diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yaml b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
index af3aa4b46..0da951fbf 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@ jobs:
           - {name: "baseline", os: ubuntu-latest, python-version: "3.10", matrix-backend: numpy, nprocs: 1}
           - {name: "windows", os: windows-latest, python-version: "3.10", matrix-backend: numpy, nprocs: 1}
           - {name: "macos", os: macos-latest, python-version: "3.10", matrix-backend: numpy, nprocs: 1}
-          - {name: "python 3.5", os: ubuntu-latest, python-version: "3.5", matrix-backend: numpy, nprocs: 1}
-          - {name: "python 3.6", os: ubuntu-latest, python-version: "3.6", matrix-backend: numpy, nprocs: 1}
           - {name: "python 3.7", os: ubuntu-latest, python-version: "3.7", matrix-backend: numpy, nprocs: 1}
           - {name: "python 3.8", os: ubuntu-latest, python-version: "3.8", matrix-backend: numpy, nprocs: 1}
           - {name: "python 3.9", os: ubuntu-latest, python-version: "3.9", matrix-backend: numpy, nprocs: 1}
@@ -50,7 +48,7 @@ jobs:
           - {name: "mkl matrix", os: ubuntu-latest, python-version: "3.10", matrix-backend: mkl, nprocs: 1}
           - {name: "mkl matrix parallel", os: ubuntu-latest, python-version: "3.10", matrix-backend: mkl, nprocs: 2}
           - {name: "parallel", os: ubuntu-latest, python-version: "3.10", matrix-backend: numpy, nprocs: 2}
-          - {name: "numpy 1.17", os: ubuntu-latest, python-version: "3.6", matrix-backend: numpy, nprocs: 1, numpy-version: ==1.17}
+          - {name: "numpy 1.17", os: ubuntu-latest, python-version: "3.7", matrix-backend: numpy, nprocs: 1, numpy-version: ==1.17}
           - {name: "tensorial", os: ubuntu-latest, python-version: "3.10", matrix-backend: numpy, nprocs: 1, tensorial: test}
       fail-fast: false
     env: