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10 Amazing Facts About Indian Navy

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Tashi Mishra
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Indian Navy is the fifth largest Navy in the world. The Ezhimala Naval Academy in Kerala is the largest of its kind in Asia. The Indian Navy can trace its lineage back to the 17th-century East India Company’s Marine; it was succeeded by the Royal Indian Navy, which was renamed in 1950 after India became a republic. The 17th-century Maratha emperor Chhatrapati Shivaji Bhosle is considered as the ‘Father of the Indian Navy’. Here are some facts related to Indian Navy:

10 Facts about Indian Navy

  1. British east India company established their navy East India Company’s Marine in 1612 which later became Royal Indian Navy. After the independence of India on 26 January 1950, Royal Indian Navy became Indian Navy. Indian Navy’s first operation was against the Portuguese Navy during the liberation of Goa in 1961.
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  2. Chief of Naval Staff is the head of Indian Navy. Other principle staff officers are- Vice Chief of Naval Staff, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff,Chief of Personnel, Chief of Material, Controller of Logistics Support. Indian Navy’s headquarter is located in New Delhi.
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  3. Indian navy’s first aircraft carrier is INS Vikrant and the largest aircraft carrier of Indian Navy is INS Viraat. All the service ships of Indian navy is prefixed with INS which means  Indian Naval Ship or Indian Navy Station.
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  4. The Ezhimala Naval Academy in Kerala is the largest of its kind in Asia.
  5. Sagar Pawan is the aerobatic demonstration team of the Indian Navy. It is one of the only two naval aerobatic teams in the world, the other being the Blue Angels of the US Navy. The team uses 4 HJT-16 Kiran Mk.2 trainer aircrafts, and the colour scheme used by the aircraft is dark blue on white.
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  6. The Sagar Prahari Bal (SPB) is a unit of the Indian Navy which is responsible for patrolling India’s coastal waters. It was formed in March 2009 after Mumbai attacks.
  7. The Indian Navy has a number of bases and some of these bases are located in Mumbai, Kochi, Visakhapatnam, Goa, Chennai, Pune, Coimbatore, Chilka and Port Blair. The Naval Headquarters is in New Delhi.
  8. Indian Navy has three commands: Eastern Command in Vishakhapatnam, Western Command in Mumbai and Southern Command in Cochin. Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief is the head of each command center
  9. MARCOS or Marine Commandos are the special force of Indian Navy. They are said to be ‘the few, the fearless’. They are the most feared soldiers in the enemies. They are the most efficient special force.
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  10. The Indian Navy fought one of the largest naval conflicts since the Second World War.  During the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war, the Indian Navy executed a blockade, carrier aircraft bombing missions and cruise missile strikes against land targets.  Using anti-ship cruise missiles to destroy Pakistani oil tank farms was quite innovative for its time.
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10 Facts About Indian Air Force

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Tashi Mishra
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10 Facts about Indian Air Force

Indian Air Force is the fourth best operational Air Force in the world. It has a total strength of 127,000 active personnel with estimates of around 1,370 aircraft in active service during 2012-2013. From 1948 to the Kargil conflict, the Indian Air Force ( IAF) has always exhibited its winning capabilities. Here are some facts about the Indian Air Force:

10 Facts about Indian Air Force

  1. Indian Air Force  was established on 8 October 1932 as an auxiliary air force of the British Empire. The prefix Royal was added in 1945 in recognition of its services during World War II. After India achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, the Royal Indian Air Force served the Dominion of India, with the prefix “Royal” being dropped when India became a republic in 1950.
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  2. Indian Airforce Currently Operates 3 Beriev A-50 Phalcon AEWC (Airborne early warning and control) aircrafts, around 700 fighters, 7 aerial refueling tanker aircrafts, 133 transport aircrafts, 158 trainer aircrafts, 33 attack helicopters, 156 transport helicopters, 155 utility helicopters, about 200 UAVs.
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  3. The Indian Air Force’s primary air superiority fighter is the Sukhoi Su-30MKI, which is among the most elite fighter jets in the world alongside the Eurofighter Typhoon, Dassault Rafale and USAF’s best F-series of fighters.
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  4. The Indian Air Force has a Special Forces unit known as ‘The Garud Commando Force’ which was formed in 2004. The Counter Insurgency (COIN) Operations and Emergency unit was formed by the IAF in response to terror-threats to airfields by terrorists across the border. Today the Garud Commando Force has nearly 2000 specially trained personnel, who protect critical Air force bases, conduct search and rescue operations, helps disaster reliefs and many more.
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  5. Air Marshal Sir Thomas Walker Elmhirst was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Air Force. He was Air Chief from 15 August 1947 to 21 February 1950. Air Marshal Elmhirst was also instrumental in turning an incomplete air force into a cohesive fighting machine.
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  6. Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon is the only member of the Indian Air Force to have been awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest military decoration.
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  7. Padmavathy Bandopadhyay was the first woman Air Marshal of Indian Air  Force. She was the Director General Medical Services (Air) at the Air  Headquarters.
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  8. The only Marshal of the Air Force, is Arjan Singh.
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  9. In the Kargil War, the IAF rapidly adapted to the air campaign’s unique operational challenges, which included enemy positions at elevations of 14,000 to 18,000 feet, a stark backdrop of rocks and snowthat made for uncommonly difficult visual target acquisition, and a restriction against crossing the Line of Control that forms the border with Pakistan.
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  10. Indian Air Force has replaced the old communication with its own fully secure and reliable network and gigabyte digital information grid using modern tropo-scatter technology, popularly known as AFnet in 2010. The amazing revolution in the field of communication will be followed by the army and navy in future.
    10 Facts about Indian Air Force

5 Silly Mistakes in SSB Interview

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Tashi Mishra
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5 Silly Mistakes in SSB Interview

The best part of following our website is that you can get to know a lot of things even before you have actually faced them. This article will talk about one such thing. The thing which this article will discuss is ‘silly mistakes’. A mistake in itself is very lamenting to look back on, and on top of that if the mistake is a stupid silly mistake, then you are sure to regret it for time immemorial. I hope that the five silly mistakes which I am going to discuss here will help you to not commit them in SSB, thus saving you from the unwanted consequences.

5 Silly Mistakes in SSB Interview

  1. Being too ‘friendly’ in the interview: In the personal interview, the interviewer will make you so comfortable at times, that you’ll feel no hesitation in discussing anything with him. Here is the point from where you start going wrong. Once you become too friendly with the interviewer, you tend to speak things which you shouldn’t speak, and would not have spoken otherwise. So it is always better to maintain a distance, he is the interviewer, don’t fall in the trap. Be very sure of what you are saying, and always be formal with him.
  2. Mistaking aggression for leadership: Candidates feel that if they’ll say something loudly, very loudly for that matter of fact, with too many hand gestures, they’ll become a leader. Or if they’ll push others aside, and bully them so as to come in front in group tasks they’ll be marked as a very good leader. Again this is a very silly mistake. You need to understand the real meaning of leadership. Give your points in a firm, audible voice. There is no point in getting up from your chair in GD, or fighting for the plank and rope in the group tasks.
  3. Focusing on quantity, rather than quality in psychological testing: In the battery of psychological tests, candidates focus more on filling up the sheet rather than writing sensible answers. Now by this I don’t mean that you should leave the stories or words, you must attempt all the stories and maximum words possible. However in SRT, rather than simply filling up the pages, focus on writing sensible things. Also, do not write made up, or mugged up answers, put yourself in the situation and think, and then give your genuine reaction. In self-description also, focus on projecting your qualities rather than writing big paragraphs.
  4. Handwriting: A person’s handwriting says a lot about his/her personality. Aspirants forget that handwriting is important in SSB, they just scribble something in the PIQ form and psychological tests, overwrite or do a lot of cutting. Your handwriting is very important because the psychologist will never talk to you in person, he/she will get to know you only through your hand writing. If you write neatly, with a good pen, it’ll brighten your personality to a great extent.
  5. Getting influenced by others: One major reason of stress and tension during SSB is that the candidates get influenced by other candidates. This is one major problem, which they invite themselves. By just looking at a fellow candidates preparation they start comparing their own to them. They also listen to whatever other candidates say about the tasks, and tend to follow their tips blindly. This shows lack of faith in yourself. This will also bring unnecessary tension and as a result will affect your performance. Have faith in your own preparations and never blindly follow fellow candidates in SSB.

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5 Awesome Tips for Lecturette

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Tashi Mishra
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Lecturette falls into the battery of group tests in SSB. It is basically a three minute talk, given by the candidate, on one of the chosen topics. Three minutes preparation time is also given just before the candidate is expected to deliver the talk. In order to read what lecturette is, please follow the dedicated article on the same on our website. In this article however we’ll be giving you five awesome tips for lecturette, which we hope will help you in this test:

5 Awesome Tips for Lecturette

  1. Read a lot: A key to success in this exercise is reading. Collect the topics which are expected to appear in this test. A major help can be a standard essay book. They generally contain topics of relevance, both for the lecturette and the Group Discussion. Reading will not only improve your knowledge, but also improve your English. So you’ll be able to communicate in a much better way, and express in a much better way. You can get the latest lecturette topics on our website. Reading a newspaper will also help because some topics are from the current affairs section. If you have read something about that topic then only you’ll be able to speak on it for three minutes.
  2. Be loud, but keep the rate of speech slow: If you speak very fast, you’ll finish your content fast. People who speak fast they tend to seek fillers in their speech, as they tend to finish their content fast. If your rate of speech is more than your rate of thinking, you’ll always get stuck in between. Once you are stuck it is difficult to recover. Hence it is advisable to speak slow. Also you must be clearly audible to your audience, for that speak in a loud voice.
  3. Eye Contact:  Eye Contact holds a very important role in effective communication. Imagine somebody telling you something and looking here and there, will you be still interested in what that person is saying? In lecturette too, eye contact is very important. If you lose eye contact, you lose your audience. Eye contact not only helps in communicating better, it also helps in boosting up your confidence. If you are reluctant in contacting directly in the eyes, try looking at people’s forehead.
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  4. Divide your speech: Once you get the topic, and you go aside to prepare it, divide your speech into parts. Your speech must have an introduction to the topic, a body and a conclusion. Make sure you give the conclusion in the last thirty seconds. This way you’ll not run short of content also, and your speech will look very organized.
  5. Think in English: The medium of speech is English in lecturette. However if you get stuck you may speak in hindi, but return to English as soon as possible. Many of the candidates, have an issue in speaking in English, as it is not their first language. To avoid getting stuck, think in English. That means whatever points you are thinking in your mind, think them in English, rather than thinking in your convenient language, then converting it to English. This will improve your English considerably.

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Tips to excel in GD of SSB

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Jayendra Singh
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Tips to excel in GD of SSB

GD is a very common process in any selection process as it is believed that it has the capacity to judge many things at one instance and it can help in testing many candidates simultaneously. But GD’s at SSB are bit different because along with certain qualities they are looking for few competencies that should be present in an aspirant. Also two GD’s are conducted in GTO the very first day and there is also a GD in the screening stage so the importance of it cannot be neglected. I have already written the article on importance of body language and communication in GD, apart from that in this article we will be looking the expectations of the assessors from the aspirants so that that can be practiced and success can be achieved.

Tips to excel in GD of SSB

The following should be practiced:

  • Assessors are more interested in qualities, though the effect of knowledge and data cannot be neglected. So regular reading and practicing can help I n this regard.
  • Logical reasoning and supplementation of it with useful example is liked by all as it helps in strong holding of your point.
  • Confidence has always been the key to success, so see that whatever is presented, it is done with full confidence.
  • There is nothing like that I will always speak for the topic or against it. Please understand the difference between debate, extempore and a GD. Here things are limited to expressing of views only.
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  • Body language is positive creates a altogether different level of awareness towards the other members of the group and they are always interested in listening.
  • Being a god listener is always a sign of a good member of a group.
  • Being a member of group your responsibility is to coordinate with the group and not to create a fish market. Even if others are contributing to create a fish market you have to emerge as a leader to get out of that situation and to facilitate proper discussion.
  • Eye contact should be maintained with the group members only and don’t try to show off by speaking more. Balance the content with the knowledge and coordination.
If GD is properly handled then the selection on the very first day is ensured and the GTO is also recognising your talent as the first impression will be super. Body language in such an exercise is very important and I How to handle fish market would be dealt in a separate article. 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 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 and that can severely degrade the performance.
 
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Important SSB Interview Questions Could Be Asked

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Jayendra Singh
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SSB is interview is a personality assessment tool that needs a altogether different set of preparation. It might have twenty per cent questions related to the latest happenings or related to the technical or related to education. But rest of the interview is related to your personality so beware of preparing in the same mode. It needs of reviewing of your life as a school kid, then a matured college boy/ girl, a responsible son or daughter for the family, and more about your self being. The interview as such needs no preparation from some book but needs a lot of time to introspect your life through a prepared mode of questionnaire. I have seen people struggling for what to prepare and how to prepare. You should know that there should be perfect interference in your personality as you write it on sheets through various rounds and what you actually are. All three rounds designed at SSB are just to test personality traits in the form of qualities that they are looking for.

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So be ready to portray them only as I have heard people ribbing after rejection that they have written good stories with good vocabulary usage or sometimes aspirant claim that they spoke a lot in GD and wrote story filling all the provide pages. Now please understand at this moment that it’s not a English writing exam where how much you write or what words of vocabulary you use would be weighed. It’s a place where resemblance of perfect personality is seemed. Once you start understanding this difference then you are ready for SSB. As far as preparation for PI is considered the following areas can be prepared beforehand:

Important SSB Interview Questions

  • About your family and their member’s study.
  • About you education, town and place of residence
  • Types of friends you have.
  • How you spend time with family members.
  • School life, college life, and relations with teachers..
  • School life, college life, and relations with teachers.
  • Time spent for recreation/games/sports.
  • Spending and saving pattern.
  • Strength and weakness
  • Work done in office, colleagues bonding, relation with boss for working people.

Apart from all these you should be well versed with your personality also, as you are the one who knows best about it. See my other articles for important question on PI and how to clear screening rounds.

Success Mantra for Sure Shot Selection at SSB

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Jayendra Singh
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Success Mantra for Sure Shot Selection at SSB

“There is no hope in the dark I see… but only in the light that reveals it to me!! “ ~~ Unknown. The Service selection board has stringent parameters that test the candidate and declare them fit for the defence services. These selections are purely based on the availability of officer like qualities (OLQ’s) in the candidate and nothing more than that.

Success Mantra for Sure Shot Selection at SSB

Many aspirants who come to join my mentorship program ask me some of the doubts which I would clear now.
  1. English should be good while going to SSB? I would like to say that though English is not the necessary language to speak in and you will be provided with the option of speaking in Hindi, but English being the common language that could be understood by all as people come from all places in India. So in greater interest English should be used when in groups or performing group activities.
  2. I will go without preparation as my friends say that it’s the best way to perform? No doubt that self-introspection is the best thing to prepare and do well in SSB and the person having proper understanding of the process should clearly do it but only when you know what to analyse and what to improve. When everyone now days being proactive prepares well and come, one should not wait till the last moment for preparation. Also one point to remember is that always prefer assessment under the expert who can guide you one to one and take care of your personality individually.
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  3. Psychology and PI are best learn under such situations where your personality is analysed properly and then only the assessment techniques are told as remember, some answer good for a particular persona can be wrong for you depending on the personality types, hence never try to follow the readymade answers in this regard. They might or might not suit your personality.
  4. Don’t wait for the last moment for the admit card or call letter and then start working on your personality. Even if you plan to take help of an assessor you should take well in advance as personality changes take time to happen and if things are done at the end moment the reflections might not be possible.
  5. Learn as to what it needed to be delivered in the tests that would be conducted over you rather than learning the answers as they might not fit your personality. So initially try to understand yourself and if unable to do so take help of experts only to understand what you really are.
  6. Self-introspection is the tool to get sure shot success as it makes you aware about what OLQ you have and what the weak areas are. If proper preparation is started ion time it’s really very easy to improve if proper introspection is done and nothing is missed.
If you have any other myth and want to clarify or still 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 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. Remember SSB is just about revealing your personality truly and I believe this is the easiest job one can do.

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Failing at SSB Interview, Keep Trying

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Jayendra Singh
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Failing at SSB Interview, Keep Trying

SSB is not an ordinary exam that you read some specified books and you can clear it. It clearly needs clear frame of mind, well groomed personality and the specific set of qualities that defence people are looking for. Hence it’s a common myth that people feel sad after not getting selected when they themselves know that they went without preparation or say without right guidance.  Many mentees of mine have been asking me this query that what do they look for and my simple one liner answer is that they only look for 15 OLQ’s so if you have it no one can stop you from becoming officer. The immediate reaction comes that whether these qualities are born with the personality or they can be inculcated. See it’s very clear that not all personalities are alike and some might have but research has shown that majority of people develop qualities after birth and it predominantly is developed based on the environment you live, conditions of life and based on the behaviour of people around you.

So it’s very clear that people don’t fail knowingly at that place.
Wearing uniform and having stars on the shoulder is dream of millions but starts shower their blessing on those who work in right direction. People cry to me that they are not good in academics or sports or they have not done many things in life, so I tell them that what’s the use of crying for the past when you cannot improve it now. I provide regular counselling to people who share their problems with me and I have realised in sessions that the problem is very basic that people don’t find right information and sometimes get deflected in wrong direction. Also people ask for readymade stories and sentences but please be aware that you need to reflect your personality and not someone else personality at SSB. Tjhis has always been a major cause of rejection at SSB.
“The path never moves ahead, it’s the human being that traverses it and reaches the destination”~~Karan Raghav . 

Failing at SSB Interview, Keep Trying
Karan is my friend who said it rightly that you have to trace your path and work in right direction, there might be many path in front of you that will take you in various directions. So even if you fail don’t feel bad and turn that negativity into a positive feeling that you still need to improve a lot and that’s why you could not get recommended. Our officers are great and the selection methods are also foolproof that’s why assessors reject people with flaw. Identify that flaw using self-introspection and work on your personality.
Still If you have any confusion or feel to take individual assessment of personality for olq’s  through various tools or prepare from your place itself through one to one interaction through my mentoring / counselling program drop me a mail at [email protected]or add me on Fb and drop in a message. Recommendation is the outcome of the perfect personality you portray at SSB and nothing more. So be yourself and do well.

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How to Perform Well in RAPID FIRE Rounds of Personal Interview at SSB

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Jayendra Singh
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Interview would be the most important round in any entrance or selection exam where you have to deal with different variety of questions. But interview in our SSB is the easiest test that has been created. You just need to revisit your own life and important events of life. Interview is primarily personality based and you should know the art to drive interview as per your pace. I have been a mentor and a counsellor for defence aspirants from last five years and I can easily see that people are afraid of SSB. I cannot understand why aspirants have this feeling. I accept that Interviews go long for about 30minute to about an hour or even more, the process at SSB if fool proof and it’s a long way of assessment to select the best of the best. But you should be fully prepared and should analyse your personality through self-introspection first. Once you are aware of the fact that you have some OLQ’s and some weak areas start working on them and then only go and attend SSB.

Personality changes cannot be taught in two weeks, first full analysis is done and then personality changes are suggested which takes times. So I would request aspirants to start a bit early and don’t wait for the last moment. The following are few tips to perform well in Rapid fire rounds of PI:

  • For rapid fire you have to be patient enough to hear the interviewer and don’t just rush to answer the questions. Rapid fire rounds test many qualities of the aspirant all together so behave in a proper manner.
  • Once the interviewer stops then start answering. Don’t mistake to cut the interviewer and start answering in between. Also follow the sequence in which the questions are asked.
  • There is always a link and a sequence in which the questions are asked to try to learn and guess that sequence rather than cramming the questions itself, as that might distract you and you will get nervous.
  • In the mocks that I have with my mentee’s I ensure that this is well practiced and every time a new set of interview question is being asked so as to make them ready for all types of situations. Similarly I will request all aspirants to practice well in time.
  • Also there should be proper synch between your personality, psychology , personal interview and GTO for recommendation, then only one personality is projected. Keep this in mind and work accordingly.
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Other categories of interview will be covered in other articles. Still If you have any confusion or you still feel the need 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 drop me a mail at [email protected]or add me on Fb and drop in a message. Don’t believe in myths that you hear from different sources, they can degrade your performance. Work on your personality and clear in one go. Dreams can be converted into reality if right guidance is available. Go and achieve it.

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Success Factors for Story Writing in PPDT

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Jayendra Singh
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PPDT story writing

SSB is in itself a mystery for everyone as people are amazed how one can judge personality simply by making people write stories, sentences or something about their own life or say how can assessors judge personality by making them play small games on the ground. But it’s the reality of that place and that what had been happening from decades. No mistake, no error, this method has only produce many officers that had been serving our country rightly and the exact way it is needed. You are also approaching towards one of the dream job and yes you should be ready to improve your personality.

Many people ask me in query that they were unable to clear screening round, but they performed well. On enquiring I came to know they have been following some readymade material which hindered them from presenting their own personality. Rather, they presented some personality that they are unaware of. This happens with many and people have been doing it unknowingly. They are surrounded by myths and they really don’t know what they are projecting in exam. 
 

Here I provide some information as to what assessors expect in PPDT and how you should go for preparation:
 
  • The best and simple way to start preparation for SSB is to analyse yourself through a powerful technique of self-introspection. Until and unless you don’t know yourself how will you portray that in different forms? There are various tools to do so that facilitate introspection and I have also designed many that I administer during my mentorship program.  I believe that personality of every individual is different and hence I take it one to one. You can also start introspecting yourself to realise what powers you have. I have written many blogs on this site for self-introspection needs, doings etc. You can refer them for further details.
     
     
     
     
  • The result of introspection is your qualities and weak areas. Once you are aware of all this then you know the areas you are supposed to work and the areas that you need to project.
  • Please remember that you should not project yourself as a perfect human being because then you are not made for defence. Perfect people are elite and belong to some other category.
  • Also in PPDT story that projects you, individual narration is altogether more important that the GD. More than half battle is won by doing well till here. Rest portray good performance in GD as mentioned by me in my other articles and it’s really easy to get screen in.

Body language in such an exercise is very important and I would deal it in a separate article. 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 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 of my future leaders who are getting ready to serve my motherland. Believe me SSB is not an exam where cramming, concepts, and material wins, here representing you in appropriate style provides winning moment. Get ready for that!

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