CELPIP Writing Practice Test 6

CELPIP Writing Practice Test 6 is a free, full-length CELPIP writing practice test built for the 2026 format. It runs exactly like the real writing section: two tasks in 53 minutes, with about 27 minutes for CELPIP writing task 1 and 26 minutes for CELPIP writing task 2, and an automatic move to Task 2 the moment the first timer ends. This is the sixth test in our free CELPIP writing practice series, and it pairs a workplace informal email with a neighbourhood survey, so you practise two very different registers in one sitting. When you submit, your writing is evaluated by CELPIP experts and returned with a CLB band score, detailed feedback and model samples.

What is in this CELPIP writing test?

Task 1 is Writing an Email, and the required register here is an informal email to a co-worker. You and your co-worker Priya cover the same weekend shifts at a busy garden centre. Your sister's wedding falls on a Saturday you are scheduled to work, and Priya is the only trained staff member who could take the shift for you. She also covered a shift for you once before, and you have never returned the favour. In about 150 to 200 words, ask her to cover the shift and give the exact date and hours, explain what the shift involves and anything unusual she should be ready for, and acknowledge that you owe her one and suggest how you will pay it back.

Task 2 is Responding to Survey Questions. Your neighbourhood association has won a $75,000 grant to build one new feature on an empty lot near the elementary school, and residents have been asked to choose. Option A is a community garden: forty raised plots rented at $30 a season, a shared tool shed and a water line, used mainly from May to September and run by a volunteer committee. Option B is a covered outdoor rink: free, open to everyone all year, skating and hockey in winter and basketball in summer, but noisy in the evenings and about $18,000 a year to light and maintain. Pick one and defend it in about 150 to 200 words.

CELPIP informal email: what the experts look for

A co-worker sits in the trickiest register band on the whole test. Priya is not a friend and not your manager, so the email has to be warm and natural without slipping into text-message English, and polite about the imposition without turning into a stiff formal request. That balance is what separates a CLB 7 answer from a CLB 9 one. Use a relaxed greeting, contractions and everyday vocabulary, but soften the ask and show you understand that giving up a Saturday is a real cost to her. Writing an overly formal email for an informal prompt is a common mistake, and our evaluation applies a penalty when the register does not match the task, so use this test to practise the middle ground.

The third bullet is the real discriminator. Anyone can ask for a favour, but this prompt asks you to name the social debt out loud and make a concrete, proportionate offer to repay it. A token "thanks so much" will not fully cover the bullet. Name something specific you will do in return, and make sure it fits the relationship you built earlier in the email.

How to plan your Task 2 answer

Both survey options are genuinely defensible, and both carry hard numbers you can argue with. That is deliberate. State your choice in the first sentence, then build two developed reasons that lean on the specifics: the garden's $30 season fee and forty plots, or the rink's year-round free access against its $18,000 annual cost. Acknowledging one drawback of your option and answering it is a mark of a strong response, but never drift between the two options. Switching sides midway is the fastest way to lose task fulfilment marks in CELPIP writing task 2.

How your writing is scored

Both tasks are evaluated by CELPIP experts against the official descriptors on four criteria: Content and Coherence (30%), Vocabulary (20%), Readability (25%) and Task Fulfilment (25%). Each criterion is scored from 1 to 12 and combined into a weighted band. Your results include an overall band, a breakdown by criterion, an overall feedback summary, error highlights that mark your mistakes in red with the correction in green, and a polished high-band rewrite of your own answer. Most permanent residence applicants aim for CLB 9 or above in writing, and comparing your draft to the rewrite is the quickest way to see what is holding your band down.

Tips for this test

• Plan for two or three minutes: decide the shift date, the hours and your repayment offer before you type a word.
• Invent concrete details and keep them consistent. A named Saturday and real hours score better than "next weekend".
• Keep the tone friendly and natural for a co-worker, but still cover all three bullet points clearly.
• In Task 2, name the garden or the rink in your first sentence, then give two reasons backed by the numbers in the survey.
• Aim for 150 to 200 words per task and leave a minute to fix small grammar and spelling errors.
• Use Exam mode for real timing, then study the expert feedback and CELPIP writing samples.