CELPIP Reading Part 2 practice with answers

What it means to apply a diagram

Reading Part 2 combines a diagram with an email containing blanks and has eight questions in approximately nine minutes. You need to connect the writer’s situation to the reference information. Reading a row correctly is only one part of that work: you also need to decide whether its details meet the email’s conditions. Use the email to guide which labels, figures and restrictions deserve close attention.

The test uses drop-down answers, and you cannot annotate or highlight the passage on screen. Paper and pen are available for short calculations or a list of requirements. Avoid copying the whole reference. A note is useful when it saves you from repeatedly reconstructing a total or losing track of a condition.

This original set presents a meeting-room brochure and an email about a repair workshop. Treat the brochure’s introductory notes and booking rules as part of the reference alongside the table. The fictional rooms have different facilities and restrictions. Your task is to apply the stated rules to Leila’s event, without assuming that a familiar library elsewhere follows the same policies.

Match all requirements before choosing a room

Read the email for requirements before comparing rooms. Separate the number of people from the facilities they need and the refreshments they intend to offer. A room can satisfy one requirement and fail another. Choosing the largest capacity without checking seating or food rules can therefore produce a plausible but unsupported answer.

Check who is included in a number. The brochure says capacities “include presenters and helpers”, which tells you how to interpret the email’s separate groups. Apply the same care to duration: find out whether setup and cleanup belong inside the allowed session. Write a calculation with a label so you do not later confuse spare places with the total group size.

Distinguish eligibility from confirmation. The phrases “provisional” and “does not guarantee availability” describe a process with an unresolved outcome. An event may meet the stated requirements while the organizer still needs a later decision. When a blank asks when someone can act, identify the required stage rather than selecting the earliest step mentioned. Keep permission to use a room separate from permission to advertise it.

A nine-minute route through the reference

The following time split is a study suggestion. Use it to prevent the table from taking all your attention while the email and further questions receive only a hurried glance. Work through the full set before opening its explanations.

1. Use the first minute to inspect the brochure’s structure. Identify the table headings and where the general rules appear. You need a map of the information before a detailed reading of every condition.
2. Spend the next two minutes reading the email and noting its requirements. Count everyone involved, identify the intended activities and check the complete requested duration. Keep any calculation visible on paper.
3. Use four minutes to complete the blanks and answer the remaining questions. Move from each requirement to the relevant table cell or rule. When a question changes a detail, update that detail and recalculate rather than automatically reusing an earlier result.
4. Leave two minutes to check restrictions, booking stages and unanswered items. Read the completed email as a message from an organizer: every selected phrase should fit both the brochure and the surrounding sentence.

If two options seem possible, name the condition that separates them. A focused comparison is quicker to check than rereading every row with no particular question in mind.

Build speed with targeted checks

During untimed study, practise moving between an email requirement and its source. Say what you are looking for before searching: a capacity, a permitted activity, a time limit or a confirmation step. Then identify the smallest part of the reference that answers it, including any general rule that modifies the table. This keeps scanning purposeful.

Next, explain one rejected option using a specific conflict. An option may have sufficient space but unsuitable equipment, or may name a real booking step that occurs too early. Keep the explanation short enough to make during a timed attempt. If you need a long argument to justify an answer, check whether you have added assumptions absent from the reference.

Use your review notes to decide what to rehearse. If arithmetic is accurate but incomplete, slow down while identifying who or what belongs in the total. If process language causes errors, rewrite the stated steps in order without inventing an approval. Continue with Part 3 paragraph matching to practise locating evidence in continuous prose. The Reading overview helps you compare the four formats and allocate study time to the mechanics you find hardest.

Free Reading Part 2 practice set

How to review this set

Sort errors into missed requirements, incomplete totals, booking-stage confusion and unsupported assumptions. “One additional attendee” counts the presenters and helper; “exactly fills” includes setup and cleanup. The answer “An eligible request still needs approval” preserves the gap between meeting the rules and receiving confirmation. Identify which rule you omitted, then redo the reasoning before reading the explanation again.