diff --git a/S02-literals/autoref.t b/S02-literals/autoref.t
index 69cce8c0e9..052afe8d32 100644
--- a/S02-literals/autoref.t
+++ b/S02-literals/autoref.t
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ plan 57;
 }
 
 # Explicit referentiation of arrays in assignment
+#?rakudo 1 skip "parse error"
+#?DOES 2
 {
     my @array = <a b c>;
     my $ref   = \@array;
@@ -46,6 +48,8 @@ plan 57;
 }
 
 # Explicit referentiation of hashes in assignment
+#?rakudo 1 skip "parse error"
+#?DOES 2
 {
     my %hash = (a => 1, b => 2, c => 3);
     my $ref  = \%hash;
@@ -66,6 +70,8 @@ plan 57;
 }
 
 # Explicit referentiation of arrays in assignment to an array element
+#?rakudo 1 skip "parse error"
+#?DOES 3
 {
     my @array = <a b c>;
     my @other;
@@ -87,6 +93,8 @@ plan 57;
 }
 
 # Explicit referentiation of hashes in assignment to an array element
+#?rakudo 1 skip "parse error"
+#?DOES 2
 {
     my %hash = (a => 1, b => 2, c => 3);
     my @other;
@@ -107,6 +115,8 @@ plan 57;
 }
 
 # Explicit referentiation of arrays in assignment to a hash element
+#?rakudo 1 skip "parse error"
+#?DOES 2
 {
     my @array = <a b c>;
     my %other;
@@ -127,6 +137,8 @@ plan 57;
 }
 
 # Explicit referentiation of hashes in assignment to a hash element
+#?rakudo 1 skip "parse error"
+#?DOES 2
 {
     my %hash = (a => 1, b => 2, c => 3);
     my %other;
@@ -146,6 +158,8 @@ plan 57;
 }
 
 # Explicit referentiation of arrays in pair creation with key => ...
+#?rakudo 1 skip "parse error"
+#?DOES 2
 {
     my @array = <a b c>;
     my $pair  = (key => \@array);
@@ -164,6 +178,8 @@ plan 57;
 }
 
 # Explicit referentiation of hashes in pair creation with key => ...
+#?rakudo 1 skip "parse error"
+#?DOES 2
 {
     my %hash = (a => 1, b => 2, c => 3);
     my $pair = (key => \%hash);
@@ -182,6 +198,8 @@ plan 57;
 }
 
 # Explicit referentiation of arrays in pair creation with :key(...)
+#?rakudo 1 skip "parse error"
+#?DOES 2
 {
     my @array = <a b c>;
     my $pair  = (:key(\@array));
@@ -199,6 +217,8 @@ plan 57;
     is +$pair.value.values,            3, '(:key(%hash)) works (2)';
 }
 
+#?rakudo 1 skip "parse error"
+#?DOES 2
 # Explicit referentiation of hashes in pair creation with :key(...)
 {
     my %hash = (a => 1, b => 2, c => 3);
@@ -255,6 +275,8 @@ plan 57;
 }
 
 # Implicit referentiation of array literals in pair creation with ... => "value"
+#?rakudo 1 skip "parse error"
+#?DOES 2
 {
     my $pair  = (<a b c> => "value");
 
@@ -263,6 +285,8 @@ plan 57;
 }
 
 # Arrayref literals in pair creation with ... => "value"
+#?rakudo 1 skip "parse error"
+#?DOES 2
 {
     my $pair  = ([<a b c>] => "value");
 
@@ -271,6 +295,8 @@ plan 57;
 }
 
 # Hashref literals in pair creation with ... => "value"
+#?rakudo 1 skip "parse error"
+#?DOES 1
 {
     my $pair  = ({ a => 1, b => 2 } => "value");
 
diff --git a/S02-literals/hex_chars.t b/S02-literals/hex_chars.t
index 9a26f13d7f..366c3110e9 100644
--- a/S02-literals/hex_chars.t
+++ b/S02-literals/hex_chars.t
@@ -4,18 +4,22 @@ use Test;
 plan 4;
 
 #L<S02/Literals/"Characters indexed by hex numbers">
-my %unicode = (
-	'a'  => "\x61",
-	'æ'  => "\xE6",
-	'喃' => "\x5583",
-	'𨮁' => "\x28B81",
-);
+#?rakudo skip "parse error"
+#?DOES 4
+{
+    my %unicode = (
+	    'a'  => "\x61",
+	    'æ'  => "\xE6",
+	    '喃' => "\x5583",
+	    '𨮁' => "\x28B81",
+    );
 
-for %unicode.kv -> $literal, $codepoint {
-	is(
-		$codepoint,
-		$literal,
-		'Does a character codepoint (\x..) evaluate to the same thing as its literal?'
-	);
+    for %unicode.kv -> $literal, $codepoint {
+	    is(
+		    $codepoint,
+		    $literal,
+		    'Does a character codepoint (\x..) evaluate to the same thing as its literal?'
+	    );
+    }
 }
 
diff --git a/S04-statements/try.t b/S04-statements/try.t
index 5e4b461f54..9fcd32f326 100644
--- a/S04-statements/try.t
+++ b/S04-statements/try.t
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ plan 25;
     is ~@array, "42", '@array = try {...} worked (2)';
 }
 
+#?rakudo skip "parse error"
+#?DOES 2
 {
     my @array = try { (42,) };
     is +@array,    1, '@array = try {...} worked (3)';
diff --git a/S29-str/append.t b/S29-str/append.t
index 4a3fae43bd..0fe7000d7a 100644
--- a/S29-str/append.t
+++ b/S29-str/append.t
@@ -2,12 +2,8 @@ use v6-alpha;
 
 use Test;
 
-=begin description
-
-String appending with ~ operator
-L<S03/Changes to Perl 5 operators/string concatenation becomes stitching>
-
-=end description
+# String appending with ~ operator
+# L<S03/Changes to Perl 5 operators/string concatenation becomes stitching>
 
 plan 4;
 
diff --git a/S29-str/uc.t b/S29-str/uc.t
index 0e3a31c8ab..076c740e49 100644
--- a/S29-str/uc.t
+++ b/S29-str/uc.t
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ force_todo 10;
 is(uc("Hello World"), "HELLO WORLD", "simple");
 is(uc(""), "", "empty string");
 #?rakudo skip "unicode"
+#?DOES 3
 {
     is(uc("åäö"), "ÅÄÖ", "some finnish non-ascii chars");
     is(uc("äöü"), "ÄÖÜ", "uc of German Umlauts");