One visual source, one email, and two question sets
Part 2 provides a diagram or visual that combines concise text with layout or images. It may organize a transit, course, or event schedule; advertise an attraction; or explain a community process. A short email refers to that source. The official study pack describes about nine minutes for eight questions: five blanks in the email and three additional questions.
The visual is informative and concise rather than personal. The email supplies the person, purpose, needs, and choices that make the information relevant. Both remain available within the part-level interface while you answer four-option questions.
Selection under several written and visual constraints
Part 2 tests whether you can identify how a visual is organized, locate specific information, combine two sources, recognize paraphrase, and infer a practical choice. A correct option often meets several conditions at once: day, time, cost, eligibility, location, and an exception.
The layout carries meaning. A heading may apply to every row below it. An asterisk may narrow a price. A map legend can change how a symbol is interpreted. Read labels, units, footnotes, and category boundaries before treating a number as evidence.
Filter before you compare
- Frame the visual.Identify who created it, what it helps people do, how entries are grouped, and what symbols or notes modify the main grid.
- Map the email.Write the sender, recipient, purpose, and each stated need or limitation.
- Turn needs into filters.Build a short checklist such as after 5 / under $20 / beginner / bus route.
- Eliminate by the strictest condition.Remove entries that fail a fixed limit first, then compare the survivors against every remaining filter.
- Reread the completed email.Verify grammar, reference, and coherence before taking the three follow-up questions.
Do not choose the entry that “mostly fits.” If an option meets time and price but violates age or registration, it is wrong. When no choice looks perfect, recheck the heading, legend, and footnote before assuming the source is inconsistent.
Apply all the filters, including the footnote
This original schedule is not an official CELPIP visual.
- Print Basics: 9:30–11:00 / $18 / beginner / materials included
- Clay Studio: 1:00–3:00 / $22 / beginner / bring an apron
- Photo Walk: 4:30–6:00 / $15 / all levels / outdoor route*
- Poster Design: 6:30–8:00 / $20 / some software experience / laptop required
*Photo Walk moves indoors if heavy rain is forecast by noon.
Email need: Sam finishes work at 4:00, has never taken an art course, can spend no more than $18, and prefers an activity that does not require personal equipment.
Complete the sentence: The best match for Sam is _____.
- Print Basics
- Clay Studio
- Photo Walk
- Poster Design
Evidence path: Only Photo Walk starts after 4:00, accepts all levels, stays within $18, and lists no equipment requirement. The weather footnote changes location, not eligibility.
How one missed condition changes the answer
- Reading the visual before the purpose. Every entry looks equally important because the email’s decision has not been identified.
- Applying only one filter. The first matching time or price wins even though another requirement fails.
- Ignoring labels and units. A fee per person is treated as a group fee, or a weekday note is applied to weekends.
- Skipping footnotes and legends. A symbol or exception that changes eligibility, location, or availability is missed.
- Filling blanks by grammar alone. The email sounds fluent but recommends an option the visual rules out.
- Confusing “not listed” with “not allowed.” A detail absent from one entry is invented instead of read from the source.
Use the condition, not the category name
Bus guide: Route 4—downtown every 20 minutes until 10 p.m. / Route 7—hospital every 30 minutes until 8 p.m. / Route 12—downtown express, weekdays only.
Need: Ava must reach downtown at 8:30 on Saturday evening.
Which route meets the need?
- Route 4
- Route 7
- Route 12
- No route listed
Reveal the answer
A. Route 4 reaches downtown and operates after 8:30 on Saturday. Route 12 has the attractive word “express” but fails the weekday condition.
Check the connection between both sources
- Did I identify the visual’s purpose, categories, labels, and units?
- Did I read its legend, symbols, and footnotes?
- Could I state the email writer’s decision in one line?
- Did I convert every need and limitation into a separate filter?
- Did the selected entry satisfy all filters rather than most of them?
- Did each completed email blank fit grammar, context, and the visual?
- Did I reserve time for the final three questions?