WISC-V UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
WISC-V (age range, time length, uses) - CORRECT ANSWER - Ages: 6-17 years old
Time length: 65 minutes
Uses: assess for giftedness, ID, and cognitive strengths/weaknesses
Primary Index Scales - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Verbal Comprehension
2. Visual Spatial
3. Fluid Reasoning
4. Working Memory
5. Processing Speed
Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI) - CORRECT ANSWER - Measure of crystallized
intelligence, measures the ability to access and apply acquired word knowledge. Involves verbal
concept formation, reasoning, and expression.
Core subtests: Similarities and vocabulary
Secondary subtests: Information and comprehension
Visual Spatial Index (VSI) - CORRECT ANSWER - Measures the ability to evaluate
visual details and to understand visual spatial relationships to construct geometric designs from a
model; requires visual spatial reasoning, integration and synthesis of part-whole relationships,
attentiveness to visual detail, and visual-motor integration.
Core subtest: block design
Secondary subtest: visual puzzles
Fluid Reasoning Index (FRI) - CORRECT ANSWER - Measures the ability to detect the
underlying conceptual relationship among visual objects and to use reasoning to identify and
, apply rules; requires inductive and quantitative reasoning, broad visual intelligence,
simultaneous processing, and abstract thinking.
Core subtests: matrix reasoning and figure weights
Secondary subtests: picture concepts and arithmetic
Working Memory Index (WMI) - CORRECT ANSWER - Measures the ability to register,
maintain, and manipulate visual and auditory information in conscious awareness; requires
attention, concentration, mental control, and visual/auditory discrimination.
Core subtest: digit span
Secondary subtests: picture span and letter-number sequencing
Processing Speed Index (PSI) - CORRECT ANSWER - Measures speed and accuracy of
visual identification, decision making, and decision implementation. Performance is related to
visual scanning, visual discrimination, short-term visual memory, visuomotor coordination, and
concentration; measures ability to rapidly identify, register, and implement decisions about
visual stimuli.
Core subtest: coding
Secondary subtests: symbol search and cancellation
Ancillary Index Scales - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Quantitative Reasoning
2. Auditory Working Memory
3. Nonverbal
4. General Ability
5. Cognitive Proficiency
Quantitative Reasoning Index (QRI) - CORRECT ANSWER - Measures quantitative
reasoning skills; closely related to general intelligence and can indicate a child's capacity to
perform mental math operations and comprehend abstract relationships
CORRECT Answers
WISC-V (age range, time length, uses) - CORRECT ANSWER - Ages: 6-17 years old
Time length: 65 minutes
Uses: assess for giftedness, ID, and cognitive strengths/weaknesses
Primary Index Scales - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Verbal Comprehension
2. Visual Spatial
3. Fluid Reasoning
4. Working Memory
5. Processing Speed
Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI) - CORRECT ANSWER - Measure of crystallized
intelligence, measures the ability to access and apply acquired word knowledge. Involves verbal
concept formation, reasoning, and expression.
Core subtests: Similarities and vocabulary
Secondary subtests: Information and comprehension
Visual Spatial Index (VSI) - CORRECT ANSWER - Measures the ability to evaluate
visual details and to understand visual spatial relationships to construct geometric designs from a
model; requires visual spatial reasoning, integration and synthesis of part-whole relationships,
attentiveness to visual detail, and visual-motor integration.
Core subtest: block design
Secondary subtest: visual puzzles
Fluid Reasoning Index (FRI) - CORRECT ANSWER - Measures the ability to detect the
underlying conceptual relationship among visual objects and to use reasoning to identify and
, apply rules; requires inductive and quantitative reasoning, broad visual intelligence,
simultaneous processing, and abstract thinking.
Core subtests: matrix reasoning and figure weights
Secondary subtests: picture concepts and arithmetic
Working Memory Index (WMI) - CORRECT ANSWER - Measures the ability to register,
maintain, and manipulate visual and auditory information in conscious awareness; requires
attention, concentration, mental control, and visual/auditory discrimination.
Core subtest: digit span
Secondary subtests: picture span and letter-number sequencing
Processing Speed Index (PSI) - CORRECT ANSWER - Measures speed and accuracy of
visual identification, decision making, and decision implementation. Performance is related to
visual scanning, visual discrimination, short-term visual memory, visuomotor coordination, and
concentration; measures ability to rapidly identify, register, and implement decisions about
visual stimuli.
Core subtest: coding
Secondary subtests: symbol search and cancellation
Ancillary Index Scales - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Quantitative Reasoning
2. Auditory Working Memory
3. Nonverbal
4. General Ability
5. Cognitive Proficiency
Quantitative Reasoning Index (QRI) - CORRECT ANSWER - Measures quantitative
reasoning skills; closely related to general intelligence and can indicate a child's capacity to
perform mental math operations and comprehend abstract relationships
