diff --git a/test-requirements.in b/test-requirements.in
index 99854204d6..75e69f2c9b 100644
--- a/test-requirements.in
+++ b/test-requirements.in
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ trustme               # for the ssl tests
 pylint                # for pylint finding all symbols tests
 jedi                  # for jedi code completion tests
 cryptography>=36.0.0  # 35.0.0 is transitive but fails
+exceptiongroup        # for catch()
 
 # Tools
 black; implementation_name == "cpython"
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index f1162efdb0..15f8d58b91 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ cryptography==36.0.1
     #   trustme
 decorator==5.1.0
     # via ipython
+exceptiongroup==1.0.0rc1
+    # via -r test-requirements.in
 flake8==4.0.1
     # via -r test-requirements.in
 idna==3.3
diff --git a/trio/_core/tests/test_run.py b/trio/_core/tests/test_run.py
index c9d73f4c9a..0c563d5310 100644
--- a/trio/_core/tests/test_run.py
+++ b/trio/_core/tests/test_run.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 import outcome
 import sniffio
 import pytest
+from exceptiongroup import catch
 
 from .tutil import (
     slow,
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@
 )
 
 if sys.version_info < (3, 11):
-    from exceptiongroup import BaseExceptionGroup, ExceptionGroup, catch
+    from exceptiongroup import BaseExceptionGroup, ExceptionGroup
 
 
 # slightly different from _timeouts.sleep_forever because it returns the value