quickfix wrote on Jun 8^th, 2015 at 8:42pm:

Characterized by you, perhaps.  To us, attempting to control one's physiology between questions is typical for someone employing mental CMs.  The poster's remark that it was done to calm himself down and not to influence the outcome of the exam is typical rationalization.

If the original poster were employing mental countermeasures, he would have targeted the control questions to augment reactions to them, not thought of irrelevant things in an attempt to relax after questions without respect to type.


quickfix wrote on Jun 8^th, 2015 at 8:42pm:

"Yes, I did it, but my intent was pure";  right;  then he confessed why?

As the original poster noted, the examiner (falsely) led him to believe that the only way his application could go forward is if he were to "write an apology to HQ for using countermeasures."