SSB Interview Psychological Test Guide - SSB Psycology
SSB Interview Psychological Test Guide Self –Evaluation
Like the psychologist, IO is concerned with ‘how much do you know about yourself’ (recall SD). However, his techniques and concerns may be having a shade of different.
Through direct and indirect questions, the IO will extract information regarding your self-knowledge, strengths, and weakness. Some example question in this regard is-
- What do you like to do most?
- What do you not like to do at all?
- What has been your most happy (or sad) moment of life?
- What you could count as the ‘three mistakes of your life’?
- How do you feel when someone accuses you for a thing you have not done?
- What job you are best at?
- Do you feel that you are social person?
- How important is the opinion of your friends in choice of career?
- Do you think you have some weaknesses also?
- What improvements do you like to make for a change in your personality? What are you doing to get rid of your weaknesses?
Do you think that you are an all-rounder or a successful person? If not then what has held your success back from you?
What Are Your Options If Not Selected - The IO might ask your options if not selected at SSBs. Many candidates find this question tricky. If the candidate is fresh, he generally replies to make further attempts in the future. But to a candidate who has exhausted 3-5 chances, the answer does not so easy.
There is no point in suggesting an answer for you. All I can suggest that every attempt at SSB must end in a self-introspection or self-evaluation. You must compare your own personality with those who have been recommended. It is difficult but a superficial comparison like their expression, logic, knowledge, and general awareness can easily be made. At the same time, recall the questions during the interview that you could not answer. Or in the GT series, evaluate your performance in GDs, GPE, CT, and lecturette. Also, reflect on how many words or situations in SRT could you attempt. You might get some idea about your own performance.
Take it, there should come a time when your expectations and future planning must be realistic.
Pl, remember, at SSBs the assessors’ impression and not anything else decides your fate. There is a play of providence also. You can expect questions in many forms. Contents may be simple, direct, or quite complex. Especially complex are questions in which the situational difficulty is combined with social conflicts- consider the following examples-
- You find that your college-going younger brother depressed and irregular in his studies. When you asked him the reasons- he threatens to run away from home/commit suicide.
- A professor of your college is openly favoring a student who happens to be the son of a local politician. When some students tried to raise a protest, the professors complained to the Principal.
- In your college, you find a boy lonely and without friends. No one wants to be his friend because he happens to be the son of a hardened criminal.
Especially significant are the situations wherein your values and dynamism are being examined. Consider the following situations-
- Your father wants you to get married to for the sole consideration of dowry.
- While going for exercise to a gym, you notice three goons teasing a girl. When you intervene, they start beating you.
- You have got a job with great difficulty to support your family. Your boss is pressurizing you to ask for bribes from the public for their jobs.
- You want to have a personal meeting with your CEO for giving important suggestions regarding the marketing strategy. However, your immediate supervisor is not allowing you to contact the CEO.
- You find that your parents are harassing your sister-in-law for dowry.
- Your very close friend has been taken into police custody on suspicion of aiding terrorists.
We learn the skills of conflict resolution during our long process of socialization. The mantra of conflict resolution is reconciliation. You have to keep the people happy, especially elders by tolerance, being accommodative, and by the spirit of self-sacrifice. Let’s give our elders a little sacrificing our own interests. However, many a time it’s just not the clash of only likes and dislikes. Sometimes we land up in a situation of clash of values.
The situation for example is – You are in love with a well-educated girl whereas your father has fixed your marriage with an uneducated girl from a wealthy family expecting a fat dowry.
Comment- The above situation might appear a clash of choice of father and son. Actually, this is not. The real clash is that of education and wealth. Father is a person of the previous generation. He has not fallen in love. Father is negotiating the marriage as per his priorities and values.
The boy in love has to take a stand here. He cannot take the shelter of the value of ‘obedience and duty to father’. If he has committed love to an educated girl, it is his duty to see that her dignity and self-respect are protected against all odds.
Now, what are the options available to the boy? The first option here is to ‘educate the father’ or convince the father about the long term gains of education and dignity of a girl. If the father is not convinced or not yielding, he must take a stand and establish an example of being liberated and progressive.
You will be put in many such situations by the IO in almost all fields (intellectual, social, leadership, and dynamic).
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