Cognitive Capacity Screening Exam (CCSE)
Jacobs‚ 1977
Introduction to patient: “I would like to ask you a few questions. Some you will find very easy and others may be very hard. Just do your best.”
1. What day of the week is this? ______
2. What month? ______
3. What day of month? ______
4. What year? ______
5. What place is this? ______
6. Repeat the numbers 8 7 2. ______
7. Say them backwards. ______
8. Repeat these numbers 6 3 7 1. ______
9. Listen to these numbers 6 9 4. Count 1 through 10 out loud‚ then repeat 6 9 4. (Help if needed. Then use numbers 5 7 3.) ______
10.Listen to these numbers: 8 1 4 3. Count l through 10 out loud‚ then repeat 8 1 4 3. ______
11.Beginning with Sunday‚ say the days of the week backwards. ______
12.9 + 3 is ______
13.Add 6 (to the previous answer or “to 12”). ______
14.Take away 5 (“from 18”). Repeat these words after me and remember them. I will ask for them later: HAT‚ CAR‚ TREE‚ TWENTY-SIX. ______
15.The opposite of fast is slow. The opposite of up is ______
16.The opposite of large is ______
17.The opposite of hard is ______
18.An orange and a banana are both fruits. Red and blue are both ______
19.A penny and a dime are both ______
20.What were those words I asked you to remember? (HAT) ______
21.(CAR) ______
22.(TREE) ______
23.(TWENTY-SIX) ______
24.Take away 7 from 100‚ then take away 7 from what is left and keep going: 100 – 7 is ______
25.Minus 7 ______
26.Minus 7 (write down answers; check correct subtraction of 7) ______
27.Minus 7 ______
28.Minus 7 ______
29.Minus 7 ______
30.Minus 7 ______
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