diff --git a/fluid/sequence_tagging_for_ner/train.py b/fluid/sequence_tagging_for_ner/train.py
index 11b9d15d755d118ba2d0538ddcf4517ec929c846..e8191df9d0ddd77bf5914cfaac4043b38661ebd1 100644
--- a/fluid/sequence_tagging_for_ner/train.py
+++ b/fluid/sequence_tagging_for_ner/train.py
@@ -151,6 +151,6 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         target_file="data/target.txt",
         emb_file="data/wordVectors.txt",
         model_save_dir="models",
-        num_passes=1000,
+        num_passes=2000,
         use_gpu=False,
         parallel=False)