Psychological Tests conducted in SSB for National Defence Academy. The psychological tests are administered on the second day of the five day testing schedule that takes place at the SSB.

Psychological tests are only conducted for screened in candidates, means, candidates those who have cleared stage I testing.

These tests are based on very scientific procedures of assessing the qualities of a candidate, at subconscious level and the non-conscious state of mind.

The four psychological tests that all candidates are put through during their SSB are as follows:

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT).

Word Association Test (WAT).

Situation Reaction Test (SRT).

Self Description (SD)

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)-

TAT entails writing 12 stories on pictures shown to you one after the other on a screen.
You will get 30 sec to view the picture and 04 min to write a story on each picture.

The 12th one is a blank screen and you are required to write any story from your own mind. Make sure that you link this story with a momentous reflection from your own life or a story of an achiever that you have heard or read and that really touched your heart.

Word Association Test (WAT)-

In the Word Association test (WAT), 60 words will be flashed before you, each for 15 sec and you are required to write the first thought that comes to your mind after reading that word.

The WAT is designed to assess your personality traits, like all other tests administered by the psychologist, through the responses given by you in your psych dossier.

Situation Reaction Test (SRT)-

In the Situation Reaction Test (SRT), the candidates are expected to give outspontaneous and instinctiveresponses to certain stressful, unfamiliar and real to life situations.

A total of60 situationsare required to be addressed in30 minutes, i.e. 30 seconds per situation.

Self Description (SD)

The Self Description (SD) entails asking the candidate to write down, as to what, in his/her opinion the following people think about him/her:

Your parents
Your teachers
Your friends
You yourself