diff --git a/hack/make-rules/test.sh b/hack/make-rules/test.sh
index 639ee5397c7..1b53d8dd94d 100755
--- a/hack/make-rules/test.sh
+++ b/hack/make-rules/test.sh
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ kube::test::find_dirs() {
         -path './_output' -prune \
         -o -path './vendor/k8s.io/client-go/*' \
         -o -path './vendor/k8s.io/apiserver/*' \
-        -o -path './test/e2e_node/system/*' \
       -name '*_test.go' -print0 | xargs -0n1 dirname | sed "s|^\./|${KUBE_GO_PACKAGE}/|" | LC_ALL=C sort -u
 
     # run tests for client-go