All auditors should remember the definition of a preclear in session and that is: that he is interested in and talking to the auditor about his case.
On a terminal contacted with the E-Meter in an assessment, if needle action slows down, with little change in its action, run the terminal to a comm lag flat point, then do another assessment, and run the terminal found. Remember all terminals run and check them out on an E-Meter later. It may be that after getting one terminal handled you will have to go back to a terminal flattened on a comm lag basis and re-run it.
Eventually the tone arm will come to clear reading for the pc’s sex but only if many terminals are run and come back to and run again.