Dear Students,
You
must be figuring out all the information that can assist you in preparing the
defence exams. This article provides answer to the following questions:
1.
Should I join a
coaching?
2.
What is ssb Procedure?
3.
How to crack written
exams?
Let me answer your queries one by one.
SHOULD I JOIN A COACHING?
It
is not extreme necessity that you join any coaching. If you are well confident
of yourself regarding your theoretical knowledge, medical fitness and you
already have OLQ(Officer Like Qualities) then you certainly do not need any
coaching program. Go ahead and best of Luck.
On the other hand it is very important at
this stage to be very careful and not fall in the trap of over-confidence and
delusion. At this stage it is natural that we tend to believe that everything
is possible and we can crack defence exams as per our rule. Here I would
strongly advise to stay out of this mentality.
Let us see some of the facts related to
NDA:
1.
Around 3,00,000 students
from all over the country appear for the NDA exam every year.
2.
Around 8,000 students clear written exams.
3.
Around 450 students
clear SSB.
The statistics mentioned above clearly
indicate that it will take more than wishful thinking, applying for exam , to
become an officer.
Why should you join a reputed defence academy?
I have outlined here the reasons why you
should choose a coaching.
1.
The defence academies has
faculty members who have already guided so many students to become officers. Let us take the example of Warriors Defence
Academy. Faculty members at WDA have
carefully prepared each course and make sure that each student focuses on the
important concepts and tricks. Our excellent course and well trained staff
makes us army, airforce, navy, cds, afcat, best
nda coaching in Lucknow.
2.
In defence exams medical
fitness is equally important as written exams. Warrior defence academy has
dedicated ground facility and coaches to make sure you excel in the medical
fitness as well. You can find the images in the campus section on the website.
Every Morning and Evening students are required to attend the sports stadium
and perform all kind of physical activities needed after written exam.
3.
Best Defence Academies already
have most promising and motivated students from the country studying in the
campus. You get an opportunity to test yourself in weekly tests how much you
need to improve. Some students are from
cities, some from villages, someone from a reputed schools they all bring
certain value and provide enormous opportunities for the students to learn from
each other.
4.
The coaching at defence
academies is not as expensive as engineering and medical exams. At Warriors
Defence Academy we make sure that a promising student gets best from us. We
provide financial discounts to the students from weak backgrounds.
5.
Regular interaction with
defence officers provides great motivation. Warriors Defence Academy believes
not only in excellent academic preparation but also fosters a polished defence culture in the institute by regularly
organizing events where WDA alumni and other defence officers guide students
towards success.
6.
It is extremely important to
have a disciplined and polished personality to become an officer. Warrior Defence
Academy provides personality development
classes to students each week.
SSB REQUIREMENTS:
The SSB procedure consists of two stage
Selection process - stage I and stage II. Only those candidates who clear the
stage I are permitted to appear for stage II. The details are:
(a)
Stage I comprises of Officer
Intelligence Rating (OIR) tests are Picture Perception * Description Test
(PP&DT). The candidates will be shortlisted based on combination of
performance in OIR Test and PP&DT.
(b)
Stage II Comprises of Interview, Group Testing
Officer Tasks, Psychology Tests and the Conference. These tests are conducted
over 4 days. The details of these tests are given on the website
joinindianarmy.nic.in.
The personality of a candidate is assessed
by three different assessors viz. The Interviewing Officer (IO), Group Testing Officer (GTO) and the Psychologist. There are
no separate weightage for each test. The marks are allotted by assessors only
after taking into consideration the performance of the candidate holistically
in all the tests. In addition, marks for Conference are also allotted based on
the initial performance of the Candidate in the three techniques and decision
of the Board. All these have equal weightage.
The various tests of IO, GTO and Psych
are designed to bring out the presence/absence of Officer Like Qualities and
their trainability in a candidate. Accordingly
candidates are Recommended or Not Recommended at the SSB.
HOW TO CRACK WRITTEN EXAMS:
You can find tons of advice and sometimes
it all seems much confusing since the students do not know where to begin
planning and how to organize.
Each student has his own way of attempting
exams and since I was a student once and I found that my ways were quite
helpful to me I have reason to believe that they may be of help to you too.
1.
Do not mess with questions: I would strongly urge you try to attempt all those questions first
which you are sure and answers are before-hand. Leave those which are
difficult. Remember they are eating your time. Move ahead. Most of the time it
happens that you come back at the question only to find that you know the
answer. The reason for the above is simple. Our subconscious mind keeps working
on the questions which we have left behind while working on the next questions
with our conscious mind.
2.
Make sure to bubble answers
at regular intervals so as not to miss any question which answer was known
to you.
3.
Always reserve the first five
minutes for the overview of the paper and the last five minutes to check your
work.
4.
Do not lose your faith.
Sometimes it happens that question paper appear very tough on the surface
but remember two things in such cases:
a.
The question paper is tough for
everyone.
b.
Find those questions which are
easy to solve and finish them first.
