CELPIP Reading Course

A CELPIP Reading course for the 2026 format: 19 lessons on the method for every task type, plus 4 worked drills, with practice built in. The first lesson is open to everyone.

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1 How CELPIP Reading Works: 4 Parts, 38 Questions CELPIP Reading in full: four parts, 38 questions, about 39 minutes, and a clock that resets at each part. What each part asks and where the time goes. Free9 min
2 Reading Pacing: 39 Minutes, Four Parts Where the 39 minutes of CELPIP Reading actually go: a per-part budget for all four parts, the ratios that mislead, and how to recover a part you have overspent. Premium9 min
3 Skim Then Answer, or Answer Then Skim? Text first or question first in CELPIP Reading? The two routines compared part by part, with the rule that decides which opening move each part rewards. Premium9 min
4 Part 1: Reading Correspondence CELPIP Reading Part 1, Reading Correspondence: 11 questions in 10 minutes, a letter and a reply to it, and the two-pass method that handles both blocks. Premium10 min
5 Part 2: Reading to Apply a Diagram CELPIP Reading Part 2, Reading to Apply a Diagram: 8 questions in 8 minutes on a four-option chart and an email, and why the tightest part catches people. Premium10 min
6 Part 3: Reading for Information CELPIP Reading Part 3, Reading for Information: nine statements matched to four labelled paragraphs plus option E, in about nine minutes, and how to earn an E. Premium10 min
7 Part 4: Reading for Viewpoints CELPIP Reading Part 4, Reading for Viewpoints: an opinion article, a reader comment, 10 questions in 12 minutes, and the ledger that defeats attribution traps. Premium10 min
8 Scanning Versus Reading: When to Do Which Which CELPIP Reading questions reward scanning and which punish it: how to tell from the stem alone, and the three jobs that scanning can never do for you. Premium9 min
9 How Reading Distractors Are Built How CELPIP Reading wrong answers are built: paraphrase traps, true-but-not-asked options, overstatement and attribution swaps, and the check that kills each. Premium9 min
10 Working Out a Word From Context What to do with an unknown word in CELPIP Reading: the four clues that fix a meaning, how to spot a load-bearing word, and when to stop and answer anyway. Premium9 min
11 Inference in Reading: Supported, Not Guessed Inference in CELPIP Reading: the difference between a conclusion the text forces and one it merely allows, and the test that separates them under time pressure. Premium9 min
12 Diagram Questions: A Deeper Method A deeper method for CELPIP Part 2 diagram questions: build the discriminator grid, list the constraints, and learn the five shapes a diagram blank takes. Premium10 min
13 Never Leave a Blank: The Arithmetic Why an unanswered CELPIP Reading question is worse than a wrong one, what a guess should be based on, and how to spend the last thirty seconds of a part. Premium8 min
14 How Reading Maps to CLB 1 to 12 What each CELPIP Reading band actually looks like in behaviour: the reading habits that separate CLB 5 from 7, CLB 7 from 9, and CLB 9 from the levels above it. Premium9 min
15 The Five Reading Errors We See Most The five reading mistakes that cost the most marks in CELPIP: answering the adjacent question, losing attribution, wrong reading order, and two others. Premium9 min
16 Reading Speed: How Fast Is Fast Enough How fast you need to read for CELPIP: first-pass targets per part, why the words on screen far exceed the passage, and drills that raise rate honestly. Premium9 min
17 Reading in the Final Week The last seven days before CELPIP Reading: what still sharpens, what to leave alone, how to taper, and the checklist to run inside the section itself. Premium8 min
18 Reading Question Stems: What Each One Is Really Asking The recurring CELPIP Reading question stems and what each one wants: locate, infer, attribute, or apply. Read the stem correctly and half the options fall away. Premium9 min
19 A Four-Week Reading Plan A four-week CELPIP Reading plan: what to drill in week one, what to stop doing by week three, and how to review so that each week changes something real. Premium9 min

Drills

Worked question sets for each part of the reading section, with every answer explained. These are open to everyone.