diff --git a/tests/core/pyspec/eth2spec/test/altair/epoch_processing/test_process_sync_committee_updates.py b/tests/core/pyspec/eth2spec/test/altair/epoch_processing/test_process_sync_committee_updates.py
index ca25797c4..6af16287c 100644
--- a/tests/core/pyspec/eth2spec/test/altair/epoch_processing/test_process_sync_committee_updates.py
+++ b/tests/core/pyspec/eth2spec/test/altair/epoch_processing/test_process_sync_committee_updates.py
@@ -39,8 +39,7 @@ def run_sync_committees_progress_test(spec, state):
 
     # Can compute the third committee having computed final balances in the last epoch
     # of this `EPOCHS_PER_SYNC_COMMITTEE_PERIOD`
-    current_epoch = spec.get_current_epoch(state)
-    third_sync_committee = spec.get_sync_committee(state, current_epoch + 1)
+    third_sync_committee = spec.get_next_sync_committee(state)
 
     assert state.current_sync_committee == second_sync_committee
     assert state.next_sync_committee == third_sync_committee