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Using a subquery, find out what grade levels are represented in both the math and english classes.
The checker confirms the answer as correct only when I put english_students inside the subquery (as shown in the Hint).
Technically, it shouldn’t matter which table is put in the subquery since we are looking for the grades represented in both tables anyway, right?
I got the same answer with math_students in the subquery but it was flagged as incorrect.
> SELECT grade
> FROM english_students
> WHERE EXISTS
> (SELECT grade
> FROM math_students)
> GROUP BY grade
> ORDER BY grade DESC;
This task was poor. For the reasons listed above, and also because there is no previous lesson on the EXIST clause. I had to research it and it’s still tricky to understand
This is a bit sad - the solution is completely wrong on so many levels. It’s a repeat of same fundamental mis-understanding of how the EXISTS clause works that the actual early lesson had, then compounded by additional incorrect lack of DISTINCT in the outer query to limit to unique matching grades, and the fact that there is no way to actually move forward to Challenge without putting in verbatim the absolutely incorrect solution they provide!
TBH the entire “Analyze Data with SQL Skill Path” hasn’t been the greatest course I’ve done on Codecademy, it could really do with a review and refresh.
For part 2, it asks for what grade levels are represented in both the math and english classes.
The answer suggested is using EXISTS, however I dun think it is true as using ‘EXISTS’ will return all grade levels if there is at least one related record in another table. This one shall use ‘In’ to return the specific grade levels that appear in both tables right.