Is SSB is so Hard?
ServiceSelection Board interviews are a six day process, in which your
personality is monitored and matched with the suitability of joining the
forces. If you are suitable you are recommended otherwise not. We tend to hear
different theories about this interview from different sources. People getting
recommended have different opinions, and those not getting recommended have yet
another opinion. I am sure that before going for SSB you try to collect as much
of information regarding it as possible. And thus you hear different versions
of SSB stories from different sources. Here we will focus on understanding how
difficult SSB interview is? To begin with, SSB is not a normal job interview where
you have to study your head off in order to crack it. SSB is different. It
hardly checks your knowledge; it just checks your suitability for the forces.
This suitability is not entirely based on your knowledge. You can thus say that
SSB is a multidimensional interview. It checks your entire personality.
Secondly SSB is not the basis of judging you, whether you
are good for doing something in your life or not, it just checks your
suitability for the forces. Even if you don’t crack SSB, you can still do very
well in other fields. The entire selection procedure of SSB is based on the 15
Officer Like Qualities, which a candidate must possess in order to be suitable
for the forces. You can check these qualities in articles present on our
website. In SSB interview your personality is in continuous supervision. Each
aspect is observed minutely and closely. You can take an idea from the fact
that you are checked in every aspect. You are checked for the basic aptitude of
an officer in the screening tests, you are checked for your thoughts in the
psychological testing. You are checked for your physical fitness and group
behavior in the Ground Tests. You are checked individually in the interview
with the Interviewing Officer. The people in the board are very experienced and
efficient bunch of people. They can easily catch you if you are lying.
All the tests
in SSB are meant to test you under pressure. This is because in real life
situation, an officer has to perform judiciously and efficiently under
pressure, so a candidate must give positive response under pressure. The
constraint of time is applied in the testing and most of the tests are designed
in such a way that they get difficult with time. The level of difficulty is not
much. If you look closely you will realize that SSB is more about logic and
positive attitude than intelligence. Of course the basic intelligence needs to
be there. The reason why you are told to be honest all the time in SSB is
because if you lie and get selected somehow, then you might suffer a lot in
training and in service because your personality is not meant for it.
To conclude I would like to say that SSB is not difficult, it is rather tricky. You are expected to be genuine all the time. Being logical and practical is more important in SSB than being intelligent. You can check the articles on OLQ’s to understand what they are. SSB is six days of learning; you get to learn a lot about yourself and your strengths. It is not difficult, it is just about doing the right thing at the right time.
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