diff --git a/examples/README.md b/examples/README.md
index 17b4c2f7f6..b2391b03c9 100644
--- a/examples/README.md
+++ b/examples/README.md
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ export SQUAD_DIR=/path/to/SQUAD
 
 python run_squad.py \
   --model_type bert \
-  --model_name_or_path bert-base-cased \
+  --model_name_or_path bert-base-uncased \
   --do_train \
   --do_eval \
   --do_lower_case \