CELPIP General Reading Practice Test 4

This is a CELPIP-General reading practice test for the 2026 format: 38 questions across the four reading parts, timed part by part, free to take. Practice Test 4 sits in the middle of the range at Medium, and its passages lean on numbers and process, which makes it a good rehearsal for candidates who read English comfortably but slow down when a text asks them to hold several figures at once.

A quick clarification, because the naming trips people up. CELPIP-General is the four-skill test used for permanent residence and citizenship, and reading is one of its four sections. CELPIP-General LS is the two-skill version, Listening and Speaking only, used for citizenship, and it has no reading section at all. If your application asks for a reading band, you are sitting CELPIP-General, and this is the section you are practising.

What is in this reading test?

Part 1, Reading Correspondence is a letter about an 1891 farmhouse near Hollis Creek, bought for its cedar shingles and its veranda and seven acres of overgrown pasture. Somebody in the 1970s ran the wiring through the old gas pipes and plastered over the evidence, and the electrician found it in the first week. The writer is typing from a kitchen table in Kingston, which tells you how the renovation is going.

Part 2, Reading to Apply a Diagram compares four mobile phone plans on price against data: Basalt Essential at $29 for 6 GB, Northline Freedom at $85 for 50 GB, Kestrel Flex at $55 for 25 GB, and Harbour Family Plus at $70 for 100 GB shared across two lines. The shared allowance on the last one is the detail most candidates skim past.

Part 3, Reading for Information covers the science of maple syrup: the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Wabanaki communities who were tapping trees long before European ships reached the St. Lawrence, the roughly forty litres of sap that must boil away to leave one litre of syrup, the narrow band of freezing nights and thawing days the run depends on, and the grading standards that differed on either side of the border for most of the twentieth century.

Part 4, Reading for Viewpoints goes to Fairholme, Manitoba, population 9,400, where council voted 5 to 4 to close two blocks of the main street for an eighteen-month trial, removing eighty-four parking spaces and putting in forty maples, a splash pad and a bandshell. In November, residents vote on whether to keep it. A year in, nobody has changed their mind.

CELPIP General reading format at a glance

This is the reading section of CELPIP-General in full. It is the only section of the four that produces the reading band on your score report, and these 38 questions are the entire basis of that number.

Reading your result on the general reading score chart

Your raw score from this test is a count out of 38. That number is not what an immigration application asks for, and the conversion is where candidates get confused. CELPIP reports reading as a CELPIP level, and each CELPIP level corresponds to a CLB level of the same number, so a reading level of 9 means CLB 9 in reading. The CELPIP reading score chart is what maps a raw count onto that scale.

Two things worth knowing before you read too much into any single number. Your four sections are scored independently, so a strong reading band does not rescue a weak writing band when a program asks for a minimum in each. And a practice raw score is an estimate, not a guarantee: it tells you which side of a threshold you are sitting on, which is genuinely useful when you are deciding whether to book the exam or spend another month preparing.

Why this test is worth a second attempt

The phone plans and the syrup passage both punish the same habit, which is reading a number and moving on without holding it. Forty litres to one is a ratio the questions will use. A shared 100 GB across two lines is not 100 GB for one person. If your errors on this test cluster in Parts 2 and 3, the fix is not more vocabulary, it is slowing down for exactly the four seconds it takes to register what a figure means before you keep going.

Tips for this test

• In the phone plan diagram, decide whether the emailer needs one line or two before you compare any prices. That single fact eliminates half the options.
• The maple syrup passage separates history (paragraph A) from chemistry (B), weather (C) and grading (D). Sort each statement by which of those four it belongs to before you look for wording.
• In Fairholme, count the voices: the planner, the councillors, the merchants and the residents do not agree. The 5 to 4 vote is a hint about how divided the article stays.
• The farmhouse letter hides its facts in wry asides. The wiring, the timeline and the location of the writer are all answers.
• Score yourself out of 38, then check the chart before you decide whether you are ready. A number without a band is not a decision.