100+ Would You Rather Questions for High School Students

• Would you rather have perfect grades in classes you hate or okay grades in classes you love?
• Would you rather be the smartest student in your school or the most popular?
• Would you rather never have homework again or have half-days every Friday?
• Would you rather have your best friend in every class or have your schedule completely to yourself?
• Would you rather skip senior year and start college early or extend senior year for two years?
• Would you rather have your dream college accept you with no scholarship or your second choice with a full ride?
• Would you rather have a teacher who's brilliant but impossible or easy and forgettable?
• Would you rather ace a presentation and not remember what you said or bomb it and remember exactly what happened?
• Would you rather take the hardest classes and get into any college or take easier ones and get into your specific dream school?
• Would you rather have your GPA visible to everyone or have it completely private?

• Would you rather be the most talked-about person in school (not always positively) or completely fly under the radar?
• Would you rather be popular with people you don't respect or respected by people you admire?
• Would you rather have your most embarrassing moment happen in front of five people or five hundred?
• Would you rather be the person who's always in the drama or completely removed from it?
• Would you rather be the funniest person in your friend group or the most interesting?
• Would you rather have 200 people at your graduation party who barely know you or 20 people who know everything about you?
• Would you rather be well-liked but misunderstood or deeply understood by a few people?
• Would you rather have everyone know what you're thinking or have no one know anything about you?
• Would you rather always have something to say or always know when to listen?
• Would you rather change schools and start fresh or stay exactly where you are?

• Would you rather your crush find out you like them through a friend or tell them yourself?
• Would you rather date someone at your school who you see every day or someone at another school?
• Would you rather have your first relationship be perfect and brief or complicated but lasting?
• Would you rather know for certain that your crush likes you back or not know but have hope?
• Would you rather be in a relationship all through high school or be completely single and have full independence?
• Would you rather have your ex remain a close friend or have a clean break?
• Would you rather be liked by someone you don't feel the same about or not be liked by someone you do?
• Would you rather your friends love everyone you date or give honest but sometimes hard opinions?
• Would you rather know in high school who you'll end up with or be completely surprised?
• Would you rather have a relationship everyone knows about or one that's completely private?

• Would you rather know exactly what you want to do after high school or have complete freedom to figure it out?
• Would you rather stay close to home for college or go as far as possible?
• Would you rather have your entire career mapped out at 17 or spend years discovering it?
• Would you rather be the person who does everything expected or the one who surprises everyone?
• Would you rather have a clear talent that defines your future or a general aptitude for many things?
• Would you rather know in advance which decision will matter most in your future or make it without knowing?
• Would you rather graduate and immediately know what you're doing next or have a year of uncertainty?
• Would you rather look back at high school as the best years or the beginning of them?
• Would you rather have every big decision supported by your parents or made on your own?
• Would you rather always know the right choice or have the courage to make the wrong one and learn?

• Would you rather trip in front of the entire school or call your teacher "Mom" in front of the class?
• Would you rather have your most embarrassing photo posted to the school Instagram or read your most embarrassing text in front of your crush?
• Would you rather be caught sleeping in class by the strictest teacher or by your favorite teacher who's disappointed?
• Would you rather always say the wrong thing at the right time or the right thing at the wrong time?
• Would you rather have your locker combination announced at an assembly or have everyone know your GPA?
• Would you rather always be the one who's overdressed or always underdressed?
• Would you rather talk in front of the school every week or never have to say a word in class again?
• Would you rather have your teachers know everything about your social life or your parents know everything about your school drama?
• Would you rather laugh at yourself or be laughed at by someone else?
• Would you rather give a speech at graduation or write the year's best essay that nobody reads aloud?

🎮 More Questions in the Game

• Would you rather always know why people do the things they do or simply be comfortable not knowing?
• Would you rather be understood by everyone you meet or stay a mystery?
• Would you rather change one thing about how you've handled friendships or one thing about how you've handled school?
• Would you rather know which of your current friends will matter most in ten years or be surprised?
• Would you rather have more confidence right now or understand better why you have less?
• Would you rather have the high school experience of someone you admire or your own version of it?
• Would you rather stand up for something important and lose some friends or stay quiet and keep everyone?
• Would you rather make a decision that disappoints your parents but feels right or do what's expected?
• Would you rather know now what high school is teaching you or find out after?
• Would you rather always be right about people or be right about yourself?

• Would you rather leave high school with a clear sense of who you are or still figuring it out?
• Would you rather high school be the chapter you can't wait to leave or the one you never fully leave?
• Would you rather be remembered by your classmates as someone brave or someone kind?
• Would you rather make one decision in high school that changes everything or many small decisions that add up?
• Would you rather graduate early and miss the last chapter or stay and get every moment?
• Would you rather know the best thing about your future self or be surprised?
• Would you rather have high school be about who you are or who you're becoming?
• Would you rather have this time be preparation for something or meaningful in itself?
• Would you rather high school be the place you found yourself or the place you were still looking?
• Would you rather carry only the good things from high school forward or carry everything and sort it out later?

• Would you rather know what everyone is thinking about you or have no idea?
• Would you rather be in a class with your best friend and get distracted or be alone and get everything done?
• Would you rather be the person who's always early to everything or the one who makes an entrance?
• Would you rather have complete confidence in how you look or complete peace with how you feel?
• Would you rather have the coolest interest nobody knows about or a common one everyone respects?
• Would you rather know what your teachers think about you outside of class or have complete privacy?
• Would you rather be known at your school for something you love or something you're good at?
• Would you rather have your favorite teacher know how much they impacted you or never tell them?
• Would you rather have a talent that's visible or one that changes your life quietly?
• Would you rather have the social courage now or wait until you don't need it as much?
• Would you rather be the person who always asks questions or the one who always has answers?
• Would you rather have your high school years be exactly what everyone says they're supposed to be or completely your own?
• Would you rather fail at something important in high school and learn or succeed easily and not?
• Would you rather know which moment in high school will matter most to you in twenty years or experience it without knowing?
• Would you rather be in the yearbook for something you're proud of or for nothing at all?
• Would you rather high school feel too short or exactly right?
• Would you rather know someone in high school who changes how you see the world or discover that on your own?
• Would you rather have clarity about who you are now or the curiosity of still becoming?
• Would you rather have had an easier version of high school or the one you've actually had?
• Would you rather graduate with certainty or possibility?
• Would you rather have the people from your high school be in your life forever or know that some of the best ones are coming?
• Would you rather look back and think "I was brave" or "I was kind"?
• Would you rather high school teach you how to win or how to lose?
• Would you rather be the person who fits in or the one who finds their people?
• Would you rather have one high school memory that defines you or a collection that doesn't?
• Would you rather have your senior year be the best one or know the best is ahead?
• Would you rather graduate knowing what you stand for or still working on it?
• Would you rather have high school be an ending or a beginning?
• Would you rather know now how the people around you will grow or be surprised?
• Would you rather be exactly who you are right now in ten years or completely different?

100 More Would You Rather Questions for High School Students

These 100 extra questions bring the page to 200. They focus on what teachers ask for most: questions linked to school subjects, real moral dilemmas, creative prompts, clubs and sports, and more clean funny ones. Every question in this section is classroom-friendly.

Each question connects to a real subject: math, science, English, history, languages or life skills. They make good bell-ringers and help you see what your students care about.

• Would you rather be able to solve any math problem in your head or write a perfect essay in one draft?
• Would you rather spend a day living in ancient Rome or in ancient Egypt?
• Would you rather speak every language fluently or understand every science concept instantly?
• Would you rather dissect a frog in biology or build a working circuit in physics?
• Would you rather have a famous author or a famous scientist as your teacher for one semester?
• Would you rather have history class taught entirely through movies or entirely through field trips?
• Would you rather memorize the entire periodic table or every U.S. president in order?
• Would you rather read only classic novels for a year or only books published in the last five years?
• Would you rather design an experiment that gets sent to space or write a book that gets taught in schools?
• Would you rather have statistics or computer coding added as a required class?
• Would you rather argue a case in a mock trial or present your project at the science fair?
• Would you rather witness the first moon landing in person or the signing of the Declaration of Independence?
• Would you rather take the hardest math class your school offers or the hardest English class?
• Would you rather spend a week at sea with marine biologists or a week studying volcanoes with geologists?
• Would you rather write a poem for a grade or give a persuasive speech for a grade?
• Would you rather have personal finance or cooking be a graduation requirement?
• Would you rather know the answer to every geography trivia question or every history trivia question?
• Would you rather have every class be hands-on labs or every class be discussion-based seminars?
• Would you rather learn a foreign language by studying abroad for a month or by taking four years of classes?
• Would you rather be graded only on a final exam or only on projects throughout the year?

Discussion-grade dilemmas with no single right answer. They work well for advisory periods, ethics units and debate warm-ups. Ask students to defend the option they did not pick, too.

• Would you rather report a friend you saw cheating on a test or stay quiet and live with the guilt?
• Would you rather tell a friend an honest truth that hurts or a kind white lie that helps them feel better?
• Would you rather keep an A on a test that was graded wrong in your favor or point out the mistake and get a B?
• Would you rather speak up in the moment when someone is being picked on or report it to a trusted adult afterward?
• Would you rather keep a secret a friend asked you to keep or break it because you're worried about their safety?
• Would you rather correct a teacher who praised you for a teammate's idea in front of the class or tell the teacher privately afterward?
• Would you rather always know the truth even when it hurts or be protected from hard truths?
• Would you rather win a game because the referee made a bad call in your favor or lose a game fairly?
• Would you rather stop to help a stranger and be late for something important or be on time and walk past?
• Would you rather give up your phone for a month to raise money for a cause you care about or volunteer every weekend for a month?
• Would you rather fix one unfair thing at your own school or one unfair thing far away that you'll never see?
• Would you rather speak out about a problem on your team and lose some friends or stay quiet and keep your spot?
• Would you rather apologize first even when you think you're right or wait for the other person to apologize?
• Would you rather follow a school rule you think is unfair or break it and accept the consequences?
• Would you rather vote in a student election for your best friend or for the candidate with better ideas?
• Would you rather let a struggling friend copy your homework or spend hours tutoring them instead?
• Would you rather be judged by your intentions or by the results of your actions?
• Would you rather live in a world where nobody could lie or a world where nobody could steal?
• Would you rather be completely honest on social media or post only the highlights?
• Would you rather do the right thing when nobody is watching or do it publicly so others follow your example?

Clean, silly and safe for any classroom. Use them when the room needs a laugh before a test or at the end of a long day.

• Would you rather have the school bell play a different song every period or be replaced by a rooster crow?
• Would you rather have a parent chaperone every school dance or have a parent pick you up every day while honking the horn?
• Would you rather the cafeteria serve only breakfast food or only pizza for a whole year?
• Would you rather sing every answer you give in class or speak only in rhymes for a week?
• Would you rather get the hiccups during every presentation or sneeze every time a teacher says your name?
• Would you rather have your yearbook quote picked by your best friend or by your parents?
• Would you rather have the school mascot follow you around all day or have the marching band announce you every time you enter a room?
• Would you rather have your phone autocorrect every text to all caps or only to emoji?
• Would you rather wave back at a teacher who was waving at someone else or call the substitute by the wrong name all period?
• Would you rather do gym class in formal wear or go to prom in gym clothes?
• Would you rather have your locker right next to the bathrooms or right next to the principal's office?
• Would you rather have a teacher who tells dad jokes all class or one who randomly breaks into dance?
• Would you rather walk backward between every class or hop on one foot through the lunch line?
• Would you rather snore loudly when you doze off in class or wake up shouting something random?
• Would you rather have your voice crack during the morning announcements or your microphone squeal at an assembly?
• Would you rather have your school photo taken mid-sneeze or mid-blink?
• Would you rather have your personal playlist played over the school speakers or your notes passed around the class?
• Would you rather carry a rubber chicken to every class or wear a cape every Friday?
• Would you rather the vending machine always give you the wrong snack or always keep your change?
• Would you rather do a group project with your little sibling or with your parent's coworker's kid you've never met?

These open-ended questions are good for creative writing warm-ups. Have students answer the question, then write a paragraph describing the world their choice creates.

• Would you rather design your dream school building or design your dream school schedule?
• Would you rather have a time machine for one school day or a teleporter for a whole semester?
• Would you rather your high school be on a cruise ship or inside a giant treehouse?
• Would you rather write the plot of the next big blockbuster or compose its soundtrack?
• Would you rather create a new school club that everyone joins or a new school tradition that lasts for decades?
• Would you rather have your drawings come to life or have your written stories come true?
• Would you rather take a class taught by a robot or a class taught by a talking animal?
• Would you rather create an app everyone uses or a board game everyone plays?
• Would you rather redesign the cafeteria menu for a month or redesign the school library for a year?
• Would you rather design your school's new mascot or its new team uniforms?
• Would you rather paint a mural on the school wall or write the new school song?
• Would you rather have a superpower that only works at school or one that only works on weekends?
• Would you rather be principal of your school for one day or mayor of your town for one day?
• Would you rather discover a hidden room in your school or a secret tunnel under your town?
• Would you rather be the main character in a high school movie or the narrator telling the story?
• Would you rather design a theme park ride or a skyscraper?
• Would you rather your school have a rooftop garden or an indoor climbing wall?
• Would you rather invent a gadget that finishes homework or one that ends waiting in lines forever?
• Would you rather write a comic book series or direct a short film?
• Would you rather invent a new color or a new musical instrument?

For the part of high school that happens after the last bell. These are good for advisory, club kickoffs and team bonding.

• Would you rather be captain of a team that loses most games or a bench player on a championship team?
• Would you rather be in the school play or in the marching band?
• Would you rather start a brand-new club or lead one that's been around for years?
• Would you rather win the state championship as a team or be named MVP of an average season?
• Would you rather have practice every morning at 6am or every evening until 7pm?
• Would you rather compete on the robotics team or the debate team?
• Would you rather play a sport you love but aren't great at or one you're great at but don't love?
• Would you rather sing a solo at the spring concert or give the speech at the pep rally?
• Would you rather join the yearbook staff or the school newspaper?
• Would you rather have a part-time job after school or do two extracurriculars?
• Would you rather spend the summer at a sports camp or a coding camp?
• Would you rather be the star of the homecoming game or the person who plans the homecoming dance?
• Would you rather run cross country or be on the swim team?
• Would you rather be the coach's favorite player or the team's favorite teammate?
• Would you rather perform at the talent show or compete in a quiz bowl tournament?
• Would you rather do your volunteer hours at an animal shelter or at a food bank?
• Would you rather be student council president or the school's official photographer?
• Would you rather your team have the best uniforms or the loudest fans?
• Would you rather join a club with all your friends or one where you'll meet new people?
• Would you rather spend Saturdays at tournaments or keep your weekends completely free?