3 ways to utilize lockdown period for SSB interview preparation

Top three ways for SSB interview preparation during lockdown period. Step up SSB interview preparation during the lockdown period as this is the golden opportunity. Check out how to utilize lockdown period for preparing for SSB Interviews here.

As we all know that India has been locked down due to COVID 19 pandemic. Also, it is worth noting that the lockdown period in India is set to extend until 30 April 2020. Most of us have been staying indoors to beat the COVID 19 Corona virus. Due to this lockdown, many aspirants have started feeling depressed as the future is hazy as of now for many of the aspirants. If you are also one of the depressed aspirants who wanted to get recommended in SSB interviews, this article is for you. Go on and check out how to improve self-confidence and utilize the lockdown period to prepare well for SSB interviews.

Spend quality time with family

 As we are living in a world where all are busy and there is little room for mingling up with our family members. Times are so demanding that from the breadwinner of the family to the little boy who is a student; all are so engrossed at their daily routine that the whole family is not able to find quality time. This quality time is not the time when one is playing a video game on his mobile.

How spending quality time will help in the SSB interview?

So utilize this precious free time to spend some quality time with your family members as it will improve the bonding and also it will be beneficial for your SSB interviews! YES, you have read it correctly. Bonding with the family will help you a lot in cracking the SSB interviews. In the personal interview, Personal Information Questionaire and Self Description test will mainly focus on your bonding with your family. If you know your family well, it will surely boost your confidence and you will not stammer when the psychologist of the SSB interview board will ask you about your mother or father's opinion about you. 

So go on and spend some quality time with family members and ask for their opinion about you so that you can write down the same in the Self Description questionnaire in upcoming SSB interviews.

Spend some time towards developing a new hobby or towards an existing hobby

In the lockdown period, one can spend lot's of time to inculcate a new hobby or one may give some more time towards an existing hobby. It will not only help you to utilize the time but also will be beneficial in cracking the SSB interviews. 

How spending time towards a good hobby will help to crack SSB interview?

SSB Psychologist will come to know about you by looking at your hobbies. Hobbies range from collecting stamps or coins to tree plantation. Once you declare a hobby that you love to do, the SSB interviewing officers will definitely like to know whether you continue to spend some time towards your hobby or not. You will get into good books of SSB psychologists if they know that you spend some time on your hobbies even when your schedule is busy.

Golden tip for SSB aspirants to crack SSB interview - You can consider developing Yoga as a hobby. We will discuss more on this in our next article.

Improve your Spoken English

Even today, many aspirants keep on asking whether it is important to speak in English during SSB Group Discussion or PPDT tests. And the answer is always a YES! As an officer in the Indian Armed Forces after getting recommended by SSB interview, you will have to work in different geographical locations where native people may not be affluent in Hindi and also you might be participating in exercises involving defence personnel of other nations. So improving spoken English is always recommended for SSB aspirants so as to outshine during the five day SSB interview. 

How spoken English will help SSB aspirants to stay ahead of others?

Forget about post SSB interview life in the armed forces as an officer. Just imagine your group in which you are fighting hard to convince your ideas in Group Discussion Test of SSB interview where twenty per cent candidates are speaking in English, forty per cent candidates speaking in not so affluent English, twenty per cent in Hindi and the remaining twenty per cent candidates just struggling to get the right words for expressing their thoughts to the group members. So which group do you think that will be at a greater advantage during the SSB interview? Here I am not contending that all Hindi speaking candidates will be disadvantaged due to their inability to speak in English. There are many candidates who have cracked the SSB interview and were not so good at speaking in English. But it is unarguably good to improve your Spoken English skills as it would not only help in the SSB interviews but also in campus selection interviews where the companies hiring you will surely expect that you to speak in English.

What now?

So go on and prepare for your upcoming SSB interviews with much vigour as India and the world will surely fight and win with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Now it is your turn to utilize this precious lockdown time to prep up your SSB interview preparation to stay ahead during the interview.