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Celpip Plus is an AI-powered CELPIP exam prep platform. You paste a Writing response or record a Speaking one and get your real CELPIP score in 15 to 30 seconds — with a full breakdown across all four official criteria. For Writing those are Content/Coherence, Vocabulary, Readability and Task Fulfillment; Speaking swaps Readability for Listenability.

Most CELPIP prep tools give you sample questions and model answers. Celpip Plus scores your own responses using AI trained on CELPIP scoring rubrics, so you see the gap between where you think you are and where you actually are — including the exact criterion costing you marks, before exam day rather than after it.

Writing and Speaking, which are the two productive skills where most test-takers lose marks to inaccurate self-assessment. Listening and Reading are answered against an answer key, so you get timed practice and full mock exams for those rather than a criterion breakdown.

CLB stands for Canadian Language Benchmark. It is the scoring scale used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada to measure language ability. Most Express Entry PR pathways require CLB 7 or higher in all four skills. Missing by even half a band often means failing the language requirement entirely — which is why knowing your exact score before the exam matters.

It depends on your immigration pathway. Federal Skilled Worker requires CLB 7 in all four skills (Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking). Canadian Experience Class requires CLB 7 for NOC TEER 0 or 1 jobs, or CLB 5 for TEER 2 or 3 jobs. Provincial Nominee Programs vary by province. Higher CLB scores also add Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) points, improving your Express Entry ranking.

CELPIP Writing is assessed on four criteria: Content/Coherence (relevance and logical flow), Vocabulary (range and accuracy of word choice), Readability (sentence variety and grammar), and Task Fulfillment (completing the task fully and at the right register — formal vs. informal). Each criterion is scored 1–12 and averaged to a final CELPIP score.

No, and conflating them is a common and expensive mistake. CELPIP reports a score from 1 to 12 for each skill. CLB is the separate benchmark scale immigration programs are written against. The two happen to line up closely at the levels most applicants need, but they are not the same scale and a CELPIP score is not a CLB level.

No. Every recording plays once and there is no transcript. That is why note-taking and predicting the question before it appears matter so much — you cannot recover a detail by going back to it.

Six, each with a distinct question style: Problem Solving, Daily Life Conversation, Information, News Item, Discussion, and Viewpoints. Practising them separately is far more effective than practising Listening as one undifferentiated skill.

Most test-takers lose the thread partway through a recording and then lose the following questions too, because they are still thinking about the one they missed. Recovering quickly is a specific skill and it is worth practising deliberately.

Take quick notes and predict each question before it appears, because the audio plays once with no transcript and no replay. Keep notes to keywords, not sentences, so you are still listening while you write. Above all, practise recovering fast when you lose the thread — the marks people lose in a cluster usually come from staying stuck on the detail they already missed.

Yes. You can practise full Listening sections free, with the interface rebuilt screen for screen from the real test — the same countdown, and audio that plays once with no transcript — and take a full timed mock exam when you want the whole section end to end.

Practise the six parts separately so a weak part stops hiding inside a decent total, then drill the one that breaks down. Note-taking and prediction are both trainable and matter more than raw comprehension here, and the free part-by-part lessons target each question style directly.

Roughly 55 to 60 minutes for about 38 questions across four parts. That is under a minute and a half per question including reading the passage, which is why pacing decides most scores here.

Reading Correspondence, Reading to Apply a Diagram, Reading for Information, and Reading for Viewpoints. Each rewards a different reading mode — the diagram part in particular is closer to a matching task than to reading comprehension.

Skim the passage for shape, then read the questions, then scan back for the specific answer. Reading every word first is the single most common way to run out of time on this section.

Skim each passage for its shape first, then read the questions, then scan back for the specific detail each one asks about — reading every word up front is the most common way to run out of time. Watch the clock part by part, and treat the diagram part as a matching task rather than close reading. Because the fix is almost always pacing, timed sectional practice moves scores more than reading tips alone.

Yes. You can practise full, timed Reading sections free, rebuilt screen for screen from the real four-part test, and every question is marked so you see the correct answer and where your time went. When you want the end-to-end experience, take a full timed mock exam.

Practise the four parts separately so you can see which one is draining the clock, then put your time into that part. Most people who lose marks here could have answered correctly with more time, so the fastest gains come from pacing and from the free part-by-part lessons rather than from reading more slowly.

On four criteria: Content/Coherence, Vocabulary, Readability, and Task Fulfillment. Each is scored 1–12 and they combine into the section score, so a response that is strong on three and weak on one still loses marks.

150 to 200 words for both Task 1 and Task 2. Going under 150 damages Task Fulfillment regardless of how good the writing is, and padding to reach the count damages Vocabulary — add a real detail rather than another adjective.

Yes, as a structure — not as a script. A template tells you how many parts your response needs and what each one does, so you spend your time choosing ideas rather than inventing a shape. A memorised response that ignores the prompt scores badly on every criterion.

Eight, ranging from giving advice to describing an unusual picture. Each has its own preparation and response time, and each rewards a different structure — which is why practising them as one skill rarely works.

Between 30 and 60 seconds depending on the task, then the recording begins automatically. Tasks 5 and 6 give the full 60 seconds because they require you to compare options or plan a difficult conversation.

The silence is recorded. Finishing at 35 seconds of a 60-second task reads as an incomplete answer, so the more useful skill is having enough structure to fill the time without repeating yourself.

Yes. Every plan is a subscription and renews at the end of its billing period — weekly, monthly, or quarterly — until you cancel. There is no one-off pass.

Yes, from your account settings, and you keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for. Cancelling stops the next renewal; it does not cut off the time remaining.

No. Payments are final, and refunds are only issued where the law requires one. That is why there is a free tier — use it to decide whether the scoring is worth paying for before you enter a card.

US dollars. If your card is issued outside the United States, your bank sets the exchange rate and may add its own foreign transaction fee.

Reading and Listening practice keeps working — those are unlimited on every paid plan. Writing and Speaking evaluations resume at the start of your next billing period, or you can move to a larger plan at any time.

Yes, and it needs no card. You get three AI-scored responses per skill with the full criterion breakdown, plus every course lesson and answer template on the site.

No. All of the courses, guides, and answer templates are free and open — no account required. A subscription unlocks the practice catalogue, the mock exams, and AI scoring beyond the free evaluations.