During Service Selection Board interview 5 day process, defence aspirants have to go through many test assessing their psychological and physical acuity. WAT short for Word Association Test is one of the psychological tests conducted on the second day of the interview process.
It is a very powerful tool in understanding the personality of the candidate. In this, 60 words are flashed on the screen one after the other with each word appearing for 15 seconds each within which a candidate is required to see the word and write a short sentence using the word.
10 Quick Tips To Crack SSB Interview Word Association Test [WAT]
- Do not use idioms and phrases as they are not your own idea but someone else’s imagination. WAT is not a test of English but a test of your imagination. It is your imagination that reflects about you and hence if you write idioms and phrases it will reflect the imagination of the other person which you are not.
- Never make suggestive sentences.
- Do not make sentences using celebrities.
- Convert negative words into positive sentences. Several words shown in the test will be negative in nature. It is important to convert the negative words into positive sentences. I have shown several examples in my video lectures for your benefit.
- Do not use I, We, They etc. in forming sentences as it tends to generalize. If you repeatedly write, I love my country, I am a hardworking person, I am obedient etc., it shows your obsession with the self and also reflects limitation of imagination.
- Do not reflect bias towards people, gender, caste, religion etc. If you say, ‘all women are physically weak’ that shows your belief and it is likely that you will look down upon them reflecting poor adapta
- Never write sentences that will reflect that you have strong craving for power, wealth etc.
- Do not write meanings of the words given.
- Make sentences based on current affairs and general knowledge. That will reflect that you are up and about and inquisitive which are signs of intelligence
- Make sentences showing cause and effect. For example when you make a sentence for the word ‘foul’ as ‘foul mind gives poor decisions’ shows reasoning that are logical.
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Sir I have two quiries
1. How to start narration of initial PPDT test
e.g. Good morning, Gentlemen I have perceived two characters in the picture one was male and other was female. Their mood was positive and neutral respectively. The age of the male was 31 and of female was 28. My story is Ram was………
Or
Just start the story without mentioning good morning and details of characters
2. If a picture is shown with clearly visible 2-3 female character there is no male character
In the picture then while making the story what should be my perception about the sexes. Should I assume them as clearly shown in the picture i.e female centric or male centric since I am male.
Please reply soon since my SSB interview is on 09 Jul 2017. I am waiting.