On the 5th day of SSB before the conference start, officer guides the candidate and try to explain what they are looking for in a candidate. They try to boost the morale of candidates by putting few examples of A.P.J Abdul Kalam, Amitabh Bachhan or Shahrukh Khan etc that even after not getting recommended in Armed forces how these people have achieved a milestone in their own domain.
The officer also encourages candidates to do a proper self-assessment of themselves and then come with better prepared next time. Most often candidates do a wrong interpretation of these words "assessment" and "better preparation".
Insanity is that you are doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
They buy some books or start grasping the materials available on the internet.
These candidates again end up getting not recommended. Here we will try to understand how to do self-assessment.
Let suppose that you are in college, the next day you have midterm exam but one of your friends came to you and asked that whether you have completed the other subject assignment or not because tomorrow is the last day to submit and the professor has already extended the date 3 times. When you return to the hostel, you find that 1 of the transmitter is burned out so there is a power cut in your hostel and electrician will repair it next day as it is already late.
Now, how you react in this situation? Whether you start getting tensed or your mind starts looking for the solution. Whether you end up shouting at others or you are calm and thinking of what to do?
It's a very simple example to understand how a person can analyze their behavior, their thought process.
Life will throw tremendous blows at you. It's not a straight path that you have decided to get somewhere and everything goes according to plan. This will never be the case.
In a personal interview, this is what the officer try to understand. They try to understand how much tough situation you have been through, how you handled those situations, whether you have included others in your decision or you only thought about yourself, the opportunities which you had in life and how you used those opportunities in your growth.
Candidates start rushing to current affairs topics or lecturette topics for SSB.
Always remember that you are applying for an officer in armed forces. An officer is always aware of the things happening in his/her surroundings.
If 1000's of innocent people are dying every single day in Syria then you should be aware of that.
One of the biggest economic reform done by our government is "Demonetization".
As many disregularity, we have seen in the conduction of Government exams in recent times. So, whats candidates view on that.
Don't you think above are the very basic questions which anyone should be aware of? Yes, it is.
So, what's the point? Point is that you have to use your logical mind to understand things.
It's totally fine if you don't know the answer. It's totally fine that you failed in a maximum of the things you tried in your life.
Always think of what you can do now to get better results.
We get goosebumps after reading the story of a candidate who got recommended in his 20th attempt.
We read success stories of how a son of labor becomes an army officer, how a cab driver joined the academy after getting inspired by an officer and there are many stories out there.
Do you know how they make it???? Because they didn't complain.
The day you stop complaining, no one can stop you to wear that uniform.
You have to work on your mindset. And this is what self-assessment is.
A good mindset always tries to look at the solution part rather than arguing with anyone.
They never complain, accept the situation as it is and still try to take maximum outputs from whatever the option he had left.
The best thing about SSB testing is that once you get screened in, all are equal for them. It doesn't matter whether you are 1-time conference out or 15 times conference out. If the candidates have worked on themselves in the right direction, no one can stop them to get recommended.
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