Established 1994 · Accredited by the International Assessment Council
CELP reports listening, reading, writing and speaking on one published nine-band scale. Universities, employers, professional registration bodies and immigration authorities in more than one hundred countries accept the result without further assessment.
Entry closes fourteen days before each sitting. Identity document required at registration.
CELP
Certified English Language Proficiency
Test Report Form
FORM CELP/TRF/4 · Academic
Candidate
PRIYA N. RAMANATHAN
Date of birth
14 MAR 2001
Test date
16 May 2026
Centre
IN-DEL-014
Valid until
16 May 2028
Module band scores
Listening
8.5
Reading
8.0
Writing
7.5
Speaking
8.5
Overall band score
Mean of the four modules, rounded to the nearest half band
8.0
Specimen.Verification number resolves in theverification portalbelow.
Accepted by 11,400 organisations, including
Test format
Listening, reading and writing are taken consecutively with no break between them. The speaking interview is held on the same day or within seven days of it, at the centre's discretion.
Order of the sitting
2 h 53 min total
Listening 40 · Reading 60 · Writing 60 · Speaking 13 (minutes)
Four recorded sections, played once, moving from everyday exchanges to extended academic discussion.
Three passages of increasing difficulty drawn from journals, reports and periodicals, with no extra transfer time.
A 150-word account of visual or situational information, followed by a 250-word discursive essay.
A recorded one-to-one interview with a certified examiner, covering familiar topics, a long turn and a two-way discussion.
The Academic and General Training papers share the same listening and speaking modules. Reading and writing differ: Academic draws on published research and professional reporting, General Training on workplace and everyday material.
Why CELP
The board publishes its band descriptors, examiner certification standards and centre inspection reports in full. Every claim below is auditable against them.
Scores are accepted by universities, professional registration bodies, employers and immigration authorities across more than one hundred jurisdictions.
11,400+
Recognising organisations
Test Report Forms are issued to the candidate portal within five calendar days of the test date, with institutional delivery on the same schedule.
5 days
Standard issue period
Every centre operates under identity verification, biometric check-in, invigilated seating plans and continuous recording of the speaking module.
740
Accredited centres
Writing and speaking are marked independently by two certified examiners against published band descriptors, with routine third-marker audit.
2 + 1
Examiners per script
Registration
Entry closes fourteen days before each sitting. Seat numbers are updated hourly and a session is withdrawn from sale the moment its hall is full.
12 of 12 sessions
Updated 22 Aug 2026, 09:00 GMT
12 Sept 2026
Connaught Assessment Hall
New Delhi, IndiaIN-DEL-014
Entry closes
28 Aug 2026
19 Sept 2026
Bandra Kurla Test Centre
Mumbai, IndiaIN-BOM-007
Entry closes
04 Sept 2026
26 Sept 2026
Bloomsbury Examination Rooms
London, United KingdomGB-LON-002
Entry closes
11 Sept 2026
03 Oct 2026
Bloomsbury Examination Rooms
London, United KingdomGB-LON-002
Entry closes
18 Sept 2026
10 Oct 2026
Harbourfront Assessment Centre
Toronto, CanadaCA-TOR-005
Entry closes
25 Sept 2026
17 Oct 2026
Al Quoz Examination Complex
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAE-DXB-011
Entry closes
02 Oct 2026
24 Oct 2026
Marina Bay Test Centre
Singapore, SingaporeSG-SIN-003
Entry closes
09 Oct 2026
31 Oct 2026
Darlinghurst Assessment Hall
Sydney, AustraliaAU-SYD-009
Entry closes
16 Oct 2026
07 Nov 2026
Makati Examination Rooms
Manila, PhilippinesPH-MNL-016
Entry closes
23 Oct 2026
14 Nov 2026
Victoria Island Test Centre
Lagos, NigeriaNG-LOS-021
Entry closes
30 Oct 2026
21 Nov 2026
Olaya Assessment Centre
Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaSA-RUH-018
Entry closes
06 Nov 2026
28 Nov 2026
Bukit Bintang Examination Hall
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaMY-KUL-012
Entry closes
13 Nov 2026
Registering reserves a seat for twenty minutes while payment is completed. Fees are set by the country of test and shown in local currency at checkout.
Test centres
Every centre is inspected against the board's security schedule before accreditation and at least once in each subsequent year. Inspection reports are published on each centre's page.
12 centres listed
Showing flagship centres
Coverage plot
Schematic · equirectangular
Candidates outside a listed city are normally assigned to the nearest centre in the same country. Where no centre lies within 200 km, the board arranges an invigilated session at an approved partner institution on request.
Results & verification
A Test Report Form is a record in the board's register, not a piece of paper. Receiving organisations should confirm a score against the register rather than accept a document at face value.
Test taken
Written scripts are scanned at the centre and released to marking the same evening. The speaking interview is uploaded as an audio record.
Marked and moderated
Two certified examiners mark writing and speaking independently. Any script whose marks differ by more than half a band goes to a third examiner.
Report form issued
The Test Report Form appears in the candidate portal and is sent electronically to the receiving organisations named at registration.
Institutions handling volume can query the register directly through the recruiter API. Access is granted to organisations listed on the recognition register.
Certificate verification portal
Check a Test Report Form
The number is printed at the foot of every Test Report Form. Try the specimen .
Candidate accounts
Five candidates who sat the test in the last eighteen months, and the decision each score was submitted against.
Priya Ramanathan
New Delhi, India
Overall
8.0
The band descriptors are published in full, so I knew exactly what a 7.5 in writing required before I sat the test. Nothing about the marking was a mystery.
Tomás Arellano
Toronto, Canada
Overall
7.5
My Test Report Form was in the portal on the fourth day, and the immigration office pulled the record straight from the verification service. I never had to post a document.
Mariam Haddad
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Overall
7.0
The centre ran to the minute. Identity check at half past seven, seated by eight, and the speaking interview at the exact time printed on my confirmation.
Chen Wei-Lin
Singapore
Overall
8.5
I sat the test twice. Both report forms were consistent to within half a band, which told me the marking was doing what it claims to do.
Olusegun Adeyemi
Lagos, Nigeria
Overall
7.0
Free official practice papers, marked against the same descriptors as the real thing. That was the difference between my first attempt and my second.
01 / 05
Guidance
Full regulations are published in the Candidate Handbook. Where this summary and the handbook differ, the handbook governs.