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CELPIP Reading practice test

Three complete Reading forms, 38 questions each, sat in this browser and marked the second you finish. The clock, the part order and the no-going-back rule are the exam’s, not ours. Nothing is asked of you to start.

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 between them. Form A is the one to start with, Form B is the hardest, and Form C sits between them on topics that overlap neither.

Form A

The one to start with.

38 questions · four parts · 43 minutes
A parkade repair notice, a swim timetable, four settlement agencies, a council vote on street design

Sit Form A

Form B

The hardest of the three.

38 questions · four parts · 43 minutes
A withdrawn co-op placement, a moving company's service table, four backcountry campgrounds, a debate about ending an all-volunteer fire service

Sit Form B

Form C

Pitched between A and B.

38 questions · four parts · 43 minutes
A family health centre letter, a monthly transit pass table, four library branches, a school board's late-start pilot

Sit Form C

What the Reading section actually is

Four parts, 38 questions, one clock per part. These are not our estimates: they are the per-part budgets Paragon’s own free sample test runs, which sum to the 43-minute floor of the official “43 to 56 minutes” range. The gap up to 56 minutes is unscored trial content, which this simulator does not reproduce — if it turns up on test day it is a bonus, not a surprise.

The scored Reading section, part by part
Part	What it asks	Questions	Clock
1. Reading Correspondence	A letter, then a reply to complete from what the letter told you	11	11 min
2. Reading to Apply a Diagram	A timetable or price table, then a message about it. The gaps come first here, and the standalone questions after	8	9 min
3. Reading for Information	Four lettered paragraphs, and statements matched to them. A fifth option means the information is in none of them, and it is a real answer	9	10 min
4. Reading for Viewpoints	An article, then a reader comment to complete	10	13 min
Total	One sitting, no break	38	43 min

The rules this page keeps

One clock per part, and no going back. Inside a part you can change any answer as often as you like. Once you move on, the part is closed. The official test says so in its own words: once you leave a page you cannot return to it.
The counter behaves like the real one. Whole minutes down to one minute, then seconds, and it turns red under sixty. At zero it reads “None”. There is no warning popup at any other point, because there is none on the real platform.
Time runs out, the part closes. Your answers are kept and you move on. We ask you to press Continue rather than yanking the page away, but the part does not reopen.
Skipping a question warns you first, in the words the official test uses, and then lets you skip.
Part 2 puts its gaps first. Parts 1 and 4 ask the standalone questions first and the message with gaps after; Part 2 is the other way round. Rehearsing the wrong order costs time on test day looking for a screen that is not there.
No flags, no highlighter, no notes, no question navigator. The real platform has none of them, whatever the prep sites say.

The one place we do not copy the exam

On the official test every one of the 38 questions is a drop-down, and the platform refuses to run below 1024×768. This page runs on phones. Hiding four full-sentence options behind a tap makes the question slower for reasons that have nothing to do with reading English, so on a narrow screen the standalone questions become rows you can tap. On a wide screen you get the exam’s drop-downs. Gaps inside a message stay drop-downs everywhere, because there the control has to sit in the line of prose. One key out of a closed list either way.

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 Reading practice test really free?

Yes, and nothing is asked of you: no card, no account, no email address. A Reading answer is either the key or it is not, so marking it costs us nothing and there is no reason to charge for it or to meter it.

How long is the CELPIP Reading test?

The scored content is 43 minutes: 11 minutes for Part 1, 9 for Part 2, 10 for Part 3 and 13 for Part 4, with 38 questions in total. The official range of 43 to 56 minutes exists because the real test may add an unscored trial part. We reproduce the scored 43 minutes only.

Can I go back and change an answer?

Inside a part, as often as you like until the clock runs out. Between parts, no. That is the official rule — once you leave a page on the real test you cannot return to it — and this page keeps it rather than making the practice easier than the exam.

Why are the options a drop-down on my laptop but rows on my phone?

On the official test all 38 Reading questions are drop-downs, and the platform refuses to run below 1024x768. This page runs on phones, where hiding four full-sentence options behind a tap slows the question down for reasons that have nothing to do with reading English. On a wide screen you get the exam's drop-downs; on a narrow one, rows. One key out of a closed list either way.

What score do I need?

That depends on what you are applying for, and we will not guess for you. The page shows your raw score out of 38 and the level band it converts to, with the published table it came from.

Are these real CELPIP questions?

No. Every passage, question, option and key is original work written for this simulator, in a Canadian setting, to the official format. Nothing is transcribed or reconstructed from a real form or a third-party test bank.

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.

Try a scored Writing task, free Free Listening practice test

Want the conversion table on its own? The Reading score chart lists every raw score from 38 down to 0, and the calculator converts a score you already have.