How to prepare for Psychological process on Day 2 for SSB. SSB Tips for Day 2.

Day – 2 Psychological process

In this part, I am going to tell you about the psychological preparation.

The psychology process are conducted on the second day of the selection process.
The types of tests conducted are
i)  TAT – Thematic Appreciation Test.
ii)  WAT – Word Association Test.
iii)  SRT – Situation Reaction Test.
iii)  SD   -  Self Description Test

The psychological process are the important one, as the psychologist gives a map representation of the candidate character/attitude/qualities.  In the remaining days, they check whether the information shown by the candidate in the psychological  process  is true through various  process  such as PI and group tasks.  If we have OLQ and if we shown your OLQ in our psychological process, then the GTO, IO tries to look out those OLQ by raising questions and during the performance of the candidate in the ground tasks.
So the preparation for Psychological  process  is important.

Preparation for TAT – Thematic Appreciation Test:-

TAT is the first process of the psychological day2. 

TAT is a projection of our thoughts/imaginations, that a picture is shown to the candidate by a projector and the candidate are asked to write down a story that comes to their mind. 

In this it is not necessary to note down the age, sex, mood etc like as PPDT .  But the TAT story should consist of a hero of same age and sex and a story with a positive ending.  Like this we have to write 11 stories for various slides of pictures while the last one is the empty slide.

Example of how to write the story for TAT as follows:-

     To practice naturally, I prefer to practice the same method like PPDT preparation.  But a little change is in this stories, no need to mention the age, sex, character and mood.
     Take a pen and notebook and a wrist watch.  Sit in a place such as balcony of your home or your friends home, play ground, stadium, class rooms, library, etc. (where situation is pleasant, peaceful, good for you and comfortable) where you can see a group of crowded people doing different works.  In that note down the persons who are similar to your age and doing various work, jobs.  By noting down their character, moods start to write the story within 3 minutes.  Then analyze your story by self that
i) Whether the story is positive.
ii)  Whether the hero chosen by you is same age and sex of you
iii) Whether the story has three parts such as past, present and future.
iv)  Whether the story has a problem (hero is not the cause for the problem) and at the end check whether the hero solves the problem.
v) Whether the story is acceptable and natural.

The pictures shown to the candidates are of various real life situations.  So we have to choose the hero of the same age and sex.  If there is no hero or central character in the story then create a central character of the same age and sex.

Important points for TAT:-

i) Story represents personalities of individuals and their experience.
ii) Write the stories from your experience i.e. try maximum to write stories within your experience of age.  (It portrays that you are showing your qualities, experience which is happened in your real life)
iii) The story written by a candidate in TAT shows what motivates a person, Advertisement, power, other people etc.
iv) Try to write stories by embedding points with PIQ. (This portrays that you are showing your OLQ – Officer like Qualities).
v) E.g.:- If you write your favorite sport as foot ball in PIQ, also in TAT if you find a picture showing a group of boys are talking in playground, then you may write story as a person leading a foot ball team towards victory. Got it friends.

Preparation for WAT:-

     WAT – Word Association Test is the second process on day 2 of psychology.  In this series of 60 words are shown to the candidates with a time limit of 15 seconds for each word.

      The candidates are ordered to write sentences which come first after seeing that word in their mind.  The aim of this is to gauge the candidate’s responses toward various positive and negative words.
     Such that if a candidate is good in his thought and character from his child hood, then he may have good formulation of words in his mind.  In case if a candidate is brought up in a situation of negative thoughts and environments then he used to respond negatively to situations.  To find this WA is conducted.
To achieve success in WAT,  it needs a hard preparation.
Expectations from psychologist towards WAT

The psychologist expects that
i) The sentences responded by the candidate should be positive one.
ii) The sentences should match with the PIQ of the candidate.
iii)The candidate should never show any negative character such as anger, fear, selfishness etc.
iv) The candidate should show their patriotism, team spirit, and aim in life etc.
v)In precise they should show their knowledge towards each word.

E.g.:-
    For the word,  Brave – Most candidates used to write as “Bravery is the sign of army”
Or “Brave people are great” or “I am a brave boy”.
Note: - Don’t form sentences by using the words, I am, me etc.  Don’t show your quality by self.  You should show your quality by your responses of the sentence of by your reaction towards a particular situation.
Also don’t use words such as should, could, would or writing in future sentence.
Write in past tense only.

     The best response is “Param vir chakra is given for the award of bravery”. This sentence shows his knowledge over the word and no negative sentence in this.  So try to practice like this friend.

How to get words to prepare:-

You can get words while reading news paper, hearing news channels and listening autobiography in discovery channel etc.
In news paper, if you read news related to nuclear agreement, then try to formulate sentence by your mind such as “Nuclear reactor used for production of electricity”.
Like this prepare with more words in the environment with in short span of time. i.e. 15 seconds.

Practicing words related to character and emotions:-

These are the words which show our character clearly to the psychologist.  Also they give preference to these words to see our psychology.
E.g.:- Anger, Fear, Cry, Smile etc

Anger – Meditation overcomes anger
Fear    - Proper practice and determinates eliminates fear.
Like this the negative words should be approached with positive frame of mind.
{‘-‘ x ’ –‘= ‘+’}.  This is the key.

What is Situation Reaction Test ?:-

SRT  is the third process on the day 2 of psychology.  In this session 60 situations are given to the candidate where the time given is only 30 minutes.  So the candidate should be speed in his decision and writing. 
Expectation from the Psychologist over SRT:-
i) They want the response should be natural and honest.
ii) The reaction should be able to done by a young youth.
iii) A candidate should be able to win the entire situation.
iv)A candidate should never switches from one situation to next (Answering from 6th question to 8th question by leaving the 7th.  This shows that he is not able to answer that type of situation.)
v) Common sense from the candidate.
vi) The candidate should not like a super man.
vii)The candidate should not fight for silly and every situations.  But he should be able to tackle all the difficult situations intelligently to get success.

Preparation for SRT:-
The preparation needs basic common sense.  While reading news paper, you may read news that “huts get fire, so many people injured” like this.  If you read a situation like this, then put yourself in those situation and think how you will.

E.g.:- i) I will call the ambulance and fire service.
          ii) I will arrange group of persons from surroundings and engage myself in extinguishing fire.
NOTE:- Your reaction should be in two to three lines which gives solution for the problem.
Like this put yourself in various tough real life situations and analyze by self that whether you can able to react or not.

After getting the idea, try to write in two lines with small and legible handwriting.  Since the space given in some boards such as Bangalore are very small. 

So practice well to try write small and fast.
Also the average time for each question is 30 seconds, try to be fast.
Here the quality only matters and not the quantity.  The average intelligent person will attempt 45 questions out of 60.  So try to give your quality.

Preparation for SD - Self Description:-

SD is the final at the psychological process of day 2. 

This process is like a out question.  So we will prepare and practice a lot for this process.

Expectation of psychologist in Self Description:-
i) Self analyzing capability of the candidate.
ii) How he is thinking about self, family, friends and teachers.
iii) Analysis of how their parents, friends, teachers thinking about him.
iv) Aim in life.

Ask you parents, teachers friends as how you thinking about me and all.
     I hope that, you already prepared about these questions in the self realization part, you will have answers for these questions.

Just sit and write neatly for each question truthfully.  Try to include all your good qualities and positive things about you in these answers.

     The Aim in Life question should be handled with the first question of self realization i.e. why you want to join Military services.  This shows your aim and determination.

Practice again and again of these answers so that you can able to finish these answers in time and neatly.

in some boards such as Bangalore are very small.  So practice well to try write small and fast.
Also the average time for each question is 30 seconds, try to be fast.
Here the quality only matters and not the quantity.  The average intelligent person will attempt 45 questions out of 60.  So try to give your quality.

Preparation for SD - Self Description:-
SD is the final at the psychological process of day 2.  This process is like a out question.  So we will prepare and practice a lot for this process.

Expectation of psychologist in Self Description:-
i) Self analyzing capability of the candidate.
ii) How he is thinking about self, family, friends and teachers.
iii) Analysis of how their parents, friends, teachers thinking about him.
iv) Aim in life.

Ask you parents, teachers friends as how you thinking about me and all.
     I hope that, you already prepared about these questions in the self realization part at the starting of this page, you will have answers for these questions.
Just sit and write neatly for each question truthfully.  Try to include all your good qualities and positive things about you in these answers.

     The Aim in Life question should be handled with the first question of self realization i.e. why you want to join Army.  This shows your aim and determination.

Practice again and again of these answers so that you can able to finish these answers in time and neatly.