WAT
HOW TO WRITE A SENTENCE AS THE EXPECTATION OF THE SSB IN WAT TEST – PART 1/2
- Be spontaneous, and not studied: Your response should be voluntary and unconstrained. You may forget the mugged up sentences, your spontaneous reactions reflect your qualities whether you are fit to be an officer or not. Remember it is not a test of language but personality.
- Practice helps: It is always useful. It helps you in making the right and quick response to words set for WAT with spontaneity. You will be able to avoid pitfalls in the SSB tests if you have done some practice for WAT exercises.
- Selection of words: The SSBs select such words for WAT that bring out particular officer like qualities. The words can be of two types-
A. Knowledge based- Words in this category imply observational sentences. Not necessarily they trigger any spontaneous stimuli and are conventional in type. For example- Missile, Atom, Keyboard, Ice, Kitchen, Money, Diamonds etc. B. Character based- Words in this category activate and stimulate your responses. You demonstrate your OLQs mostly from these type of words. For example Peace, Love, Anger, Brave, Admire, Initiative, Think, Youth, etc.
So practice more with such kind of words and analyse yourself with OLQ list. Within a few days, you will notice changes in your pattern of responses which also reflect in your normal life. Also, do not try to associate every word with Defence career, it only indicates the psychologist that the reactions are not natural and the candidate has been wrongly coached. - Write short, crisp and meaningful: Write simple and brief sentences to save time. There is no need to use articles in every sentence. Make meaningful and logical sentences, don’t use a lot of imaginary power, your sentences must be real and grounded.
- Free of grammatical errors & legible handwriting: Write grammatically correct sentences and maintain a good handwriting. This is a test of pressure, your ability to stay calm and composed is revealed from your written work. A candidate struggling to write sentences with a poor handwriting and scribbling responses is more likely to be knocked off from the pressure of the test.