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Florida Assessment of Student Thinking

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Phase 1: Progress Monitoring Baseline & Diagnostics (PM1)You are here

Analyze fall PM1 baseline scale scores and diagnostic reporting category percentiles to identify foundational strengths and deficits across ELA Reading and B.E.S.T. Mathematics.

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Phase 2: ELA Reading Foundations & Text Analysis

Master literary prose and poetry analysis, informational text organizational structures, central ideas, and comparative rhetoric across genres aligned to Florida B.E.S.T. benchmarks.

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Phase 3: B.E.S.T. Mathematics Conceptual & Procedural Fluency

Target number sense operations, fractions, rational numbers, algebraic expressions, geometric reasoning, and data analysis probability corresponding to your specific tested grade level.

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Phase 4: Mid-Year Check & Targeted Remediation (PM2)

Evaluate winter PM2 growth, remediate persistent category gaps, and practice with technology-enhanced item formats including multi-select, hot text, and equation editors.

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Phase 5: Summative Mastery & Final PM3 Simulation

Complete full-length computer-adaptive practice sets, simulate timed test-window pacing, and consolidate test-taking strategies for spring PM3 accountability scores.

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FAST Exam Details

Florida Assessment of Student Thinking

Administered by Florida Department of Education

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Reported on the B.E.S.T. scale as Achievement Levels 1-5; Level 3 indicates On Grade Level performance. For example, Grade 3 ELA Reading Level 3 is a scale score of 201-212 and Grade 3 Mathematics Level 3 is 198-208, with ranges rising at each grade.
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Free to students; the FAST is a state-funded progress monitoring program administered by Florida public schools at no cost to families.
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Study time: Ongoing across the school year; the three PM windows track growth from a fall baseline (PM1) to an end-of-year mastery check (PM3).

Exam Content Breakdown

Based on the official Florida Department of Education content outline

ELA Reading: Prose and Poetry25-35%

Literary elements, theme, perspective and point of view, and poetry across grades 3-10.

ELA Reading: Informational Text25-35%

Text structure, central idea, author's purpose and perspective, and argument in nonfiction texts.

ELA Reading: Across Genres & Vocabulary35-50%

Figurative language, paraphrasing and summarizing, comparative reading, morphology, and context/connotation.

Math: Number Sense & OperationsNot published

FDOE reports Number Sense grade by grade, not as one umbrella weight: grade 3 additive 23-29% + multiplicative 23-29% + fractional 23-29%; grade 4 whole numbers 31-37% + fractions/decimals 31-37%; grade 5 whole numbers 23-29% + fractions/decimals 23-29%; grade 6 Number Sense and Operations 33-42%; grade 7 NSO with Algebraic Reasoning 25-31%; grade 8 NSO with Probability 22-28% (Test Design Summary, Feb 5 2025).

Math: Algebraic & Proportional ReasoningNot published

Grade 5 Algebraic Reasoning 23-29%; grade 6 Algebraic Reasoning 25-36%; grade 7 Proportional Reasoning and Relationships 22-31% (plus NSO-and-Algebraic 25-31%); grade 8 Algebraic Reasoning 22-28% and Linear Relationships, Data Analysis, and Functions 25-31%. Grades 3-4 fold algebraic benchmarks into the number-sense categories.

Math: Geometric Reasoning & MeasurementNot published

Grades 3-5 combine Geometric Reasoning, Measurement, and Data Analysis and Probability into one category (23-29% at grades 3 and 5; 31-37% at grade 4); grade 6 Geometric Reasoning, Data Analysis, and Probability 25-36%; grade 7 Geometric Reasoning 22-28%; grade 8 Geometric Reasoning 22-28%.

Math: Data Analysis & ProbabilityNot published

A standalone Data Analysis and Probability category exists only at grade 7 (22-28%); grade 8 pairs probability with number sense (22-28%) and data analysis with linear relationships and functions (25-31%); grades 3-6 assess data benchmarks inside their geometry categories.

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On-Grade-Level Academic Promotion

Demonstrate grade-level mastery (Achievement Level 3+) to meet Florida statutory promotion criteria, including the Grade 3 ELA Reading milestone under Section 1008.25, Florida Statutes.

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