Test Expert: Speaking Practice for Celpip(r)

Well, I have to say that I think this is a good book but sadly, it didn't work for me. I wonder if I could get in touch with the author so I may have his insight.I believe I have a wide range of vocabulary and that I'm more than able to deliver quality responses not only in a test setting, but in real life. I do have an accent and I will always do, but this doesn't prevent people from understanding me clearly. The truth is that I followed the instructions of this book when retaking the CELPIP and my score didn't raise a point. As of January 10th 2018, I need to score 9 points in the speaking section and I've got 8 twice. I also want to remark that I earned a Bachelor's and a Master's degree, both in Canada, which in theory means that I may be somewhat proficient in English.I, however, want to be objective and give " Test Expert" 2 stars because I think it is well structured and may even help test takers outline the responses in the writing section. Notice that this book won't help you build new vocabulary. If you're lacking words to express yourself, this is time to start hitting ESL books.Christian: if you get in touch with me, help me figure what my mistakes were, and your advice help me raise my score, I promise to write a solid new review. For now, I'm still wondering why your book didn't help me achieve the expected results.

Love this book. It's very organized and it teaches you what you should do step by step.I learned some useful expressions for introduction, body, and conclusion. This book has a lot of example responses, so it helped me to create my own answer dialog structure.I highly recommend this book anyone who is suffering to find a right Celpip studying guide.This book is what I was looking for.My score increased to 8 from 6 after I studied this book. I finally got my PR!

This book helps you only on structuring your responses. However, most sample responses presented in this book have the same boring structures which would definitely not help much in raising your scores. I believe the raters already know all the boring formulas presented in this book by now and wont give you high scores for using them.In addition, A good structure does not guarantee that you would get high score, especially structures using low level grammars/words. You also need to fulfill other aspects of speaking such as vocabulary with some high level words, sentence complexity, etc. Attending the webminar info sessions organized by celpip will be really helpful. You will have better idea of what the raters are looking for.If you rely on this book, the maximum score you could get is 7, provided that your English is quite well, e.g, you can use English in normal daily situation comfortably and you are lucky to have familiar topic such that you could use some high level words.Also, if you end your responses too early like some of the sample responses posted on youtube for supporting this book (they have about 10 to 20 seconds left); your scores will likely to be negatively impacted.To be fair, if your current score is about 4-5; this book would definitely help you achieve 6-7. However, if you would like to raise your score from 6-7 to 8 and above, I dare say this books wouldn't help much.I would recommend the author to focus more on all aspects of how speaking responses are evaluated.

I really like this book. I bought it together with the Writing practice book. From my perspective it the best material from Celpip exam preparation. I hope that Test Expert/Christien Lee also launch books for reading and listening.

The books uses the same text to explain each type of task. So in each chapter/topic you will read entire pages with almost the same wording as in previous topics. I found this book only useful as it has some examples of answer and list of useful phrases.