SSB Interview Selection Procedures

Here we can cheack complete SSB Interview Procedure. There are basically two vital stages of this whole process of coaching for SSB

STAGE-I Testing

Screening

STAGE II Testing

Psychology
GTO
Personal Interview
Conference

STAGE-I Testing

1. SCREENING

Screening is the preliminary stage for filtering out the potential candidates from all the candidates who have applied for the SSB. In screening, the selection is done on the basis of following two tests.

a. Verbal and Non-Verbal Test
b. Picture Perception and Discussion Test (PPDT)

The next stages are regarded by Centurion Defence Academy as MANASA-VAACHA-KARMANA. These are three Sanskrit words which refer to MIND-SPEECH-ACTION. It is on the basis of these three virtues that the candidates participating in the SSB examination are judged and selected as Officers.

STAGE-II Testing

2. PSYCHOLOGY (Mansa)

After the list of candidates who have cleared the Stage I is out, the second stage begins. This stage involves Psychology four tests to check the psychological suitability of the candidate as an officer.

The Psychology tests, as stated earlier, comprises for four main sections:

i. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
ii. Word Association Test (WAT)
iii. Situation Reaction Test (SRT)
iv. Self Description Test (SD)

3. GTO (VAACHA):

After the restless exercise of Psychological testing in Stage-II, the candidates are given series of outdoor tasks. Group Testing Officer (GTO) conducts this stage of selection process.
There are a total of nine tasks on basis of which the candidates are to be selected.

i. Group Discussion (GD
ii. GPE or MPE (group/military planning exercise)
ii. Progressive group task (PGT)
iv. Snake Race/Group Obstacle Race
v. Individual Lecturette (IO)
vi. Half Group Task (HGT)
vii. Individual Obstacles
viii. Command task:
ix. Final Group Task (FGT)

4. Personal Interview (Karmana):

After a long voyage of the selection process comprising of various tasks and activities, the candidates move on to a stage of paramount significance.
The Personal Interview (PI) can be entitled as a purposeful conversation between the candidate and the Interviewing officers for about 50 to 60 minutes. The primary purpose of the whole PI process is to particularly check for Officer like Qualities (OLQs) in the candidate appearing for the SSB examination.

5. Conference in SSB

The conference in the SSB interview happens on the last day of testing. Here, all the assessors, like the president and deputy president, come together to decide on the candidates’ results. They discuss whether a candidate should be recommended or not. This meeting involves the Interviewing Officer (IO), Psychologist, and Group Testing Officer (GTO). The length of the conference depends on how well a candidate has performed. Short meetings usually mean clear decisions, while longer ones usually involve candidates who are on the edge.

Candidates can’t do much during this time, except be careful with what they say. One by one all candidates are called and the assessors ask some questions to them, the questions are usually simple like how they performed during the last 5 days, how was their stay, and any suggestions they would like to give. Sometimes, there might be some tricky and hard questions and it varies from one candidate to another. After this process, the names of the recommended candidates are announced, and those whose names are not announced among the recommended ones are called conferenced out.

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