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Hinge Questions With Diagnostic Wrong Answers
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Concept just taught: {{CONCEPT}}
Class: {{GRADE_OR_YEAR}} {{SUBJECT}}
Misconceptions I've seen before (optional): {{KNOWN_MISCONCEPTIONS}}
Write 3 multiple-choice hinge questions. For each:
1. The question, answerable in under a minute, with four options A-D.
2. One correct answer, and three wrong answers that each reveal a specific misconception, not just a careless slip.
3. For every wrong option, the misconception it signals and what I should do in the next five minutes if many students choose it.
Rules:
- Students must not be able to get it right with the wrong reasoning, so check every option for this.
- No "all of the above" or "none of the above".
- Options of similar length and grammatically parallel, so there are no giveaway clues.
- Reading load suitable for {{GRADE_OR_YEAR}}.
After the three questions, tell me which one is the strongest diagnostic and why.
Output: each question ready to project (question and options only), then a teacher table (option, correct or misconception, next step).
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“Hinge Questions With Diagnostic Wrong Answers” is a free prompt for ChatGPT in the Education & Learning category, 185 words long, added to The Prompt Index on October 28, 2026 by The Prompt Index. Copy it with the button above, paste it into ChatGPT or any other AI chat assistant, and send it.
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{{CONCEPT}}, {{GRADE_OR_YEAR}}, {{SUBJECT}}, {{KNOWN_MISCONCEPTIONS}}.
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Recommended models: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini.
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