SSB Center : Word Association Test (WAT)

Perform well in Word Association Test (WAT) in SSB Pyschological Test

Word Association Test (WAT) is the Second test at Service Selection Boards in Psychological test series, by this test psychologist reads the personality which a candidate possesses.

WAT is a partly guided, subconscious and also the test of your imagination, while TAT is unconscious, an unguided and directionless test.It is not a sentence making test. This test evaluates your quality of ideas associated with all the 60 words shown on the screen.

Please keep following things in mind:

Preaching/Sermons is not the WAT.
Writing quotation is not the WAT.
Borrowed ideas are not the ideas for WAT.
Writing the meaning of the word is not the WAT.

What Exactly WAT is meant for :

Conveying the Sense and Ideas.
Establishing an appreciating context between the ‘Mind’ and the Word.

System does not supply you the meaning or ideas, it only supplies you the stimulus.

Every word becomes stimulus on which we normally communicate. These words provoke and stimulate you to react with the ideas which become the material for our evaluation. If your projection does not carry an idea or qualitative thought level, then it will become a sentence making, but not the Word Association Test.

WAT is not a sentence making test, else it would not have been named so. WAT evaluates the quality of ideas associated with the words.Nothing is ‘Negative’ in this world, only our Perception makes it so. We perceive the world as we want it to be. While attempting WAT, the idea that comes to your mind is more important, regardless of the beauty of expression.

The Selection System is interested in Content and Substance, not in the meaning of the word.

Nobody ever fails in WAT, only assessors find the degree and the level of your thinking.

Let’s take an example –

Word: Co-operation

Response: Good co-operation is the outcome of good company.

Interpretation: The word is co-operation and response is ‘Good co-operation is the outcome of good company’. Here, you have gone beyond the word, that a good company can produce good co-operation. Again, you have associated the word with the ‘company’ and that too with ‘good’ company.

Reaction and responses to a particular word which can display your ideas up to the requirement of the system.

Let’s take some words.

1. Word: Blood

Response: Donate blood.

Interpretation: Here, it does not indicate the certainty on the

occasion,whether you will donate the blood or

not. This is injunction or direction or orders to

others. Your involvement and existence may

not be there.

Suitable Response: Blood donation helps the society; Our

College organized a blood donation camp.

Interpretation: Appreciation is more important than general