SSB INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
Introductory Questions
What is your name, meaning of your name? Can you tell me some prominent personality with your
name?
What’s your birthday date? Can you pl tell me some major event as based on your birthday date?
How is your stay at SSB?
Have you made any friends here during your stay at SSB?
How was your journey? How many stations were there enroute (can you name them); wat was
your ticket number; who was your co-passenger; what’s is the distance between your home town
to SSB centre/ city; what is the total fare of your ticket?
Tell me something about your native place. Any recent important news pertaining to your native
place, if any?
Education Related Questions
Tell me something about your education starting from your primary education.
What are reasons for drop in your marks/ performance (if applicable) and how you have overcome
that difficulty?
What’s your favourite subject and why?
What’s your favourite teacher and why?
Which subject you don’t like and why?
Which teacher you didn’t liked and why?
Why you have chosen this particular stream for studies?
Why didn’t you pursue ‘X’ subject afterwards 10 th/ 12th (If/ as applicable)?
What was the reason for changing subjects after 10 th/ 12th, if/ as applicable?
What have been your major achievements in studies?
Why there is a gap in your studies between inter college and graduation?
Why didn’t you attempt NDA exam and if you did, what was the result and why?
Family Related Questions
Tell me something about family?
Tell me something about your brother/ sister (as applicable).
How’s your relation with your siblings; what quality do you like/ dislike most in your brother/ sister?
Whom you are closer – to your father or mother and why?
What are your responsibilities in your family?
How do you compare yourself with your brother/ sister?
Some questions about father’s job/ role are likely.
Which one habit you don’t like about your father and you’ld like him to change?
How do you spend your free time with your family?
Friends Related
How many friends do you have?
Who is your best friend? Tell me his best and worst quality.
What your best friend will tell about you?
How do you help your friends in tough moments?
How you and your friends spend holidays?
Do you have a girlfriend; what kind of relation do you share with her?
For Working Professionals
Tell me something about your job and your company; what does your job entails?
Tell me something about your boss; what’s your opinion about your boss/ employee?
What kind of relation do you share with your boss and colleagues?
What your boss thinks/ say about you?
What difficulty you faced in your job and what are the steps you had taken to overcome it?
What is your salary; are you happy with your salary and how do you spend it?
Do you intend to continue or you are planning to switch over to some new option/ company?
Hobbies/ Interests Related Questions
What is/ are your hobbies?
Why you have chosen this hobby?
What are the things that you learn from your hobbies?
What have been your achievements in the field of your hobby/ interest?
Games and Sports Questions
Which game do you like and why?
Why you had chosen an indoor/ outdoor game rather than an outdoor/ indoor game?
What is your position in your team?
What has been your best achievement in the game so far?
Why you had not pursued your favourite game as a carrier since you had played up to Nationals?
Who’s is your favourite player and why?
Expect few questions about depth of knowledge in the games i.e. CRICKET…what is the length of
the pitch; weight of cricket ball; length of stumps; world best batsman in test series, world
champions etc, next world cup schedule etc.
PIQ related Questions
Miscellaneous Questions
Why do you want to join Armed Forces/ Army/ Air Force/ Navy?
Tell me five uses of glasses other than spectacles.
How will you organize annual college sports meet/ inter college football championship (most likely
the game you play/ mentioned in PIQ form)?
What is your monthly budget/ expenditure?
Tell me your daily routine?
Questions on your extracurricular & co=curricular activities, as mentioned in PIQ form i.e. NCC,
NSS etc.
NCC – organization; Name of DG NCC; Motto; history, your experiences, appointments you had
held; camps you had participated; what motivated you to join NCC/ NSS.
Most memorable experience of your life.
Most difficult situation in your life and how you had handled it.
Current national / international news.
Which task did you find the easiest & most difficult in SSB?
Prepare well for domain knowledge if you are a TGC/ TES entry scheme candidate.
Have you taken any coaching; from where; what did you learn; how you prepared for the SSB?
Why were you rejected last time? What have you done to overcome these issues? What different
you had prepared this time?
What do you think, will you be recommended this time? Why?
Why should we recommend you?
Tell me about your three strengths and three weaknesses; give me an example each.
What will you do in case you don’t get selected this time?
What are your alternatives against SSB option? How are you preparing for this?
