What is the Self-Description Test (SD)?

Self-description test (SDT) is one of the Psychologist Tests at the Service Selection Board (SSB) conducted to know the crucial and considerable information of the candidates.

The self-description test is an effective and powerful tool in the hands of psychologists to obtain the confirmation on the candidate’s personality traits which are already recorded by the respective candidate.

The SDT is meant to find out the level of insight of a candidate. One should be aware of one’s strengths and weaknesses.

1. If a candidate is aware of his/her strengths, he/she can make use of the strength for further growth and improvement.
2. If a candidate is aware of his/her weaknesses, one can always improve with conscious efforts. If one lacks insight, one cannot benefit from opportunities and training.

The procedure of conducting SDT:

In Self-Description Test (SDT), the candidates are given 15 minutes and are asked to write the 05 paragraphs on the following heads-

1. What is the opinion of your parents about you?
2. What is the opinion of your teachers about you?
3. What is the opinion of your friends about you?
4. What do you think about yourself giving out your strong and weak points?
5. What qualities would you like to develop?
6. What are you as a person?

Tips to crack Self-Description Test (SDT):

• Be attentive to the instructions of the Psychologists.
• Maintain a good writing speed with legible handwriting.
• The emphasis should be on factors which will provide some data regarding your personality traits.
• Do not waste time in describing your place of birth, home, school, your likes and dislikes.
• Give correct and accurate information in order to avoid contradiction with what you have written in the PIQ form.
• You might have prepared in advance and you can do so. This way you get sufficient to practise by writing it several times.
• Your SDT is sometimes used by the Interviewing Officer to frame questions in Personal Interview.
• Do not write strong weaknesses in your Self-Description Test (SDT).
• Be honest and real with your Self-Description Test (SDT).
• Do not write your Self-Description Test (SDT) in bullets.