Generally, head-injured patients rate their functioning, as assessed by neuropsychological tests, less accurately than do informants. The current study, based upon a sample of 48 head-injured subjects, produced the following findings regarding this matter. There was no substantial agreement, as evaluated by the kappa coefficient, between patients and informants regarding status of memory, cognition, perceptual, and communicative skills. However, there was considerable agreement concerning status of motor function. The only consequential agreement between patients and neuropsychological tests was in the case of the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test. There was substantial agreement between informants' ratings of complex abilities, with lesser agreement in the case of simpler skills. We concluded that the discrepancy in functional ratings among patients, informants, and test results diminishes when the tests being considered more closely resemble complex everyday activities.