The Practical Guide to Become an Officer – Best SSB Book by Col Nehru

“The Practical Guide to Become an Officer” is the best guide for SSB preparation available in India. The Part-II of the book explains to you the entire SSB process. It gives out clearly as to what you should be doing at SSB and how you should go about preparing for it. It has answers to practically all the questions that a Defense aspirant may have and shatters the numerous myths created around SSB:

1. Is OIR test important?
2. Should I go with a preconceived story for PPDT?
3. What should I do in the fish-market situation in PPDT?
4. What should be the mindset for writing stories?
5. Should the main character be of my age/gender?
6. Should I insert social reform themes in the stories?
7. Should the stories display the 15 OLQs?
8. What is the way to begin a story?
9. What is being checked in WAT or SRT?
10. Should I go with a prepared story for the blank slide?
11. Should I go with a prepared Self-description?
12. What is the scarcity mentality?
13. How does it negatively impact 90% of Indian society?
14. What to do in case others are getting ideas faster than me in PGT?
15. How can I write the GPE inside 10 min?
16. How to plan doing the Individual Obstacles?
17. How to improve my physical fitness?
18. What questions are asked in the interview?
19. How to prepare for the interview?
20. What to do in case I had poor marks?
21. What to do in case I have hardly played any games or have any meaningful hobbies?

You will learn how to prepare a routine for yourself and then follow it to get success over a period of time. It also has real life case studies of successful students which you can easily relate to.

The author, Col MM Nehru, apart from having been the Deputy President of 17 SSB, running “No-Frills Academy” for 10 years, has been a keen sportsperson, a fitness enthusiast and has taught, “Enhancing Personal Effectiveness” in the corporate world. In “The Practical Guide to Become an Officer” you will get two elaborate parts, apart from the Part-II on SSB. In Part-I, you get knowledge about personality development in short essays written in simple English. You get answers to questions like:

1. Who am I?
2. Stress management?
3. Problem of overthinking?
4. How to improve reasoning ability?
5. How to improve will-power?
6. How to build confidence?
7. How to manage time?
8. How to improve English? 

These guidelines you will find in no other book on SSB.

The Part-III, is a “Guide to Fitness.” From this part you can learn about how to start running/exercising from absolute scratch. You benefit from the knowledge acquired by the author in training Boxers and endurance athletes over 25 years. You get answers to questions like:

1. How to reduce/increase weight?
2. How to become a runner?
3. What is the importance of metabolic rate?
4. How do muscles grow?
5. Why is stretching important?
6. What to eat/not to eat?
7. Are fruit juices/glucose consumption good?

It also has stuff on training methods of some inspirational athletes. Once again, this knowledge you cannot get from any other book on SSB. 

“The Practical Guide to Become an Officer” is being used successfully by numerous officers to keep enhancing their personal effectiveness during and after training in accordance with the principles of “Kaizen”, “Pareto”, the teachings of Stephen Covey and other eminent persons in the field of Personality Development. Invest in a copy today and use it for “Effective Living” throughout your life.

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