47 Difficult Word Association Test Examples And How To Handle Them

If someone ask us which is the most difficult test under psychological testing at SSB, we would say that the most difficult one is Word Association Test also known as WAT. WAT is a nightmare for many aspirants because it has a time limit which gives you huge stress while writing sentences on a given word. Let’s talk more about word association test first.

What is Word Association Test (WAT)

WAT is a part of psychological testing at SSB. You will face WAT right after TAT (Thematic Apperception Test). WAT is a series of 60 words which will be shown to you on the screen one by one and you have to write a sentence on each word. The time duration for each word is 15 seconds, yes in 15 seconds you have to look at the word, think and write a sentence which comes in your mind after looking at that word. The words in WAT are very common words like TABLE, HAPPY, KILL etc. But there are few words which might confuse you for few reasons:

1. You don’t know the meaning of that word, so you don’t know what to write.
2. The given word is negative and your thought process is not working. Example RAPE.

50 Difficult Word Association Test Examples

1. Worry
2. Problem
3. Differ
4. Error
5. Sputnik
6. Soul
7. Fear
8. Women
9. Defeat
10. Persuade
11. Carelessness
12. Danger
13. Attack
14. Lonely
15. Aggressive
16. Criticism
17. Strict
18. Cry
19. Precaution
20. Pity
21. Depression
22. Religion
23. Politics
24. Fault
25. Lies
26. Confuse
27. Preach
28. Crook
29. Hijack
30. Jealous
31. Accident
32. Kill
33. Irritate
34. Crime
35. Vulgar
36. Derogatory
37. Disagree
38. Murder
39. Bluff
40. Die
41. Complaint
42. Alone
43. Desperate
44. Embrace
45. Envoy
46. Annoy
47. Deteriorate

Tips for Word Association Test (WAT)

1. WAT helps psychologist to understand the real behaviour of the candidate under pressure.
2. WAT totally depends on how you react to words in your real life.
3. A better introspection will help you to know your real personality, your interests, your fears and your weaknesses. By knowing your weaknesses, one can work on that and can change them in one’s strengths. It will help you in changing the image of a word in your mind {explained later}.
4. First of all, look at the words carefully as it will be shown only for 15 seconds. If you’ll miss even a single word, you’ll miss the whole sequence.
5. As you’ll see the word your mind will form an idea, now it depends on your personality to make a positive idea or a negative idea.
6. Then write a sentence on the idea you have formed. Make sure your writing is legible.
7. There are no negative words if you’ll look them with a positive approach. Words will work in your favour automatically.
8. Try to practice WAT at your home and make some response sheets. You’ll see the response will automatically get better and better.
9. You must write at least 6-7 officers like qualities in 60 sentences.
10. Do not use too many sentences on defence forces.
11. Don’t write simple observations
12. Don’t write idioms, phrases, quotations, universal truths. They show a lack of original thoughts.
13. Don’t use the word “I or Me” much.
14. Write sentences from a human point of view.

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