Name: Live, Work, or Study in Canada: IELTS or CELPIP?
Uploaded: 2025-06-18T11:18:01.000Z
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So, do you want to come to Canada, like, live here, like, for real, forever?

So, a lot of people want to come to Canada, and it's a beautiful country.

We have so many unicorns and dragons here.

But there's this huge, terrible thing called immigration.

And to say it's a process, that's not an understatement, because it is a huge process.

It takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of money, it takes a lot of paperwork.

They're going to test your English ability, and there are two tests that you can take in English.

So, I'm going to tell you about the two tests that you need, you have to take to get either your PR, permanent residence.

To be cool, we just call it PR, we're like, hey, you got your PR?

To get an express entry visa, coming here as a skilled worker.

If you want the passport, you get to become a citizen.

If you need help with any of this, please hit me up on my website, I offer classes in both CELPIC and IELTS.

Okay, so, the similarities between the two exams are they both have four sections.

They have a reading section, a writing section, a speaking section, and a listening section.

And once you kind of research a little bit after learning this video, after listening to this video and watching it, I hope that you can make a more of an educated guess at which one's better for you.

I can't say to you, hey, John, you should definitely do CELPIC, and hey, Larry, you should definitely do IELTS because it depends on you and your abilities.

Also, with the IELTS test, there's actually two different tests that you can take.

If you take the IELTS general test, this is for immigrating and working in Canada.

If you take the academic test, it's a lot harder, and this is for going to university exclusively.

So, the only thing that differs in these tests, the speaking part's the same, the listening part's the same, but the writing part is different.

So, be careful and choose the correct test in the IELTS department, because if you're set down to do the academic test and your writing skills aren't university level, you're going to fail, you're going to waste your money.

The CELPIC has one that's LS, it's listening and speaking only, but for immigration, you need to do the full four-part CELPIC test.

Again, the differences between the two, you're going to do the test, you're going to get your results, and depending on your grade and your score, it'll determine if you have enough points to apply for one of these beautiful things that you can get into Canada to immigrate.

My expertise-I'm an expert-my expertise in this area is, of course, the speaking component of the exam.

So, I'm going to run through the differences of the speaking components with these two tests.

The CELPIC one is all done in a computer.

So, if you like computers, if you're comfortable speaking to a computer on a screen for your speaking test, CELPIC's the way to go.

The IELTS one, on the other hand, it's done by real humans, and I believe that you might be able to do a computer-generated one, but as it stands now, it's done human to human.

It is challenging, it's difficult, I'm not going to lie to you, but you have to look at yourself.

Do you know how to talk to people in English?

If you're kind of not very good with social skills, speaking to people face-to-face, I would go for the more computer-based speaking test because you don't have the other person staring at you, making sure that you're winking and looking at them, focusing on your body language.

For me, I would choose a real human because I think it's more exciting, but everyone's different and you have to think about what is better for you.

That doesn't mean it's, like, five hours, it just means there's eight different questions they're going to ask you, whereas the IELTS only has three parts.

You're thinking, Ronnie, totally doing the IELTS one, three questions, CELPIC eight questions, but hold on, it's not that easy.

You think, oh, three questions, go, uh-huh, uh-huh, no, mm-mm-mm.

So, in my opinion, what's easier from a speaking point of view is CELPIC.

Because the questions are very focused and there's specific grammar that you will use for each question.

Here, and I will go through some examples of the eight parts.

The first one's always going to be giving advice and scenarios.

They're all very scenario, real-life based, whereas IELTS is more general.

And this is good because it gives you your own ideas.

Remember, in this test, there's no such thing as a wrong idea.

There's such thing as wrong vocabulary and wrong grammar, but whatever crazy idea you think of, as long as you set it coherently with some great grammar forms, you're rocking this.

If you say, well, I think my friend should go and ride unicorns in the prairies, they're like, yeah, perfect, good English.

In this, of course, you're going to have to use the past tense, and this is a hard one because in my opinion, using the past tense is one of the most difficult grammar challenges we have out there.

So you've got your personal experience, you're telling a story from your past.

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