diff --git a/docs/reference/settings.rst b/docs/reference/settings.rst
index 220603fd..5cc7aa56 100644
--- a/docs/reference/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/reference/settings.rst
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ Example:
 
     class MySessionChecker:
 
-        def check(self, request: Request, response: Response) -> bool:
+        def check(self, response: Response, request: Request) -> bool:
             return bool(response.css(".is_valid"))
 
 
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ object, for example to read settings:
             location = crawler.settings["ZYTE_API_SESSION_LOCATION"]
             self.postal_code = location["postalCode"]
 
-        def check(self, request: Request, response: Response) -> bool:
+        def check(self, response: Response, request: Request) -> bool:
             return response.css(".postal_code::text").get() == self.postal_code
 
 
diff --git a/tests/test_sessions.py b/tests/test_sessions.py
index de240e06..37e4ebad 100644
--- a/tests/test_sessions.py
+++ b/tests/test_sessions.py
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ def closed(self, reason):
 
 class CloseSpiderURLChecker:
 
-    def check(self, request: Request, response: Response) -> bool:
+    def check(self, response: Response, request: Request) -> bool:
         if "fail" in request.url:
             raise CloseSpider("closed_by_checker")
         return True
@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ def parse(self, response):
 
 class DomainChecker:
 
-    def check(self, request: Request, response: Response) -> bool:
+    def check(self, response: Response, request: Request) -> bool:
         domain = urlparse_cached(request).netloc
         return "fail" not in domain