Don't worry-- at one and a half years of practice you're almost ten times more studious than your polygraph interrogator.

How to remain calm? Believe in yourself. Anticipate with cool resolve the conflict, and laugh inwardly at the cheap theatrics and transparent tactics your interrogator will use. Make his arrogance work against him-- make him believe you really are a screamer in the chair.

One thing I did which I found very helpful was to download and read carefully this document, Department of Defense Polygraph Institute Interview and Interrogation Handbook. Knowing the tactics your interrogator may use to verbally box you in provides you with an edge. Knowing the body language and idiosyncracies they look for to connote honesty (and of course, deception) can only help you. Good luck, let us know how it goes.

BT