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. 2019 Aug 14;9(3):95. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics9030095

Table 2.

Short cognitive tests ordered by number of items.

Test Name Number of Items Questions Maximum Score % of Assessments We Could Score in Full
Mini-Cog [27] 2
  • 1

    3-word delayed recall

  • 2

    Clock draw (numbers, hands)

 5 75%
Abbreviated MoCA [30] 2
  • 1

    5-word delayed recall

  • 2

    Clock draw (face, numbers, hands)

 8 75%
4-AMT [25] 4
  • 1

    Age

  • 2

    Year

  • 3

    Place

  • 4

    Date of birth

 4 81%
4AT (Available online: www.the4AT.com) 5
  • 1

    Alertness

  • 2

    Age

  • 3

    Current year

  • 4

    Place

  • 5

    Date of birth

  • 6

    Months backwards

 12 100%
6-CIT [28] 6
  • 1

    Time

  • 2

    Month

  • 3

    Yearl

  • 4

    Count backwards from 20

  • 5

    5-part delayed recall

  • 6

    Months backwards

 28 78%
GPCOG [26] 7
  • 1

    Date

  • 2

    Month

  • 3

    Year

  • 4

    Date of birth

  • 5

    5-part delayed recall

  • 6

    Clock draw (numbers, hands)

  • 7

    News item

 9 75%
NINDS-CSN 5 min MoCA [29] 7
  • 1

    Date

  • 2

    Month

  • 3

    Year

  • 4

    Day

  • 5

    Place

  • 6

    City

  • 7

    5-word delayed recall

  • 8

    Fluency (letter F)

 12 79%
10-AMT [24] 10
  • 1

    Age

  • 2

    Time

  • 3

    Year

  • 4

    Place

  • 5

    Two-person recognition

  • 6

    Date of birth

  • 7

    Year of WW1

  • 8

    Current prime minister

  • 9

    Count backwards from 20

  • 10

    3-part delayed recall

 10 79%

Abbreviations: Abbreviated mental test (AMT); General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition (GPCOG); Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA); National Institute of Neurological disorders and stroke and the Canadian stroke network (NINDS-CSN); Six item cognitive impairment test (6-CIT).