You might try tape recording a question series and playing it back as you practice your countermeasures. You'll find sample question series in the appendices of The Lie Behind the Lie Detector. You could select a set of relevant, irrelevant, and "control" questions of the kind you expect to encounter, write them down in some of the orders described in the book, and then read them in a monotone voice at 20-30 second intervals. Then play the tape back as you sit in a chair and practice the techniques described in Chapter 4.

You might also try standing on your head in the corner while sucking water through a straw, and humming Amazing Grace on a kazoo!

Damn George, you have one hell of a sense of humor!  Here all this time I thought you were serious about this countermeasure crap.  Now I know you're just yanking everyones chain.

Capt Truth, I suggest you simply go to bed every night telling yourself, "I am a good boy, I am a good boy...."
If that doesn't work, then eat a bunch of raisins and prunes, then when you feel the urge to hit the shitter, simply follow the adivce of Archie Bell and the Drells, "Do The Tightin' Up".

BATMAN

batman, why do you have such disdain for george?  are you a polygrapher?

And here I thought I was using the R&I technique, sometimes known as the Ridiculous & Idiotic Technique, whereupon I attempt to show just how stupid some of the advice given on this site really is.

Capt T,

I don't disdain George, I just dis him!  I save the dain for folks I really hate.   

I'll tell you my story if you tell me yours.  Since you started, YES, I'm a polygraph examiner.  Now my turn, are you really a Captain?  If so, of what, Industry, a fire department, the military?  Now we all know who Batman is, or Superman, or even Captain America; but who or what in the hell is Captain_Truth?

If you're still curious about the really best way to practice for the test, I'll give you a hint: 'Yes/No'.  There's the answers bud.  Simpy keep saying them over and over and you'll have all the practice you'll need.

BATMAN

Hey Shit for Brains,

I don't know if I've ever said that CM's don't work (but I'm sure George or Beech Trees will tell me if I did).

What I have said is that they can be detected when used, but I think I've even acknowledged that on occasion they are not detected.

You need to go to more baseball games so you can learn to root, root, root for the home team, asshole.  If some of Sadaam's boys did in fact beat the polygraph, why do you have to take such pleasure in it?

BATMAN

Although the posts for this one are extremely entertaining, I'll just respond to dipsh&%@, I mean Capt Truth.  Although I do have an excellent technique I've come up with called harpooning (involves alcohol and big women).

Capt Truth

You're title alone makes me ill.  You have the nerve to discuss truth while you're practicing CM's!  What a butt head.  Don't go whining to you're examiner when he puts you're feet to the fire on using them.

Public Servant,

You wrote, "Why not try taking the exam honestly and avoid the possiblility of being caught empolying countermeasures?"

Two problems with the foregoing advice:

1) The polygraph "test" is theoretically dependant on the subject being less than honest when answering the "control" questions.

2) Not using countermeasures does not eliminate the possibility of being accused of countermeasures. In studies by Charles R. Honts and collaborators, even experienced polygraphers could not detect countermeasures at better-than-chance levels of accuracy, and polygraphers' opinions that subjects had employed countermeasures had no correlation to actual countermeasure use.