Is SSB Allahabad a Rejection Board?
Selection Center East (SCE) is located
in Allahabad and consists of five service selection boards 11 SSB, 14
SSB, 18 SSB, 19 SSB and 34 SSB, which are all the selection boards of IndianArmy. This is, by far the biggest Selection board of Indian Army. In case of
NDA and CDSE the candidates who give their first priority as Army might be
asked to report to this Selection Center. In case of special entry schemes,
technical entry schemes and direct entry schemes of Indian Army, candidates
might be called to this selection board for the interview. As this is a very
large selection center, so there are a lot of candidates reporting here. There
is a general myth among the candidates that this selection board is a rejection
board. While some others say that this board is a rejection board. Let us look
into further details of this point:
1.
Since
this is a very large selection center, where there are five boards under it, so
the number of candidates reporting is high naturally. This speaks volumes about
the large number of rejections that happen here. Since the number of rejection
that happen in SSB is directly proportional to the number of candidates
reporting so it is self-explanatory.
2.
There
is no term like rejection board. The Selection boards work on a set procedure.
They’ll take all the candidates if they have OLQ’s and reject all if they don’t
have. So SSB is a game of OLQ’s and not numbers.
3.
The
Board consists of officers who are responsible for the selection. There is a
set procedure of transfers on which the forces work.. no officer can remain at
the same board for indefinite period of time. He/she is bound to get a
transfer. Since officers are the people who make a selection board and they are
the functional units behind the working of a selection board so it again
explains why a board can’t be all the same throughout many years.
4.
If
it would have been a rejection board then there will be no selections
happening. But certainly this is not the case. There are candidates who get
selected from this selection center also.
5.
There
is no concept of a hard board. All the boards are the same. As mentioned above,
they select candidates based on their performance in certain tests; these tests
are common for all the boards. The standards which a candidate should qualify
to are also common. So this clearly tells that all the boards work on the same
kind of principle.
To draw a conclusion I would say that of course this board is not a rejection board. I have seen people who have been rejected by a lot other boards, but get recommended through Allahabad board. So the selection depends on your efforts, introspection and hard work, and definitely not on the board. They are sitting there to select officers; forces are already running short of officers. You need to meet the standards to get through.
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