Over 2,00,000 students appear in 5 days Services Selection Board interview process to become officers in Army, Navy, Airforce and Coast Guard every year. There are over 22 Selection Centres across the country which are involved in the conduct of SSB Interviews. This book is the compilation of questions contributed by students who attended the SSBs in the last two years. SSB interview procedure consists of a series of tests to gauge the leadership qualities (generally referred to as OLQs) of a candidate. These tests are conducted in three categories, Psychology Tests (TAT, WAT, SRT, SD), GTO tasks (GD, GPE, PGT, GOR, HGT, LECTURETTE, INDIVIDUAL OBSTACLES, CT, FGT) and Personal Interview. During the conduct of these tests candidates is put through many situations and asked various types of questions. SSB being a personality assessment there are no fixed solutions or responses to the questions/situations. The candidates remain in dilemma whether the answers they have given are right or wrong. Since last five years while I have been in AMAS lots of candidates have shared these questions and their predicaments over their answers. In this book I have tried to address these and give them guidelines as to how to attempt them in SSB. The answers may vary from person to person and each question can be answered in a number of ways. I have provided suggested responses which should act as guidelines to help the SSB aspirants frame their own answers.

Col (Dr) Mohinder Pal Singh is an Infantry officer. He has been a GTO with 19 SSB and Senior GTO 14 SSB. He has had over six years of experience as an assessor in SSBs. He is a graduate from St Xaviers College Mumbai, post graduate and doctorate from Allahabad University. Presently he is mentoring defence services aspirants as Founder and Director of AMAS Training, Greater Noida.