Personal Interview
What is an Interview?
It is the process of selling of the candidate to the particular organization or company. The organization may be any corporate companies or Defense System. (or) The Personal interview (PI) may also be taken as a purposeful conversation between a candidate and the interviewing officer(IO) to check out the particular pre-determined qualities(OLQ).
Personal Interview:-
The PI is the psychological assessment of the candidate by the the IO usually in the rank of colonel i.e. who is the president or deputy president of the board. The IO reads well the PIQ filled by the candidate on the first day and also have the psychological answer paper i.e. self description and comments of the psychologist over the candidate, in his hand before the candidate is called inside the room. Thus the the IO just cross check the candidate by triggering some basic questions, and also triggering the series of questions at a stretch that is called as Rapid Fire Questions(RPF). With these replies he note down the response and check the candidate whether he is truth ful with his answers and also he note down the OLQ of the candiate. So nothing to worry about the PI friends, just be calm and march with good preparation, then it will be easy to crack the process.
How to be cool in the whole process:-
To make the whole process as a cake walk, the only way is to be honest and truthful. Since it is not easy an easy task to tel a lie or bluff to the IO. As he is very much trained to catch the liers and everyday he is facing numerous persons telling lies.
The simple quote about selection process is "BE YOURSELF" since if we are truthful to the IO, then we will tel our answer boldly and confidently. The IO also expect the same from the candidates. So we wont bluff and never stammer in our answer. So better improve the qualities and social adaptability of the self to be a better citizen and good officer. If we improve and train our self for the development of the officer like qualities, the PI will be cool. Also, what the inerviewing officer expect from the candidate is not be an all rounder or a well knowledged person, but a person who adapts to all situations can handle and work under pressure, can able to move with a group of people, have an eye over the world and national issues, can be able to give solution to the national issues etc. So put yourself to these points and assess yourself friends.
Personal Interview Preparation:-
Enter the hall with smile and calm face, as this shows that you are cool. Also have a proper dress code. Walk with head held high, with upraised shoulder and chest. This gives a positive, confident look. Also before entering into the hall ask for permission and wait for the response, if you got the response from IO open the door with smiling face(the smile should be true) and march ahead into the room with confidence, and wish the officer as per the time.(good morning, evening etc)
Also stand behind the chair of the candidate and dont stand in front of the chair, as it shows that you have a thought by your mind that you will granted to have a seat. Its wrong, the candidate should stand behind or by the side of the chair and seeks permision from the officer to sit. If the permission is granted he should thank the officer and sit comfortably with out shaking or changing the position of the chair.
Dress Code:-
It is better to wear a light color shirt and dark color pant, If you have stripes in the shirt means have checked design in the pant or if you have checked design in shirt means wear pant with striped designs, as this gives a decent professional look Also wear a tie which matches to the shirt and pant color.
Behavior during the process:-
Body language plays a vital role in the process. Experts say that above 93% of nonverbal communications plays a main role in process. Sit in proper manner, also dont shake your hands, fingers, or legs during the process. The officer matches the response from your mouth to the body language what you are showing at that time. Also try to have a proper eye contact. Keep your breath normal.
For these things to be normal, the one and only way is to be truthful to yourself and to the IO. Since if you are honest, then your reply will be bold.
To know more about Body Language techniques and tips in detail click here
Crystal clear thought and explanations:-
The thought and answers coming form the candidate should be crystal clear. If the IO asks a question means, the candiate has to think about that clearly and make a clear answer with explanations. Never say yes/No type replies in the answers. As this shows your confidence level is low. If you explain your answer with positive points, it gains you more mark in the process. So please avoid the yes/no type responses. Also if you know only little knowledge about that topic means, tel to the IO that sir i know these things about this question sorry sir iam not getting more points about this topic at this moment. This shows your honesty and the IO likes this only. He doesnt expect the candidate to be library. Be polite and confident in your answer friends.
Truthful to the IO(Not beating around the bush):-
As i told in the above para, be truthful to the IO. If you dont know, tel openly sorry sir i dont now. Its better to say like this than beating around the bush. Also the important point is dont say suddenly after the questions is ended by the IO, that sorry sir i dont know. Just try to give atleast a single point of answer for the question. i.e. Think for a while and if you really dont get the answer, say them politely sorry sir i dont know.
Keep smiling:-
It is the key of success. Try to keep smiling all over the process.e from entering the room and till the end of the process. To keep smiling, you should be free by mind, to be free be honest to the IO. Else your artificial smile will be recognized as the fake smile. So you may lose your chance of getting selected. Please be calm and truthful in your replies by enjoying the process.
Dont lose your ground even in tough questions:-
Losing the ground with the IO is common for all candidates. Since this is a oral war between the IO and the candidate. Its not an easy thing to win over the oral war with the IO, as they have real war experience. lolz. :). To avoid this situation, dont argue with the IO. The IOexpects that the candidate should not lose his ground, and face all the situations tactfully. If you have sound knowledge in subjects and positive replies you never lose your grounds. Tackle the questions with presence of sense and show your knowledge and positive approach with the replies.
Analysing capability:-
The analysing capability is one of the important quality of an officer. Most of the candidate have the analysing capability, But what they expect is the whether we are using our analysing capability even under pressure situations or tough situations. So the IOcross checks this quality with the candidate through out the process by triggering various questions at different situations.
Interview Pattern :-
The pattern is a four step process usually followed at all boards. The candidates are put into these type of questions usually and their qualities are assessed based on their responses.
Types of questions asked are :-
1. Introduction questions or Feel Free Questions or Calm Down Questions.:-
Usually these type of questions are put to the candidates after their entry into the panel. The IO asks some basic questions which can be easily answered by the candidate so that the candidate feel ease with the IO.
The questions may be of
For the first question, answer should not be like this , Sir iam from Chennai.
But the answer is sir im from chennai, a northen district and coastal city of Tamilnadu which is also the state capital of tamil nadu. The population is about ............ and the main occupations of people are......... The speciality is ........... and tourism is.......... and the special things are OTA etc.
Like this the answer should cover over all parts of the chennai. This gives a broad approach of your answer and it shows your knowledge.
2. Usual Questions:-
The Usual questions part carry two types of questions
.i.e Why you want to join the Army/Navy/Air Force etc.
First Let me explain about the Stress Questions
Stress Interview(SI):-
The SI gives the original personality of the candidate. Since normally it is easy to answer all the questions without losing temper if we have good communication skills. But answering at the time of SI is the real success and the candidate with all OLQ will cross this hurdle easily.
The IO cross check the candidate that whether under stressful and hard situations the candidate doesnt loses his originality and keeps his position with good decision making and solution finding abilities.
Let we see how the IO leads us to the SI :-
After finishing the introduction questions, he tests the candidate for SI .
i.e. By asking more questions on the same area until we lose our temper or we expose till all our knowledge on that. Eg. What is the difference in brake system of train and bus. If we explain about hyralic brake and normal show brake system. He starts to grill in hydralic system such as what type of liquid is used and all. If we answer it correctly, he triggers as why such liquid is used instead of this liquid. He continues and tries to break the ground of the candidate. In these type of situations the candidate has to be keep smiling and to answer the questions by showing his knowledge without blufing. If he doesnt know the answer, better tel the IO, sorry sir i dont know.
The important hurdle of the PI is
RAPID FIRE QUESTONS:- (RPF)
These Rapid Fire Questions are a set of questions which are asked at a stretch. That nealy ten to fifteen number of questions will be triggered out by the IO. So that he checks how much questions is observed by the candidate and answered well and how truthful with his replies and all.
The RPF questions may be starts from educational background, views about parents, teachers, friends view about you and your view over them. Hobbies and interests at free time, Checking leadership qualities by asking your extra curricular and how the candidate will organize a task or situation, Games and Sports etc.
To be crispy about Rapid Fire Questions every questions willl be from the PIQ only. So just prepare a PIQ of the own and frame the set of questions of your own and form the answers. Then check for your own answers and find the OLQ qualities which you find in your own replies.
Set of questions may be raised from the PIQ for the Rapid Fire Questions
From Educational Background:-
As we wrote in our self description about what our teachers and friends think about us, We should be truthful with our replies same in the PI also, the IO cross checks the replies of the candidate with the self description paper.
From Family Background:-
From Friends:-
For Working Professionals:-
From Hobbies and Interests:-
Interests:-
What type of news channel, Tv shows you see and which periodical you used to read and why?
From Games and Sports:-
Checking the Leadership and Organizing ability:-
Leadership and organizing ability is the important quality of every officer. So these part of the process seems to be important. The officer may give a situation to check our organizing ability also he asked questions from the PIQ in the fields of extra curricular and co curricular activities such as N.S.S and N.C.C. etc.
E.g. If you going to Industrial Visit tour to the near by Industry. Suddenly you coordinator got accident, how you will arrange the tour and make it successful one. Like this he gives different situations and ask questions over that.
If you play a game or sports, how you will organize that game like that.
Co-Curricular and Extra-curricular activities:-
The Co-Curricular and Extra-curricular activities includes such as N.S.S. , N.C.C , Volunteer of blood donation association, Friends of Police etc.
In these part the IO may ask questions such as world issues, national issues and solution for those issues. Also he checks the depth of knowledge and our approach to the issues. He asks our views to the issues and solution for the issue.
Eg:- He asks the candidate that the views of nation on terrorism is good or bad, if good why it is good and if bad why it is bad, then tel you solution like this.
Current Affairs and General Knowlege and issues:-
He also ask some history and current affairs of the nation and world.
Eg. Tel five things you recently read in newspaper. Tel deeply about a particular news.
4. Technical questions or Practical Knowledge questions.
If we go to the TGC entry i.e Technical Graduation Course and TES entry i.e. Technical Entry Scheme they may put forward some basic technical questions relating to our daily day to day life.
Eg. If we say that we play cricket, he may ask how you will apply physics law to the swing bowling etc.
Also you will apply the phythogores theorem to the table tennis service etc.
If you are from engineering back ground the questions also from,
Basic Network questions
Basic physics laws
All Engineering fundamental questions.
In these set of questions he find out our practical knowledge. i.e. application of our theoretical knowledge in the physical day to day tasks which is essential for the army men.
How to approach the PI DO's and DONT's:-
The approach of the PI is an art, the one with good attitude and truthful with the information provided and self will surely get success in the PI.
DO's and DONT's:-
As i told earlier, form the basic questions about family, friends, teachers, environment i.e.native, sports, hobbies, girl friends etc and answer yourself with proper voice tone. Dont bluff to the IO and be honest to yourself and the IO. If you have those OLQ's surely the IO will take you in. Good Luck Gentlemen.
It is the process of selling of the candidate to the particular organization or company. The organization may be any corporate companies or Defense System. (or) The Personal interview (PI) may also be taken as a purposeful conversation between a candidate and the interviewing officer(IO) to check out the particular pre-determined qualities(OLQ).
Personal Interview:-
The PI is the psychological assessment of the candidate by the the IO usually in the rank of colonel i.e. who is the president or deputy president of the board. The IO reads well the PIQ filled by the candidate on the first day and also have the psychological answer paper i.e. self description and comments of the psychologist over the candidate, in his hand before the candidate is called inside the room. Thus the the IO just cross check the candidate by triggering some basic questions, and also triggering the series of questions at a stretch that is called as Rapid Fire Questions(RPF). With these replies he note down the response and check the candidate whether he is truth ful with his answers and also he note down the OLQ of the candiate. So nothing to worry about the PI friends, just be calm and march with good preparation, then it will be easy to crack the process.
How to be cool in the whole process:-
To make the whole process as a cake walk, the only way is to be honest and truthful. Since it is not easy an easy task to tel a lie or bluff to the IO. As he is very much trained to catch the liers and everyday he is facing numerous persons telling lies.
The simple quote about selection process is "BE YOURSELF" since if we are truthful to the IO, then we will tel our answer boldly and confidently. The IO also expect the same from the candidates. So we wont bluff and never stammer in our answer. So better improve the qualities and social adaptability of the self to be a better citizen and good officer. If we improve and train our self for the development of the officer like qualities, the PI will be cool. Also, what the inerviewing officer expect from the candidate is not be an all rounder or a well knowledged person, but a person who adapts to all situations can handle and work under pressure, can able to move with a group of people, have an eye over the world and national issues, can be able to give solution to the national issues etc. So put yourself to these points and assess yourself friends.
Personal Interview Preparation:-
- First Impression and Dress Code.
- Behavior during the process
- Crystal clear thought and explanations
- Truthful to the IO(Not beating around the bush)
- Keep smiling
- Dont lose your ground even in tough questions
- Analysing capability
Enter the hall with smile and calm face, as this shows that you are cool. Also have a proper dress code. Walk with head held high, with upraised shoulder and chest. This gives a positive, confident look. Also before entering into the hall ask for permission and wait for the response, if you got the response from IO open the door with smiling face(the smile should be true) and march ahead into the room with confidence, and wish the officer as per the time.(good morning, evening etc)
Also stand behind the chair of the candidate and dont stand in front of the chair, as it shows that you have a thought by your mind that you will granted to have a seat. Its wrong, the candidate should stand behind or by the side of the chair and seeks permision from the officer to sit. If the permission is granted he should thank the officer and sit comfortably with out shaking or changing the position of the chair.
Dress Code:-
It is better to wear a light color shirt and dark color pant, If you have stripes in the shirt means have checked design in the pant or if you have checked design in shirt means wear pant with striped designs, as this gives a decent professional look Also wear a tie which matches to the shirt and pant color.
Behavior during the process:-
Body language plays a vital role in the process. Experts say that above 93% of nonverbal communications plays a main role in process. Sit in proper manner, also dont shake your hands, fingers, or legs during the process. The officer matches the response from your mouth to the body language what you are showing at that time. Also try to have a proper eye contact. Keep your breath normal.
For these things to be normal, the one and only way is to be truthful to yourself and to the IO. Since if you are honest, then your reply will be bold.
To know more about Body Language techniques and tips in detail click here
Crystal clear thought and explanations:-
The thought and answers coming form the candidate should be crystal clear. If the IO asks a question means, the candiate has to think about that clearly and make a clear answer with explanations. Never say yes/No type replies in the answers. As this shows your confidence level is low. If you explain your answer with positive points, it gains you more mark in the process. So please avoid the yes/no type responses. Also if you know only little knowledge about that topic means, tel to the IO that sir i know these things about this question sorry sir iam not getting more points about this topic at this moment. This shows your honesty and the IO likes this only. He doesnt expect the candidate to be library. Be polite and confident in your answer friends.
Truthful to the IO(Not beating around the bush):-
As i told in the above para, be truthful to the IO. If you dont know, tel openly sorry sir i dont now. Its better to say like this than beating around the bush. Also the important point is dont say suddenly after the questions is ended by the IO, that sorry sir i dont know. Just try to give atleast a single point of answer for the question. i.e. Think for a while and if you really dont get the answer, say them politely sorry sir i dont know.
Keep smiling:-
It is the key of success. Try to keep smiling all over the process.e from entering the room and till the end of the process. To keep smiling, you should be free by mind, to be free be honest to the IO. Else your artificial smile will be recognized as the fake smile. So you may lose your chance of getting selected. Please be calm and truthful in your replies by enjoying the process.
Dont lose your ground even in tough questions:-
Losing the ground with the IO is common for all candidates. Since this is a oral war between the IO and the candidate. Its not an easy thing to win over the oral war with the IO, as they have real war experience. lolz. :). To avoid this situation, dont argue with the IO. The IOexpects that the candidate should not lose his ground, and face all the situations tactfully. If you have sound knowledge in subjects and positive replies you never lose your grounds. Tackle the questions with presence of sense and show your knowledge and positive approach with the replies.
Analysing capability:-
The analysing capability is one of the important quality of an officer. Most of the candidate have the analysing capability, But what they expect is the whether we are using our analysing capability even under pressure situations or tough situations. So the IOcross checks this quality with the candidate through out the process by triggering various questions at different situations.
Interview Pattern :-
The pattern is a four step process usually followed at all boards. The candidates are put into these type of questions usually and their qualities are assessed based on their responses.
Types of questions asked are :-
- Introduction questions or Feel Free Questions or Calm Down Questions.
- Usual Questions.
- Social problem or Candidate Solution type questions.
- Technical questions or Practical Knowledge questions.
1. Introduction questions or Feel Free Questions or Calm Down Questions.:-
Usually these type of questions are put to the candidates after their entry into the panel. The IO asks some basic questions which can be easily answered by the candidate so that the candidate feel ease with the IO.
The questions may be of
- Which place you are coming from and tel something about that place?
- Tel something about your name and why named so?
- Tel five things about your native and which you like most?
For the first question, answer should not be like this , Sir iam from Chennai.
But the answer is sir im from chennai, a northen district and coastal city of Tamilnadu which is also the state capital of tamil nadu. The population is about ............ and the main occupations of people are......... The speciality is ........... and tourism is.......... and the special things are OTA etc.
Like this the answer should cover over all parts of the chennai. This gives a broad approach of your answer and it shows your knowledge.
- The answer given to the IO should be crystal clear and optimistic(positive) and truthful. These are about the Introduction questions. It is easy to answer the introduction questions and answer in an optimistic view and it plays a vital role.
2. Usual Questions:-
The Usual questions part carry two types of questions
- Rapid Fire Questions
- Stress Questions
.i.e Why you want to join the Army/Navy/Air Force etc.
First Let me explain about the Stress Questions
Stress Interview(SI):-
The SI gives the original personality of the candidate. Since normally it is easy to answer all the questions without losing temper if we have good communication skills. But answering at the time of SI is the real success and the candidate with all OLQ will cross this hurdle easily.
The IO cross check the candidate that whether under stressful and hard situations the candidate doesnt loses his originality and keeps his position with good decision making and solution finding abilities.
Let we see how the IO leads us to the SI :-
After finishing the introduction questions, he tests the candidate for SI .
i.e. By asking more questions on the same area until we lose our temper or we expose till all our knowledge on that. Eg. What is the difference in brake system of train and bus. If we explain about hyralic brake and normal show brake system. He starts to grill in hydralic system such as what type of liquid is used and all. If we answer it correctly, he triggers as why such liquid is used instead of this liquid. He continues and tries to break the ground of the candidate. In these type of situations the candidate has to be keep smiling and to answer the questions by showing his knowledge without blufing. If he doesnt know the answer, better tel the IO, sorry sir i dont know.
- Asking other branch or unrelated questions. i.e. If a candidate is from computer science and engineering back ground, he may be asked questions from mechanical stream.
- Asking questions in hard or harsh manner like threatening.
The important hurdle of the PI is
RAPID FIRE QUESTONS:- (RPF)
These Rapid Fire Questions are a set of questions which are asked at a stretch. That nealy ten to fifteen number of questions will be triggered out by the IO. So that he checks how much questions is observed by the candidate and answered well and how truthful with his replies and all.
The RPF questions may be starts from educational background, views about parents, teachers, friends view about you and your view over them. Hobbies and interests at free time, Checking leadership qualities by asking your extra curricular and how the candidate will organize a task or situation, Games and Sports etc.
To be crispy about Rapid Fire Questions every questions willl be from the PIQ only. So just prepare a PIQ of the own and frame the set of questions of your own and form the answers. Then check for your own answers and find the OLQ qualities which you find in your own replies.
Set of questions may be raised from the PIQ for the Rapid Fire Questions
From Educational Background:-
- How much you scored in your tenth, twelveth and graduation.
- Why there is decrease in the mark level and what you did to over come those difficulty.
- Which subject you like more and why
- Which subject you dont like and why
- Achievements in the study
- Tel speciality about your school and college
- Which teacher you like most why
- Which teacher you dont like and why
- Why you have chosen to study this branch
- Whether you chosen the particular brach of study by self or by others compulsion(Parents)
- Why there is some gap in studies between intercollege and graduation.
- How you improved the percentage from tenth to twelth and wat are steps you taken to achieve this.
- If you scored less marks in twelveth than in tenth, the question is What are the steps you have taken to overcome this decrease in percentage not to continue in graduation.
- What your friends and teachers think about you
- How you think about your friends and teachers
As we wrote in our self description about what our teachers and friends think about us, We should be truthful with our replies same in the PI also, the IO cross checks the replies of the candidate with the self description paper.
From Family Background:-
- How much pocket money you got in your college days and how much you utilized.
- How you help your mother in your holidays
- How you help your father
- You are close to father or mother and why
- How much you like your father and mother
- How you are responsible person to your family
- Say about your sister and brother
- Whom you like most and why
- With whom you play more
- Which person other than in your family and friends you like more and why
- Whats you father/mother rank in the working place and income they are getting
- How they are utilizing their income and are you satisfied with that
- If your family is totally dependent on you tomorrow, how you will help or run the family.
From Friends:-
- How will you get new friends
- Which type of friends you like
- How many friends you have
- Out of friends how many are close to you
- In your friends to whom you share the personal things
- What you like in your best friend and What he likes in you
- What your friend or friends say about you
- What you say about you and your friends.
- Which thing you like in your close friend and why.
- How you will help your friend or helped your friend any good moments.
- How you and your friends/friend do in your free times or in holidays.
For Working Professionals:-
- What your co workers will say about you
- What you say about your boss
- What your boss say about you
- Tel about your company or organization
- Why you are leaving your previous job
- What you like most in your job
- What you dont like in you job
- What difficulty you faced in your job and what are the steps you taken to overcome those difficulty.
- Why are you leaving the present job
From Hobbies and Interests:-
- What is your hobby
- Why you have chosen this hobby
- From when you are doing this hobby
- What are the things you have learn from your hobby
- What are the new things you implemented in your hobby
- Whats your childhood hobby and what are you doing now
- Why you change the child hood hobby to this(recent one)
Interests:-
What type of news channel, Tv shows you see and which periodical you used to read and why?
From Games and Sports:-
- Which game you like and why
- Why you have chosen an indoor game rather than an out door game
- Why you have chosen an out door game rather than an indoor game
- Whom you like more in your team if we say cricket or foot ball etc
- What is your position in the team i.e. as a team member or captain.
- Depth of knowledge in the Games or sports. i.e. Questions from size of the play ground/court size and rules of the game and recent world records in the game etc
- Which player you like most and why
- What you want to improve or you suggestion for our team in the game/sports you play
Checking the Leadership and Organizing ability:-
Leadership and organizing ability is the important quality of every officer. So these part of the process seems to be important. The officer may give a situation to check our organizing ability also he asked questions from the PIQ in the fields of extra curricular and co curricular activities such as N.S.S and N.C.C. etc.
E.g. If you going to Industrial Visit tour to the near by Industry. Suddenly you coordinator got accident, how you will arrange the tour and make it successful one. Like this he gives different situations and ask questions over that.
If you play a game or sports, how you will organize that game like that.
Co-Curricular and Extra-curricular activities:-
The Co-Curricular and Extra-curricular activities includes such as N.S.S. , N.C.C , Volunteer of blood donation association, Friends of Police etc.
- When you joined in N.C.C. /N.S.S. and why
- What you achieved in that
- Positions held in that
- Grade of certificates got such as A,B,C etc
- Who motivated to join in N.C.C
In these part the IO may ask questions such as world issues, national issues and solution for those issues. Also he checks the depth of knowledge and our approach to the issues. He asks our views to the issues and solution for the issue.
Eg:- He asks the candidate that the views of nation on terrorism is good or bad, if good why it is good and if bad why it is bad, then tel you solution like this.
Current Affairs and General Knowlege and issues:-
He also ask some history and current affairs of the nation and world.
Eg. Tel five things you recently read in newspaper. Tel deeply about a particular news.
4. Technical questions or Practical Knowledge questions.
If we go to the TGC entry i.e Technical Graduation Course and TES entry i.e. Technical Entry Scheme they may put forward some basic technical questions relating to our daily day to day life.
Eg. If we say that we play cricket, he may ask how you will apply physics law to the swing bowling etc.
Also you will apply the phythogores theorem to the table tennis service etc.
If you are from engineering back ground the questions also from,
Basic Network questions
Basic physics laws
All Engineering fundamental questions.
In these set of questions he find out our practical knowledge. i.e. application of our theoretical knowledge in the physical day to day tasks which is essential for the army men.
How to approach the PI DO's and DONT's:-
The approach of the PI is an art, the one with good attitude and truthful with the information provided and self will surely get success in the PI.
DO's and DONT's:-
- Enter the room with head held high and uprighted chest as this gives you a confident approach.
- Never insert your hands into your pocket, leave it casually.
- Since the very first impression gives you a positive result.
- Prefer dress with good quality and properly ironed.
- Don wear new dress or old own, wear dress which is properly stitched and good fitting.
- Avoid boot cuts and all.. Wear proper formal pant.
- Dont wear watch, or have something in the pocket.
- Have proper hair cut before the interivew and comb the hair well.
- Wish the IO while entering the room with proper sense such as check whether is morning, or evening or noon.
- Have a proper and constant voice tone, never raise your voice tone while telling about your achievements or reduce your voice tone while telling about your negative points.
- Have proper answer for your positive and negative points
- Have a proper body language
- Don't argue with the IO. But tel your point with some positive points on that.
- Understand the questions clearly and and start to answer to that question slowly and confidently.
- In case, if you felt that you dont know the answer, just say after thinking a while, sorry sir i dont know the answer.
- In case, if you didnt get the question from the IO means, ask him as sorry sir, i beg your pardon, please repeat the question.
- Never blame anyone for your shortcomings such as low marks due to teacher etc. Since they dont want people who blame for shortcomings. They want people only who take every situation positive and over come the shortcomings with hardwork.
As i told earlier, form the basic questions about family, friends, teachers, environment i.e.native, sports, hobbies, girl friends etc and answer yourself with proper voice tone. Dont bluff to the IO and be honest to yourself and the IO. If you have those OLQ's surely the IO will take you in. Good Luck Gentlemen.
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ReplyDeletehi vignesh...had to share this...got recommended for Indian Army from 20 SSB Bhopal in TGC Entry. Your blog is hugely responsible for my success and that too in the first attempt. A big thank you to you for making as aquaint with the ssb interview board...your suggestions,tips,do's and dont's were immensely helpful during the process. I hope more and more people could take the advntage of this highly informative blog.Once again thanks..!!!
ReplyDeletewow really i liked it a lot........ it shows th kind of person ur...... i think ur smater than and fater than core-i7
ReplyDelete@govvind, nishant and all friends. thank you :)
ReplyDelete@Abhishek, Wow, my hearty congratulations brother. All the best for your career and i am so much happy for this. Serve the Nation with pride.
ReplyDelete"Two Stars in the Shoulder is Thousand times better than Thousand Stars in the Sky"-- Jaihind
SIR ALL THE INFORMATION GIVEN BY YOU IS WOUNDERFUL AND WHILE READING YOUR INTERIEW TIPS I FELT LIKE I WAS INFRONT OF INTERVIEWER , I AM GIONG FOR MY SSB TO ALLAHABAD , N I HOPE ALL THESE TIPS WILL SURELY HEP ME INSHAALLH , THANK YOU SIR.
ReplyDelete@irfan, welcome brother. all the best brother
ReplyDeleteHey i claered th e CDS II in sept 2011..wen i expect the SSB Call Letter?.
ReplyDelete.
.thanx for the blog , I have cleared the SSB before also for getting into NDA..though i dint joind it finally for some personal reasons.
its really nice
ReplyDelete@vignesh: i really want to hav a word with you..i am goin to appear the ssb int on 13th jan, can you reply me via mail, this is my mail id: vaishakh.nambiar@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteand also thank you so much for your info...
Sir i have passed my CDS(II) OTA exam2011..
ReplyDeleteWhat further do I need to do..?
Please advice..
@Anonymous, plese wait patiently till your call letter arrive. You may get your call letter before the three months of the commencement of your course. All the best
ReplyDelete@vignesh,in your interview tips you said that we should not wear watch "Dont wear watch, or have something in the pocket."may i know why?
ReplyDeleteFor the SSB interview, Watch is not allowed. Rest of the interviews you can wear. Then regarding things in pocket, it spoils our gentlemen look, since the thigh area looks bulged. (pant fleets wont look good)
DeleteBut, we can have our hand kerchief which is neatly ironed, to touch up the face before the interview.
sir , what is the best way to learn group planning and command task
ReplyDelete@Irfan, for group planning and command task, the idea only matters. So have basic knowledge about fulcrums, cantilever and all. Then to execute this idea, you should have good english communication skills.
DeleteNOTE:- The thing, is most of the candidates will get ideas , but the person with good communication skills will execute the tasks and lead the team without hesitation. This is the true. :)
vignesh sir..... u r soooo good!!!!!! u shud hve went to NDA!!!!!.. i am sure.... u wud be d most recommended canditate in the whole board.............sir iam in 10th and preparing for nda!!!! this helped me a lot...i am sure this blog will help me to get recommended!!...thanx a ton....
ReplyDeletei have got a ssb interview call from Coimbatore for Navy (PC) logistics. but i have only 1 month to prepare for this interview.
ReplyDeletehow to prepare for that in short time?
please suggest me.
Be positive in your thoughts and action, http://www.ssbinterviewtips.com/p/ssb-interview-preparation.html Study this friend
DeleteHi Vignesh,i have got my ssb lined up soon,
ReplyDeletei'm in my final year engineering and i have failed once in my degree due to my family problems,how should i put up myself convincingly?
I'm placed but i just have 50% aggr in 4 yrs,how to showcase it?
Looking forward to your reply,
thank you in advance
we should never blame our belongings for our failure. The SSB accessors also expect that same. So, find proper reason by your side and also note the things which you did to overcome that. :). Show yourself truthfully to them. :)
Deletesir can u please sen me some technical questions
ReplyDeletehi sumit, tel your branch brother. so that i can able to tel by getting info.
Deletethis is bhanu from sagar m.p ,i have shortlisted in ssb-tgc-115 -11 march 2012 ,and nothing preparation regarding SSB interview bcoz this is 1st time ,and i feel very nervous.
ReplyDeletesir ,u give some short term course to phase the SSB interview
ReplyDeletebhanu, nervous this word should never from us. Read the whole blog bhanu, you will get idea brother. dont worry go ahead, Wat ever, lets see
DeleteThankyou very much for such an illustrative details on SSB. Hope this will be very much helpful for my forth coming AFCAT SSB.
ReplyDeletehi Vignesh,
ReplyDeleteam 24 years now and would be going for the airforce ssb soon. Vignesh i had cleared the nda ssb before 7 years..but couldnt make it into the merit list. Will i be having some really good chances because of that earlier selection or will i be like a normal candidate??
for repeaters, usually they will keep an eye. i.e. how they are performing and all. You dont worry about this. Just you do your work and march ahead. :)
Deletethanx vignesh for the reply..jes tell me 1 more thing..in my last ssb in total around 75 guys came..35 something screened in...n 11 got selected..3 fully medical fit..
ReplyDeleteis the ratio somewhat like this now also..?? as its been 7 long years before that i had appeared for my 33 ssb @ bhopal..i am kind of fresher now
..so plz pass on yor knowledge:-)
u r not fresher.. u r repeater only
DeleteThanku sir, it is fully helpful for me and my friends, who become an officer very soon.
ReplyDeleteSir , I am final year graduate in engineering(electronics&commn)... my ssb date is coming up...can u pls tell me about the technical
ReplyDeletequestions
very basic only.. they check whether the candidate can able to implement their theoretical knowledge practically like that..
DeleteHi Vignesh sir,
ReplyDeleteI will attend SSB interview on april 1st at Bhopal.My height is 170 cms, age 22 yrs, weight 67.5 kgs(nearly 4 kgs more after taking the tolerance into consideration). However i'm attending just to gain experience, so that it will be helpful for me in my future SSBs.
My queries-
1. Will the officials check my weight before screening test on day 1??..
2. If i get thru screening test, can i request them to have medical tests after a month or so, so that i can reduce my weight?? will they permit???
i recommend this blog to students who want to take information about ssb interview
ReplyDeleteThere is also same SSB procedure in Teritorial Army Recruitment
ReplyDeletehi...nice blog
ReplyDeletei had mailed you but you didn't reply to my queries...will be great if you could reply
sir ,am pursuing my engg. 3 rd year and am an aspirant to join indian airforce as a pilot and wanna touch the sky with pride .so sir wat kind of preparation i should put in to get through pabt and ssb. also hows the ssb interviews for girls for flying branch plz let me knw .
ReplyDeletethis information is valuable. thank you for posting it.
ReplyDeletehi vignesh...
ReplyDeletemy ssb interview is on 4 june at mysore, i have applied for UES in IAF but i am having my marksheets upto 4th semester, i didnt got my 5th sem markssheet from college and just appeared in 6th sem, so is there any problem if i will show my marks upto 4th semester???
and also i am not so frequent in english language , will it be a big problem for me in the whole interview process???
and one more question, i dont know more about my native because i brought up in different state so how will i give answer in Pesonal Interview?
hello sir ,
ReplyDeletethankyu so much . sir i need some hlp frm you tht in dehli wich cochng cntre is better for me for nda prepration .
:) no idea brother. Just search in your near by area about this. For NDA, prepare yourself and get some good books from market. Its enough
Deletebooks like......plz suggst me sir.
DeleteA perfect book like preparation
ReplyDeleteI am a final year BE computer science student.I want to know what all certificates have I to send for UES along with the application form and please let me know how can I prepare for the SSB interview..
ReplyDeleteall semester mark lists along with NCC and other extra curriculars.
Deletesir,
ReplyDeletecan u tell me the marking system of each & every test conducted in ssb interview in detail..??
Sorry brother, i dont know those.
Deleteis there any difference in ssb group task for girls ?
ReplyDeleteyes, the level of intensity is less for girls. For eg. Male candidates have to cross 6 feet drum, while the female has to cross 3 ft. like that
Deletethankyou much for the blog sir.
ReplyDeletecan i have a talk with you as i am appearing for the ssb in few days and have many questions in mind.seek your help.
ok ask your doubts in vignesh.ssbinterviewtips@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteThank u Vignesh sir, I am a service candidate going for SSB, I received my call letter for December 2012, I come to know many important things from your blog, hope I will carry all these during my PI. Thanks again sir.
ReplyDeletehelllo..
ReplyDeletei am neha.. i am giving SSb this may..
i will be appliying for technical post..
how should i be prepared???
plzzz help
Thanks for the information. Is there any particular which I can refer for my SSB interview which is being held at next month?
ReplyDeletei am going to attend SSB in allahabad this month. really excited and yes thank u so much Mr. Vignesh , this site really helped me a lot :)
ReplyDeletehi vignesh please tell me the marks allotted to each task and procedure at ssb from day 1 to 4?
ReplyDeleteAlso tell me if marks of verbal and non verbal test is added or not for final merit list at ssb?
The PI by the IO(President of the board) is more often a structured one in the beginning but later it is unstructured,going into the depth of the personality of a candidates as he/she answers the questions..minor shortcomings are ignored by the IO and the candidate as a whole is judged.so be natural,normal and tension free.in short BE YOURSELF and dont't hide anything or manipulate your answers.BEST OF LUCK.
ReplyDeletecontact me for further details and practise,
Brig,M.S. RUHIL,VSM (Retd.)
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ReplyDeleteHELLO SIR, I HAVE GOT MY SSB CALL LETTER FOR TGC121 ON APRIL26TH.BUT NOW M WORRIED , BECAUSE I MISATKENLY ENTERED ONE SEMISTER % WRONG IN MY ONLINE APPLICATION FORM. NOW M REALY SO PUZZLED WHETHER TO ATTEND THE INTERVIEW OR NOT.PLEASE SIR HELP ME THROUGH THIS.WHAT SHOULD I DO?IS THERE ANY PROCEDURE THAT I CAN MAKE IT RIGHT. EAGERLY WAITING FOR YOUR HELP SIR. THANK YOU!!!!
ReplyDeleteeverything is fine, but the main weak point when facing the interview is nervousness, we need to relax otherwise it could be the main reason to fail in an interview. Wisdomjobs-story:scaling from 40 Google group members to 28 Million job seekers/
ReplyDeleteRespected Sir,
ReplyDeleteI have short-listed for SSB ( Navy ).I have a lot of confidence about exam but a worried thing is that I have a tattoo in shoulder and also reverse side of palm .But I already started to remove this tattoo by leaser treatment ..
Many of my friends saying that they will not allow me to participate in exam for this tattoo
Please suggest me what should i do
sir
ReplyDeletereally this is very strong info for or prepaprtion of ssb .i preparing as you guide here , thank u sir
Awesome and helpful post
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