself, be honest, lie only if you can support those lies. Otherwise don’t lie. Any queries, feel free to mail me at [email protected]. I can mail you my PIQ form pics too. I didn’t take any coaching from anywhere, my helping materials were Arihant’s SSB book, www.ssbcrack.com and www.gomilitary.in. Also google and youtube, without which nothing is possible these days. I also took guidance from Retd. Col Prahlad Singh sir, RR. He helped me in filling my PIQ form, and interview tips.
Last thing I would like to say gentlemen, “koshish karne walo ki kabhi haar nhi hoti”.
Many aspirants are asking about CDS 1 Result 2016 and when UPSC.gov.in is going to declared the CDS 1 2016 written test result. UPSC CDS 1 exam result 2016 will be declared by the UPSC in June 2nd Week. Candidates who have taken the CDS 1 2016 written exam can check their CDS 1 Result 2016 on UPSC. In the official website, www.upsc.gov.in candidates can find the CDS 1 Result 2016 PDF file with the roll number of the candidates who have successfully cleared the written exam CDS 1 2016. CDS 1 2016 merit list will be declared by UPSC, Indian Army, Navy and Airforce respectively after CDS 1 2016 ssb interview and medical exams.
CDS 1 Result 2016 will be given on the PDF file separately for IMA, OTA, NA and AFA.
Other Information:
CDS 1 2016 merit list will be declared by UPSC after the completion of the SSB interview. Candidate who clears the SSB interview will find his/her name on this merit list, UPSC merit list will also have candidates who were not able to clear their medical exam, so candidates are advised to check the official websites of army, navy and airforce for the complete merit list and joining instructions.
Once the CDS 1 Result 2016 is out, candidates will be facing SSB interview for army, navy and air force as per their choice and result. CDS 1 2016 will have SSB interviews for SSC 18 and SSC 104 non-tech, IMA 141, 200 Flying course. Candidates can find the SSB interview dates for SSC 18, SSC 1043, IMA 141 and 200 Flying course here on ssbcrack. We will update the ssb dates as and when it comes.
For more details on CDS 1 Result 2016 Visit upsc.gov.in
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Indian army official website www.joinindianarmy.nic.in is being published NCC 38 SSB interview dates for men and women special entry. Candidates who have applied for NCC 38 special entry can find their SSB interview allotted centre and SSB dates. In this blog we are publishing NCC 38 SSB dates women course, all lady candidates who have applied for NCC 38 course can find their ssb dates here.
There are total 5078 men candidates got shortlisted for NCC 38 special entry ssb interview.
Keep an eye on this post for latest update on NCC 38 SSB Dates Men
A Mirage 2000 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force landed successfully on the Agra Yamuna Expressway as part of a trial run on Thursday morning. This trial exercise was to test whether the national highways can be used for emergency landings.
Though time is the most precious commodity for everyone but for defence aspirants it’s the utmost. An officer should know how to manage time and how to plan things. This being a good quality is assessed at many places at SSB. Along with this planning and decision taking capability also becomes handy. All of these qualities are tested in every round of SSB because each and every round is conducted in strict supervision and time limit. The aspirants should thus know how to manage their time well. I have received many queries which prove that the aspirants are not able to manage time well either of their busy schedules with college, friends or their working lifestyle does not allow them to do so.
But still if you will calculate things you will analyse how much time we waste and that can be utilised properly. The people who get success differ mostly in this aspect and nothing else. They actually know how to respect time and plan it to their benefit. The secret is no more a secret so follow the simple tips given below and be your own master.
How to select ones back up option and how to develop personality will be covered in other articles. Still If you have any confusion or feel to take individual assessment of personality for OLQ’s or prepare from your place itself through one to one interaction through my mentoring / counselling program or need personality development assessment drop me a mail at [email protected] or add me on Fb and drop in a message. It would be a pleasure to help and resolve queries and clear doubts which are more often myths that are present in the mind of aspirants. SSB is all about representing yourself so the first phase of preparation should involve knowing yourself well.
In this episode of Jai Hind, Rocky & Mayur have marched into the 125 Helicopter Squadron, also known as Gladiators, which was formed on 01 Nov 83 as the designated squadron for Attack Helicopters also called helicopter gunships. They get to know about how the Gladiators undertake Counter Insurgency operations and Search and Rescue (SAR) operations, and witness how an Attack Helicopter Squadron lays down withering cover fire for ground troops.
Source: NDTV
Indian Navy Recruitment For Executive and Technical Branch THE INDIAN NAVY INVITES ENGINEERS TO JOIN THE INDIAN NAVY AS SHORT SERVICE COMMISSIONED OFFICERS IN EXECUTIVE BRANCH (GENERAL SERVICE/HYDRO CADRE) AND TECHNICAL BRANCH (SUBMARINE) JAN 2016 COURSE. Applicationsareinvitedfromunmarried Male candidates for grantofShort ServiceCommission in Executive Branch (General Services/Hydro Cadre) and Technical Branches (submarine) of the IndianNavy for Jan 2016 Course at Indian Naval Academy (INA) Ezhimala, Kerala. Candidates must fulfill conditions of nationality as laid down by the Government of India. Candidates already applied for the posts in the month of Mar 15 need not to apply again. Duplicate applications are liable to be rejected.
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Hello friends, Its my pleasure to share my SSB experience in depth for all who are willing to be GC’s and LC’s. For sure this is going to help someone or the other and that is the main motive behind writing this. I will cover my eleven days journey in the following order –
– Day 0 – Arrival & Documentation
– Day 1 – Intelligence Test & PPDT
– Day 2 – Psychology Tests
– Day 3 – GTO 1
– Day 4 – GTO 2
– D-Day – Conference
– Medical Examination
As soon as the SSB Centre allocation list was uploaded on Indian Army website, like all the others I was eagerly waiting for the call letter and SMS to find out reporting date.
My college friends and I from the same college got Bangalore as our SSB centre and we were very excited as soon as we got our call letter, next challenge was to book a ticket and get a reserved seat within short period of time. Its was not at all easy. There is no direct train from Jammu to Bangalore. So I decided to go via air and booked a ticket with Indigo Airlines. The air travel is very much exciting, not because we are in the air but due to beautiful air hostess at ur service… heheheheh….
Day 0 – Arrival & Documentation – 05/01/2015
I reached Bangalore on 4 January and went to one of my cousins for a night. I slept till 8-9am and then had break-fast and around 12pm left for the railway station. After waiting for a half-hour or so finally the bus with the ‘SSB Bangalore’ written in front came, we all boarded the bus and within 15 minutes reached the centre.
As soon as we entered the Centre, our eyes were stuck on the chest number with a ‘+’ on them, medical candidates who were going to the mess for lunch and I thought in my mind…SARDAR can you get that…. We got down and kept our luggage in the waiting shed(I am sure this is the only time when all of us will happy take our luggage and keep it in waiting shed), as we were instructed so and made groups according to our roll numbers.
In our group, there were 78 candidates. we were sent to 24 SSB Board, which has a unique color like all boards – Red. After checking the call letters, ustad sent us to the 24SSB living area. We made our self-comfortable, went around looked here and there. Had our evening tea and then made arrangement for next day. We didn’t open our much of our luggage, just took out the necessary thing and kept it like that because next day we had to take it to the most hated place – waiting shed, keep it here & then go to Screening Test.
Day 1 – Intelligence Test & PPDT – 06/01/2015
Some of us woke up as early as 4:30am and started getting ready for the screening test. I got up around 5:00am and found people around me packing and getting ready. Its was quite cold in the morning, we had to report at 6:45am near waiting shed with our luggage after having breakfast by 6:00am. We had tea after finishing everything in the barrack and submitted blanket and bedsheet and checked out of the barrack.
By 7:10am the first test – Intelligence Test(Verbal) began and then second test – Non-Verbal began and got over soon. I found the paper easy and had attempted most of the questions except 4-5 questions. I expected dice question but not even a single dice question was there.
Then our psychologist came and briefed second test – PPDT began and we all wrote our stories, came out of the hall and as usual most of the candidates started asking the theme of their group mates’ story and began discussing each other’s story.. Some of them were trying to memorise their story by repeating it in their mind while walking front and back. That nervousness and fear were visible on everyone’s face.
PPDT Picture – A man with a gun at the left-bottom side of the picture looking at some people working in the field, It appears to me as farmers working in their fields near international border in a village at Jammu and the man is an army officer [That’s what I perceived it.]
After that one by one all the groups went in for the group discussion. Generally the discussion lasted for about 10-15 minutes for each group. We went inside sat on the chairs arranged in a semi-circle form in clockwise order but it was not a semi-circle at all, the chairs were kept in a more of straight line, we had difficulty in seeing each other’s face while addressing the group during discussion. After settling down, one of the four officers(I guess there were two Psychologist and one GTO and one IO) gave us instructions and asked us to start narration. One by one all of us narrated our stories. There were few candidates who couldn’t narrate a complete story in time. Though even I was little nervous but I used one minute properly and finished my narration in time in a calm and cool manner while maintaining the eye contact with my group mates. There were one or two candidates who were addressing the officers instead of the group. ( Always address the group, not the officers.)
As soon as the narration got over, without testing officer’s instruction some of my group-mates suddenly started SHOUTING. We were all amazed. I think he was in a hurry to finish the discussion and wanted to prove himself as a leader. While discussing he literally stopped others from speaking by placing his hand in front of his neighbor candidate’s chest and during the whole discussion he didn’t let those speak who wanted.It was a blunder. Other then him everyone was cooperative, we had a healthy discussion and decided to go with the combined theme of border vigilance + saving people from the flood, but we couldn’t come to a common story.
After all the group finished the discussion, we were asked to wait near 24 SSB Conference hall. After waiting for three hours or so, somewhere around 1:30pm results came. Only 24 candidates out of 78 were screened in. I was happy as well as sad. Sad because two of my friend got screened out.
Later on, we filled the PIQ forms and TA(traveling allowance) documents and submitted. Our CHM sir told us that interview will start from next day. So after filling forms, 5:30pm onwards we were completely free. We took our luggage, went to our living area, kept our luggage and then went to the canteen to eat because no lunch was provided to us that day.
After having dinner at 9:00pm, I slept.
Day 2 – Psychology Tests – 07/01/2015
It was 7:00am, after having breakfast all the lucky candidates gathered near Hall for psychology test. We all stood in line and then we were divided into 3 groups – one each for freshers, screened-out and repeaters. After settling into the hall, we went outside and had a group photograph. Soon after photograph test started.
TAT – I got sufficient time for writing all the stories and relax for 30sec. I found TAT easy. I wrote 3-4 stories on Army, 3 on adventure, 2 on organizing fest & picnic and the last one was based on personal life experience, but out of 12 stories 9 were directly linked to my life.
WAT – This test was mind blowing, during this test I had little problem in managing time because words were coming and going within fraction of seconds. But somehow I managed to attend all 58 out of 60 words. For every word I gave positive/neutral response. For two words I wrote… don’t know the meaning…..
SRT – I answered 36 SRTs in the given time, as far as I know all were positive response. I was satisfied with my performance but could have done better then that. I did not leave any situation blank in between. (Note: If you leave a situation in between its shows that you are running away from the problem. So always avoid skipping SRTs in between.)
SD – I had prepared my SD well in advance. I wrote all the five para’s (about myself, parents, teachers, friends and strength & weakness.) in time. I didn’t use any fancy words like hardwork, sincere, faithful, courageous, disciplined.. nothing like that. It was quite simple – in all the para’s I wrote 4 good qualities and 1 bad quality. All of us know – we are not perfect, all of us have some negative points. I suggest you that don’t hide your bad qualities. Present them in a good way.I was feeling very light after psychology test got over because I think I did well. Later that day some of us had interview and rest of us enjoyed moving in streets of Bangalore.
Day 3 – G.T.O 1 – 08/01/2015
Woke up early morning at 4:30am, the normal tap water was cold. Thanks to the hot water facility, took bath. Everyday by 5:30am bed tea use to come, after drinking that and arranging our bed, all of us went to eat breakfast at 6:30am and then to GTO ground by 6:55am. We were all lined up in different places, each group had different GTO. Our GTO was a very young officer. He was looking smart. In my group some of the guys were very cooperative.
GD – We were free to choose a topic from the given choice by GTO. We had a healthy discussion. I spoke for 3-4 times, allowed others to put forward there points. The second GD also went in a similar way like the 1st GD.
GPE – Second task in GTO was GPE, because of cold weather our hands freezed. I was very disappointed with the group as we couldn’t come to a common solution to the given problems. People had their own egos. No one was ready to listen to others. I started the discussion & gave some points but I think I could have done better, if the group had been more cooperative in GPE. Even the person who gave conclusion, he spoke just what he wanted – didn’t consider others’ solution at all and he was so slow that he couldn’t tell the final plan to GTO.
PGT – As usual four obstacles were given, till now we couldn’t create that bond between ourself. So we had problem in crossing the obstacle. Everyone was giving their own idea and those who had the helping material didn’t listen to others. They were just trying to apply their ideas. People were literally shouting on each other. In first task i gave ideas and we crossed it easily. In second obstacle it was hard because everyone was trying to go in a different way, so I took the plank and showed the way. After somehow crossing second one, third obstacle was not that hard, but as most of the workable ideas were given by me, GTO wanted to see what the others have in their mind, so while I was negotiating third PGT, he asked other group members that anybody who want to do this task plz come forward.. at that time I saw that there is only place for three people to stand there… so I quietly left that spot for the new guy and went to the starting line. We crossed it and . So in this task we only completed 3 out of 4 obstacles. I was happy with what happened in PGT.
SNAKE RACE – Our war cry was – “Chak De”… all of us were helping each other, during whole race I was shouting.. Shouting.. Shouting.. and made sure that minimum three person are holding the snake as I was either in front or in the end. We won!!(but the fact is each group’s GTO tells them that they won, so everyone is a winner in the end :P). Everyone was happy and appreciated each others efforts. It was overall good.
LECTURETTE – This was a one of the best tasks. I am used to perform theater, debates in college so its wasn’t hard at all. Initially everyone had to introduce them-self – Name, where are you from, what you doing/pursuing, about your hobbies in 30-40 Sec. I performed quite well. Topics were very easy, I spoke on 1st topic and within around 2min 50sec I concluded my lecture.
HGT – Before starting the task our GTO asked us – How we wanted the groups to be divided? So some of us told 50%-50%, some told odd-even, some told first 5 and last five. So GTO divided the sub group into 50-50. I was very happy with my new group, it was the best group. Before going to task itself we decided that we will not run after helping material and first we will take few minutes to make a plan and then go ahead. As we reached near our obstacle, GTO explained the rules and showed us the obstacle. The obstacle looked hard but it wasn’t. We started discussing, no one got any ideas as to how to approach but I got idea and explained it to the group, they agreed and within 3minutes or maybe less than that we finished the task with everyone’s help. There was very little resistance from the group about following my ideas, as they were workable. It was really a superb task.
INDIVIDUAL TASK – on our first day of GTO this was the last task,we were sitting in semi-circle. I was the last person to go. Before starting itself GTO briefed us about obstacles and rules. We were given 30 seconds to organise/make a plan for ourself. All of us went around and decided the best suitable sequence in which we will be doing the obstacles. Once again we settled down on our chairs. There were ten obstacles – Tiger leap, Burma bridge, Double ditch, Commando walk, Tarzan swing, Screen jump, Balancing beam(Zig-zag), Double platform jump, Double barrel jump and Single ramp. When my turn came, I tightened my shoe lace and on whistle I started with balancing beam, tiger leap, single ramp, screen jump, commando walk, Burma bridge, double platform jump.In total I did 7 obstacles only. After finishing the obstacles, I ran towards the waiting shed. I was completely breathless and my thighs gave up, I did little warm down exercise and took long breaths. That is where it ended. Now all of us did what we could, next thing we were thinking about what the three assessors will do. In-spite of all that, we planned to once again decided to visit the city. We visited Garuda mall, Vishveswariya Museum, and few other places. It was fun, we enjoyed our day and came back to the center. After having our dinner we all went to bed.
Day 4 – G.T.O 2 – 09/01/2015
I woke up at 5:00am, took bath. We all went to mess had breakfast, as usual bread and butter. Today it was bit cold. By 7:00am we were in the GTO ground. We waited for a long time and then GTO arrived, briefed us about the various task we were going to do today.
COMMAND TASK – We all sat in the waiting shed near GTO ground, we were called randomly by GTO. My group-mates called me four times as a subordinate during the whole task. When I went as a subordinate, I kept quite and followed what the commander said – In one case I knew that I will fall if I go forward but still I did because the commander asked me to. But GTO interrupted and asked the commander – “if anything was wrong with the idea”, so he said – “it was unstable”. When my turn came, initially GTO asked me few questions relating to my family background, hobbies etc. the obstacle had three paths from start line to finish line, GTO asked me to call your subordinates (I thought in my mind that each commander called most of us except chest no 9, he was a bit heavy guy and that must be the reason no one called him ,, but in my mind I thought that if it is my team then everyone should get the chance.. so I called chest no 9 and 14). As soon as my subordinates came I addressed them as a commander,(Hello friends I m your commander for this task, are you ready to help me…. Then I shake hands with them and told them to start helping me). I negotiated the structure within 3 mintues, then GTO said that okay commander the structure on which you were moving damaged now what will you do? I said I can use other structure nearby… then GTO said go to the start line again and use another structure… as I was negotiating the second structure.. GTO turned many things in red and blue, but still I was able to come out of it with my ideas. At last point as I was going to cross final line GTO said that okay commander as you were going to cross final line you came to know that there are landmines between you and your final line and you are left with only 30 seconds move fast . I quickly made a bridge and at this GTO interrupted me and said,” how you can make bridge over landmines, I said, sir landmines are under the ground not above it, I can make a bridge over them without touching that area.. he was convinced and said okay move out only 10seconds left.. I told my subordinates to move out first.. GTO again stopped me and said what are you doing.. I told you there are 10seconds left and you are making your men to move out… then I said , sir I m their commander it is my responsibility to take them out safely and at last I will come… he was happy and said well done commander.
FGT – By now our group was completely united and had mutual understanding. Through out the task I was in front, exchanging ideas and applying them. When two of us reached in middle of the task GTO asked me what was my plan. I told him my plan, he said – “Its workable, your task is complete. Keep the material and go.”
INTERVIEW – As soon as GTO task for day 2 was over, I had to report for my interview. I went to the 24 SSB Board where my interview was going to be held. One person was already inside the interviewer’s office.I waited in the room across the corridor. I sat there relaxed, took deep breaths, kicked everything out of my mind and was reading a magazine which was lying there on table. There was one another candidate (atul nalage) we started taking with each other and asked rapid fire questions to each other.I told myself that I am going to meet my friend and not a interviewer. My interview went on for 25-30 minutes. It was very good(90% on my PIQ and 10% on GK).
D-Day – Conference – 10/01/2015
Finally the day came, which all of us awaited eagerly. Previous day itself we were briefed about all the procedure of going in, coming out and saw the conference room also. Once again we packed our luggage and kept it in the waiting shed. Soon after that, somewhere around 9:30am conference started. When the first bell rang, it was scary.. I was little nervous & in a dilemma as to what is going to happen inside. While waiting I stopped thinking all that, took few deep breaths which helped me relax. The person before me came out within 5-10sec. Once again bell rang, I stood up, walked with all the confidence I had, pulled the door and went inside. Two officer’s were sitting in front. I stood in front of chair, wished good afternoon. I was asked to sit down. I thanked and sat.
These are the various question(with my reply) I was asked during my conference –
Q1. Tell me about your experience of 5 days here?
Ans. Sir it was very good , I enjoyed the testing process a lot.
Officer –“Tell us in detail..”
jaspal – sir GTO’s were good.
Officer – “GTO’s were good or GTO tasks were good( and everybody started laughing)?”
jaspal– “(with a smile on my face I said sir, both GTO tasks and GTO’s were good).”
Q2. Tell me in detail about the tasks you enjoyed most?
Ans. I said sir, snake race, command task, PGT HGT and lecturette were best.
Officer – “where you think you could have done better ?”
jaspal– “I could have done better in GPE. It wasn’t that good, though I gave some solutions, the group was not able to discuss all the problems properly. I wanted to give more ideas but couldn’t.”
Officer – “Why were you not able to give the ideas, was there something wrong with the group or something else stopped you?”
jaspal– “The whole group was discussing the problems very actively. So, I didn’t want to disturb the group that’s why I didn’t give more ideas.”
Q3. If I tell you to chose a best candidate from your team, whom you will chose?
Ans. I said, sorry sir I cant do that.. GTO is a team effort and each member play an important role… so as far as my group is concerned everybody was best.. it was a great team.
Q4. No no you have to name somebody who performed best among you( don’t worry we don’t tell anybody that you told his name)?
Ans. I again said sorry sir I cant do that.
Q5. He said why you cant do that?
Ans. I said Sir, board is the better judge.. it is the board, who will decide who is better or not… for me my team members were best…
Officer –(with a smile on his face), he said … good gentleman.. how was your stay and any suggestion.. “”.
jaspal– “I said no sir everything was fine… he said thank you jaspal (I said thank you and came out..)”.
During the whole conference there was a smile on my face. As far as I know it went on for approximately 3 minutes only. Before I went inside the conference room, assessors took 3-5 minutes. After coming out I was feeling very light. During conference I wasn’t asked much questions, no SRT’s.. So I got little idea as to what is going to be the result. After everyone’s conference was over, which took a lot of time. Everyone one was dying to hear the result. We were sitting in Hall, after waiting for a long time.. finally one officer came. He told us not to loose heart if some of us don’t make it and many other things to motivate us. At last he told that out of 24, only 4 candidates got selected. He started announcing chest numbers… and asked the selected candidates to come and stand in front.. First number announced..(he was atul kumar chest no 6).. second number announced..(the guy with whom I had rapid fire round at waiting room chest no 8).. third number announced..( Yes!! It was me.. CHEST NO 16)).. Next and final chest number announced..(he was mk ganesh chest no 20..)
While I was walking towards front, my mind completely went blank, my heart was filled with so much emotions that I felt like crying and shouting.. but I controlled myself. We all congratulated each others silently, rest of the candidates left the hall. Officer congratulated us and briefed us about the further proceedings… received our new(medical) chest numbers. It was completely a different feeling to wear that chest number with a ‘+’ mark on it. Even though I said so much about those last moments, but still I am not completely able to express that feeling.. of getting selected. You have to feel it yourself. After getting the medical chest number we were not even given few minutes to speak to say goodbye to rest of the buddies who couldn’t make it this time and inform our loved one. We were asked to keep our luggage in new medical candidate line and report back with our documents and then it started… filling up of forms.. OMG!! So many forms.. so many… Somehow all four of us filled the form. We were briefed about our medicals which will start next day.
Later while having dinner, all of us were looking at each other in amazement.. as to how this happened..” We all kept wondering.. Came back to our barracks and slept off by 10:00pm after chatting for a long time..
Medical Examination – 10 to 16/01/2015
We had to go for medical at 8:30am, so I woke up late. It was 8:00am but the weather outside was telling something else only.. As I looked out of the window, I saw nothing.. just fog.. more fog.. everywhere.. visibility was less than 8 meters. After getting ready we went to the Command Hospital Air Force..
Our medical was conducted in this order over next 4/5 days –
Day 1 – Blood test, Urine test, Chest x-ray, Ultrasound..
Day 2 – Ear, Nose & Tongue(ENT), Eye
Day 3 – Surgical
Day 4 – Eye, Dental
Day 5 – General Medical(Height, weight, blood pressure, heart beat) & Medical Conference
Once medical conference got over( declared medically Fit) we were free to go home. So, in the evening we said goodbye to SSB Selection Center, Bangalore and back to home.
