diff --git a/tests/__init__.py b/tests/__init__.py
index 433f183896dee..fc634e6b73fec 100644
--- a/tests/__init__.py
+++ b/tests/__init__.py
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
 _TEST_ROOT = os.path.dirname(__file__)
 _PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(_TEST_ROOT)
 _TEMP_PATH = os.path.join(_PROJECT_ROOT, 'test_temp')
-DATASETS_PATH = os.path.join(_PROJECT_ROOT, 'Datasets')
-LEGACY_PATH = os.path.join(_PROJECT_ROOT, 'legacy')
+PATH_DATASETS = os.path.join(_PROJECT_ROOT, 'Datasets')
+PATH_LEGACY = os.path.join(_PROJECT_ROOT, 'legacy')
 
 # todo: this setting `PYTHONPATH` may not be used by other evns like Conda for import packages
 if _PROJECT_ROOT not in os.getenv('PYTHONPATH', ""):
diff --git a/tests/base/model_template.py b/tests/base/model_template.py
index 1ec2df7865caa..86578fef4c699 100644
--- a/tests/base/model_template.py
+++ b/tests/base/model_template.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 
 from pytorch_lightning.core.lightning import LightningModule
+from tests import PATH_DATASETS
 from tests.base.model_optimizers import ConfigureOptimizersPool
 from tests.base.model_test_dataloaders import TestDataloaderVariations
 from tests.base.model_test_epoch_ends import TestEpochEndVariations
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@
 from tests.base.model_valid_dataloaders import ValDataloaderVariations
 from tests.base.model_valid_epoch_ends import ValidationEpochEndVariations
 from tests.base.model_valid_steps import ValidationStepVariations
-from tests.helpers.datasets import PATH_DATASETS, TrialMNIST
+from tests.helpers.datasets import TrialMNIST
 
 
 class EvalModelTemplate(
diff --git a/tests/checkpointing/test_legacy_checkpoints.py b/tests/checkpointing/test_legacy_checkpoints.py
index 0b47e25c7ce23..325cc4925f4f4 100644
--- a/tests/checkpointing/test_legacy_checkpoints.py
+++ b/tests/checkpointing/test_legacy_checkpoints.py
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@
 import pytest
 
 from pytorch_lightning import Trainer
-from tests import LEGACY_PATH
+from tests import PATH_LEGACY
 
-LEGACY_CHECKPOINTS_PATH = os.path.join(LEGACY_PATH, 'checkpoints')
+LEGACY_CHECKPOINTS_PATH = os.path.join(PATH_LEGACY, 'checkpoints')
 CHECKPOINT_EXTENSION = ".ckpt"
 
 
diff --git a/tests/helpers/datasets.py b/tests/helpers/datasets.py
index e7bdad0f1538c..312cbb32b162e 100644
--- a/tests/helpers/datasets.py
+++ b/tests/helpers/datasets.py
@@ -22,10 +22,7 @@
 from torch import Tensor
 from torch.utils.data import Dataset
 
-from tests import _PROJECT_ROOT
-
-#: local path to test datasets
-PATH_DATASETS = os.path.join(_PROJECT_ROOT, 'Datasets')
+from tests import PATH_DATASETS
 
 
 class MNIST(Dataset):