150+ Exit Ticket Questions And Prompts For All Subjects
150+ Exit ticket questions understand your students’ learning.
150+ Exit Ticket Questions And Prompts For Teachers
Did your students understand your lesson today? Did they significantly retain what they were taught or did they find it very difficult to comprehend?
Exit ticket questions are a quick and easy way to find out.
Teachers give out exit tickets at the end of class, and students use them to reflect on that day’s lesson.
Exit tickets should only take around 5 minutes to complete and are typically 1-3 questions long. They allow teachers to collect both quantitative and qualitative data on student comprehension to optimize future lessons.
Save time creating your own list by using the following 150+ exit questions and prompts below.
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Exit Ticket Questions For All Subjects
Use these general exit ticket prompts to encourage open communication and your students’ overall content comprehension.
How well did you comprehend today’s lesson?
Describe the most important thing you learned today. What makes it important?
How did you contribute to the class discussion today? List two ways.
What’s one topic you’d like to review further?
Which topic could I have explained more clearly?
What is one real-life application for today’s lesson?
What’s one change you’d like to see in the way our class is conducted?
What’s one thing you don’t want me to change in the way our class is conducted?
Did our group activity bring value to the lesson today? Do you think it would have been more effective as a solo activity?
What’s something I could be doing better as a teacher?
How would you define {formtext: name=Input a concept from your lesson. E.g., How would you define gravity; cols=55}?
When your mom or dad asks what you learned about in school today, what will you say?
If you had to explain today’s lesson to a student from two grades below you, how would you do it?
What is a fact you already knew that connects with something from today’s lesson?
What is one accomplishment from your group activity today?
What are two things from today's topic that you would like to learn more about?
What was the most surprising thing you learned today, and why?
Which materials were most effective in helping you grasp today’s main concepts?
In which other subjects can you use what you learned in our class today? How?
How would you summarize today’s story/video in one sentence?
List three objectives you think the teacher had for this lesson. Do you think these objectives were achieved? Why or why not?
What did you find most interesting about today’s experiment?
What part of this topic will you spend more personal time focusing on?
How much effort did you put into today’s class, on a scale from 1 (low) to 10 (high)? Explain.
What’s an “embarrassing” question you didn’t want to ask in class? Why do you find it embarrassing?
If you were the teacher, how would you have made today’s lesson more engaging or fun?
How confident are you in your understanding of today’s lesson, on a scale from 1 (low) to 10 (high)? Explain.
How would you rate the pace of today’s lesson on a scale from 1 (too slow) to 10 (too fast)? Explain.
What is one external factor that you think influenced your understanding of today’s lesson the most? Explain
What is one thing the school could do better to improve learning in the classroom?
Math Exit Ticket Slips
Math lessons can easily go over some students’ heads. Exit ticket slips are a great way to find out which topics need more work.
Which concept from today’s lesson was the most challenging? Can you explain why?
What previously covered topic could we review to help you comprehend today’s lesson better?
What is a question that you’d like me to answer in our next class?
How would you define a new vocabulary term in your own words?
How would you rank the difficulty of this topic on a scale of 1 (easier than average) to 5 (harder than average)?
Strength And Weakness Exit Ticket Questions
Strength and weakness exit ticket questions are an excellent way to establish your class's upper and lower comprehension ranges.
Which concept in {formtext: name=insert subject; cols=11} are you struggling with the most?
Which concept in {formtext: name=insert subject; cols=11} comes easy to you?
What are 2 questions you’d like to ask in the next {formtext: name=insert subject; cols=11} class?
How has our group activity contributed to your understanding of today’s lesson?
If we went back in time to the first lesson on this topic, what would you pay more attention to and why?
What is a concept that you’re proud of mastering this week?
How can you be more successful in achieving your learning goals in the future?
What are 3 objectives you’d like to accomplish this quarter?
What 3 things have you improved on the most since last quarter?
What are 3 topics you have not yet understood from previous lessons?
Describe a moment this week where a concept “clicked.” How did it happen?
Which topics from this week crossover with what you’re learning in other classes, and how can you apply what you’ve learned in our class?
If you could give advice to yourself from last quarter, what would you say and why?
What is something about yourself that you are proud of for accomplishing in the last few weeks?
How have you grown as a student since last year?
If you were a teacher for the day, how would you assess your performance (as a student)?
If you were a teacher for the day, what would you do to help yourself (as a student) understand the concepts better?
If you had to take a test on this unit today, what is an easy question you know you could achieve a perfect score on?
If you had to take a test on this unit today, what is an easy question you know you would struggle with?
If you were called in front of the class to teach a concept from this unit, what would it be and why?
What are the top 3 things that stick out to you from today’s lesson?
What is something you've learned in this unit that you were wrong about before?
How could I help you understand {formtext: name=insert concept; cols=12} better?
How were you challenged today?
How confident would you be explaining today’s lesson to another student on a scale from 1 (low) to 10 (high)? Explain.
Reading Comprehension Exit Ticket Questions
Use the following questions to determine which parts of the text you should review.
What is the central conflict of the story in your own words?
Which character do you identify with the most, and why?
What would you ask the author of this book if they were in our classroom?
What are 3 key points from our reading today?
What part of today’s reading do you think you could rewrite better? Why?
Exit Ticket Prompts For All Subjects
Exit ticket prompts are more open-ended than questions and encourage a greater level of reflection and critical thinking. Feel free to customize the following prompts to suit your needs.
I wonder why…
If I was the teacher today, I would have…
I didn’t realize that…
My opinion on {formtext: name=insert topic; cols=9} is…
I wish I could have said this in class today…
Outside of school, I’ve applied this lesson by…
In the past I…but now I…
I need more help with…
I was surprised by…
If I had known ____ before, it would have made this lesson easier…
Today’s topic was important because…
This _____ lesson relates to this _____ lesson because…
I need to dig deeper into…
When I think of ____, I can’t help but think of…
My key takeaway from today’s lesson is…
Before today, I didn’t know…
Next class, I want to learn about…
I can improve my knowledge of ___ by…
One thing I used to find difficult but now find easy is…
A topic I never knew I was interested in before is…
A topic I wish I had learned more about before is…
If I had to choose one topic to study for the rest of school, I’d probably choose ____ because…
Something I wish I knew about my learning habits before now is…
I’d like to get better at…
I really enjoy learning about…
Strength and Weakness Exit Prompts
Strength and weakness exit prompts are very helpful for planning the pace of your lessons and the level of difficulty.
My main strength when it comes to {formtext: name=insert topic; cols=9} is…
Something I’ve gotten the hang of quickly is…
I learn best when
I like working in groups because…
To achieve my best, I need to…
I’m proud of myself for learning…
I already knew a lot about…
I really enjoyed learning about…
The activity I find the most engaging is…
I can’t wait to learn about…
One thing I did that helped boost my comprehension of today’s lesson was…
My teacher did a perfect job explaining…
The topic I’m most confident in explaining to others is…
The type of learning environment that suits me best is…
I think my performance would improve if I did this…
Something new I learned today was…
My main weakness when it comes to {formtext: name=insert topic; cols=9} is…
I really need to practice…
No matter how hard I try, something that I can’t wrap my head around is…
Out of all today’s lessons, I need the most feedback on…
Next class, I will pay more attention to…
The most frustrating part of today’s class was…
My least favorite activity was…
I disliked the group activity because…
I hope to improve my understanding of…
I wish my teacher…
I was disappointed that…
One thing I need to focus more on is…
I can never seem to understand…
An activity that didn’t really help me learn was…
Reading Exit Ticket Prompts Ideas
These open-ended reading exit ticket prompts are a great way to build-up writing skills.
If I was the main character, the thing I’d do differently would be…
I feel/don’t feel a connection to this text because I…
An example of symbolism that stood out to me was…
I feel like the author is trying to…
This text relates to my real-life situation because…
This is what I think will happen next…
The passage that evoked the strongest visualizations for me was…
Something in this text that changed the way I think about the world was…
Something I don’t like about this text is…
I feel like the author could have done this better…
If I was a character in this book, I’d most likely be…
I would have ended the story by…
I would have started the story by…
The most memorable quote from this passage was…
I would have changed the title of this book to…
Exit Ticket Prompt Examples For Math and Science
Math and science exit prompts are a fun way to turn quantitative lessons into qualitative discussions. Insert your own topics into the examples below.
I would have approached today’s study differently by…
If I could redo my experiment, I would…
A science concept that blew my mind this week was…
My favorite step in the scientific method is…
If I could solve any scientific mystery, I’d solve…
I’d like to conduct an experiment on…
I’m most interested in pursuing the scientific field of {formtext: name=insert field; cols=9} because…
A scientist I look up to is…
I didn’t realize that you could solve the math problem this way…
The step I find most challenging in solving this problem is…
A new math problem-solving strategy I learned was…
Something about math that really puzzles me is…
I used mathematics in the real world this week by…
The math concept I need to re-learn from the beginning is…
I’m proud of myself for learning this mathematical concept…