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What is PPDT and How to Clear PPDT – Picture Perception and Description Test

On day 1 of Indian Armed Forces service selection board SSB interview procedure, candidates who have gathered from all over the country to their respective SSB canter have to face screening test. Under screening test two rounds of tests are conducted one is Picture Perception and Description Test (PPDT) and another one is Officer Intelligence Rating (OIR) test. Candidates who have cleared both the test will only be able to stay for the next 5 day SSB interview procedure. The screening test is very lengthy and sometimes very disappointing procedure, thatโ€™s why candidates have to push beyond their potential limit to survive the first day.

What is PPDT

As described PPDT is short of picture perception and description test, candidates will be shown a random picture on which candidates have to write a story in a brief amount of time then each candidate has to take part in a group discussion with fellow candidates where they have to discuss their stories with each other and in conclusion, they have to decide whose story was the best or come to a consensus to make a common story.

In PPDT a candidateโ€™s narrative capability is put under test along with his communication skill, technically it doesn’t matter in what language he is speaking (English or Hindi) but how better he is speaking. But, it is suggested to stick to English. A candidate has to show the properties of an efficient speaker in a group.

What is the PPDT Procedure

What is PPDT
  • During PPDT a bit hazy or blurred picture is shown to the candidates for about 30 seconds.
  • In about next one minute candidates have to write down the details that have noticed in the picture, it will help them in narrating the story (This part is bringing out the perception from the PPDT). Say for example in the above given picture a candidate may notice following things:
    1. There are two living characters in the picture, one is male and the other one is female.
    2. There is one table with one gun on it; one TV which is ON and no oneโ€™s looking at it; there is one window with no curtains, one painting hanging on the wall, one sofa and one stand.
    3. Male in the picture is formally dressed and looks between 35-40 years in age, he is loosening up his tie and his facial expressions are tensed and tired.
    4. Female in the picture is formally dressed and looks between 25-30 years in age, she is sitting on the sofa and her facial expressions are sad and disappointed.
  • These assumptions or heat reading of the picture in PPDT is very crucial, the better your skills are the better story you will narrate.
  • After writing down the details of the picture, candidates will be given 4 minutes of time to write the story.
  • After story writing part is complete candidates will formed in a group and story discussion part will start.

How to write a story in PPDT

There are many ways in which the above given picture can be perceived, for sake of understanding, we will discuss one here. In every story there should be a situation or a problem and then there should be a solution or a way for it, letโ€™s say in this case the women (say Mrs Anjali Gupta) is sad because her husband had been missing for days, she had asked for help from local police authorities but they are not much of any help so she hires a private detective (say Mr. Rajat Kumar), he try to trace the last seen whereabouts of the husband before he went missing and found a lead, but later found out that the lead was a dead end. This failure leaves Mr Rajat tired and the wife disappointed, but this doesnโ€™t mean Rajat was ready to quit he was a professional and knows, not every lead is a successful one he needed to up his game and he did, leaving the traditional ways of searching he tried a new way of approach and used social networking websites. Soon he found a new lead which turns out to be a successful one, he found that the husband was injured during an accident and was admitted to a local hospital; during the accident, the husband lost his mobile and purse thatโ€™s why the hospital authorities were not been able to contact the husbandโ€™s family members.

In the above given story there are few negative and positive points, If the readers can find out what they are, they are encouraged to leave it in the comment section.

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What is Group Discussion in PPDT

As soon as the candidates have completed their story they are formed in group of 12 to 14 members then the GD starts. Description test has two parts – first is individual narration where a candidate will tell his/her story to every group member and second is group discussion that is conducted right away as the individual narration of the stories are over.

Candidate with the least chest number start narrating his/her story, once finished, the next candidate will start his/her narration. As the narration is done no signal will be given by assessors candidates have to start the GD by instinct.

The discussion will go on for 10-15 minutes and then either group can itself conclude the discussion by picking one story and agreeing that it was the best or the discussion will stop by the assessor and he will ask candidates to conclude the discussion.

Tips on How to Clear PPDT

  • In PPDT, once the narration is started, assessors should not be interrupted by any of the candidates it will result badly for the whole group. Itโ€™s the group membersโ€™ responsibility to handle the discussion without outside help.
  • Candidate should narrate his story within one minute.
  • If the group discussion becomes a fish market, a candidate should try to calm everybody down and continue the discussion in a well-mannered way.
  • Donโ€™t let the discussion go away from the discussion topic of PPDT, try to interrupt very carefully because interrupting in these kind of situation can go both ways for a candidate.
  • Give chance or inspire everyone to speak and praise others point too if possible it shows a supportive nature in PPDT.
  • In story writing, the story should be positive and must sound realistic. Avoid inhuman fictional possibilities in PPDT.
  • Give name to characters, itโ€™s a good habit.
  • The basic format of story should be: a problem arises, the hero solves that problem, and hero feels happy about him solving the problem.
  • Comment (43)
  • Positive points of stories are-
    -Anjali did not gave up & hired private detective.
    -Rajat found anjali’s husband.
    -Rajat tried new way of searching.
    -Rajat found the reason behind the accident.

    negative points of stories are
    – Police was not helping to lady.
    – rajat got tired due to traditional way of working

    • story is good but, Generally, a CBI officer does not carry a gun with him and in your story itself, it seems, conditions are normal like a daily routine. there is no serious threat or any other cause in your story. Remember you should write a story in such a manner that the Officer like quality should be demonstrated in your character(which you assumed as Revanth).

    • Revanth is working as a C.B.I officer most of his time he is busy with his duty and his children are studying in other places for higher studies.He felt that his wife was feeling bored by staying alone in home.so whenever he found time he will take and go her to movies,shopping and picnic and he know that she is fond of watching korean serials so he brought d.v.ds for her.In these way he became a good husband and at the same time he is able to do his duty perfectly

    • Story is made that way so that readers can point out negative and positive aspects by themselves, you can also share them if you have any in the comment section.

    • English is prefered over there, when everybody is taliking in english and you are taliking in hindi then your impression will go down. Try mixing it together atleast.

  • is this story applicable too??

    Mr Vijay a Police office was returning home from his duty . He saw some masked men entering a house forcefully. vijay followed them and saw that 3 robbers were trying to loot Mrs Jain’s house when she was alone. He took his revolver and confronted the robbers, one robber tried to attack Vijay but failed as vijay tactfully overpowered the robber and then tied all of them to the furniture. Vijay called for backup and stayed with Mrs jain handling the situation.

    – palash

  • mr. amit was a police office . he assigned a task to arrest some criminal but unfortunately all the criminals rum away before amit came there . The senior police officer suspend Amit from police department . When he returned back from his office to home then he told all this incident to his wife . they both become very sad and Mr. Amit put his gun in table .
    Suddenly a news comes in tv that all those criminals were arrested by the junior officer who is the subordinate of Amit . Amit immediately called his junior and thanks him and heaved a sigh of relief and he again join the police department with full respect .

    • Add the part where he learns about his mistake that he was committing while chasing the criminals and how his junior was able to overcome those mistake, then add that he praised him for his valour and leaned his mistakes and return backto department with respect

  • Mr.Raju is the senior most police officer in mumbai and he is living with his wife and their only daughter swathi. Since Raju was a senior office he has many responsibilities. One fine day he returned back to home at night placed his pistol on table and shows his irritation and tiredness to their family members. Swathi got upset and asked her dad what happened? Raju replied that, from morning i planed to complete one task due to not getting proper inputs from my subordinates am not able to finish it today. Swathi motivates his father by telling that dad dont get tensed be cool and if you not complete it today you might finish it tomorrow with double satisfaction. As per her daughter perception he finish it on next day and said thanks to her daughter.

  • Mr Rajiv 32 is a police inspector and is newly posted to the city with his wife. He checked the reports about the city and found that the city has the high crime rates. So, he formed a special team with his coordinators to tackle with crime. He used to come late at home due to high pressure and responsiblites on him. Her wife doesn’t like this working too late and seeing him always tensed but she knew what her husband is doing for the city and always motivates him. Soon due to his hard work and commitment he managed to brought the crime rates to almost zero and is awarded by his department and he thank his wife to support him .

  • Mr` Rahul is police officer most of the time he was busy in his work one day he found a vagrant revolver is on his desk and his wife is crying behind the desk Her wife told him some person came and looted them and also kidnaped her son her wife discuss each and everything about looters Rahul try to search them with his team and finally find out those with the help of their previous record in crime and arrested them Finially he got back his son and stay happy with his family

  • ram is a CBI officer. he is in his office with his secrtiary. he gets news of ISIS terrorist planning to derail the rail track near jalandar cant junction. he immediately informs jalandar police and railway police forces. within 1 hour of informing suspected people were arrested near rail track in jalandar cant and the damage done by them was immediately repaired. ram was appreciated for his responsible and dedicated behavior towards his work

    • Nice plot ….Plz review on my story …May be some grammatical error will be in my story …
      Being an IPS officer working schedule of Priyam , was very heptic . Sometimes he didn’t visited his home for too long . In the result his behaviour became annoying towards his wife . Sometimes he shouted on her without any reason . His wife broke down after seeing the behaviour of her husband . Priyam , thought what should be did to overcome this ? Finally he joined art of living and yoga classes to calm himself and after few days result became positive . He shared his experience with his officers and motivated them to join this program in order to maintain balance in between professional and personal life

  • We can also write about a situation of molestation in colg she tells to his father nd further we can help of college authorise and at last the colg authorise will warn the guys who made the mistake nd threaten to not to do again in future.. .

  • Shikha was a student of Delhi university who had just completed her graduation.
    In the campus interview she got selected for the company infosys with a good package. Her job place was bengaluru.She was very happy and asked her father about travelling to bengaluru. Her father being a police officer refused her to work in bengaluru and worried about her security. But shikha convinced his father. She told him about the merits of working in a different place. She also persuaded her father about telling him the women empowerment and she can do everything a man can do. She succeeded in convincing her father and left for the city.on reaching bengaluru she made a call to her father that she has landed safely.

  • Vicky(40) is a deputy commissioner, came back home after a long hectic day, put his revolver on the table. Indulged in his work so much he could not noticed that it was his wife’s birthday.. his wife Puja(35) was once a tv star(celebrity) is upset.. he didn’t noticed her too.He switched on the tv for watching the news. meanwhile he got the news that it is the birthday of the famous tv star Puja.. he realized his peccadillo.. he went to the nearest cake shop, bought a birthday cake for her and withal bought some balloons and bought a bouquet for her as a gift.. he came back home and placated her and then celebrated the birthday together.. he promised Puja that he will try not to forget this special day again.. now they both are living happily..

  • Mr Ajay (40) works in MNC Company.And come back at home and after showing the gun on the table he was bit tensed & disappointed.He wants the reason from his daughter Rani .Why you put it on the table from my rake .This could be dangerous for you. Then she is trying to convince her father and says I do a mistake after accepting her mistake says sorry to her father. She promise to her father I shall never such type of mistake in future and that moment she learnt alot enjoining her life with positive thinking And her father also passes a smile on his face enjoing the dinner later on

  • Mr. Sars(40) is a successfull businessman.
    Her wife mrs. Aisha is a model. One day when saras came from office . Someone call him and told him that sent 10 lacs cash behind the temple otherwise i will shot your wife.
    So both of them got tensed and got afraid.
    Then saras took out his licenced gun for self defence.but his wife convinced him that it may be good to call police .
    They call the the police and catch the bad minded person..
    How it …

  • Rakesh is a sincere and a responsible police officer.He has cracked down several cases in the past through his continous efforts ,determination and skilful acts.In the picture shown,i noticed that his wife is a bit disappointed with him as he does not spend time with her,nor does he give time to the family.,He told her politely that for him duty comes first then the family and it was his dream to serve and protect the country.He further added that to achieve his dream come true,he needed the support from his wife as well as from his family.This inspired her and she was very much convinced.She was proud of her husband and hence they both lived happily together hereafter.

  • Above picture has two character.one is male40 another is female28.Bothe are in negative mood.
    Raju is a business man lives in mumbai.His sister,Rani is also lives nearer him with his hasband ,mohan . One day when Rani was alone.A man entered in her room and try to molesting her.Then she shooted the man.And she became afraid of police.She went to his brother and told him past.Then his brother gave him solace.He took the help of police.Finaly his sister won the case.

  • Sir i read the article it was helpfull, i feel these are lines that are of disadvantage.

    —>”Mr Rajat sharma Tired and wife disappointed” telling that rajat do not handles failures easily
    —->”Local police are not much of any help so she hires a private detective ” presenting police in bad light.

  • Brother, your imagination is good and you have the potency to frame a good story but your grammar is incorrect at many places and also there are spelling mistakes these things should be kept in mind it tells how keenly you observe what you say and what you write. Use tenses to frame good sentences. I just felt this might help you. ๐Ÿ˜Š

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