diff --git a/bigcode_eval/tasks/mbpp.py b/bigcode_eval/tasks/mbpp.py
index ccaf1b596..2210c16cc 100644
--- a/bigcode_eval/tasks/mbpp.py
+++ b/bigcode_eval/tasks/mbpp.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ def get_prompt(self, doc):
         """
         description = doc["text"]
         test_example = doc["test_list"][0]
-        prompt = f'"""\n{description}\n{test_example}\n"""\n'
+        prompt = f'"""\nText Description:\n\n{description}\n{test_example}\n"""\n\nCode:\n\n'
         return prompt
 
     def get_reference(self, doc):