ISSB 5 Days Schedule : 5 days are required for testing at ISSB, in which your arrival day is also included.
First Day (Afternoon only)-Preliminaries Once candidates enter ISSB, first day starts. Its also called Arrival Day. The candidates have to go through the following steps on Arrival day:
- Reception. The security staff will check, for security and unauthorized things, like mobiles, laptops, and others. You can contact your family through land line phone inside ISSB.
- Checking of documents
- Allocation of chest numbers
- Allocation of rooms
- Photograph
- Administration staff address
- Filling bio data forms.
- Essay Writing, one topic in 30 minutes.
- Opening address by Deputy President
- Mechanical Aptitude Test : 50 Questions in 15 Minutes
- Word Association Tests : 100 words , Time : 10 seconds to see and write a sentence on each
- Thematic Apperception Tests : 4 Pictures , 1/2 minute to see and 3.5 minutes to write, for each
- Situational Reaction Test; Situations: 10 , Time : 20 minutes
- OPI Test: Number of Questions; 150, Time: 40 minutes
- Self description and self appraisal : Time: 10 minutes
Third Day-GTO Tasks and Interviews
- Group Discussion by Deputy President : Time: 40 minutes approx
- Briefing by GTO and Allotment of Chest Numbers :
- Group Planning /Military Planning :20 min, Problem explained on sketch/ screen, writing of plan/ presentation by candidates.
- Progressive Group Task (PGT): 45 Minutes
- Half Group Task (HGT):
- Interviews by Deputy President
Fourth Day-GTO Tasks and Interviews
- Individual Obstacles
- Command Task
- Sub Group Task at ISSB (Group Race): 8 Minutes
- Interviews (leftovers)
5th Day-: Conference Day