diff --git a/examples/distillation/run_squad_w_distillation.py b/examples/distillation/run_squad_w_distillation.py
index e71e4ffbbd..4a9ddbd718 100644
--- a/examples/distillation/run_squad_w_distillation.py
+++ b/examples/distillation/run_squad_w_distillation.py
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ def evaluate(args, model, tokenizer, prefix=""):
 
     args.eval_batch_size = args.per_gpu_eval_batch_size * max(1, args.n_gpu)
     # Note that DistributedSampler samples randomly
-    eval_sampler = SequentialSampler(dataset) if args.local_rank == -1 else DistributedSampler(dataset)
+    eval_sampler = SequentialSampler(dataset)
     eval_dataloader = DataLoader(dataset, sampler=eval_sampler, batch_size=args.eval_batch_size)
 
     # Eval!