CELPIP General Listening Practice Test 4

This is a free, full-length CELPIP General listening practice test built for the 2026 format. It carries what the real section carries: six parts, 38 scored questions, one unscored practice task before any of it counts, and audio that plays exactly once. Test 4 is rated Medium.

Every clip on it is original and every clip is set in Regina or the country around it, from an acreage past Pilot Butte to a convention hall full of rural municipal councillors. Nothing here is a warm-up drill or an excerpt. You sit the section end to end, in the order the exam uses.

What is on CELPIP General Listening Practice Test 4?

Six clips, six subjects, one province. Here is what you are walking into before you press start.

Part 1 is the only part cut into three audio sections, and this conversation is a good advertisement for why. A man who bought an acreage past Pilot Butte cannot work out why half his garden never came up and the rest stalled in June. Fatima, at the seed counter, gets there in the second section: the white film on his beds is not dust off the road, it is salt out of his own well, and every evening he spends watering makes it worse. Three questions follow the first section, three the second and two the third, and each set is about its own section only.

Parts 2 and 3 sit next to each other on purpose, because the difference between them is the reason CELPIP has both. The two volunteers at the radio station already know each other, so nobody explains anything and you are left to work out that Deb thinks a Saturday seven a.m. slot is a demotion, from a woman insisting twice that it is fine. The caller and Grant, who books the arena, have never spoken, so everything is said out loud: a hundred and twenty dollars an hour for non-prime ice, ten minutes of that hour lost to the flood, forty-eight hours' notice or you pay anyway.

Part 4 is one voice reading a news item, and it is where the numbers come fastest: a forty-one kilometre spur from Ashbury to Craigmont, four hundred and ten producers in the co-operative, twenty-two crossings that still need signal work before a loaded car can move. The chair is introduced once as Maureen Delorme and is Delorme for the rest of the report, which is what real news copy does and what catches people out.

Part 5 puts sixty thousand dollars on a table and three people around it. Lionel wants it lent out in small amounts so the fund still exists in ten years. Celeste wants it given away and points at a daycare that put forty families back to work. Bo suggests splitting it and is told that is not a compromise, it is two half measures. Nobody in the room is simply right, and the questions know it.

Part 6 is the longest clip on the test at about three minutes, and the only one that is not a conversation. Anton Kowalchuk has fifteen minutes at a rural municipalities convention and spends all of them on a single number: the federal map says ninety-one per cent of Saskatchewan households have access to fifty megabits down and ten up. His argument is about the word access, and about a hexagon that gets coloured in as served the moment one farmyard inside it is judged reachable.

What CELPIP-General means for this test

CELPIP comes in two versions and the difference is worth ninety seconds of your time. CELPIP-General is the four skill version that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada accepts for permanent residence and as proof of language for citizenship: listening, reading, writing and speaking. CELPIP-General LS is the shorter citizenship pairing, and it uses the same listening component. So a CELPIP General listening practice test is not a special variant of anything. It is the listening test, and this is a full one.

What that does change is the content. The section is built out of ordinary Canadian life because the people sitting it are being measured on whether they can live one: a well that is fine to drink from and hard on a garden, an hour of ice at a community rink, a credit union arguing about its community fund, a coverage map that decides whether a specialist appointment happens over video or a two hour drive. Test 4 is set in Regina and southern Saskatchewan from end to end for exactly that reason. Your listening band on a CELPIP-General report comes from these 38 questions and nothing else.

What is free here, precisely

Free means the whole test and the whole result, with no card, no trial and no account. Specifically:

• All six parts, all 38 scored questions, and the unscored practice task the real section opens with.
• Marking the instant you submit. Listening is marked, not judged. Every question has exactly one correct answer, it is checked against the key on your own machine, and there is no queue and nothing to wait for.
• The reason for every question. Each item carries a sentence naming what in the audio makes the key correct, so a lost mark turns into something you can act on.
• Review mode, which is the part people do not expect. It replays the audio you were only allowed to hear once and puts the transcript beside it. You get to find the sentence you missed rather than guess at it.
• Your raw score out of 38, which converts to a level on our CELPIP listening score chart.

What happens when you press start

Listening is the first section of CELPIP, so it is the one you meet cold, before your ear has warmed up on anything. Paragon schedules roughly 47 to 55 minutes for it including the instruction screens; the six parts themselves carry 41 minutes of clock. This test runs the same way, and four rules do most of the damage to people who have not met them:

• The audio plays once and starts by itself. No pause, no rewind, no progress bar. That is the exam format rather than a shortcoming of this page, and it is why an unscored practice task exists at all.
• Parts 1 to 3 speak the question to you. One question at a time, thirty seconds each, in a fixed order, with only the four options on screen. You cannot skip ahead and you cannot go back.
• Parts 4 to 6 print the question instead. Sentence completions, all of them on one screen, one time budget for the whole screen, answerable in any order you like.
• No marks are deducted for a wrong answer, and there may be one unscored part that you are never told the identity of. A blank and a wrong guess cost exactly the same, so there is no such thing as a question worth leaving.

Those first three sit under one section name but they are two different tests, and knowing which one you are in is what tells you whether a hard question is worth another five seconds.

What is real here, and what is not

Two things on this test are not the real article, and you should hear them from us rather than discover them on test day.

The accents are the one thing here we cannot make Canadian. Paragon's audio uses Canadian speakers. We cannot, because no Canadian synthetic voice exists on any engine we can reach: the one that speaks these clips carries 102 voices and not a single Canadian among them. So what you hear is North American, and every other Canadian marker is real and deliberate. The spelling, the vocabulary and the settings are Saskatchewan throughout, down to the acreage, the grid road, the community association that carries the group's insurance, and the flood before your hour of ice. Standard Canadian English and General American are close enough in a synthesized voice that this costs you very little, and we would rather say it plainly than let you assume.

On test day, Part 5 is a video. It is the only one in the section. Here it is audio, with the three speakers shown and labelled by where they sit: Lionel on the left, Celeste in the centre, Bo on the right. Paragon's own strategy notes say no question tests a visual detail, which is what makes this a fair swap. What the video is really for is keeping three voices apart by position, and that is precisely the skill this preserves.

Tips for Test 4

• Read the introductory statement like it is a question. Before Part 1 you are told that a man stops at a farm and seed supply store and asks a staff member for help. That hands you who has the problem and who has the answer before a word is spoken.
• Close each Part 1 section off behind you. Three questions follow the first section, three the second, two the third, and the answers do not travel between them. Once the salt lands in section two, the section one questions are gone.
• Write Grant's numbers down. He gives the caller nine of them in two minutes: two ice rates, a deposit, a helmet rental, a cancellation window. Part 3's sentence completions will want one of them, and it will not be the one that stuck.
• Follow the last name in Part 4. She is Maureen Delorme once and Delorme every time after. If you are waiting for the full name again you will miss what she actually said about the municipal roads.
• In Part 5, stop looking for the winner. Lionel, Celeste and Bo all shift. The questions ask what each of them holds and what the three of them land on, not which one was right.
• Do not let Part 6's vocabulary stop you. Attenuates, contention, aggregation. Those words are not what is being scored. What is being scored is whether you caught Kowalchuk naming three possibilities and then saying out loud which one he thinks the room has been avoiding.