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CELPIP Guides

Score charts, task guides and test-day facts - the reference material for planning your CELPIP preparation, free and with no sign-up.

Every guide is built from the published sources - the official CELPIP test format and IRCC's language equivalency tables - and each page shows the date it was last revised. Where a guide touches a skill you can practise, it links straight into the matching exercises, so reading about a task and rehearsing it are never more than a click apart.

The numbers most people came for

  • CELPIP = CLBFrom level 4 up, your CELPIP level is your CLB level - no conversion table needed.
  • CLB 7The Federal Skilled Worker floor, in all four skills.
  • CLB 9Where Express Entry language points jump - the target most applicants actually need.
  • CLB 4The citizenship requirement - speaking and listening only.

The full conversion tables, including the per-skill IELTS equivalents, are in the CELPIP score chart guide, and the CLB calculator converts your own IELTS, CELPIP or PTE Core scores.

Scores & CLB

How CELPIP levels convert to CLB, what they equal in IELTS, and the scores each immigration pathway requires.

Choosing a Test

Honest comparisons for deciding which English test to book - format, scoring and who each one suits.

Test Day & Logistics

Booking, fees, format and the test-day rules - the practical facts that cost real money to learn the hard way.

Samples & Templates

Complete model answers written to a high CLB standard, annotated against the dimensions raters actually score.

When you're done reading

Guides tell you what the test wants; practice is what moves a score. The question bank covers all twenty CELPIP task types with exam-style exercises, the answer templates give every Writing and Speaking task a reusable structure, and a full mock test scores all four skills on the same CLB-aligned scale the charts on these pages describe.