CELPIP sample questions with answers

How to use these free samples

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For each practice session, select a question before opening the answer. Complete your attempt, then explain the difference between your response and the model or answer key. In comprehension work, identify the supporting phrase. In Speaking or Writing, identify a missing relationship, unclear reference or unsupported reason that you can revise.

The mini-exercises below demonstrate one useful decision per skill. They are deliberately shorter than complete test tasks. Use the linked pages for broader practice and CELPIP’s own Free Practice Tests page for official materials. A correct mini-example does not establish a component level or show that your timing will hold across a full sitting.

Speaking questions and answers for all eight tasks

CELPIP’s Test Format page lists eight Speaking tasks. The linked sample pages let you practise the different purposes. Keep descriptions, predictions and persuasive responses distinct when planning.

• Task 1: Giving Advice offers prompts for recommending actions and explaining why they help.
• Task 2: Personal Experience provides practice telling a focused event with a clear sequence.
• Task 3: Describing a Scene supports organizing visible people, actions and locations.
• Task 4: Making Predictions focuses on likely developments supported by clues.
• Task 5: Comparing and Persuading gives practice explaining a preference through relevant comparisons.
• Task 6: Difficult Situation focuses on explaining a choice to the intended listener.
• Task 7: Expressing Opinions supports a position with reasons and examples.
• Task 8: Unusual Situation practises making unfamiliar visual details understandable.
• Speaking templates provide flexible planning structures to adapt to the prompt.

Original Task 7 question: Should an apartment building turn an unused storage room into a shared repair space? Explain your opinion.

I would support a shared repair space if residents agreed on quiet working hours. Someone fixing a loose chair leg could use a proper work surface instead of spreading tools across a small kitchen. Before opening the room, I would ask residents how they could share it without blocking access to the tools.

This three-sentence model opening states a position with “if residents agreed”, gives a concrete chair-repair example and introduces an access concern. It is an opening to develop, not a complete 90-second response or an official level example.

Writing samples for the email and survey

CELPIP’s Test Format guidance gives 27 minutes for the email and 26 for the survey response, with 150–200 words each. Use a timer for a complete attempt, including planning and revision.

• Task 1 email samples with answers offer practice explaining a situation and addressing the requested points.
• Task 2 survey samples with answers offer practice choosing an option and supporting it with reasons.
• Writing templates help arrange ideas into paragraphs while leaving the wording and details to you.

Original Task 2 question: A workplace can fund either secure bicycle storage or new lounge furniture. Choose one improvement and explain your preference.

I would choose secure bicycle storage because it would give colleagues who cycle a suitable place to leave their bicycles during a shift. New lounge furniture would make breaks more comfortable, but I would prioritize a practical concern that begins before the working day. A designated storage area could also keep bicycles away from shared entrances.

The opening connects “during a shift” to the storage proposal and acknowledges the alternative’s comfort benefit. Develop those reasons into a complete response in your own words. The paragraph alone is below the task’s required length and carries no estimated score.

Listening practice with answers for all six parts

These part pages provide transcript-based practice. The short example here is also text, so it does not reproduce the experience of hearing unfamiliar audio once. For a listening exercise, ask someone to read the snippet aloud while you keep the text covered.

• Part 1: Problem Solving practises following a problem, proposals and a decision.
• Part 2: Daily Life Conversation focuses on meaning in an everyday exchange.
• Part 3: Listening for Information practises following explanations and relevant details.
• Part 4: News Item focuses on an event and its supporting information.
• Part 5: Discussion practises separating the positions of three speakers.
• Part 6: Viewpoints focuses on a speaker’s position and supporting argument.

Volunteer: Shall we put the donation boxes beside the front door?

Coordinator: That would leave too little room for people entering. Put them beside the noticeboard, and leave the doorway clear.

Original question: Why does the coordinator reject the first location? A: The boxes are empty. B: The entrance needs space. C: The noticeboard is damaged.

Answer: B. “Too little room for people entering” explains the objection. The noticeboard identifies the chosen location; it does not support a claim that anything is damaged. After answering, retell the change from proposed location to final location without looking at the snippet.

Reading practice with answers for all four parts

Match your practice method to the text type. CELPIP’s format materials describe Part 3 as matching statements to paragraphs A–D, with E for information not given. Check meanings rather than looking only for repeated words.

• Part 1: Correspondence practises an email and the meaning of a reply.
• Part 2: Apply a Diagram connects information in a diagram with a written situation.
• Part 3: Information practises matching statements to supporting paragraphs.
• Part 4: Viewpoints practises following an article and a reader comment.

Original Part 3-style mini-exercise, one paragraph only:

A. The neighbourhood tool cupboard opens on Saturday mornings. Residents reserve tools online before collecting them. Volunteers check each returned tool and set damaged items aside until a repair can be arranged.

Statement: Returned equipment is inspected before it is made available again. Does paragraph A support this statement?

Answer: A supports it. “Check each returned tool” supplies the inspection, and setting damaged items aside explains why return does not automatically mean availability. This reduced example teaches matching; a full Part 3 set requires considering all four paragraphs and the not-given option.

Move from examples to a longer practice session

• Free CELPIP practice test provides a starting point for mixed practice across skills.
• CELPIP mock test guide helps you organize a longer rehearsal and review its results.

CELPIP’s own Free Practice Tests page provides official free practice tests. Include those materials when preparing for the format, especially for audio and visual tasks. Keep a note of which resource you used so you do not compare different exercises as though they were the same test form.

After a longer session, choose the next page based on an observed error. If you confused a proposal with a decision, return to a conversation task. If a survey reason stayed vague, revise its consequence before writing another full response. Use the one-week plan for a short schedule or the 30-day plan for a longer cycle.