The Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) is a progress monitoring tool that is administered three times per year to track your student’s progress in learning the Benchmarks of Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) Standards throughout this school year. Each test attempt (PM1, PM2, and PM3) will present 35–40 items that will cover the entire test “blueprint,” meaning students will encounter items representative of the standards within the subject or grade level. For more information on the test design, please visit https://www.fldoe.org/accountability/assessments/k-12-student-assessment/best/.
If you or your student would like to interact with the online testing platform or review F.A.S.T Reading and Mathematics sample items at home, sample test materials are available at https://flfast.org/families.html.
Fourth and Fifth grade students will be taking part in F.A.S.T Writing this year. All writing will be on the computer and typed as well.
For more information about the F.A.S.T program, please visit the portal at https://FLFAST.org.
Thank you for supporting your student and encouraging him or her to do his or her best during this test administration.