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Florida Civic Literacy Assessment and Graduation Requirements: Home

This guide was created to help you understand the new state requirements for civic literacy in Florida for of all students beginning Fall 2021 and to help you prepare for successfully completing those requirements.

The FCLE assesses students' civic literacy competency.

It includes 80 multiple-choice questions with four main competency areas with 20 questions in each section:

  • American Democracy
  • United States Constitution
  • Founding Documents
  • Landmark Impact on Law and Society

Questions may use primary sources, charts or graphs, or similar prompts.

Items may also ask students to consider or interpret a scenario to answer questions.

The FCLE administration is untimed and takes approximately 1 hour to complete. 

FCLE passing score: 48 out of 80 (60%)

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