CELPIP practice course
Learn the method for every task type in the 2026 CELPIP exam, practise it in place, then prove it on a timed mock. Four courses, 100 lessons, and the first lesson of each is open to everyone.
Start with the section that is holding your score down
Each course covers every task type in that section of the 2026 exam, in the order the test presents them. The first lesson of every course is free to read in full.
Six parts, 38 questions, audio that plays once. Learn what each part asks and where the time actually goes.
Four parts, 38 questions, 39 minutes. Every question type and the pacing that keeps you ahead of the clock.
Two tasks in 53 minutes. The four criteria, what each rewards, and how to answer every bullet without listing them.
Eight tasks, no pausing, no retakes. What to do with 30 seconds of prep and how to land near the end.
Tell us your target score and what keeps going wrong. We will send back a study plan built around it, then track your progress as you work through it. We reply within 24 hours.
Learn the method, then see it executed
The course teaches you what each task is scored on and drills it one skill at a time. The sample answers show that same advice already carried out on a real prompt, with the marks annotated. Most people need both: the lesson explains the rule, the sample shows what following it looks like.
100 lessons, one skill at a time
Four courses, one per section of the exam, in the order the test presents them. Each lesson takes a single task type apart, gives you the criteria the raters actually use, and ends with exercises you mark yourself. Your progress is saved as you go.
Choose your section →See what a band 9 answer looks like
Model responses written to the band descriptors and annotated in the margin: what earns each mark, and where a band 7 version would have stopped short. Writing emails and surveys, all eight speaking tasks, and worked reasoning for reading and listening.
Browse the sample answers →The 3 CELPIP writing question types
Task 1 can arrive in a formal or an informal register, and the register is chosen for you by the scenario. Task 2 is a different animal entirely. Pick a type to drill it on its own.
Formal Email
Write a polite, clearly organised email to someone you do not know personally: a company, an official, a registrar, a board. Five samples covering complaints, requests and proposals.
See 5 formal email samples →Informal Email
Write a warm, natural email to a friend, a cousin or a teammate that still covers all three bullets. Five samples covering favours, bad news, invitations and thanks.
See 5 informal email samples →Survey Response
Pick one of two survey options and defend it with developed reasons and a concrete example. No greeting, no signature. Five samples on money, heritage, schools and community.
See 5 survey response samples →The 4 CELPIP reading parts
Reading works differently from writing: nothing is written and nothing is judged, so instead of a model answer you get the reasoning. Each module explains how its part is built, shows a worked example where every option is taken apart, and finishes with untimed questions that hide their explanation behind a button. All passages are original, and all four parts follow the 2026 format.
Reading Correspondence
A personal message, then a reply with five blanks in it. The one part with an order rule, and the one where the wrong options are almost all true.
Learn Part 1 →Reading to Apply a Diagram
Four options compared, and an email applying them to one person. The tightest clock in the section, and the answers live in the diagram rather than the email.
Learn Part 2 →Reading for Information
Nine statements matched to paragraphs A to D, plus option E for a fact that is not there at all. No order to ride, and no keywords to lean on.
Learn Part 3 →Reading for Viewpoints
A website article where named people disagree, then a reader's comment. Understanding it is not enough: the distractors swap who said what.
Learn Part 4 →The 6 CELPIP listening parts
Listening works like reading here: nothing is written and nothing is judged. Each module explains how its part is built, then hands you two real clips that open in a player with no timer. You listen, answer, and reveal the full transcript and the reasoning for every option. Twelve worked examples across the six parts, all original and built for the 2026 format. The accents are North American, and the scripts are Canadian.
Listening to Problem Solving
Two strangers, one helping the other out of a jam, with a catch hidden inside every fix. A dead e-bike on a trail, and a bus route to Butchart Gardens.
Learn Part 1 →Listening to a Daily Life Conversation
Two people who already know each other, where the feeling sits under the plan. A ride while the car is in the shop, and making saskatoon berry jam.
Learn Part 2 →Listening for Information
One speaker holds the prices and dates the other needs, and so do the wrong options. Renting a community garden plot, and a theatre season subscription.
Learn Part 3 →Listening to a News Item
A single reader, facts in order, and the questions switch to sentences you complete. A skating oval opening for the winter, and a record lake cleanup.
Learn Part 4 →Listening to a Discussion
Three neighbours who disagree, tracked by where they sit, with questions about who sided with whom. Who floods the rink, and how to spend a small grant.
Learn Part 5 →Listening for Viewpoints
One prepared talk, hard vocabulary, and a stance you have to infer from the argument. Whether a polytechnic chases university status, and a county's gravel.
Learn Part 6 →The 8 CELPIP speaking tasks
Speaking works differently again: you record yourself, purely so that you can hear yourself. The audio stays in your browser, it is never uploaded and it is never scored. Then you reveal a spoken model answer with its structure, key phrases and common mistakes. Each task has its own page and 5 questions, 40 in total, with real pictures on the four tasks that show one, and the official prep and speaking times are shown as information only. There is no timer here.
Giving Advice
Somebody else's problem, and a relationship that sets your tone before you say a word.
Learn Task 1 →Personal Experience
One story, told properly, and a reflection at the end that most answers never reach.
Learn Task 2 →Describing a Scene
Describe a busy room to somebody who cannot see it. Actions, not objects.
Learn Task 3 →Making Predictions
The same scene, the opposite job. Re-describing it is the commonest way to lose marks.
Learn Task 4 →Comparing and Persuading
Three screens. The option you rejected vanishes and a third one appears.
Learn Task 5 →Difficult Situation
Two people you could speak to, and you must choose exactly one. Scored on tone.
Learn Task 6 →Expressing Opinions
Ninety seconds of argument with nobody to persuade and nothing on screen.
Learn Task 7 →Unusual Situation
A thing with no name, down a phone line, ending in a request people forget to make.
Learn Task 8 →Lessons teach it. Timed tests prove it.
Work through a course untimed until the method is automatic, then sit the same task under exam conditions and see whether it survives the clock. That gap is where most bands are lost.
Timed writing tests
Both tasks under real timing, with expert feedback and a CLB band.
Start a writing test →Timed reading tests
Correspondence, diagrams, information and viewpoints across all 4 parts.
Start reading →Timed speaking tests
Record all 8 tasks on screen with real prep and response timers.
Start speaking →Full mock tests
All four skills in one sitting, in the order the real exam runs them.
View mock tests →Start with the first lesson, free
Every course opens with a full lesson you can read without an account, so you can judge the teaching before you decide anything. Pick the section your last score was weakest in.
- 100 lessons
- No account for the first lesson
- Progress saved as you go