Observation Skills Assessment
Many times in your paper you will be shown a picture and you will be asked your observations as different user profiles. Some of the examples are given below

Sample question -
Here is the picture on a typical day at VT station in Mumbai around 5PM in the evening. Answer the following in reference to this picture

Q1. Imagine you are a kid of 10-12 yrs age, what would be your observations, thoughts, things which will catch your attention if you are standing here with your moher

Q2. Imagine you are a youth of 25 yrs age, what would be your observations, thoughts, things which will catch your attention if you are standing here

Q3. Imagine you are a adult of 40-45 yrs age, what would be your observations, thoughts, things which will catch your attention if you are standing here

My Notes- Here you have to be very observative to make sure you can write about a page of document about each of the sub-questions in your answer. For this it's very importent to understand the nature of the user pprofiles mentioned in this question. You have to put yourself in the shooes of these users and imagine if you stand here what would you think or talk about.

Another sample question

Imagine a following situation in the cricket where one team has taken a wicket by catching-out the opponent team memer in the match among two countries and answer following questions

Q1. Imagine you are the captain of the fielding team what would be user thoughs, startegies, observations in this situation?

Q2. If you are the person who are playing for the 1st time for the country and you took this catch, what would you be thinking in the mind?

Q3. If you are the person who got out on 99 and walking back as shown what are the thoughts going into your mind?



My Notes - this is a completely different case than the 1st quetion here the age groups of all the user profiles are same but if you look little deeper the thinkin going in the mind for all of these 3 people would be different and this is very importent to capture in your answer.


Answers of these questions though are not going to be same or there is no correct answer you need to have some clear differentiators in your answer...

Example - Hating the crowd in the example of the mumbail VT station could be common observation, or this pitch is my favorites or i hate it could be possible common in the cricket case, more than such observations the real crucks are in giving real differentiators and may be few commons too.


So feel free to solve this ...and send email to me at askbhushan@yahoo.com with subject line [sample observations] in the subject lines, I'll try to comment on the same.

Bhushan