diff --git a/src/test/regress/failure_schedule b/src/test/regress/failure_schedule
index 550544a7f..be025907b 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/failure_schedule
+++ b/src/test/regress/failure_schedule
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ test: failure_copy_to_reference
 test: failure_copy_on_hash
 test: failure_create_reference_table
 test: check_mx
+test: failure_create_table
 test: turn_mx_off
 test: failure_create_distributed_table_non_empty
-test: failure_create_table
 test: failure_single_select
 test: turn_mx_on
 
diff --git a/src/test/regress/multi_1_schedule b/src/test/regress/multi_1_schedule
index 707e5fe1b..3ea076fbb 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/multi_1_schedule
+++ b/src/test/regress/multi_1_schedule
@@ -193,11 +193,10 @@ test: multi_repartition_udt multi_repartitioned_subquery_udf multi_subtransactio
 
 test: multi_modifying_xacts
 test: check_mx
-test: turn_mx_off
 test: multi_generate_ddl_commands multi_repair_shards
 test: multi_create_shards
 test: multi_transaction_recovery
-test: turn_mx_on
+test: check_mx
 
 test: local_dist_join_modifications
 test: local_table_join
@@ -251,7 +250,6 @@ test: multi_schema_support
 # multi_function_evaluation tests edge-cases in master-side function pre-evaluation
 # ----------
 test: check_mx
-test: turn_mx_off
 test: multi_function_evaluation
 
 # ----------
@@ -264,7 +262,7 @@ test: multi_truncate
 # multi_colocated_shard_transfer tests master_copy_shard_placement with colocated tables.
 # ----------
 test: multi_colocation_utils
-test: turn_mx_on
+test: check_mx
 test: multi_colocated_shard_transfer
 
 # ----------