diff --git a/gensim/test/test_sklearn_api.py b/gensim/test/test_sklearn_api.py
index 3793c79948..5e0511aa5c 100644
--- a/gensim/test/test_sklearn_api.py
+++ b/gensim/test/test_sklearn_api.py
@@ -973,13 +973,13 @@ def testTransform(self):
 
     def testSetGetParams(self):
         # updating only one param
-        self.model.set_params(normalize=False)
+        self.model.set_params(smartirs='nnn')
         model_params = self.model.get_params()
-        self.assertEqual(model_params["normalize"], False)
+        self.assertEqual(model_params["smartirs"], 'nnn')
 
         # verify that the attributes values are also changed for `gensim_model` after fitting
         self.model.fit(self.corpus)
-        self.assertEqual(getattr(self.model.gensim_model, 'normalize'), False)
+        self.assertEqual(getattr(self.model.gensim_model, 'smartirs'), 'nnn')
 
     def testPipeline(self):
         with open(datapath('mini_newsgroup'), 'rb') as f:
diff --git a/gensim/test/test_tfidfmodel.py b/gensim/test/test_tfidfmodel.py
index 7f10ded948..8dc1fbe4e3 100644
--- a/gensim/test/test_tfidfmodel.py
+++ b/gensim/test/test_tfidfmodel.py
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
 class TestTfidfModel(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         self.corpus = MmCorpus(datapath('testcorpus.mm'))
-        self.model = tfidfmodel.TfidfModel(self.corpus, normalize=True)
 
     def testTransform(self):
         # create the transformation model