diff --git a/tests/test_suites/llm/sft-gpt-oss-20b-1n8g-fsdp8ep8-automodel.sh b/tests/test_suites/llm/sft-gpt-oss-20b-1n8g-fsdp8ep8-automodel.sh
index 24b5977f7e..9f48544b42 100755
--- a/tests/test_suites/llm/sft-gpt-oss-20b-1n8g-fsdp8ep8-automodel.sh
+++ b/tests/test_suites/llm/sft-gpt-oss-20b-1n8g-fsdp8ep8-automodel.sh
@@ -36,5 +36,6 @@ if [[ $(jq 'to_entries | .[] | select(.key == "train/loss") | .value | keys | ma
     uv run tests/check_metrics.py $JSON_METRICS \
         'data["train/loss"]["1"] < 7.0' \
         'data["train/loss"]["50"] < 0.4' \
-        'data["train/grad_norm"]["50"] < 2.5'
+        'data["train/grad_norm"]["50"] < 17.5' \
+        'data["train/grad_norm"]["50"] > 10.0'
 fi