# Write hinge questions and exit tickets to check understanding mid-lesson

Hinge questions, quick polls, and exit tickets that reveal mid-lesson whether students actually got the key idea.

- Topic: Learning & Teaching
- Framework: RTF
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Education, Write, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/write-hinge-questions-and-exit-tickets-to-check-understanding-mid

## Prompt

```text
Write checks for understanding I can use during a lesson.

**Lesson objective:** [WHAT STUDENTS SHOULD KNOW OR DO BY THE END]
**Grade or course level:** [LEVEL]
**Key concept or skill most likely to go wrong:** [e.g. "confusing mass and weight"]
**Response tools I have:** [mini whiteboards, hand signals, clickers/polls, LMS quiz, cold call]
**Lesson length:** [MINUTES]

Create:
1. **2 hinge questions** (multiple choice) for the midpoint. Every wrong option must map to a specific misconception; for each, state what choosing it reveals and what I should do next.
2. **3 quick oral or whiteboard prompts** that ask students to explain, not just answer.
3. **1 exit ticket** (2-3 items): one recall, one application, one that asks students to rate their own confidence with a reason.
4. A decision rule: what percentage correct means move on, reteach to a group, or reteach to everyone.

Rules:
- Each question should be answerable in under a minute.
- Avoid trick wording; test the concept, not reading stamina.
- Questions should be hard to get right by guessing or by pattern-matching the lesson's examples.

Return the questions with an answer key and the misconception map for each wrong option.
```

## What to fill in

- WHAT STUDENTS SHOULD KNOW OR DO BY THE END
- LEVEL
- e.g. "confusing mass and weight"
- MINUTES

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