"Jestem przy basenie."
Translation:I am by the swimming pool.
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Jestem przy basenie - I am next to the pool
Jestem na basenie - I am at the pool
"next to" works as well, but I'd say its more natural equivalent is "obok basenu".
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Frankly, I don't see the difference between :
"I am at the pool".
and
"I am by the pool".
What does it mean 'to be BY the pool' or 'to be AT the pool'? If I am swimming in the pool, can I say 'jestem W basenie' (in the pool)?
Yes, if you are swimming, then you are actually 'inside', so "w basenie".
"przy basenie" is just somewhere near the swimming pool, and "by" is usually the closest translation of "przy".
"at the pool" usually sounds to me like "in the place that has a swimming pool and people can come and swim in it, probably for money" rather than "my swimming pool in my backyard", so that's translated as "na basenie" - you mean a whole place then.
I think it's more common for locations. At least I have never heard "при бассейне", only "у бассейна".
I don't understand this feature of Duolingo? Every progress quiz I attempt is full of words and grammar I haven't covered yet?
To my understanding, this is exactly the way it was designed. You are tested on some things that you encountered (and are expected to know) and some things you haven't encountered (and are expected to fail). After several more skills, those things that were new before are expected to be known to you. If you failed it before but passed it some time later, that means that Duolingo succeeded in teaching you that.
But I'm not the best person to talk about it because we don't take part in creating those quizzes and I haven't taken one. It's dealt with by Duolingo staff, so if you want to learn more, you should ask in the "Duolingo" forum rather than Polish course forum.