diff --git a/tests/test_grpo_trainer.py b/tests/test_grpo_trainer.py
index 08263e0181..1afd490bd1 100644
--- a/tests/test_grpo_trainer.py
+++ b/tests/test_grpo_trainer.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 import torch
 from datasets import load_dataset
 from parameterized import parameterized
-from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoModelForSequenceClassification
+from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoModelForSequenceClassification, AutoTokenizer
 from transformers.testing_utils import require_peft
 from transformers.utils import is_peft_available
 
@@ -110,29 +110,30 @@ def test_training_peft(self):
     def test_training_different_reward_model(self):
         # Use a reward model different from the model: different chat template, tokenization, etc.
         dataset = load_dataset("trl-internal-testing/zen", "conversational_prompt_only", split="train")
-        reward_model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
-            "trl-internal-testing/tiny-LlamaForSequenceClassification-3.2"
-        )
-        # When training with the raw model, the score are too low to have an impact on the training
-        # within the few generations we are running here. We multiply the weights by 10000 to make sure
-        # the reward has an impact.
-        with torch.no_grad():
-            reward_model.score.weight *= 10000
+        reward_model_id = "trl-internal-testing/tiny-LlamaForSequenceClassification-3.2"
+        reward_model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(reward_model_id)
+        reward_tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(reward_model_id)
+        # By default, the trainer uses the eos token as the padding token. However, for Llama models, the eos token
+        # appears in the chat template. Using it as a pad token disrupts the reward calculation, as the calculation
+        # considers the score of the last token before the first pad token. To ensure correct reward calculations,
+        # we use a separate pad token instead.
+        reward_tokenizer.pad_token = "<|finetune_right_pad_id|>"
 
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp_dir:
             training_args = GRPOConfig(
                 output_dir=tmp_dir,
                 learning_rate=0.1,  # increase the learning rate to speed up the test
                 per_device_train_batch_size=2,  # reduce the batch size to reduce memory usage
-                num_generations=5,  # reduce the number of generations to reduce memory usage
+                num_generations=3,  # reduce the number of generations to reduce memory usage
                 max_completion_length=32,  # reduce the completion length to reduce memory usage
                 report_to="none",
             )
             trainer = GRPOTrainer(
                 model="trl-internal-testing/tiny-Qwen2ForCausalLM-2.5",
-                reward_model=reward_model,  # llama-based RM
+                reward_model=reward_model,
                 args=training_args,
                 train_dataset=dataset,
+                reward_processing_class=reward_tokenizer,
             )
 
             previous_trainable_params = {n: param.clone() for n, param in trainer.model.named_parameters()}