Basic Data Types in Python (Quiz)

IMHO, I do not believe that the video course fully prepares you for this quiz. As far as I can tell, the video course this quiz is included in does not mention bytes vs bytearrays and there was also a question related to truthy vs falsey values of custom classes which was possibly overlooked in the course. Maybe this quiz assumes we have read the associated article?

Other than that, great course!

Hi @gabdang, you’re right that our quizzes are based on the written tutorials (as are the video courses). But to create a good video course, we often need to make decisions on what to include and what to leave out—text is a different medium than video, and usually a tutorial is too in-depth to fully cover in a course (that anyone would enjoy watching and learning from :)

As the quizzes are based on the written content, there are sometimes questions in there that aren’t covered in the video course—but they’re covered in the written tutorial!

That’s why we have a heads-up text explaining the situation at the very top of the Contents tab above each of the embedded quiz lessons.

Thanks for posting and letting me know that this isn’t easy to see, and that the mismatch is confusing. I’m collecting this feedback, and maybe in the future we’ll work on having separate quizzes for courses. We haven’t gone down that route yet because it introduces additional work and maintenance work—but if it’s not a good learning experience how it’s now, then we’ll definitely reconsider.

Hope that makes sense, and glad you enjoyed the course otherwise! :)

@gabdang and @martin breuss:

I’ve just completed my first Real Python quiz after taking one of the video-based courses, and faced the same scenario. I had a go at the questions about topics that the videos hadn’t covered and ended up with a score of 50%.

Usually after taking a quiz, I would be disappointed with that sort of score, but it’s actually only encouraged me to now go and read the recommended tutorial. The quiz questions I got incorrect will help to focus my attention as I go through the tutorial. (They will be my Q in the SQ3R study method).

This is a complete turnaround with how I usually approach quizzes, but I’m excited to see how it will turn out 😀