CELPIP Scores and CLB Conversion Guides

Your CELPIP score is a level from 0 to 12 for each of the four sections, and from level 3 up every level maps to the same Canadian Language Benchmark: CELPIP 7 is CLB 7, CELPIP 9 is CLB 9. CLB is what Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada reads on your application. Listening and Reading are converted from your number of correct answers out of 38. The guides below give you the exact chart for each section, plus the levels Express Entry and citizenship ask for.

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Two free tools for this section: the CLB calculator turns a CELPIP, IELTS, PTE Core, TEF or TCF score into a CLB level for each skill, and the CRS score calculator adds up your full Express Entry score out of 1,200. Both use IRCC's own tables and need no sign-up.

Your Writing and Speaking levels come from four rating categories. CELPIP publishes what a test taker can do at each level, from 3 to 12, in its Level Descriptors document, and we summarise it in our own words on two pages: the Writing level descriptors and the Speaking level descriptors. Each table comes with a short note on what a 9 does that a 7 does not.

What each CELPIP level means, 0 to 12: the official description of every level, its CLB and CEFR match, and what it is enough for.

Put it into practice

Practice questionsOne free question in every CELPIP task typeCELPIP coursesStep by step lessons with progress trackingVocabulary builderWord bundles that raise your CLB band