{"id":5516,"date":"2020-02-25T11:33:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T11:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trishuldefenceacademy.in\/blog\/?p=5516"},"modified":"2022-08-06T16:35:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T11:05:17","slug":"what-is-gto-task-in-ssb-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trishuldefenceacademy.in\/blog\/what-is-gto-task-in-ssb-interview","title":{"rendered":"What Is GTO Task In SSB Interview?"},"content":{"rendered":"

SSB interviews are conducted by various Services Selection Boards<\/a> of Indian Army, Navy and by Air Force Selection Boards<\/a>. These SSB boards select candidates for commissioned officer posts in Indian Armed Forces through SSB interviews.<\/p>\n

SSB Interview is five days long procedure which includes two stages of testing as stage I & stage II. The stage (I) will consist of Officer Intelligence Rating (OIR) and Picture Perception & Description Test (PP & DT). The stage (II) will consist\u00a0of Interview, Group Testing Officer Tasks, Psychology Tests and the Conference.<\/p>\n

One among these 5 days, entirely goes for GTO test.<\/p>\n

What is GTO<\/u><\/strong>?<\/p>\n

GTO task is scheduled on the 3rd<\/sup> or 4th<\/sup> day of SSB Interview. It is a series of outdoor tasks, designed to access a candidate’s qualities in a group and how they\u00a0get involve with each others in a group.<\/p>\n

The Group discussion and Progressive group task is used by the GTO to reach into a picture of the personalities of candidates and other tasks like Half Group task, Individual obstacles, Inter Group Obstacle Race , Group Lecturette are designed to confirm the earlier findings of the GTO and also to change the assumption about a Candidate.<\/p>\n

GTO task consists of 9 different tests. All of them are explained below:<\/p>\n

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  1. Group Discussion: <\/strong>Group Discussion (GD) is the first test in GTO Tests. It is a friendly and informal talk on the topics of common interests but of controversial nature. GD is similar to what you do sitting with your friends in the canteen of your school\/college or units of your regiment etc. There are 2 group discussions and each will be for approximately 15 Minutes.<\/li>\n
  2. Group Planning Exercise (GPE):<\/strong> It is an indoor task. All the participants are briefed about the task while they are sitting in a horseshoe formation with the map\/modal placed between them. There are five stages.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n