Thematic Apperception Test in SSB consists of a set of ambiguous pictures that will be shown to the candidate, while looking at these pictures candidates must create a theme like a story that requires a hero and a challenge, how the hero will overcome the crisis and succeed.
In TAT a candidate will be asked to write a story on his own based on the images shown. A candidate shouldn’t just use his memory blocks and start preparing a story, he/she needs to see that in every third or fourth line there are different meanings coming, try interpretation and analyze those meanings in the third person because that meaning shows the candidate’s state of mind.
TAT Picture 1
TAT Picture 1 Story
Soham, a third year B.Sc. graduate was resting at his home on a Sunday morning when he suddenly heard a commotion outside his house. He noticed the huge cry for help and realizing the urgency quickly got up and rushed to the spot. He saw a woman drowning in a marshy pond and plunged into the pond. He noticed bubbles over the water and realized the woman under it. He took a deep dive and brought the woman up in a single attempt. He further caught her hair and pulled her across the pond, being persistently encouraged by the onlookers. He pressed the stomach and made the woman vomit and escorted the woman to her residence situated nearby. As no one was there at her home he caller her family members on phone and along with some neighbours, prepared hot water compress for her. He called the doctor and according to his instructions, tended to her. Her family came back and thanked Soham for saving her life. The next day he drew a petition alongwith the other locality members to clean the pond because of which the woman’s life was endangered as she slipped into the pond, and submitted it to the local municipality office so that these kinds of accidents could be avoided in future.
TAT Picture 2
TAT Picture 2 Story
It was heavily raining in the month of June 2009, it became difficult to come out of the house. At 11:30 p.m, Ajit heard a repetitive knock on his door to make immediate arrangements to hospitalize a patient of heart attack. There was no one at the patient’s home except for two ladies and kids. 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. 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. And with efficient and quick medical aid, the patient became comfortable within 4 hours.
Conclusion
- Never try to copy a story from some other source. Always try to reflect your personality rather than life events.
- It’s a well-known myth where people try to link it to their life by copying events and they are rejected.
- Always give the age of characters, and write what led to the story, what happened in the action part and a proper ending to the story.
- A psychologist is interested in extracting out the qualities rather than anything else, so don’t think it to be an English exam as the use of flashy words can’t save you if the story is psychologically wrong.
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