Picture Perception and Discussion Test (PP&DT)
Rules :
1. You are given 30 seconds to view pictures.
2. Within the next one minute, you have to fill a rectangular box and action of the story.
Inside the rectangular box, you need to fill the age, sex, and mood of the characters you see in the picture.
Under the ACTION heading, you are supposed to write what is happening in the story within one line.
3. Next 4 minutes are given to write the story.
Note: remember the quality of the picture shown here is very poor and hazy, you won't be able to identify minor objects.
How to write a story
You need to include the following points in your story
1. Make a positive story with a leading character
2. Bring a problem in the story
3. Include innovative ideas to solve that problem
4. End the story properly
5. If you are female, then make a female lead character in the picture (you would not find a picture where all are males in
picture)
6. Also remember that story must represent you, how do you think, how do you react in those situations, include these things
in your story. They also instruct you to add your emotions and feelings to the story.
SAMPLE STORIES
1.
Samunder used to make ceramic surahi and sell them. He obsered a great decline in his earning since very few were
interest in buying ceramic surahi even in the rural areas he was not selling many. It was because of the growing no. of water
purifiers in every household. The surahi had been losing its position from the households. One day while he was taking rest
he felt something in his pocket is bothering him. He checked and found it was stone, but that stone was glistering. He put
stress on his mind and found it came from the river he visited in morning. There he got the idea of making surahi which also
shines like this stone. He ground that stone and mixed with clay and made a surahi. later he brought other stones of different
colors and then many different patterns were started coming on surahi. now everybody wanted to buy surahi for their
houses. one day while he was on his way to other city to sell surahies, a man in suit came to him and inquired about those
surahies. He liked those surahies and offered samunder to sell them online. after six months many e-commerce website
were selling samunder's surahies. Now he do not wander place to place to sell surahis.
2.
Ramesh has just come out from the prison after serving his sentence over theft attempt. He tried to snatch a lady's purse
and run away but a woman hold his leg and fought with him till crowd captured him and hand him over to police. Now he
seeks revenge from the lady. He bought a knife and went to her house in night. He observed that woman's husband is no
longer alive and has only one child. He introspect himself and asked himself what he has been doing in life. He felt very bad
about himself. He then woke that lady up and told her about everything and asked lady to hand him over to police, but she
apologised him. the next day he again come to meet that lady and told him that now he want to work in order to improve the
life of other people who come out of jail. He told her about his plan of starting a NGO who will support the man after
sentence serving. They together started a NGO which looks after the family of man who are behind bars and help them to
provide jobs after their sentence completes.
3.
John works as a software engineering in encrpt pvt. Ltd. Company. One day he got a call from the director of music
company. They decided to meet at a coffee shop. The director told him that they are going to launch an album after six
months which is being produced by some of the top musical artists in our country and this album is going to be huge hit. But
there is a inevitable problem of piracy they face because of which we loses a big amount of money in market. John asked a
time period of three months. He made a team of engineers of web technology, data encrpytion and data transfer over
internet. After entensive research they build a tool over web that can self destroy data after first use. They made a
presentation and presented in front of music company. They informed them music will be distributed over web rather on
disks, registered user can listen song once for free, after that they have to pay 1 rs. To listen. They can download as many
time as they want for 1rs. Each time, and each song can be listened only once after that it would erase itself. Company liked
the idea of John’s team and they finalised deal with them. John and team developed a sophisticated website for music to
launch and launched music successfully. Later this became the most favourite way of launching music for music companies.
4.
Ankur is studing in his final year of mechanical engineering. One day while he was going to his college his bike tire got
punchered. He went to nearby bike mechanic and asked him to make tire good. Mechanic opened tire and saw the tube has
been torn. He recommended Ankur to replace tube with new tube, but ankur had not bring that much money and also he
was getting late. The mechanic somehow repaired tube and bike was again ready to run. While ankur was riding back to his
college, he thought about the mechanic that he has been working as mechanic for a long time, not moving to higher rank, if
he had been in a company he might have been promoted to upper level till now. Also his skill level has reached to much
higher level as he has been working for so long, and still not getting as much salary as deserved. Ankur shared this thought
with his friends. They decided to help that mechanic and many such other people who are uneducated but skilled. They
persuaded that mechanic to join a degree course of six months which he completed in just three months. After they helped
him to bring loan from the bank and started his own shop. Later his shop became the most popular in the area.
5.
Mukesh is a medical student lives in a colony where garbage problem is creating a lot of health issues. Many parents are
often visiting doctors about the health of their children. Most of these problems are associated with uncleanliness of place.
He decided to launch a drive to clean their colony. He went to schools where children of this colony are studying and took
their classes about health issues and made them understand how cleanliness leads to health. He then asked children to
bring their parents to the playground on a specific day where they would all formulate a procedure to effectively remove
garbage from the places. He then went to all the rag pickers who roam around the colony. There in the meeting he
suggested that outside every house there would be two dustbins, each for wet and dry wastage which would be picked by
these rag pickers daily. All the residents agreed and formulate an amount of money which each house will pay to those rag
pickers at the end of the month. Just after one month the whole scenery of the colony changed and there was a huge drop in
the no. of people who were getting sick.
6.
Salim was with his neighbour’s son in the hospital when his neighbour was declared dead by doctors. He
was suffering from blood cancer, His blood type is very rare among population and they could not find
donor at the time. He consulted doctors about availability of donors, doctors told him that donors are
available but we are only restricted to our storage capacity, there is no way to find more donors though
there are many people who will help if asked on time. Then he decided to create a website that will show
the blood groups of people of that area along with their contact numbers. He started his plan from school
of that neighbour’s son. He knew school conducted blood group test of admitted students. He appealed
school authority to share that data with his website. He grew database school by school and from children
to their parents. Later that website was linked with the website of government hospitals. This information
helped a lot in cases of blood cancer and accidents. Later government decided to endorse and fund
salim’s website and take this project to other cities of India as well.
7.
Anup lives with his wife and children. Just along with their house, there was a house of Mr. and Mrs.
Mehta. They often fight and shouting could be heard in the whole neighbourhood. Mrs. Mehta’s husband
used to drink a lot. One day there was a big fight between the couple; Anup heard the noises of breaking
things. Mrs. Mehta came out of their house weeping. Anup and his wife also came out of their house and
tried to calm Mrs. Mehta. Her husband was too drunk he went to hit his wife but Anup restrained him from
doing it. Anup threatened Mr. Mehta to complain about him of domestic violence. Mr. Mehta left that place.
Anup told Mrs. Mehta that domestic violence occurs because wives endure it. He suggested Mrs. Mehta
to take up a job, she would not only gain confidence in her but also her and her children’s future would
also become secure. Mr. Mehta has been always an incorrigible drunkard. Anup gathered other elder and
sane persons of the society and went to Mehta’s house. Anup’s idea was to
