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Python Certification: PCEP Mock Test 1
A free practice exam in the shape of the Python Institute's PCEP (Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer): 30 questions in 40 minutes, in the real exam's four blocks and their weights: Python fundamentals, control flow, data collections, and functions and exceptions. One mark for each right answer and none taken off for a wrong one. You need 70%, 21 right, to pass, as in the real exam. Every question has a worked answer.
Python ProgrammingHigh School (9–10)Medium
- questions
- 30
- minutes
- 40
- marks
- 30
- right / wrong
- +1 / 0
questions
minutes
marks
right / wrong
The clock starts when you press Begin, after the instructions.
Exam pattern
| Section | Questions | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Block 1: Python fundamentals | 5 | 5 |
| Block 2: Control flow | 9 | 9 |
| Block 3: Data collections | 8 | 8 |
| Block 4: Functions and exceptions | 8 | 8 |
Marking
- Right answer: +1
- Wrong answer: 0, nothing taken away
- Left blank: 0
Time
40 minutes on one clock, from when you begin.
Syllabus covered
13 chapters
- Conditionals: if, elif, else5
- Functions4
- Loops4
- Lists
Before you start
- It runs like an online exam: one question at a time, with a palette showing what you have answered, skipped or marked for review.
- The clock starts when you press Begin the test, after you have read the instructions, and keeps running even if you reload or leave. At zero, your saved answers are submitted.
- The test opens in full screen where your device allows it. Leaving full screen or switching to another tab or app is recorded with your attempt, and whoever set the test can see it. Your own count shows at the top of the test.
- Your score, the answers and the explanations show when you finish, with where you stand among everyone who has taken it.