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. 2014 Oct 29;69(Suppl 2):S166–S176. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbu106

Table 2.

Pre-Test MoCA Administration Time by Item in Minutes, Including the Time to Administer the Instructions, Participant Response, and Its Documentation by the Interviewer, N = 120

Domain MoCA item Mean time (min) Range (min) Standard deviation (min)
Orientation Month/date/year 1.25 0.53–3.35 0.57
Day of week 0.15 0.07–0.48 0.06
Place/city 0.49 0.27–1.12 0.17
Naming Animal naming 0.64 0.22–2.58 0.37
Executive function Trails-b 1.43 0.12–6.57 0.89
Visuo-construction Clock 1.22 0.30–3.58 0.58
Cube 0.97 0.07–2.67 0.60
Memory Encode five words 1.58 0.72–5.47 0.75
Delayed recall 0.62 0.23–1.83 0.27
Attention Forward digits 0.34 0.20–1.10 0.12
Backward digits 0.31 0.17–0.75 0.10
Vigilance (As) 1.19 0.75–3.85 0.36
Serial 7s 1.54 0.57–4.13 0.66
Language Sentence repeat (cat) 0.43 0.17–1.83 0.24
Sentence repeat (John) 0.43 0.17–1.83 0.24
Fluency (F’s) 2.23 1.22–4.63 0.52
Abstraction Similarity (train/bicycle) 0.19 0.07–0.65 0.11
Similarity (watch/ruler) 0.19 0.07–0.95 0.13

Note. MoCA = Montreal Cognitive Assessment.