Calculation Skills Flashcards
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On the MoCA serial 7s task, a patient starts at 100 and correctly subtracts 7 three times in a row, then says 79 instead of 79. How many points have they earned so far after the third subtraction?
Answer: 3 points
Three consecutive correct subtractions (93, 86, 79) each earn 1 point, totaling 3 points at that stage.
A patient performing the MoCA serial 7s says: 100, 93, 87, 79, 72. Which subtraction was incorrect?
Answer: 93 minus 7 = 87 (should be 86)
93 minus 7 equals 86, not 87; that is the error in this sequence.
If a MoCA patient answers the serial 7s as 93, 86, 79, 72, 65, what score do they receive?
Answer: 3 points
Scores of 3 correct = 3 points; all five correct = 3 points maximum since the scale caps at 3.
What is 100 minus 7, then minus 7 again?
Answer: 86
100 − 7 = 93, and 93 − 7 = 86.
On the MoCA, if a patient makes one error in the serial 7s but gets the other four correct, what is the likely score?
Answer: 2 points
MoCA scoring awards 3 pts for 4–5 correct, 2 pts for 2–3 correct, 1 pt for 1 correct, and 0 for none; one error among five means four correct = 3 points — but if only 2–3 are independently correct, it drops; with four correct the score is 3.
A clinician notes that a patient scored 0 on the serial 7s portion of the MoCA. What does this indicate about the patient's performance?
Answer: The patient did not answer any subtraction correctly
A score of 0 on serial 7s means none of the five sequential subtractions were performed correctly.
Which of the following correctly continues the serial 7s sequence started at 100: 93, 86, ___?
Answer: 79
86 minus 7 equals 79, which is the next correct value in the sequence.