diff --git a/tutorials/asr/Confidence_Ensembles.ipynb b/tutorials/asr/Confidence_Ensembles.ipynb
index 9bab06dd2976..734ddc9a0604 100644
--- a/tutorials/asr/Confidence_Ensembles.ipynb
+++ b/tutorials/asr/Confidence_Ensembles.ipynb
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
     "\n",
     "# option #2: download NeMo repo\n",
     "if 'google.colab' in str(get_ipython()) or not os.path.exists(os.path.join(NEMO_DIR, \"nemo\")):\n",
-    "    BRANCH = \"main\"\n",
+    "    BRANCH = 'main'\n",
     "    !git clone -b $BRANCH https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo $WORKSPACE_DIR/NeMo\n",
     "    NEMO_DIR = os.path.join(WORKSPACE_DIR, 'NeMo')\n",
     "\n",
diff --git a/tutorials/audio/speech_enhancement/Speech_Enhancement_with_NeMo.ipynb b/tutorials/audio/speech_enhancement/Speech_Enhancement_with_NeMo.ipynb
index ffd630824bdb..5c697840ba09 100644
--- a/tutorials/audio/speech_enhancement/Speech_Enhancement_with_NeMo.ipynb
+++ b/tutorials/audio/speech_enhancement/Speech_Enhancement_with_NeMo.ipynb
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@
         "5. Restart the runtime (Runtime -> Restart Runtime) for any upgraded packages to take effect\n",
         "\"\"\"\n",
         "\n",
-        "GIT_USER, GIT_BRANCH = 'NVIDIA', 'main'\n",
+        "GIT_USER = 'NVIDIA'\n",
+        "BRANCH = 'main'\n",
         "\n",
         "if 'google.colab' in str(get_ipython()):\n",
         "\n",
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@
         "    !pip install matplotlib>=3.3.2\n",
         "\n",
         "    ## Install NeMo\n",
-        "    !python -m pip install git+https://github.com/{GIT_USER}/NeMo.git@{GIT_BRANCH}#egg=nemo_toolkit[all]\n",
+        "    !python -m pip install git+https://github.com/{GIT_USER}/NeMo.git@{BRANCH}#egg=nemo_toolkit[all]\n",
         "\n",
         "    ## Install TorchAudio\n",
         "    !pip install torchaudio>=0.13.0 -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch_stable.html"
@@ -210,7 +211,7 @@
         "# Copy script\n",
         "get_librispeech_script = os.path.join(scripts_dir, 'get_librispeech_data.py')\n",
         "if not os.path.exists(get_librispeech_script):\n",
-        "    !wget -P $scripts_dir https://raw.githubusercontent.com/{GIT_USER}/NeMo/{GIT_BRANCH}/scripts/dataset_processing/get_librispeech_data.py\n",
+        "    !wget -P $scripts_dir https://raw.githubusercontent.com/{GIT_USER}/NeMo/{BRANCH}/scripts/dataset_processing/get_librispeech_data.py\n",
         "\n",
         "# Download the data\n",
         "if not speech_dir.is_dir():\n",
@@ -260,7 +261,7 @@
         "# Copy script\n",
         "get_demand_script = os.path.join(scripts_dir, 'get_demand_data.py')\n",
         "if not os.path.exists(get_demand_script):\n",
-        "    !wget -P $scripts_dir https://raw.githubusercontent.com/{GIT_USER}/NeMo/{GIT_BRANCH}/scripts/dataset_processing/get_demand_data.py\n",
+        "    !wget -P $scripts_dir https://raw.githubusercontent.com/{GIT_USER}/NeMo/{BRANCH}/scripts/dataset_processing/get_demand_data.py\n",
         "\n",
         "if not noise_dir.is_dir():\n",
         "    noise_dir.mkdir(exist_ok=True)\n",
@@ -323,7 +324,7 @@
         "# Copy script\n",
         "add_noise_script = os.path.join(scripts_dir, 'add_noise.py')\n",
         "if not os.path.exists(add_noise_script):\n",
-        "    !wget -P $scripts_dir https://raw.githubusercontent.com/{GIT_USER}/NeMo/{GIT_BRANCH}/scripts/dataset_processing/add_noise.py\n",
+        "    !wget -P $scripts_dir https://raw.githubusercontent.com/{GIT_USER}/NeMo/{BRANCH}/scripts/dataset_processing/add_noise.py\n",
         "\n",
         "# Generate noisy datasets and save the noise component as well.\n",
         "noisy_dir = data_dir / 'noisy'\n",
@@ -494,7 +495,7 @@
         "config_path = config_dir / 'masking.yaml'\n",
         "\n",
         "if not config_path.is_file():\n",
-        "    !wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/{GIT_USER}/NeMo/{GIT_BRANCH}/examples/audio/conf/masking.yaml -P {config_dir.as_posix()}\n",
+        "    !wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/{GIT_USER}/NeMo/{BRANCH}/examples/audio/conf/masking.yaml -P {config_dir.as_posix()}\n",
         "\n",
         "config = OmegaConf.load(config_path)\n",
         "config = OmegaConf.to_container(config, resolve=True)\n",
diff --git a/tutorials/nlp/Token_Classification-BioMegatron.ipynb b/tutorials/nlp/Token_Classification-BioMegatron.ipynb
index afbc8394aa84..85cb769b28c0 100644
--- a/tutorials/nlp/Token_Classification-BioMegatron.ipynb
+++ b/tutorials/nlp/Token_Classification-BioMegatron.ipynb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
             "metadata": {},
             "outputs": [],
             "source": [
-                "BRANCH='main'"
+                "BRANCH = 'main'"
             ]
         },
         {
diff --git a/tutorials/nlp/lora.ipynb b/tutorials/nlp/lora.ipynb
index 1dba69ff3629..b878b9cfe453 100644
--- a/tutorials/nlp/lora.ipynb
+++ b/tutorials/nlp/lora.ipynb
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "%cd /NeMo/tutorials/nlp\n",
-    "BRANCH='main'\n",
+    "BRANCH = 'main'\n",
     "import os\n",
     "import wget\n",
     "import sys\n",