The FCLE assesses students' civic literacy competency.
It includes 80 multiple-choice questions with four main competency areas with 20 questions in each section:
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%)