Self Description

   SELF DESCRIPTION TEST

The last in the battery of Psych tests is the Self Description Test (SD). Each candidate is given 15 minute and is asked to write 5 separate paragraphs on the opinion of his parents or guardian, friends, teachers or superiors, self opinion and qualities the candidate would like to develop/ inculcate in himself.

TIPS TO CRACK SELF DESCRIPTION TEST

• Listen to the instructions given by the Psychologist carefully.
• Be true and frank in giving your self-description. Never try to bluff about any of your qualities as the psychologist will easily find it out. Remind that psychologist is an experienced person he will easily find out the character traits even if you try to conceal.
• Your emphasis should be on such points that reveal some traits of your personality.
• We all have good traits as well as bad ones. Please write your bad points along with your good ones.
• You should take care that your self- description should never contradict with any of the information given to the board.
• Maintain a good writing speed.
• Never try to memorize any self description from anywhere and produce it before the board. It will only reduce your chances of selection as the SD will have no connection with your personality traits.
• Do not write strong negative things about you. There is much difference between weaknesses and negative qualities. Be positive.

 

QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED IN SELF DESCRIPTION

1. Write about your strength and weaknesses?

• The answer totally depends upon your personality and presentation of one’s personality in his mind. If one will have a good understanding about his personality, he will definitely perform better. The most important thing for a personality test to be remembered is one should have a good introspection of his/her personality to know and understand your strength and weakness much better. When you are writing your strengths make sure you are mentioning all the strengths which you think is most comparable to officer like qualities.
• Coming to your weakness, mention the weakness on which you are working on. If you have some weakness that you think can be an impediment in your selection, work on it. Try to talk to your parents, friends, and teachers and find out more about your weaknesses and make them in your strengths.

 

2. What your friends say about you?

• Now if you’ve friends you must have like them for most of their qualities and dislike them for their mistakes. The same thing goes with your friends. Try to write the positive traits of your personality. To elaborate more, you can give examples – How they helped in winning your battles of personal failures to convert them into success? Why do you like them? How you help them in achieving their aims. I would suggest that if you think that you are friendly in nature then you must remember names of all the people in your group and their likes and dislikes. Give examples how you help during their problem, during their ups and downs.

 

3. What your parents say about you?

4. What your teachers say about you?

5. What kind of person you want to be?

Observe the comments made about you by your parents, friends, teachers or you may directly ask them. 

Note these points on a paper and try to make a sample description. You have to practice it more and more times that you will be able to finish the description within allotted time. See that your friends, parent’s or teacher ‘s view should never contradict with your self- analysis and also among themselves. Practice will help you to eliminate unimportant points and give importance to important ones. Practice will improve your speed and confidence.

You are once again warned that you should never copy a Self Description from a book or from the internet and re produce it in the SSB AS IT WILL HAVE NO CONNECTION WITH YOU and character traits differ from person to person.

In short , have truthfulness and honesty while writing a SD and try to give a balanced view of your personality.

 

DOS & DON‘TS Of PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST 

DOs

• Listen and adhere to the instructions properly.
• Clarify all your doubts before the commencement of each test. Be as imaginative and spontaneous as possible.
• Give your first reaction to picture/word shown to you, don’t think twice as there is no right or wrong answer to the situation, everyone is like to respond in his own unique way.
• Be realistic and logical in your responses and keep track of time.

 

Don'ts

• Do not use coached/ tutored ideas while responding to psychological test battery.
• Do not create mental sets about pictures during run up to the SSB as it may restrict your spontaneity and imagination.

 

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