What is Self Description Test (SDT) in SSB Interview | Psychological Test
SELF DESCRIPTION TEST (SDT) provides a valuable information during SSB Psychological test for the psychologist to assess the character traits of candidate and also to confirm his previous findings. And we have wrote another post for your good practice of how to write a good sample Self Description Test (SDT) in SSB interview.
The services selection boards have many methods of testing and assessing the personality of the candidate in short period of 4-5 days at their disposal. They however give the candidate a chance to asses himself and write down his strong and weak points. This is known as self description test. Besides normal method of writing one’s own assessment of oneself, SSB's adopt another method of giving this test. They ask candidates to write the opinion about themselves by their parents, teachers and their best friend and sometimes worst enemy.
Every Individual has his strong points and weak points, good qualities, tolerable traits, shortcomings, and even vices.Most of these qualities are exhibited in one’s normal behavior and, therefore exposed to others. Sometimes we try to suppress or conceal from the public eye. Nevertheless these are certainly known to our self. If we know ourselves, or know our weakness, we can try to get rid of these and improve our personality.
Aim of Self Description Test (SDT) :-
Whatever the method of
administering this test adopted by the testing agency, the aim is two fold:
First, it gives a chance
to candidate to reveal his own personality or character to the tester.
Second, it shows whether
the candidate has a fair insight into himself. If he knows himself and is conscious
of his weaknesses, he will overcome and get rid of some of these and improve
his personality. But if one does not have fair insight into his own character,
how can he be expected to improve upon his personality?
Following are the points on which you have to
describe the details.
1) Parents/Guardians Opinion
1) Parents/Guardians Opinion
Write
what your parents think about you. If you don't have
both parents alive then you can mention Guardians opinion.
2) Teachers/Employers Opinion
both parents alive then you can mention Guardians opinion.
2) Teachers/Employers Opinion
Mention
your Teachers opinion if you are a student and
employers if you are working in a profession.
3) Classmates/Colleges/Friends Opinion
employers if you are working in a profession.
3) Classmates/Colleges/Friends Opinion
Write
your friends opinion or classmates or colleagues opinion
in this paragraph.
4) Your own Opinion
in this paragraph.
4) Your own Opinion
Here
write your own opinion about yourself.
5) Qualities you would like to develop for future
5) Qualities you would like to develop for future
Here you
are required mention your future goals and ambitions
and any other qualities which you wants to gain in your future.
and any other qualities which you wants to gain in your future.
Note - Do not write materials from
books, write you own self
description as every individual have his own strong and
description as every individual have his own strong and
weak points.
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