Welcome to this Ladies Special edition of our SSB preparation series!
The Situation Reaction Test (SRT) is one of the most crucial parts of the SSB Interview where your Officer-Like Qualities (OLQs) are tested under pressure — especially your decision-making, emotional stability, responsibility, and leadership.
In this article, we bring you 15 specially designed SRT situations tailored for female candidates, keeping in mind the unique challenges, responsibilities, and real-life scenarios women may face in both personal and professional spaces — especially in a military environment. Whether you’re a repeater or appearing for the first time, this article will not only train your mind to respond quickly and logically, but also help you understand what assessors are really looking for in a future lady officer.
Let’s dive in and start sharpening your psychological edge!
15 Sample SRT Situations With Responses For SSB Interview
During the final round of project submission, his leader got a call about his father’s heart attack. She is requested to make the project demo to the client. She will immediately accept the responsibility, review the demo details thoroughly, and confidently present the project to the client, ensuring her team’s efforts were effectively represented.
On the journey to college for your final year engineering project review, she got a call from her project co-coordinator’s son as he met with an accident and struggled in ICU, she will inform my teammates and immediately rush to the hospital to help the child, update the college about the delay and request a reschedule and ensure both moral responsibility and academic priority were balanced.
After reporting to your Commanding Officer you come to know that he is tough to talk to, you feel there are so many things to change in the unit. You will observe the functioning silently, implement small changes within my purview, document benefits, and respectfully present those with results to my CO, gaining his trust through consistent performance.
Your Commanding Officer never gives you permission to implement your ideas, but on a winter morning, your bunker gets heavy shelling from the western side, you will take immediate charge, assess the situation, implement my earlier ideas of alternate cover routes and emergency signaling, save my team from casualties, and later submit a report justifying the actions taken.
You are a south Indian and you don’t know Hindi well. While going to SSB at Allahabad, you lost your purse on the train. You will approach the train authorities, communicate in English and request help calmly, identify myself as a candidate for SSB and request assistance from fellow passengers or staff until I reached the board safely.
You are a fresh graduate of MBA taking charge of your father’s business and after your leadership, there is a sudden fall in business profits. You will analyse financial reports, identify gaps, take feedback from staff and customers, adjust business strategies, improve marketing, and introduce cost-effective practices to regain profits gradually.
You own a business and you have a good amount of money. Your brother scored less marks in the board exam while your brother’s friend scored good marks in the exam and he doesn’t have enough money to pursue engineering. Your brother also wants to pursue the same. You will motivate my brother to explore his true interests and guide him accordingly, offer financial support to his friend, respect merit and potential, while helping both build bright futures.
For more, check out Ladies Special | 15 Sample SRT Situations With Responses For SSB Interview | Part 22
