Printable Exit Tickets
Exit tickets, ready to print and cut. Every sheet here is a page of slips a student fills in during the last three minutes of a lesson and hands you on the way out: one question, a little writing space, and a name line on every slip. Choose 2, 4, 6 or 8 tickets per page, pick the prompt that fits today (3-2-1, muddiest point, rate your understanding, or your own question on a blank ticket), and print at home or for the whole class. No sign-up and no watermark.
Ages 5-13
Updated August 2026
Curated by 
Poppy Fox
Exit ticket prompts
Ten different questions to end a lesson with, each one printed four to a page. The 3-2-1, the muddiest point and the one-word summary are the prompts teachers reach for most, and every one of them works in any subject.
3-2-1 Exit Ticket
The classic 3-2-1: three things learned, two questions, one thing to explore next. Four slips to a page with ruled space for each part.
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One Question Exit Ticket
One open question and four wide lines: what is the single most important thing you learned today, and why does it matter?
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Muddiest Point Exit Ticket
Names the confusion out loud: which part of today is still cloudy, and what would clear it up. Sort the stack and you have tomorrow's starter.
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I Used to Think, Now I Think
A before and after slip that makes conceptual change visible: what the student believed at the start of the lesson and what they believe now.
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One Word Summary Exit Ticket
A single boxed word for the whole lesson, then the reason behind the choice. Fast to write, and the reason is where the thinking shows.
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Explain It to a Friend Exit Ticket
A friend was absent today. Explain the lesson to them in two sentences. Teaching it back is the fastest way to expose a gap.
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One Question I Still Have
Every student leaves one real question behind, plus where they think the answer might be found. Good for the shy half of the room.
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Today I Learned, Tomorrow I Want To
Closes today and opens tomorrow on the same slip: one thing learned, one thing the student wants to try in the next lesson.
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Write Your Own Example Exit Ticket
A blank box for the student to invent their own example of what the class practised. Copying is easy, inventing is proof.
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What Helped Me Learn Exit Ticket
Asks about the conditions rather than the content: what helped this student learn today and what got in the way. Feedback on your lesson, in their words.
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The same standard ticket at four densities, so you print what the class needs and waste no paper. Two per page is a half sheet with room to write; eight per page is a strip for a quick check. Each density also comes blank, for writing your own question on the board.
Exit Tickets, 2 Per Page
The standard learned / question / rating ticket as a half sheet, cut once across the middle. The most writing room of the four densities.
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Exit Tickets, 4 Per Page
The same three-part ticket as quarter sheets: two cuts, four slips, and a class set of 28 comes off seven pages.
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Exit Tickets, 6 Per Page
Six to a page in two columns of three. Still room for a sentence and a rating, and a class set costs five sheets of paper.
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Exit Tickets, 8 Per Page
The quick-check density: eight small slips, one line each and a rating scale. Best for a thirty second answer at the door.
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Blank Exit Tickets, 2 Per Page
A blank half-sheet ticket: you write the question on the board or on the line, the student answers on six wide rules.
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Blank Exit Tickets, 4 Per Page
Four blank quarter-sheet tickets with a question line and five rules. The one to keep a stack of in the drawer for any lesson.
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Blank Exit Tickets, 6 Per Page
Six blank slips with a question line and three rules each, for a short written answer rather than a paragraph.
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Blank Exit Tickets, 8 Per Page
Eight blank strips, question line plus two rules. The cheapest way to ask one quick question of a whole class.
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A general prompt gets a general answer. These twelve slips ask the question that fits the lesson: an operation and a hardest step in math, a main idea and a supporting detail in reading, an observation and a wondering in science.
Math Exit Ticket
A work box for the problem you put on the board, then the step the student found hardest. The hard step is what you reteach.
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Show Your Work Math Exit Ticket
Two boxes instead of one: the working on top, the final answer boxed underneath, so a right answer with wrong working is visible.
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Word Problem Exit Ticket
Three lines for the three places word problems break: what the question asked, which operation was chosen, and why that one.
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Reading Exit Ticket
Main idea on top, one supporting detail underneath. Separating the two is the skill, and this slip forces the student to do it.
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Character Exit Ticket
Names one character who changed in today's chapter and the moment the change happened. Evidence, not opinion.
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New Word Reading Exit Ticket
One new word met in today's text, what the student thinks it means, and the clue in the sentence that told them.
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Writing Exit Ticket
The best sentence written today, copied out, plus the one thing the student will fix in the next draft.
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Revision Exit Ticket
Revision made visible: what the sentence said before, what it says now, and why the change is an improvement.
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Science Exit Ticket
Observe and wonder, kept apart on purpose: what the student actually saw today and the question it raised.
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Science Word Exit Ticket
Today's science term explained in the student's own words and then drawn, because a diagram exposes a definition that was only memorised.
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Social Studies Exit Ticket
One fact, one opinion, one question, on three separate lines. Telling fact from opinion is the whole point of the slip.
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Vocabulary Exit Ticket
Word, definition in the student's own words, then the word used in a sentence of their own. Works in every subject.
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The writing lines change with the hand that uses them. Kindergarten through second grade gets 30pt lines and a drawing box instead of a paragraph, grades 3 to 5 get 24pt lines, and middle school gets 19pt lines and prompts that ask for evidence.
Kindergarten Draw It Exit Ticket
For children who draw before they write: a large box for one thing learned today and a single 30pt line underneath.
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How Today Felt Exit Ticket
Three word boxes to circle, easy, just right or tricky, and a picture box. No writing needed, so it works from the first week of school.
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First Grade One Sentence Exit Ticket
One sentence about what the class did today, on three 30pt lines with room for big early handwriting.
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Second Grade I Can Exit Ticket
The student finishes the sentence I can, then gives one example of it. Wide lines, and the example keeps it honest.
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Third Grade Exit Ticket
Two things learned and one question, at the length a third grader can actually finish in the last four minutes of a lesson.
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Fourth Grade Exit Ticket
Explain today's skill in your own words, five ruled lines, no scaffolding. The paraphrase is the assessment.
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Fifth Grade Exit Ticket
Asks for the hardest part and the strategy used on it, which turns a complaint into a description of a method.
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My Goal for Tomorrow Exit Ticket
Ends the lesson with a goal the student sets and can be held to tomorrow, plus the first step towards it.
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Middle School Exit Ticket
Summarise today's objective in two sentences, on tighter 19pt lines that suit an older hand and a full class set of six per page.
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Claim and Evidence Exit Ticket
One claim on its own line, then the evidence from today that supports it. Separating them is the habit being built.
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Middle School Self-Assessment Ticket
A 1 to 4 rating against today's objective plus one line of justification, eight to a page for a whole-class read in one minute.
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One Useful Question Exit Ticket
Eight strips asking for the one question that would move this student forward tomorrow. Answer the top three at the start of next class.
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Six slips where the student rates their own understanding before they explain it: a 1 to 4 scale, fist to five, a got it / almost / not yet check, and a learning target box you fill in yourself. Sorting a stack of these into three piles takes about a minute.
Rate Your Understanding Exit Ticket
The 1 to 4 scale with a word under every number, so a 2 means getting there rather than whatever the student decided it means.
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Fist to Five Exit Ticket
The hand signal written down: ring a number from 0 to 5, then say what would raise it. Nobody can hide in the middle of the room.
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Got It, Almost, Not Yet Exit Ticket
Three word boxes to tick and one line of explanation. Sorts a class into three piles faster than any other slip here.
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Confidence Check Exit Ticket
Rate confidence from 1 to 4, then name the single thing that would raise the rating. The second half is the part you can act on.
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I Can Statement Exit Ticket
Write the day's I can statement on the blank line, and the class marks yes, almost or not yet against it with one piece of evidence.
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Learning Target Exit Ticket
A blank target line you fill in for any lesson, a 1 to 4 rating against it, and two lines of evidence that it was met.
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The shapes that are not a plain slip: sticky-note squares for the wall, a half-sheet reflection, a ticket with a teacher reply box, numbered stubs for tracking who handed one in, parking-lot question strips, and one weekly page per student.
Sticky Note Size Exit Tickets
Six three-inch squares, the size of a standard sticky note, so the whole class can post their answers on the door on the way out.
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Half Sheet Reflection Exit Ticket
A four-part half sheet for the end of a unit rather than a lesson: what you learned, what you found hard, what helped, what is next.
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Exit Ticket With Teacher Reply Box
The student answers on the top half and the teacher writes one line back in the shaded box, so the slip goes home as feedback.
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Numbered Exit Tickets
Each slip carries a class number field next to the name, so a missing ticket at the end of the period has a number on it.
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Parking Lot Question Slips
Eight narrow strips for the question board: a question that did not fit into today's lesson, pinned up for the class to come back to.
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Weekly Exit Ticket Sheet
One page per student for the whole week: five dated rows, each with two lines and a 1 to 4 rating, and nothing to cut.
Download PDFWhat is an exit ticket?
An exit ticket is a short question a student answers on a small slip of paper in the last few minutes of a lesson, then hands to the teacher on the way out. It takes two or three minutes, it is not graded, and it tells you who understood today's lesson before you plan tomorrow's.
The five minute routine
Print a page, cut along the dashed lines, and keep the slips in a tray by the door. Three minutes before the bell, hand one to every student and ask them to answer alone and in silence. Collect them as they leave, then sort the pile into three stacks: got it, nearly, and not yet. The not yet stack is your small group for tomorrow, and the whole routine costs you about four minutes of teaching time.
Two habits make the difference. Ask ONE question, not four, because a slip with four questions gets four rushed answers. And tell the class the slip is not marked, or you will collect what they think you want to read instead of what they actually understand.
Which exit ticket should I print?
If you are starting from nothing, print the 54 sheets in this set once and keep the four you reach for. Most teachers land on the three part ticket (one thing learned, one question, a 1 to 4 rating), a blank ticket for the days you write your own question on the board, and one self check slip.
Match the slips per page to the answer you want. Two per page is a half sheet and asks for a paragraph. Four per page is the standard quarter sheet. Six and eight per page are for a one line answer and a rating, and a class set of thirty costs you four sheets of paper.
Match the writing lines to the hand. The kindergarten and first grade slips have 30pt rows and a drawing box, because a five year old cannot write inside a narrow rule and will simply not answer. The middle school slips have 19pt rows and ask for evidence.
Frequently asked questions
What should an exit ticket ask?
One question tied to the thing you actually taught today, phrased so that a wrong answer is informative. "Did you understand?" tells you nothing, because everybody writes yes. "Explain today's step in your own words" or "solve this one problem and name the hardest step" tells you exactly where the class is.
How many exit tickets should I print per page?
Four is the usual answer: a quarter sheet holds a sentence or two and a rating without wasting paper. Drop to two per page when you want a paragraph or an end of unit reflection, and go to six or eight when you only need a one line answer and a self rating.
Do exit tickets get graded?
No. An exit ticket is formative: it exists to tell you what to teach tomorrow. Grading it changes what students write, because a graded slip gets the safe answer rather than the honest one. Read the pile, sort it into three stacks, and hand the slips back or bin them.
Can I use these in my classroom?
Yes. Print as many copies as you need for a class, a homeschool, a tutoring session or a training room, at no cost and with no watermark. The only things you cannot do are sell the sheets or re-upload the PDF files to another website.
Are the Spanish exit tickets the same?
They are written in Spanish, not machine translated. The set uses "ticket de salida", the wording teachers actually use across Spain and Latin America, and the layouts are identical, so a bilingual classroom can hand out both versions of the same slip.
More for the classroom
Exit tickets end the lesson. For the start of the year there are printable name tags for desks and trays, and all about me worksheets for the first week, when you are still learning who is in front of you. All three live in classroom printables.
