Part 1: Problem Solving
Follow someone describing a problem across several short scenes, answering as you go. The audio plays once, exactly as in the test.
About 9 min
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Free CELPIP practice test
20 real CELPIP questions from Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. Answer like the real test and get your score in seconds.
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Start with ListeningListening
6 questionsPart 2: Daily Life Conversation
One everyday conversation, then five questions about what was agreed.
About 6 min
Start Listening · Part 2: Daily Life ConversationPart 3: Information
Listen for detail in an informational talk and answer six questions.
About 6 min
Start Listening · Part 3: InformationPart 4: News Item
A short news bulletin, with questions on both the facts and the reporter's emphasis.
About 5 min
Start Listening · Part 4: News ItemPart 5: Discussion
A video discussion between several speakers. You choose from dropdown lists rather than options, which catches most first-timers out.
About 8 min
Start Listening · Part 5: DiscussionPart 6: Viewpoints
The hardest listening part: a long monologue where you must separate what the speaker thinks from what others think.
About 8 min
Start Listening · Part 6: Viewpoints
Reading
4 questionsPart 1: Correspondence
Read a personal letter, then complete a reply to it. CELPIP's own sample passage, "A Trip to Tofino".
About 11 min
Start Reading · Part 1: CorrespondencePart 2: Applying a Diagram
Read a floor plan alongside an email and work out which flat the writer means.
About 9 min
Start Reading · Part 2: Applying a DiagramPart 3: Information
Match statements to the right paragraph of an article, with "none of the above" as a real option.
About 10 min
Start Reading · Part 3: InformationPart 4: Viewpoints
Two opposing opinion pieces, then a comment that has to agree with one of them.
About 13 min
Start Reading · Part 4: Viewpoints
Writing
2 questions- AI score
Task 1: Writing an Email
Write a 150 to 200 word email covering the three points you are given. Returned with your CELPIP level and a marked-up report.
About 27 min
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Task 2: Responding to Survey Questions
Pick one of two options and argue for it in 150 to 200 words. Marked on content, vocabulary, readability and task fulfilment.
About 26 min
Start Writing · Task 2: Responding to Survey Questions
Speaking
8 questions- AI score
Task 1: Giving Advice
Advise a friend out loud, with 30 seconds to prepare and 90 to speak. We listen to the recording itself, not a transcript.
About 3 min
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Task 2: Talking about a Personal Experience
Tell the story of something that happened to you, in 60 seconds.
About 2 min
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Task 3: Describing a Scene
Describe a photograph to someone who cannot see it. Where vocabulary range shows up fastest.
About 2 min
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Task 4: Making Predictions
Say what happens next in the same picture. Tests whether you can hold future forms under time pressure.
About 2 min
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Task 5: Comparing and Persuading
Choose between two options and talk someone else into it. 60 seconds to compare, 60 to persuade.
About 3 min
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Task 6: Dealing with a Difficult Situation
Pick which of two people to speak to, and say the awkward thing. Scored on tone as much as on language.
About 3 min
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Task 7: Expressing Opinions
State an opinion and defend it for 90 seconds with no preparation notes.
About 2 min
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Task 8: Describing an Unusual Situation
Describe an object nobody would recognise, precisely enough for someone to picture it.
About 2 min
Start Speaking · Task 8: Describing an Unusual Situation
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