CELPIP Score Chart

Your CELPIP score is a level from 1 to 12, and it maps one-to-one to a CLB level. The number you get is the CLB number Canadian immigration reads.

That one fact answers most of what people open a score chart to find. The rest is detail: how each skill earns its number, which CLB level your program asks for, and where your four scores land you on the Express Entry table. It's all below, with an interactive chart so you can check your own numbers.

CLB is the exact match. The IELTS band is an approximate equivalent that IRCC sets per skill, not from a single overall number, so treat that column as a guide rather than a precise swap.

CELPIP scores convert to CLB on a one-to-one scale. A CELPIP 9 is CLB 9, a CELPIP 7 is CLB 7, straight down the line. There's no formula and no conversion math: whatever level CELPIP reports for a skill is the CLB level immigration uses for that skill.

Immigration reads each skill on its own, never an average. Your weakest skill is usually what gates a program: three CLB 9s and one CLB 6 does not meet a CLB 7 requirement, because that one skill sits below the line.

For most permanent residence programs the floor is CLB 7, which means a CELPIP 7 in every skill. Competitive Express Entry candidates aim higher. CLB 9 across all four skills is the band where language points climb sharply. Citizenship asks for far less: CLB 4 in listening and speaking only.

The jump from CLB 7 to CLB 9 is the one most people on Celpify are actually working toward. It's the band where Express Entry points move the most for the fewest extra correct answers or rubric marks, so it tends to be the best return on study time.

Listening and Reading are scored on correct answers. Listening has 38 questions, and your raw count is converted to a level on a scaled table that adjusts for how hard each test form was. Writing and Speaking are judged by trained raters against four equally weighted traits, then placed on the same 1 to 12 scale.

Two routes, one scale. A CLB 8 in Reading and a CLB 8 in Speaking carry identical weight for immigration, even though one came from a multiple-choice count and the other from a human reading your response. Want the band-by-band detail for your skill? Each per-skill chart below breaks it down.