On Tuesday February 26, 2013 8th and 10th grade students from Florida will have their writing FCAT. Either all of 8th or 10th grade will get a expository or a persuasive prompt to write about. They have prepared for months for this test and are all ready. Recent news came out that for the very first year the writing FCAT would give 60 minutes to students to finish the test. Last year the writing FCAT was historically one of the worst ever taken. Only about 1/3 of the students passed. This was because two months before the test the state announced that they would grade harder on several parts of the writing test. It was so bad that the state had to bring the passing grade one up.