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CELPIP Listening practice test

Three complete Listening forms, 38 questions each, with the rule that decides the whole section: every recording plays once. No playbar, no rewind, no second listen — because there is none on the official test.

Free, and it stays free. Reading and Listening mark themselves against an answer key, so scoring one costs us nothing — there is no card, no account, no email address and no session counter on these pages. You can sit all three forms of both sections as often as you like. The app’s free scored sessions are a separate thing and none of them is spent here.

Pick a form

Three forms, 114 original questions and 81 recordings between them. Every script was written for this simulator and read at exam pace.

Form A

The one to start with.

38 questions · six parts · eight recordings
A cancelled booking, the laundry room, the green bin program, a library moving into an old station, handing out garden plots, gas lines and new houses

Sit Form A

Form B

The hardest of the three.

38 questions · six parts · eight recordings
A rental counter that gave out the wrong truck, walking through winter, evening college courses, an electric fishing fleet, days in the office, first-year grading

Sit Form B

Form C

Pitched between A and B, with a different cast of voices.

38 questions · six parts · eight recordings
A recalled battery, a warning about the sidewalk, exchanging a driver's licence, a booking system on a busy trail, spending what a fundraiser raised, a four-day school week

Sit Form C

What the Listening section actually is

Six parts, 38 questions. Unlike Reading there is no part-wide clock: each page carries its own window, and the windows below are the ones Paragon’s own sample test runs.

The scored Listening section, part by part
Part	How it runs	Questions	Answer window
1. Problem Solving	One situation in three recordings, with questions after each and a short pause between them. The questions are spoken, not printed	8	30 s each
2. Daily Life Conversation	One conversation, spoken questions	5	30 s each
3. Listening for Information	One longer exchange, spoken questions	6	30 s each
4. News Item	A short news report, then five printed statements to complete	5	205 s together
5. Discussion	Three speakers, then eight printed questions	8	240 s together
6. Viewpoints	A longer report, then six printed questions	6	260 s together
Total	One sitting, every recording once	38	about 36 min

The rules this page keeps

Every recording plays once. The sample test is explicit: on the official test audio plays once and you have no playbar. So this page gives you a play button and nothing else — no scrub bar, no pause, no replay. It is the single most important thing to rehearse, and a page that let you rewind would be rehearsing the wrong exam.
In Parts 1 to 3 the question is spoken, not printed. You hear it once and see only the four options. Holding the question in your head while you hunt for the answer is part of what the section measures.
Thirty seconds a question in Parts 1 to 3, one question at a time, and when the window closes the question is gone.
Parts 4, 5 and 6 open all at once under a single window of 205, 240 and 260 seconds. Inside it you can change anything.
Part 1 has a ten-second pause between its three recordings, which runs itself out. There is no button.
No flags, no notes, no question navigator. On test day you are given paper and a pencil; here, use your own.

Where we knowingly differ

Part 5 is a video on the official test. Ours is a three-speaker conversation in which the speakers are named, and the questions use their names. Asking “the man in the sweater” with no picture is impossible; asking by name measures the same thing — who said what.
Parts 4 to 6 are drop-downs on the official test. On a wide screen you get drop-downs. On a phone they become rows, for the same reason as in Reading. Parts 1 to 3 are rows everywhere, which is what the real renderer does there too.
No 27-second introduction video. It is not scored, and the brief screen does the same job in words.
The order of the parts is fixed here. The official test says the order of question types may differ on the day. Shuffling would not prepare you for that; it would only make two of your own runs incomparable.

Read this before you trust the number

This is practice material we wrote, not a real CELPIP form. Every passage, recording, question, option and key here is original work written for this simulator. What is taken from the official exam is the shape: the part names, the question counts, the clocks and the navigation rules. Nothing is transcribed from a real form.
The level is an estimate, and always a band. The official raw-score conversion is not published. We use the cut-offs read out of Paragon’s own free sample test, then widen by one level in the direction your score leans inside its band — the same rule the app uses. The tables and the reasoning are here.
The real exam is equated and difficulty-weighted. Paragon’s Study Pack says the level comes from the number of points and the difficulty of the questions, equated across forms. The same raw total can land a level apart on two different forms, so no fixed table can be exact.
We do not issue official scores. Only Paragon Testing Enterprises can tell you your CELPIP level.
A single part is never converted. These tables convert a full 38-question section. There is no published conversion for one part on its own, and inventing one would be the exact dishonesty this page exists to avoid.

Questions people actually ask

Is this CELPIP Listening practice test really free?

Yes. There is no card, no account and no email address on these pages. A Listening answer is marked against a key on your own device, so it costs us nothing and is not metered.

Why can I not replay the recording?

Because you cannot on the official test. Paragon's own sample test says it in as many words: audio and video tracks play once and there is no playbar. A page that let you rewind would be rehearsing an easier exam than the one you are going to sit.

Why is the question not written on the screen in Parts 1 to 3?

Because it is not written on the screen in the real Parts 1 to 3 either. There you hear the question once and see only the four options, so you have to hold the question in your head while you look for the answer. That is a memory load, and dropping it would make the part easier. From Part 4 on, the questions are printed, exactly as the exam prints them.

How long is the CELPIP Listening test?

The scored content measures about 36 minutes: six parts, 38 questions, with each answer window fixed by the exam — 30 seconds a question in Parts 1 to 3, then 205, 240 and 260 seconds for the whole of Parts 4, 5 and 6. The official 46 to 55 minute range includes instructions, scene cards and unscored trial content.

Do I need headphones?

Not strictly, but use them if you have them. Every recording plays once, so a noisy room costs you the question rather than a repeat.

Are these real CELPIP recordings?

No. Every script here is original work written for this simulator and read by a speech model at exam pace. Nothing is transcribed from a real form. Part 5 of the official test is a video; ours is a three-speaker conversation in which the speakers are named, because naming them asks for the same skill — who said what — without a camera.

After the score

The other half of the exam

Reading and Listening can be marked against a key. Speaking and Writing cannot — somebody has to read what you produced. For those, the app scores your own answer and returns a report with a level band, four dimensions and your own sentences marked where they go wrong.

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Want the conversion table on its own? The Listening score chart lists every raw score from 38 down to 0, and the calculator converts a score you already have. Listening and Reading do not share a table: the same raw total lands a level lower in Listening.