diff --git a/test/test_transforms.py b/test/test_transforms.py
index 952d411d609..5d0275f946f 100644
--- a/test/test_transforms.py
+++ b/test/test_transforms.py
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ def test_scale(self):
         owidth = random.randint(5, 12) * 2
         result = transforms.Compose([
             transforms.ToPILImage(),
-            transforms.Scale((owidth, oheight)),
+            transforms.Scale((oheight, owidth)),
             transforms.ToTensor(),
         ])(img)
         assert result.size(1) == oheight
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ def test_scale(self):
 
         result = transforms.Compose([
             transforms.ToPILImage(),
-            transforms.Scale([owidth, oheight]),
+            transforms.Scale([oheight, owidth]),
             transforms.ToTensor(),
         ])(img)
         assert result.size(1) == oheight
diff --git a/torchvision/transforms.py b/torchvision/transforms.py
index 85f0a82c8c8..da58aa12b9a 100644
--- a/torchvision/transforms.py
+++ b/torchvision/transforms.py
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ class Scale(object):
 
     Args:
         size (sequence or int): Desired output size. If size is a sequence like
-            (w, h), output size will be matched to this. If size is an int,
+            (h, w), output size will be matched to this. If size is an int,
             smaller edge of the image will be matched to this number.
             i.e, if height > width, then image will be rescaled to
             (size * height / width, size)
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ def __call__(self, img):
                 ow = int(self.size * w / h)
                 return img.resize((ow, oh), self.interpolation)
         else:
-            return img.resize(self.size, self.interpolation)
+            return img.resize(self.size[::-1], self.interpolation)
 
 
 class CenterCrop(object):