diff --git a/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-MXFP4-EMU-TP2.yaml b/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-MXFP4-EMU-TP2.yaml
index ad5ca70125..70217d2651 100644
--- a/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-MXFP4-EMU-TP2.yaml
+++ b/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-MXFP4-EMU-TP2.yaml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ accuracy_threshold: 0.89
 tolerance: 0.03
 num_questions: 1319
 num_fewshot: 5
+startup_max_wait_seconds: 1800
 server_args: >-
   --max-model-len 4096
   --tensor-parallel-size 2