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The maximum CELPIP score is 12 per skill, and there's no official overall or average score at all. Here's how the M-12 scale works, what shorthand like 7788 means, and the level where immigration points stop climbing.
Listening and Reading are marked by computer, Speaking and Writing by teams of human raters with an AI assist on Writing. How raw answers become the CELPIP levels IRCC reads.
A good CELPIP score depends on your goal: CLB 7 for most PR, CLB 9 or higher for strong Express Entry points, CLB 4 for citizenship. Plus what a raw score like 27 out of 38 actually means.
The full CELPIP score chart: how your CELPIP level (1-12) maps to CLB and IELTS across all four skills, the scores each immigration program needs, and an interactive checker.
CELPIP General vs General LS, explained simply. General tests all four skills for permanent residency. General LS tests Listening and Speaking for Canadian citizenship.
Preparing for CELPIP works best in three moves: diagnose with one timed practice test, do targeted skill work, then rehearse under full timed conditions. Here's a four-week plan you can actually follow.
The CELPIP vocabulary that actually raises your score isn't a list of rare words. It's the Canadian English you'll hear, read, and write, mapped to where each set shows up on the test.