First Day in ISSB

Dont be late for the ISSB test otherwise you will be treated as absent for the following batch.

After entering the issb you will have to walk a long distance in a que where your tests will be held. There you will be given a chest number and a token for your luggage, then you will temporary leave your luggage on a fixed place. You are to wear the chest number. You will be known as your chest number. Then all of the candidates will have to go to dining hall for breakfast. After breakfast candidates will go to a big testing hall where the tests will be held.

The following tests will be held on the first day in ISSB:

1. IQ test (Verbal and Non verbal)

2. PPDT

3. Writing something about your personal memorable incident or paragraph or essay.

4. Physiology test

5. Biodata Fill up

IQ test:

you are to complete 100 verbal IQ tests within 35 minutes and 38 non verbal IQ test within 25 minutes. Those who will fail in IQ test will be screened out and will have to leave the ISSB.

PPDT: Picture Perception and Description

If you pass the IQ test than you will have to sit in the exam hall again for the PPDT test. You will be shown an unclear or unfinished picture. You are to write what is going on in the picture with your imagination. You will have to write a positive and meaningful story. You will have to write down the number of characters, their age, their sex. mood etc.

After you complete the picture perception test you will be divided into groups containing 10-12 members. then you and your group metes will discuss about the picture and make a story by discussing. Try to give logic to your story. This is one of the most important part of psychology. So always be positive. Those who will fail in the PPDT are screened out and will have to leave the ISSB.  

Writing about something:

you will be given a page to write about your personal memorable incident or paragraph or essay about the running situation of the world or Bangladesh.

Biodata fill up:

You will be given a biodata form to fill up. You are to fill up the biodata form. You will have to know about your family thoroughly including your family income, age, date of birth etc. Even you will have to know about your relatives.

Psychology test:

You will have to sit for the psychology test. This is the last test of the day. You will be shown 60 English words and 20 Bengali words (when I attended the ISSB there were no bengali words at all 80 english words only. But be prepared for the bengali words also). You will have to make sentence with that word. The words will be shown through a projector. You will get 10(ten) second for each word.

Dont write anything negative or anything that shows a bad mentality. Always be positive.

After all the test you will be divided into groups and will be send to fixed rooms where you will spend the night. If you pass the IQ and PPDT than you are sure that you can spend 4 days in issb and join the other tests. :)