Mini-Mental Status Examination

Task and Questions Maximum Score

Orientation
1. Ask the patient: What year, season, date, day, and month is it?
2. Ask the patient: What state, country, town, hospital, and floor are
we in or on?
5
(1 for each correct
answer)
Registration
1. Ask the patient to name o!"ects, repeat them aloud to the
patient, and ask the patient to say them a#ain.
2. $f the patient cannot recall the o!"ects, repeat them !ack until
the patient learns all . %ount the num!er of trials and record:
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(1 for each correct

answer)
Attention and calculation
1. 'a(e the patient recite serial )s, to 5.
2. Alternati(ely, ha(e the spell *world+ !ackward.
5
(1 for each correct
answer)
Recall
Ask the patient to name the o!"ects from the re#istration task.

(1 for each correct

answer)
Language
1. ,how the patient a pencil and a watch and ask what they are.
2. ,ay *-o ifs, ands, or !uts. and ask the patient to repeat it.
. Ask the patient to follow a /sta#e command: .0ake a piece of
paper in your ri#ht hand, fold it in half, and put it on the floor..
1. Ask the patient to follow sin#le commands: *%lose your eyes,+
*Write a sentence,+ and *copy this desi#n+ (after showin# the
patient a desi#n of intersectin# penta#ons).
2
(1 for each correct
response)
-ote.3 A score of 425 indicates dementia. 6atients with the !eni#n for#etfulness of
senility #enerally ha(e a score of 725. 8enerally, any score less than 21 is considered
a!normal, !ut the cutoff (aries with the patient9s le(el of education. :ecause the results
for this test can (ary o(er time, and for some people results can (ary durin# the day,
record when (ie, the time and date) this test was performed. Also assess the patient9s
le(el of consciousness alon# a continuum: alert, drowsy, stuporous, comatose.