CELPIP to IELTS converter

Route it through the Canadian Language Benchmarks. Your CELPIP level is your CLB level from level 3 upward, so a CELPIP 8 in Reading is CLB 8 in Reading. Then read across IRCC's IELTS chart to find the General Training band that sits at that same benchmark, which for CLB 8 Reading is 6.5. Do it per skill, because the two tests are only comparable one skill at a time.

No. IRCC publishes two separate charts, one mapping CELPIP-General to CLB and one mapping IELTS General Training to CLB, and neither test publishes a direct equivalence with the other. Every CELPIP to IELTS figure you see anywhere, including on this page, is derived by passing through CLB. Treat it as orientation for choosing a test, never as a score you can submit.

The same way in reverse, but it is less precise and it is worth knowing why. IRCC's chart gives the minimum band needed for each benchmark, so a band covers a range rather than a point. An IELTS Reading 7.5 sits at CLB 9, the same benchmark as a 7.0, because the next threshold up is 8.0. The converter on this page uses those thresholds, so it tells you the benchmark your band reaches, not a single exact CELPIP number.

There is no published answer, and that is the honest one. IRCC's IELTS General Training chart stops at CLB 10, while CELPIP reports levels 11 and 12 above it. Any chart showing you an IELTS band for CELPIP 11 or 12 invented it. In practice it rarely matters, because Canadian immigration programs stop awarding additional language points at CLB 10.

Because CLB is the only scale both tests are officially measured against. CELPIP was built to report on the 1 to 12 benchmark scale directly, so it needs no conversion at all. IELTS reports its own 0 to 9 band scale, which IRCC then maps onto CLB. CLB is the common language, which is why it is the thing Canadian programs are actually written in.

No. You have to take the test the program asks for and submit that test's own result. A conversion is useful for deciding which test to sit, or for understanding a score a friend quotes you, but an application needs a real result from a designated test taken within the validity window the program sets.

It depends on the skill and on you, which is why the honest comparison is a longer one. The structural difference is that CELPIP is fully computer delivered with a Canadian-accent listening set, while IELTS General Training uses a range of accents and, in most centres, a face to face speaking interview. Our CELPIP vs IELTS guide compares them properly, including which one tends to suit which candidate.

It reproduces IRCC's published chart exactly, and the values are read from the same table that drives our score calculator, so the two cannot disagree. What it cannot do is make the underlying comparison more precise than IRCC made it: the mapping is per skill, it is defined by minimum thresholds, and it stops at CLB 10. Those limits are IRCC's, and this page shows them rather than smoothing them over.