Picture Perception and Discussion Test (PPDT)

A `psychological tool/test to check the thought process of the candidate.

Perception of a candidate in written form actually tells a very accurate story about the mental health of the
candidate.
Right from your
 Handwriting to the construction of sentences
 The vocabulary (meaning: choice of words)
 Storyline itself tells a lot about the candidate
 Keep on practice by writing stories on various pictures
 Improve your writing speed.
 Keep a clean and calm thought process while writing story.
 Always write a practically possible story.
 Writing something from real life situations is also helpful.
 Do not use very tough language which is hard to understand.

The POSITIVITY, FERTILITY AND OPTIMISM level of the mind is reflected through this test.

Also, you should be very thorough with the instructions for PPDT given by the Officer and must stick to that.
Don't show your over zealousness while writing your PPDT.
Stick to the basics and you shall sail through.
Most of the times candidates try to over complicate the storyline, overlook the time limit, ignore the
instructions and thereby ruin their chances of clearing the PPDT.

OIR (Officer Intelligence Rating) and Group Discussion (GD) are equally important for getting screened in. For the
uninitiated, screened in means to clear the First Round of your SSB on the Day 1 itself. It's like the Macro-filtration system of
SSBs.

The only thing that you may do is to develop a healthy and creative mind with decent proficiency in English.

There are two types of responses to a problem: REACTIONARY & VISIONARY.

Reactionary: a response which is immediate, for example jumping in the river to rescue someone drowning,
etc.
and, Visionary: a response which involves a long period of time, for example, taking initiative and building a
bridge across a river with the help of locals and NGO's.
One more tip: Do not use many adjectives to describe your hero, instead, let his actions describe how he is as a
person.

Follow this algorithm and make a story:

 Observe image (A lone guy walking on an isolated path)
 Create a stress (It is windy and about to rain, stormy weather)
 Introduce a crisis
 Intertwine stress and crisis: (Let the stress make the crisis worse)
 Hero's reaction
 Outcome
 Ideally, story should be 80-100 words long and should be written in 4 minutes
 COMING TO DISCUSSION:
Play a constructive role in the discussion, do not argue mindlessly, do not hog the limelight, do not raise your
voice.
In PPT, you will be given a series of 11 images, with 30 sec to make a story and 3 min to write story for each
image.
The group should be ready with a common story in the end, so one must discuss with that goal in mind.
Usually, the person who speaks considering the interests of the group gets recommended for Stage II testing.

1) Identify the situation and assign a central character( remember, you are the central character).
2) Give the background for the story, say in this image, a group of soldiers are laying a roadblock to guard
their outpost.
3) The tone of the story represents your mindset.
a. A positive minded and confident candidate will end the story on a positive note.

Example: The team leader identifies a group of terrorists rushing to your position , possibly a suicide
attack. The team leader( you), at the moment with only a fellow soldier and without means of
communication, face off the terrorists alone, are badly injured but they save the rest of their team from
the suicide bombers and are awarded for their bravery.

4) This test requires imagination

a. Read a few story books, non fiction books
One bullet away by Capt. Nate Fick is one of the most inspiring autobiography
5) Last, but not the least, be confident. Don't worry about what can happen or other factors, be the best
you can be.

Also observe that in a GD, conversations flow in a wave like pattern

This is your moment grab it.
Also when you speak and someone else also speaks at the same time, just continue with what you are
saying.
Finally, People often say that X didn't speak a word during GD but he got in? Because he
performed in aptitude.

How to write a story in PPDT?

 You will see the picture for 30 secs
 1 min to note down few details & then 4 mins to write your story on the page provided.
 In 1 minute you have to write down the details like gender of the characters you have seen,
their age , mood and circle the character you have seen first .
 All these details have to be marked inside the box printed on the sheet provided by SSB.
 Write M/F/P for male/female/person (if the gender is not clear).
 Write +/-/0 for positive/negative/neutral mood.
 Write their age assumed by you and as per the picture shown.
 Circle the details of the character you have seen first.
 On the right hand side of the sheet, you have to write the action happening in your story, it
could be in 3-4 words like ” saving a child” , “Enjoying in vacation” , “helping a poor” etc

How to write the story?

Good in grammatical sense Portray message from your personality
Speak about human emotions and actions Must be written in officers way
Weave story about hero and team. He must be Story should convey three phases:
accompanied by team. What has happened?
What is happening?
What will happen?
 Picture Perception [Story Writing] Sample of the PPDT story sheet:

Assumptions may vary person to person, but try to assume practical and logical, if you find the character as a
female, then write it as a female but male.
Details in the Box
 I have seen a female[F] character first on the very left side of the frame with positive mode
and age around 26 years.
 I have also seen another female [F] on the right hand side of the frame with little sad facial
expression (negative mood) and age around 40 years.
 I have seen another character in the middle of the frame, I am not able to guess the gender so
I marked it as a person [P] but I guess the age would be 45 years and mood is neutral.
 It may vary person to person, one may see only two characters and other may assume it as a
battle ground, so it depends on how you think and respond to what you see.

Action Part
I find the scene of an agricultural land, so my story is related to farming/ agricultural.
Few keywords came to my mind like
farming+agriculture+help+fertilizers+drought+earning+livelihood
Write the action in very short.
keep your story relavent to the picture and characters mentioned by you.
Sometime you may not be able to finish the story in time, but that’s okay, you can add
the missing parts while narrating but again make sure you do not change your story
completely, but try to keep it relevant.
Discussion Test [Individual Narration + Group Discussion]
Individual narration and group discussion decides whether you stay for the day or screened
out. So, use your full ability to perform well enough during narration and discussion.
This part consist two things
  Individual narration
 Group discussion
Afte r the story writing, candidates will be divided in a group of 12 -14
All group members are suppose to sit in a semi circular fashion.
You will be getting chance to read your s tory again just to revise before the individual narration
starts.
Individual narration:
1. Once the narration start, assessors will not interrupt neither you are suppose to look
or talk to assessors.
2. You will be getting sufficient instructions from assessors before the narration starts.
3. Try to keep your story short and to the point, you may get maximum 1 min to finish
your narration.
Group Discussion:
1. As soon as the last candidate completes narration, group discussion begins among
group members without any interruption from assessors.
2. Generally it starts with speaking/yelling at the same time, you are suppose to keep
your calm and show maturity.
3. The motto is to make a common story out of the picture shown
4. Contribute some points during discussion and try to find out the common point in the
story which others also observed and add it to the story because no one objects in
something which he/she also observed.
 If most of you have seen a village environment then say that keep the village
environment only and make story around that instead of making something odd.
5. Convince others and also agree with others, supporting your story is good but forcing
others to take whole part of your story as a common story is never gonna work for
you.
 Disagreement causes dissatisfaction, disapproval.
How you react to a contradiction, as everyone is in competitive mood.
Are you able to maintain the degree of patient listening?
The assessors would like to see as to how much mentally cool and composed are you.

What is required to be done?

The moment you speak
 your tone  your selection of words  your gesture
Please do not seek an opportunity to stop the discussion.
Managing the contradiction is more important rather than entering into contradiction.
Body language is an indication of your intention and mental language.
Body language should not overpower your words. Without body language, you become
neutral.
Speak considering the interests of the group
Tips while narrating:
 Be loud enough while narrating the story
 look at everyone except looking at assessors
 try to convey the message without going deep into the story content
 If you stuck in between come back on the track as soon as possible
 keep your story simple
Use story narration to get attention from assessors.
 Did you put your point even once?
 Did you contribute in the story making?
 Did you convince others regarding few points which you think are correct?

If they see a “village scene” then hero wanted to work for his village as an engineer.
Write something, which has quick action and not future plans
Make a happy ending with some twists and turns in your story
Assessors should get some interest and attention while reading/listening

Do not make detective type and superman type stories be normal and practical.
 All stories are judged on the basis theme and qualities
 Rahul is an young graduate who is coming from his frnds house late night. On his way to
his house heavy rain dropped in with huge thunders and lightning.
 He ran under the village community building for shelter. He understood that the rain is
getting worse and observed many people in huts lying inside and the water pouring into
their huts.
 He sensed trouble and ran with huge leaves which are lying there, by keeping on his head
to the village sarpanch’s house.
 He expalined the situation to the sarpanch,took keys of the community building,and with
the help of young men evacuated the people under huts to the community building.
 That night rain turned to cyclone and many huts were damaged.But all thanked Rahul for
his timely action which saved many lives.
Mohan was a sarpanch of Zaria village. He went to near by city to purchase some seeds.
While coming back to his home town, there was a huge thunderstorm and heavy lightning.
Mohan tried to reach asap to his home but unfortunately the rain has started so he find
some shelter to stand.
Already some peoples stand in nearby shelter, Mohan also joined with them.
Suddenly one huge tree has fallen down in center of the road.
At the time there was an ambulance with the emergency patient need to cross the road.
Without evacuate the tree, ambulance could not able to move further so Mohan asked help to
evacuate the tree from road side. Finally the tree has evacuated from the road side and got an
ambulance get a way to go hospital.
Raj was coming home from work on a cold stormy evening. At first he felt that he would
reach home before the weather got any worse, but the downpour only got worst.
He took shelter underneath some trees.
And as he stood there,he heard a loud cry for help,he rushed towards the direction from
where he heard the cry,and in front of him he saw what remained of a destroyed hut because of
the storm.
quickly he started searching underneath the ruins only to find a small little girl fighting
for life against the weight of the debris.
he quickly pulled her out and asked if there were others also in danger.
She said no and that her parents were out working the fields of others in another village
and hadn’t come back yet.
he wrapped her up with whatever material he could find and then carrying her on his back
ran as fast as his legs could take him towards the nearest village to help her. The village doctor
saw her and gave her the required medicines and advised that she must get a lot of rest.
Ramesh was a B.A graduate hailing from a small village of Uttar pradesh.His father was
sarpanch of the village.Ramesh was preparing for IAS and every month in the starting weeks he
used to go to magazine shop to buy Pratiyogita darpan as dere was limited stocks.It was monsoon
season,he went to take the book on monday and wen he was on his way his father called him and
told him about sum women along wid there small babies had cum to seek help becz dere babies
didnt take the polio drops on sunday becz of heavy rain.His father instructed him to go to d
doctor and report him about the situation.He went dere but the shop was fully packed with
patients,he requested the assistant to report the problem to doctor.The doc as he was busy culdnt
be able to go to his village so he juz instructed him about how to give polio drops.He tuk d small
bottles and walked towars his village and gave the drops to the babies.
Atish was pursuing graduation in the local college in his village.That day he was returning
to his home from his friend’s place after studying as he had an exam the next day.
But it started raining heavily so he stopped under the shed beside the road for the rain to stop.In
this mean time he got a call from the hospital on his mobile that a patient needs O+
blood in emergency because there is shortage of O+. As, he was voluntary donar in some of the
hospitals . So he decided to move to the hospital in the heavy rain and reach hospital as quickly
as possible. He also informed his mother that he might get late as he is going to the hospital for
donating blood.He walked quickly and reached the hospital on time .He donated the blood to the
patient. Till that time rain also stopped so he was able to return to his home on time.
Naval was headmaster in the village high school. As always he was on the walk around the
fields in the village. But today he was not feeling the fresh air,rather he was coughing due to the
polluted air. As he moved on, he saw big flames of fire in the field. He ran up to that field quickly
and what he saw was the farmers were burning the waste after cultivating their crop, which was
polluting the fresh environment of early morning. On the same evening, Naval with the help of
panchayat members talked to the farmers of the village and told them about the new government
plans for controlling air pollution, according to which they can sell the waste to fertilizer
companies and they should keep some amount of it in fields itself, as it will provide nutrients to
the soil for next crop. In this way Naval help the cause of pollution control in his village.
Sambodh was a teacher of a primary school in lohjang area of Uttrakhand. One day while
coming from school, there was a huge thunderstorm and heavy rain.All the roads were blocked. He
took shelter under a tree.After some time he got a phone call from one of the parents of his
students that their son has still not reached home. Despite the thunderstorm he went back to the
school. But he didnt find anyone there. He again left from the school and finally found the boy
stuck under a tree. He took him to hospital for first aid and later took him to his home.
Ravi was a college student living in a village. one day while coming from the college huge
rainfall started with heavy thunderstorm.he took shelter under avtree with other people standing
there.suddenly a jeep overturned while turning due to slippery mud as the road was not concrete
made.ravi quickly rushed toward the spot and overturned the jeep with the help of other
people.he took out the driver and tied his handkerchief to his hand as blood was flowing out of
it.he along with two more persons put him in the jeep and took him to nearby hospital and
informed his relatives,after their arrival ravi went to his home.next day he visited again to
hospital and found that driver condition was improved.
Kamal belong to a small city near the Kangra district and was studying in MCA final year
one day while going to his area he saw that a speeding car hit a man who was crossing a road he
immediately note down the car number and saw a passing vehicle and took a lift to admit him to
hospital after admitting him he was sad with the traffic rules of the police and casual behavior of
the police on duty after reaching his area he report to the representative of his village and went
to police station to report against such careless duty by traffic police as that speeding car driver
was driving after consuming liquor and latter he visit hospital and then was very happy to know
that that man is out of danger
Interesting Point: Many candidates are unable to identify the actual object in front of the boy, in the very first
look.

This is story of Vinod who is a very brilliant child in academics and co-curriculars. He make
is aim to join ISRO after completing graduation and master's degree fromm IIT. Being a
responsible and undistracted boy he prepares for his 10TH boards followed by 12th and
finally he make it in IIT-JEE. This leads him to ISRO finally after completing his masters
form IIT itself. He becomes support to his family and earns a lot of fame in ISRO.
Ramesh was a school boy of standard 7th, he was a very bright student and also had interest
in learning violin. But, to his displeasure, his parents were unable to support him
financially. This aim of joining Violin classes was itching inside him. He then discussed the
thing with his school friend, who is very close to him. Understanding the financial crunch of
Ramesh's family, his friend discussed the same with his father and arranged for the money
to get him admitted. Ramesh was grateful, by the help and concentrated well in his violin as
well as academics. He proved it worth by getting selected for a national appearance in stage
for violin and got gold medal for his effort. This please both his parents as well his friend
and friend's parents. Further, with the happiness of getting gold medal he studied well and
got thru in academics in Ist division and made everyone proud. He later on became a very
famous violinist of India.
Sampath is a fresh graduate who came for vacation to his relative's home in ooty. He used to
come there for all vacation and he had a group of friends too. One fine evening he and his
friends planned to go for outting in that awesome place. It was chill outside and sampath
started to walk to his friends place. It started heavily raining while he walking. He never
mind those thunders, ligtning and heavy rain and happily drenched himself in rain and
walked to his friends home. By seein sampath drenched in rain all his friends started
walking in the heavy rain and they enjoyed the eveing very happily and it was a memorable
one for sampath.
sumit is a very intelligent child in his class and academy. His dream is to join armed force so
he is preparing hard for competitive exam so that he can score more marks and join armed
forces.so by joining armed force he is going to make his family proud on him.
 Niranjan and Arundhati
were a happy couple.Niranjan decided to open his own business and hence left his job. He opened a restaraunt ,
but sadly fell ill with cancer.It fell upon arundhati to run a restaraunt while her husband was treated and also
take care of her family.Despite the tough odds, she worked diligently, asking her friends and parents to help out
when she had to spend more time at the restaraunt or hospital. Finally after months of treatment, niranjan
started getting better and the restaraunt started making profit. Arundhati realised that the worst had passed
 The weather is cloudy, is on its full swing.
A young man is confronting the storm with a
dash,
it seems that he is ready to brave the risk
and challenge the situation.
Observation :(Heavy rains with storm)
Windy
Weather
Village Environment
Lonely
Spot/Way
No human settlement around
How a Desirable Story is to be Made?
It was heavily raining in the month of
June 2009, it became difficult to come
out of the house.– Here the stress is created.
At 11:30 p.m, Ajit heard a repetitive knock on his door to make immediate arrangements to
hospitalize a patient of heart attack.– What led to the situation (Here the situation is responsible
to originate the crisis)
There was no one at the patient’s home except for two ladies and kids.– What led to the
situation is grabbing the stress, as the degree of difficulty is being raised along with the surrounding
and a ttending circumstances.
Ajit immediately managed few medicines like life saving drugs under the telephonic advice
of a heart specialist, from a nearby medical store causing no delay. He advised the ladies to
administer the doses and continue minute to minute respiration.– What is going on? This
situation depicts the emergency and a crisis of an urgent nature.
He left the place while facing the heavy cyclone with the heavy rain and within 45 min, he
returned back with mobile van and a doctor, to be taken to hospital.– In this situation, the
‘Hero’ is combating the stress with the fighting spirit and resources available.
And with efficient and quick medical aid, the patient became comfortable within 4 hours.–
What is the outcome?(This is the outcome)

Ajit was returning home late night as he works in a call centre, but that particular day it
starts to rain and for that he had to take shelter in a near by bus shed. After sometime he
noticed that due to heavy storm a car lost its way and hits the street lamp post and the
persons inside the car were injured, He rushed immediately towards the accident site and
helped the injured persons to reach the hospital in time and then he informed the police and
the victims family members about the accident. Doctors said that the injury is normal they
will be fine soon.
Ajit was a young surgeon who was serving the people of Rampur with dedication.On one
heavy raining at night, he was called to see a patient of heart attack.After reaching there, he
realized the case was complicated and he didn't have sufficient tools to operate the patient
in his clinic.The patient was needed to transfer in the city hospital urgently.And there was
no one at the patient home except two old ladies and kids.Ajit immediately gave some pills
to the patient and advised the ladies to keep monitor the patient constantly.He left the place
without caring of cyclone and heavy rain and returned back soon with a mobile van and a
doctor to take the patient to the hospital.After the treatment, the patient become
comfortable soon.
 The TAT (Thematic Apperception Test)
 What has led up to the situation
 What is happening at the moment
 What the characters are feeling and thinking their mood.
 What is the outcome of the story

Characteristics of the Story

The Hero: Each story must have a hero or the chief character with whom the writer identifies himself.
The hero should exhibit qualities which an officer of the Armed Forces should possess.
He should act and behave like a normal human being and not like a supernatural being.
Other characters who help the hero in the execution of the task undertaken by him.
Situation in the Story:
What it is ?
How it came into being or what events led up to it?
What will be the outcome or conclusion?

Ajay was returning home late night as

he works in a call centre, but that particular
day it starts to rain and for that he had to
take shelter in a near by bus shed. After
sometime he noticed that due to heavy
storm a car lost its way and hits the street
lamp post and the persons inside the car
were injured, He rushed immediately towards the accident site and helped the injured persons to reach the hospital in
time and then he informed the police and the victims family members about the accident. Doctors said that the injury is
normal they will be fine soon.
TAT picture 1.
anita and kihan were a lovely couple from delhi.both f dem had joined air force.they loved each odr dearly.however dr
postings were at different places.anita was at meterological dept. in bangalore and kishan served as flt. lft. at ambala.it ws
anita's bday on 28th july that kishan decided2 surprise hr. while she was sleeping, he sat near her, he woke hr up, wished
her and kissed on her forhead. seeing this pleasant surprise she got elated and both dm celebrated the occasion.
sir, kindly tell me d mistakes.
Ashok, an athlete, was in the final year of his graduation in engineering. He was very keen to run in marathons. A marathon
was going to be held in his city. He decided to participate and enrolled for the same. He consulted his coach and started the
preparations. He woke up early in the morning and silently went for practise without making any noice. He kept targets in
for of him and ran to complete it in estimated time. At the beginning he was falling short by few minutes, which he
improved over days. He increased his diet, did stretching exercises after the run. day by day improved the performance. On
the appointed day he participated and performed very well.
Picture 2:
Shoeb was an enginering student in Ramnath college of technology. He had a hobby in trekking. After his exams he wished
to take a brake and go for trekking from nagra hill to pithora garh. He talked to his friends and they all agreed upon the
idea. He made all the arrangements and they left on the next morning. They started the hike and were enjoying the beauty
of the surroundings. Suddenly the way forward was seen blocked due to

However, it is not mandatory to write only a particular theme or story for blank slide, but whatever we wrote
for blank side is of utmost importance, blank slide story reflects more about your personality and lifestyle.
When you see a blank slide, your response will be always difference unlike other 11 picture slide.

In other 11 picture slides, one must write

stories relevant to the picture but still can do
little modification as per
the thoughts coming in his/her mind. But,
when you have a blank slide, your mind plots
a theme which is close your personal life, so
that is the reason blank slide story matter
much with respect to
our psychological assessment.

Story for blank slide

This is sort of a mystery for many, what to write in blank slide? One must not take this lightly, as said above, blank
slide story is of utmost importance for psychological assessment and your personal assessment.
We asked few recommended candidates personally about their blank slide story and this is what they have said:
Vinay: I wrote about my personal life and the challenges I have faced during my studies. I wrote about how did I overcome
those problems. Personally, I was not sure what I was writing because it was my first SSB attempt and I cleared it, so I can
not say what to write in blank story, but this is what I wrote.
Shilpi: I got guidance from one of my friends, so I wrote all story based on my personal life experiences and the blank
story was connected to other stories.
Kiran: My story was on science fiction, which I personally love a lot. I had prepared my blank story well in advance so it
was very easy for me.
Rohit: It was about a boy who was passionate to join Defence, so it was basically out of my experiences of joining the force.
I passed my SSB in 7th attempt, so I mentioned the problems and obstacles I faced during these attempts in brief.
Blank slide is a very good opportunity to show your inner qualities which you may not express directly else
where. And, it is always good to keep some connection between rest of the stories.
 Ram is student studying class 9,
her mother last week underwent an
operation and doctors have
suggested to do bed rest for at
least one week, and he is alone in
the house with his mother. Seeing
the situation he stopped going to
school and sent an application
letter through his friend for the
leave as he has so many
responsibilities in the house,
giving medicines to his mother at
the correct time, make food his
mother, washing clothes etc, due to
shear dedication towards his
mother, his mother recovered her health within few days and she was really happy to have a son
like him.

Rana is a captain of
football team
representing mechanical
in his college, due to
failure in the last match
played Rana along with
his team mates practices
daily during evening
hours 2 hours daily,
giving practices of how
to dodge a ball, how to
defend a goal, how and
when to pass, improving
the stamina of players.
During the match
competition with the
electrical department
team Rana motivated confidence of his players and reminded them of their practices Rana too well
played during the match and finally won the trophy and being awarded as the best captain.

Anup is an engineering
student who went along with
his friend to Manali for a trip,
during trekking they all went
out for the safe limit and all
got stuck, there was one
around for help except some
broken trees and bushes,
Anup told his friends not to
hamper for the situation and
he thought of sending
message for help, he along
with friend made an
aeroplane like structure from
the wooden sticks and leaves
and on it wrote need help. They flew it from a certain height so that it could be reached to people on the other side of
mountain. They were successful in their plan and were finally rescued.
 Suresh is an engineer and is going
with his secretary for his office work
and was already late for his site work,
on the way while he was driving he
met with an accident, he hit the
school boy coming from his left,
crowds gathered around his car,
leaving his thought about his work he
immediately took the boy into the car
rush him to the hospital and he
admitted his crime to the police that
he was driving fast as he was getting
late for his work and felt guilty and
promised himself will not do it again.
Soon the School Student get fit .

 Don't go off-track
 Example we have seen 2 peoples standing near a dead body in a room and you just
started writing about the dead body, that a commando has died and make full story
on commando and war
 Start with a Firing name, which you will give to your story hero and the you have to
write the picture description in two or three lines like what is room scenario, who
one is there and how the things look like in room it will be written based on your
perception.
 A scene of 2 boys going to forest.
 Write like this- It is a pleasant morning and Rudra has decided to go into forest
for his survey on forest animals.
 Make a problem in story and let it solve by your hero,
 For example, Sometimes you are shown accident scene then write like this-
Ram is a social worker, It is Monday and he is going to college, Suddenly he saw
a man has stuck with a bus, he rushed toward it.
 Write starting
 lines for past which will tell what had happened. T
 Then, take your story in present which shows solution of that problem.
 And then for bright future of hero if u like, Most of you like to write bright
future in 4-5 lines and they don't even write about problem solution. So please
avoid it.
 Don't write bad about anything specially for persons if u can't see in image.
 Write about what you have seen in image
 Example a person is standing in front of mirror- Raman is getting ready for his
interview, after taking bath and wearing clothes he is standing in front of
mirror and motivating himself that he is looking good to boost his confidence
 A case of Eve Teasing : Generally we face problem what to write and how to write on negative pictures

Essentials
See the picture and read the event leading to the situation.
The picture depicts a case of eve teasing and should be commented rather forcing a theme not
leading to the events
The surrounding areas should be commented and related to the circumstances
All four characters seen in the picture should be commented.
Sequences of event should be maintained
Write the story chronologically, events should be interlinked and discussion made effective
What have you seen A person holding a hand of another person and two ladies
looking at each other
Characters involved Four
Age profile 18 to 30 years
Mood neutral
What has already happened Probably, a eve teasing case
Present happenings Giving moral ethics to the offender not to repeat such incidents
or face dire consequences
Final outcome productive
Come to a common consensus Making society answerable to the citizens
 A Person Standing in Front of Mirror : This is very general picture

Essentials
 See the picture critically and evaluate such circumstances and situation.
 The surrounding area should be commented in great detail with the central character being the role model of the event.
 Link the event and come up to a rational thought process.
 Describe the present happenings and after affects.
 Have a meaningful interpretation listen to each other carefully and come to a sound judgement

What have u seen A man is standing in front of a mirror in a room

Characters involved One
Age profile 25 to 30 years positive
Mood positive
What has already happened Cleared IAS prelim examination
Present happenings Preparing for the interview
Final outcome Productive and interview successful
Come to a common consensus Mission achieved with high level dedication
 Two People Standing on Top of a Rope Bridge
Essentials
The picture depicts a river line scene and a rope
bridge across the bank.
The one character of the two should display the role
model and lead the event.
The natural layout of the river line can be a part of
write up.
The story perceives should be productive and
meaningful.
The event should involve both the character.
Have a meaningful sequence of events, listen to all
candidates and lead to a faithful discussion and
conclusion.

What have you seen Two persons standing on the rope bridge with the river flowing underneath.
Characters involved Two
Ago profile 20 to 25 yrs
Mood Positive
What has already happened A visit to a national park
Present happenings Getting ready to see wild life in the forested area across the river line
Final outcome Adventure trip and mission successful
Come to a common consensus Adventure loving and enjoying the natural environment
 A person running in the direction of a train

Essentials
1. The picture depicts a person running in the direction of the train in an hospitable terrain and line of mountain as the
back.
2. The surrounding area which looks close to village should be commented
3. The address by the main character should be related to the train and the track and lessons derived out of such
conditions.
4. The train can possible act to achieve objectives in life.
5. Listen to all the students taking part in the discussion.
6. The views of other students should be taken into account at the time of common consensus.

What have you seen One person running in the direction of the railway track and a train coming from
the opposite direction.
Characters involved one
Ago profile 18 to 20
Mood Positive
What has already happened Physical workout
Present happenings Making himself mentally and physically tough and reaching the destination and
driving own life to glory like the train helping people to reach destination.
Final outcome Mission successful
Come to a common consensus Learning from routine events and making life meaningful with effort.

A Person Addressing Two students in a Room

Essentials
1. The picture displayed is generally obscured.
2. See the picture carefully and evaluate the sequence of
events concerning all three characters.
3. The central character should be of your age profile and
depict of vibrant personality.
4. The senior character can be counselor or a person in
high office.
5. The second leading character should also be commented and given a rule.
6. Make a meaningful analysis of the situation and come to a logic conclusion.

What have you seen Tone person sitting across the table spectacles and two boys standing in front in
school uniform.
Characters involved three
Ago profile 16 to 40 years
Mood Positive
What has already happened Suggestions to make a project on energy crisis
Present happenings Detailed briefing by the principal of the institution to prepare the project as part
of CBSE requirement
Final outcome Project successful and as per of CBSE requirement demonstrated
Come to a common consensus Learn from hard work and success in mission
 A Person Addressing a Group of People Under a Tree

Essentials
1. The picture scene should be commented keeping in view.
2. The surrounding area which looks akin to village should be commented.
3. The address by the main character should be related to the existing circumstances presently seen in the village
4. The audience shown should be receptive and understanding.
5. Interest should be generated and sequence of events maintained.
6. During the discussion, the views of other students should be taken into account at the time of common consensus

What have you seen in the picture One person addressing a group of people under the tree
Characters involved 25 to 30
Ago profile 16 to 40 years
Mood Positive
What has already happened Suggestions to improve literacy in the village
Detailed briefing by the person to include primary education for all the children
Present happenings
and to introduce the adult education in the village
Final outcome Mission successful and literacy rate improved
Come to a common consensus Briefing the better living standards and continuous learning
 Always remember, making your assessment of the central character and the characters, basically
depicts your own personality and your viewpoint to include the people around you. In psychologyof SSB, there
is no right/wrong answer but the appreciation of the picture in question should be correctly interpreted and
commented, Remember , the picture are shown to suit your profile in general, hence anything not suiting your
profile or working beyond your limitations should not be penned, your should write a detailed account of the
picture , which should be comprehensive and complete in all respects.

Do not be in a hurry to write, buy see the picture critically. Critical analysis will help you ascertain the
picture fully and improve your perception at the time of writing. Once, the approximately five minutes to write
your story on the picture. After the elapsed period, your sheet will be taken away and given appropriate time
for your discussion