diff --git a/cMIPS/tests/count.c b/cMIPS/tests/count.c
index d0f644b30b9ae388945bb3b2881abd968d46eea5..0b1ef6ec4e9323296879116f02e96ad8bd0cfe49 100644
--- a/cMIPS/tests/count.c
+++ b/cMIPS/tests/count.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// test if COUNT register counts up monotonically as it should
+// test if COUNT register counts up monotonically
 // returns error if the time to compute every 11th element of the Fibonacci
 //    sequence, as measured by COUNT is not monotonically increasing
 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -51,17 +51,17 @@ int main() {
   // print(new);
   to_stdout('o'); to_stdout('k'); to_stdout('\n');
 
+  to_stdout('\n');  // separate tests
 
   // now disable COUNT and make sure that it has stopped
   print( stopCount() );          // stop COUNT
   old = readCount();             // COUNT before computing fib(i)
   print( fibonacci(5) );
-  new = readCount();           // COUNT after  computing fib(i)
+  new = readCount();             // COUNT after  computing fib(i)
   monotonic = monotonic && ( (new - old) > 0 );
   if ( monotonic == TRUE ) {
     to_stdout('e'); to_stdout('r'); to_stdout('r'); to_stdout('\n');
     print(new);
-    exit(new);
   } else {
     // print(new);
     to_stdout('o'); to_stdout('k'); to_stdout('\n');
diff --git a/cMIPS/tests/count.expected b/cMIPS/tests/count.expected
index 4da7552e918b672cd5affcf4e75dbb7a1dd67ae9..8911d00ea7fb5f4de5e33732c03ff61c79951d88 100644
--- a/cMIPS/tests/count.expected
+++ b/cMIPS/tests/count.expected
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 0000452f
 0035c7e2
 ok
+
 0880007c
 00000005
 ok