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I was asked a great many questions and one of them actually surprised me. The examiner inquired, "Have you ever cheated on your taxes?" I answered no and passed the exam. Many questions about my lifestyle and prior employment were asked. He seemed to have used the relevant/irrelevant format.
Posted by: BNSF Posted on: Aug 6th, 2007 at 1:00am
No, not the voice stress test. It would be interesting to see a polygraph test combined with the psychological interview at the same time. I wonder how many people lie when taking the pencil and paper portion of the psych test and during the psych interview after the written portion of the exam. Just a thought. It's nice to be done with it all and ready to start my new job.
Posted by: Kalex Posted on: Jul 21st, 2007 at 9:28am
The psychological went well also, about a 2 hour paper test followed by a one hour interview with a psychologist. He was a very easy going individual that seemed to enjoy his work and was in no hurry to leave his office unlike the polygraph operator. Yes, I like trains and that is the reason I elected BNSF as my user name.
What would be interesting would be to have one individual do both the polygraph test and the psychological at the same time. Wonder what the results would be like?
Hi There, Are you referring to the Voice Stress test? ie To do two-in-one simultaneously? I think there are agencies that do so. What about the lafayette LX4000 - does that not incorporate a Voice Stress recording 'add-on'??
Posted by: BNSF Posted on: Jul 21st, 2007 at 3:51am
The psychological went well also, about a 2 hour paper test followed by a one hour interview with a psychologist. He was a very easy going individual that seemed to enjoy his work and was in no hurry to leave his office unlike the polygraph operator. Yes, I like trains and that is the reason I elected BNSF as my user name.
What would be interesting would be to have one individual do both the polygraph test and the psychological at the same time. Wonder what the results would be like?
Posted by: 1904 - Ex Member Posted on: Jul 9th, 2007 at 1:11pm
Anyway I am glad to have passed the test and now I am waiting to take my medical and lastly the psychological.
This is the easy part. But whatever you do, keep secret that story about the little people that live inside your ears and pop out to wave at passing trains.
Posted by: BNSF Posted on: Jul 4th, 2007 at 5:23pm
The test from start to finish including the pre-test and running three charts took about 90 minutes. He does polygraphs on almost a full-time basis for his law enforcement agency and other nearby PDs' that do not have an in-house polygrapher. About twenty relevant questions were asked and he did seem in a bit of a hurry near the end to get me out of there as if he might have had something else to do and nobody appeared to be waiting for him in the waiting room. Anyway I am glad to have passed the test and now I am waiting to take my medical and lastly the psychological.
Posted by: 1904 - Ex Member Posted on: Jul 4th, 2007 at 3:26pm
Three charts were run with about twenty relevant questions asked in a different order during each test segment. Each began with a sacrifice relevant question and several irrelevant questions were also asked of me. What was interesting was that no control questions of the directed lie or probable lie types were presented during the exam.
Strange testing protocol...sounds like a VSA P/Employment format. Are you sure this was polygraph? Were there 2 pneumo tubes around your upper body; BP cuff on arm; fingerplates on..? or was there only a microphone involved...?
Posted by: BNSF Posted on: Jun 25th, 2007 at 10:52pm
Recently I took a pre-employment polygraph for a law enforcement agency on the local level and it was interesting. The usual pre-test questions were presented and I was also told there would be a mathmatical problem presented to me during the test. The equipment was explained and the process began. Three charts were run with about twenty relevant questions asked in a different order during each test segment. Each began with a sacrifice relevant question and several irrelevant questions were also asked of me. What was interesting was that no control questions of the directed lie or probable lie types were presented during the exam. I could only conclude that he used his "baseline" for comparison purposes from the anxiety created during the math question which was a positive number subtracted from a smaller positive number creating a negative number result. I was not expecting this type of math question but perhaps one more complicated such as a square root problem. It did take a little time to think about it, longer than I thought it would creating a bit more anxiety. No post-test session was asked and he seemed eager to have me leave. At no time did he stop the test except at the end of each segment before he was ready to run another chart.
As of this date I do not know if I passed the test but hope to know within a week or two. If I advance to the next phase of the selection process I know that I will have passed.