Practise the SSB Personal Interview

One Interviewing Officer — usually the President or Deputy President of the board.

The interview is a conversation built on the PIQ form, meant to see the Officer-Like Qualities in how a candidate has lived so far: how they organise an answer, how they get on with people, what they did when things got hard.

1. 1 Warm-up
2. 2 School
3. 3 Family & friends
4. 4 Games & NCC
5. 5 Why the forces
6. 6 Affairs
7. 7 Self-assessment

The SSB gives no marks. The Interviewing Officer's assessment of your Officer-Like Qualities meets the psychologist's and the GTO's at the conference.

Assessed on: Planning and organising · Social adjustment · Social effectiveness · Dynamic

In the real discussion your whole group of eight to ten sits in a circle. Here you sit it with five others.

The GTO gives the topic and takes no part. There is no chairperson and no conclusion required; the officer watches how each candidate reasons, listens and carries the group.

1. 1 The topic
2. 2 Discussion
3. 3 Close

No marks: the group testing officer reads it for officer-like qualities, with the other group tasks. It is the first GTO task, and there are usually two discussions on different topics.

Assessed on: Reasoning ability · Power of expression · Cooperation · Ability to influence the group · Initiative · Liveliness