A person with a a high school education in the United States should be able to get 26 to 30, Honig said. This is because there are often confounding factors such as the level of education and whether the test is being given in the person’s native language. He has seen patients with dementia score greater than 26 and he has seen patients without dementia score below 26. Lawrence Honig, a neurologist and one of the directors of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Columbia University, said while the test is a pretty good indicator, it’s not perfect. Some of the last five questions that Trump was referring to include naming the time and place that you are in, as well as repeating a series of words that you were asked to remember earlier in the test.ĭr. I'll bet you couldn't, they get very hard, the last five questions,” he told Wallace. “Yes, the first few questions are easy, but I'll bet you couldn't even answer the last five questions. In an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace on Sunday, Trump said that the exam gets progressively more difficult. If you get it in order, you get extra points.’” So it's person, woman, man, camera, TV.’ ‘Okay, that's very good. So they say, ‘Could you repeat that?' So I said, ‘Yeah. “It's like you'll go: Person, woman, man, camera, TV. Marc Siegel, during which he described the memory portion of the test. On Wednesday, after a press briefing, Trump spoke to Fox News contributor Dr. Trump recently brought up his performance on the test as a challenge to Joe Biden, 77, the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee. Sections of the Montreal cognitive test (Ziad Nasreddine)