diff --git a/src/cmd/dist/test.go b/src/cmd/dist/test.go
index ad7bd09ceb3a73..0e9666bc915d2d 100644
--- a/src/cmd/dist/test.go
+++ b/src/cmd/dist/test.go
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ func (t *tester) registerTests() {
 		name:    testName,
 		heading: "GOMAXPROCS=2 runtime -cpu=1,2,4",
 		fn: func() error {
-			cmd := t.dirCmd("src", "go", "test", "-short", t.timeout(300), t.tags(), "runtime", "-cpu=1,2,4")
+			cmd := t.dirCmd("src", "go", "test", "-short", t.timeout(300), t.tags(), "-cpu=1,2,4", "runtime")
 			// We set GOMAXPROCS=2 in addition to -cpu=1,2,4 in order to test runtime bootstrap code,
 			// creation of first goroutines and first garbage collections in the parallel setting.
 			cmd.Env = mergeEnvLists([]string{"GOMAXPROCS=2"}, os.Environ())
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ func (t *tester) registerTests() {
 		name:    "sync_cpu",
 		heading: "sync -cpu=10",
 		fn: func() error {
-			return t.dirCmd("src", "go", "test", "sync", "-short", t.timeout(120), t.tags(), "-cpu=10").Run()
+			return t.dirCmd("src", "go", "test", "-short", t.timeout(120), t.tags(), "-cpu=10", "sync").Run()
 		},
 	})