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SSB Reporting Day — Documents, Dress, Call Letter & What Happens Next

The week your SSB call letter arrives, the searches change: which certificates, how many photographs, what to wear, whether travelling allowance applies, and what “screened out” or “conference out” actually means. These guides answer those questions. Your own call letter overrides every checklist here — photo counts, dress and reporting time are printed on it and they differ by entry and centre.

Read the call-letter page first, then the document checklist. Nothing on this site is an official Selection Centre instruction.

9 guides in this series

Three SSB aspirants with document folders walking toward a Services Selection Board building at sunrise, Indian tricolour in the distance.
  1. An SSB aspirant reading a call letter at a desk by a window at sunrise, with a pen and notebook beside the page.How to read the call letterThe five lines on the call letter that decide where you go, when you report, what you carry and what you wear.
  2. An open folder of SSB reporting documents — certificates, passport photographs, a photo identity card and a pen.Document checklistCall letter, photo identity, education certificates, photographs and the extra papers that apply only to some candidates.
  3. An open suitcase packed for SSB with a formal shirt, dark trousers, formal shoes and sports shoes.Dress code and packingWhat to wear when the letter says “formal”, what to train in, and what to leave at home.
  4. An SSB aspirant with a backpack on a morning train, holding a ticket on the way to the Selection Centre.Travelling allowanceTA is real for many first-time candidates, and the amount is printed on the form — not on a blog.
  5. SSB Day 1 screening hall — aspirants writing at desks while a hazy picture is shown at the front of the room.Day 1 screeningWhat the first day is trying to decide, and how to practise the two tests that decide whether you stay.
  6. An SSB candidate seated across a table from three officers in a quiet morning conference room.Conference and resultThe three endings of an SSB, and what is worth doing before you apply again.
  7. A flying-branch aspirant at a stylized pilot-aptitude console with a headset and instrument screens.CPSS and PABTThe machine test for flying aptitude, what it is not, and why the attempt rule must come from your letter.
  8. An SSB aspirant preparing current affairs with a newspaper, a map of India and a notebook.Current affairs for PIA method for the interview and GD, not a fake list of this month’s headlines.
  9. SSB aspirants in olive shirts seated in a semicircle on a veranda for a group discussion.GD topics with both sidesEight topics you can actually discuss, with a point for, a point against, and a first sentence that is not a speech.

Practise the tests these guides describe, under real SSB timing.

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