diff --git a/tests/python/unittest/test_metric.py b/tests/python/unittest/test_metric.py
index d72e33f0a2af..88b9d9cedce2 100644
--- a/tests/python/unittest/test_metric.py
+++ b/tests/python/unittest/test_metric.py
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ def test_loss_update():
     _, acc2 = metric2.get()
     assert acc1 == acc2
 
+@xfail_when_nonstandard_decimal_separator
 def test_binary_f1():
     microF1 = mx.gluon.metric.create("f1", average="micro")
     macroF1 = mx.gluon.metric.F1(average="macro")
@@ -167,6 +168,7 @@ def test_multiclass_f1():
     np.testing.assert_almost_equal(microF1.get()[1], fmicro)
     np.testing.assert_almost_equal(macroF1.get()[1], fmacro)
     
+@xfail_when_nonstandard_decimal_separator
 def test_multilabel_f1():
     microF1 = mx.gluon.metric.create("f1", class_type="multilabel", average="micro")
     macroF1 = mx.gluon.metric.F1(class_type="multilabel", average="macro")
@@ -201,7 +203,8 @@ def test_multilabel_f1():
     fmicro = 0.7272727272727272  #f1_score(overall_label, overall_pred, average="micro")
     np.testing.assert_almost_equal(microF1.get()[1], fmicro)
     np.testing.assert_almost_equal(macroF1.get()[1], fmacro)
-    
+
+@xfail_when_nonstandard_decimal_separator
 def test_mcc():
     microMCC = mx.gluon.metric.create("mcc")