Recall questions require students to freely generate answers through essays or long responses, while recognition questions involve selecting correct answers from multiple choices, true/false statements, or matching columns. Recognition questions involve identifying the right answer from distractors rather than generating the answer, and require considering all parts of multiple choice questions as well as avoiding qualifiers for true/false statements. Matching questions should be answered carefully from top left to avoid compounding wrong guesses.

1. Recall VS. Recognition
Subjective questions: essay or
long answer
Objective questions: true/false,
multiple choice, matching

2. Essay Questions
Skip the introduction
Use pre-writing
Avoid personal opinions

3. Multiple Choice Questions:
Parts of the question
Stem
Options
Decoys (Distractors)
Answer like a true/false question

4. True/False Questions
Beware of qualifiers
Answer “true” ONLY if answer is
100% true!
Questions are more often true than
false. On average, true statements
occur 51% of the time.

5. Matching Questions
Answer top left first
Answer those which you are sure of
first
Wrong answers multiply! This is one
of the most dangerous question types
to guess.