diff --git a/tests/extmod/ujson_loads.py b/tests/extmod/ujson_loads.py
index 43672d6505de40cf9f5691297aece56836a47587..adba3c068d27c42616501604a81caa74b4464c2e 100644
--- a/tests/extmod/ujson_loads.py
+++ b/tests/extmod/ujson_loads.py
@@ -37,10 +37,6 @@ my_print(json.loads('"abc\\uabcd"'))
 # whitespace handling
 my_print(json.loads('{\n\t"a":[]\r\n, "b":[1], "c":{"3":4}     \n\r\t\r\r\r\n}'))
 
-# loading from bytes and bytearray
-my_print(json.loads(b'[1,2]'))
-my_print(json.loads(bytearray(b'[null]')))
-
 # loading nothing should raise exception
 try:
     json.loads('')
diff --git a/tests/extmod/ujson_loads_bytes.py b/tests/extmod/ujson_loads_bytes.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..507e4ca885b7b3003ae8282d31b69df9d7ff83f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/extmod/ujson_loads_bytes.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# test loading from bytes and bytearray (introduced in Python 3.6)
+
+try:
+    import ujson as json
+except ImportError:
+    try:
+        import json
+    except ImportError:
+        print("SKIP")
+        raise SystemExit
+
+print(json.loads(b'[1,2]'))
+print(json.loads(bytearray(b'[null]')))
diff --git a/tests/extmod/ujson_loads_bytes.py.exp b/tests/extmod/ujson_loads_bytes.py.exp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c2735a99052d276c11d5ede2ac5a89aa70fc3f85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/extmod/ujson_loads_bytes.py.exp
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[1, 2]
+[None]