diff --git a/lmms_eval/api/samplers.py b/lmms_eval/api/samplers.py
index c9084e9b3..9c7b3bf7a 100644
--- a/lmms_eval/api/samplers.py
+++ b/lmms_eval/api/samplers.py
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ def get_dataset(self) -> datasets.Dataset:
             if self.fewshot_indices:
                 self.dataset = self.dataset.select(self.fewshot_indices)
         return self.dataset
+    
+    def sample(self, n, rnd):
+        indices = rnd.sample(range(len(self.get_dataset())), n)
+        return self.get_dataset().select(indices)
 
     def __getitem__(self, item):
         return self.get_dataset()[item]
@@ -78,7 +82,7 @@ def sample(self, n):
         Draw `n` samples from our fewshot docs. This method should be overridden by subclasses.
         """
 
-        return self.rnd.sample(self.docs.get_dataset(), n)
+        return self.docs.sample(n)
 
 
 class FirstNSampler(ContextSampler):
diff --git a/lmms_eval/api/task.py b/lmms_eval/api/task.py
index 2fff7252a..abd36470f 100644
--- a/lmms_eval/api/task.py
+++ b/lmms_eval/api/task.py
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ def __init__(self, model_name) -> None:  # TODO no super() call here
             self._filters = [build_filter_ensemble("none", [["take_first", None]])]
         ##########################################
         # TODO: for test, will delete later
-        if self.config.task == "flickr30k_test":
+        if self.config.task == "textvqa_test":
             pass
         else:
             pass