CELPIP Listening Mock Test 16
The last and hardest listening test here, set in Whitehorse in deep winter. Six parts, 38 scored questions, and clips in which the decisive detail is almost always a condition rather than a statement.
Listening Mock Test 16 closes the set. If you can hold your band on this one, with the audio playing once and the questions arriving in two different formats, the real section is unlikely to surprise you.
What is on this listening test?
Part 1, Listening to Problem Solving is a customer whose truck will not start and the service adviser at a vehicle repair garage, in three audio sections with questions after each.
Part 2, Daily Life Conversation is two neighbours in the arrivals area of the airport, one waiting for a relative flying up from the south.
Part 3, Listening for Information is a man building an off-grid cabin outside town and a solar installer, on panels and batteries and what a northern winter does to both.
Part 4, Listening to a News Item is a single voice on the tripod going through the ice on the river and the end of this year of the breakup guessing contest.
Part 5, Listening to a Discussion is Dagmar, Everett and Kendra on a northern arts and film festival committee, arguing about whether the festival should move from February to March.
Part 6, Listening for Viewpoints is a geotechnical engineer on what thawing ground is doing to northern roads, runways and buildings. It is the longest clip on the test and the most technical.
CELPIP Listening format: parts, questions and time
| Part | Questions | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Listening to Problem SolvingThree audio sections, spoken questions | 8 | 8 min |
| 2. Daily Life ConversationOne clip, spoken questions, 30 sec each | 5 | 5 min |
| 3. Listening for InformationOne clip, spoken questions, 30 sec each | 6 | 6 min |
| 4. Listening to a News ItemPrinted sentence completions, any order | 5 | 5 min |
| 5. Listening to a DiscussionThree speakers, printed completions | 8 | 9 min |
| 6. Listening for ViewpointsOne prepared talk, printed completions | 6 | 8 min |
| Total | 38 | 41 min |
What makes this the hardest one
The solar conversation in Part 3 is dense with paired figures, capacity against output, that only mean something together. The festival discussion in Part 5 is a genuine three-way split where each speaker has a different reason for the same preference, so attributing a reason to the wrong person is the easiest mark to lose on the test. And the engineer in Part 6 uses terminology the questions do not ask about, which tempts you to spend attention in the wrong place.
How this test is scored
Every question has one correct answer, nothing is deducted for a wrong one, and marking is immediate on submit with the reason for each answer and review mode with transcripts. The CELPIP listening score chart converts your raw score out of 38.
Tips for this test
- In Part 3, keep pairs together. A panel figure without its output figure answers nothing.
- In Part 5, record the reason as well as the position. Two speakers here want the same month for opposite reasons.
- In Part 6, ignore the terminology and follow the claim, the evidence and the concession.
- In Parts 1 to 3 the clock spends itself whether or not you answer, so guess and get ready for the next stem.
- In Parts 4 to 6 read the whole screen before answering anything, then take the certain ones first.
Free, six parts, marked against the answer key the moment you finish.
FAQs
Is test 16 the hardest CELPIP listening test here?
Yes. It is the last of the sixteen and rated Hardest. The difficulty comes from paired figures in Part 3, a genuine three-way disagreement in Part 5, and a Part 6 talk whose terminology is not what the questions are about.
What is on listening test 16?
Six clips set in Whitehorse: a truck that will not start at a repair garage, two neighbours at airport arrivals, a solar installer advising on an off-grid cabin, a news report on the river breakup contest, an arts and film festival committee arguing about moving from February to March, and a geotechnical engineer on thawing ground.
Should I take this test last?
Yes. Work up through the Easy and Medium tests first, because a low score here tells you very little if you have not yet got used to the audio playing once and the two different question formats.
How long does the section take?
The six parts carry 41 minutes of clock between them, split 8, 5, 6, 5, 9 and 8 minutes, plus one unscored practice task in a snowy parking lot before Part 1.