PIQ : Importance and seven tips for improvement

This would be the probably the first form you get to fill once you are screened in after clearing the Day 1 at SSB/AFSB/PSB/FSB. This is the first and undoubtedly the most important form of your SSB and hence needs special preparation. PIQ stands for Personal Information Questionnaire. Its a 2 page form which reflects your personality and achievements across your life and would be the best source for information related to you, for the psychologist and the interviewer.

Syllabus for OIR preparation for Day 1 at SSB

We all know that Screening round or the Day 1 at screening is the gateway for success for the aspirants and it only provides the path for converting their dream into reality. I keep on receiving multiple queries from the aspirants regarding this. Day 1 has three important things which determines selection. Here OIR, individual narration and the story are really important which solely depends on individual performance. This mantra holds true when the performance is really appreciable and hence it  ensures selection. 

Importance of OIR in Screening round of SSB

Screening round that is conducted at Day 1 of SSB is the gateway for the aspirants to their dream world as after this recommendation only they move ahead and are allowed to stay in the SSB center for 4 more days. Screening round has the highest rate of rejection as compared to the other exams of the same level, but its the easiest known process where one need to just reveal the officer potential with average aptitude and they are recommended for further rounds.

What are the hindrances in getting SCREEN IN at SSB : Part 2

In the previous part 1 of this series we saw how screening is conducted and how the things done at that level. Also since there is more number of assessors aspirants should be assured that there might be no evaluation error and three assessors are kept so that this error could be minimized. Now how to improve the performance at screening so that selection could be ensured. There are many factors that are being judged at screening rounds. Remember that though 15 OLQ's are being judged at SSB here only the potential to show that there is a will to be an Indian defense force officer can ensure selection. The aspirants might be thinking that how can showing of a blurred picture, writing story, doing GD reveal that. Please remember that SSB is a scientifically designed process where things happen like this only so these things will bring out your qualities that are based on perception. 

What are the hindrances in getting SCREEN IN at SSB : Part 1

Screening is the main stage where major elimination takes place in SSB. It’s a first day round which have OIR and PPDT as the rounds conducted on the aspirants where they are assessed and checked for the initial OLQ’s and the potential to be an officer. The written test checks the basic aptitude and the PPDT tests the individual performance along with the group performance. Though all the rounds look simple but they actually test a lot which aspirants don’t realise. Also a point to note is that the number of assessors involved in screening is more than any of the other rounds of SSB, there in other rounds you will have only one assessor evaluating on different parameters while at screening you will see three assessors evaluating you .So there is no scope of mistake in assessment, be assured for that.