Report the situations behind remembered instructions and steps
The official working-memory group contains nine ADEXI items, including instructions, multistep activities, planning and finding another approach. Its sum and mean describe endorsed difficulty statements, rather than memory capacity measured on a task.
Sum items 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 13 for 9–45; divide by nine for the labelled 1–5 mean. All nine numeric answers are required.
The content of this nine-item group
The official key places items 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 13 in the working-memory group. They cover remembering instructions or an ongoing activity, retaining several requests, fetching something, planning, handling steps, understanding spoken instructions, thinking ahead and finding another approach when stuck. Those are the contents of this particular self-report group. The website does not split them into newly validated planning or flexibility factors. Nor does it replace the answers with performance on mental arithmetic, a memory game or a general intelligence test.
Keep sum and mean labels distinct
Each selected value contributes directly, with no reversed items. Add the nine values for the raw sum from 9 to 45. Divide that sum by nine for the part mean from 1 to 5, displayed to two decimals after calculation. For example, one response of 5 and eight responses of 2 give a sum of 21 and a mean of 21/9, displayed as 2.33. These are two presentations of the same responses. The mean is not a percentage or population rank, and it is not used to give this group half of a new overall score.
A long instruction can have several contexts
Imagine being asked to collect three materials and complete a sequence before an appointment. You remember the first request but lose track of the next step. You could note what was said, what was written down and which step became unclear. A counterexample is an instruction that omitted a necessary detail: confusion then does not by itself establish a memory problem. The questionnaire cannot determine which explanation applies. It also cannot tell whether an unfamiliar language, a noisy setting, lack of prior knowledge or another factor influenced that interaction.
More endorsement is not greater memory strength
A larger sum or mean means more reported difficulty in these nine statements. It does not indicate superior memory, lower IQ, a diagnosis or a fixed limit on learning. A smaller value does not guarantee easy performance on every task. This edition sets no high, medium or low bands and makes no comparison with people of your age or a published sample mean. The working-memory sum has nine contributions while inhibition has five; comparing their raw sizes would confuse item counts with ability. Equal part means likewise do not establish equal capacities.
What happens to unanswered items
The working-memory sum and mean appear only when all nine answers are numeric. One skip withholds both and the fourteen-item total, but a complete inhibition group remains visible. A skipped statement is never treated as the midpoint, zero or an opportunity that must have happened. No partial response set is scaled up. This is the website's editorial completeness policy, not a validated missing-data rule. All three complete public guides remain available, even if every answer is skipped. A later numerical difference does not by itself establish meaningful change.
An optional task note, with the version visible
For one manageable activity, you could ask for a written sequence, check the first next step and note which part still needs clarification. The purpose is to observe that task, not to prove a personal deficit or promise that a tool will improve executive capacity. The item group and wording come from the current official ADEXI self-report files, including the provided Angela Siu simplified-Chinese version. This website has not established its own psychometric validation or cross-language equivalence. You need not share answers with an employer or another person; a qualified professional can consider persistent difficulties in a broader context.