Free NAATI CCL practice resources, and a four-week plan to use them

• [NAATI's free CCL practice test](https://www.naati.com.au/ccl-practice-test/) — a single dialogue in the test format, so you can hear the chimes, segment lengths and pace. Do this first, before anything else.
• [Downloadable CCL practice materials by language](https://www.naati.com.au/migration-assessments/ccl/downloadable-ccl-practice-materials-by-language/) — past dialogues with audio and transcripts. Excellent for drilling, but once you've heard a dialogue, it's no longer a fair test of your level.
• NAATI's paid practice test with feedback — at the time of writing, NAATI also offers an assessed practice test through myNAATI. Check the NAATI site for availability and cost.

The CCL is a speaking test, so the core of your preparation is speaking practice. A study partner who speaks your language can read dialogues to you. Record every session on your phone and listen back — it's uncomfortable, but it's the fastest way to hear hesitations, English loanwords and dropped details. Use a timer so starting within five seconds of each segment becomes a habit.

If you don't have a partner available, XINGO's CCL practice gives you two AI speakers — an English-speaking professional and a community member in your language — and scores each assessed attempt out of 90. There are 10 free practice minutes each month and a free CCL dialogue; it's independent practice, not an official NAATI score.

• Do NAATI's free practice test under test conditions. Record it.
• Listen back and list your weak points: numbers, a particular domain, one direction, register, hesitation.
• Read our guide to how the CCL is marked so you know which errors cost most.
• Start a glossary organised by the twelve domains. Our CCL vocabulary page has English terms to start from.

• Daily numbers drill (ten minutes): amounts, dates, phone numbers, percentages, both directions.
• Set up a light note-taking system and practise it on short segments.
• Two or three dialogues from the downloadable materials, segment by segment, out loud. Repeat any segment you struggled with until it's clean.
• Add ten glossary terms a day, saying each aloud in both languages.

• One or two full dialogues a day with test rules: one repeat, no pausing, start within five seconds.
• Rotate domains so you cover at least six of the twelve this week.
• After each dialogue, write down your three biggest errors and drill those specifically.
• Practise your self-correction phrase so it's clean. See CCL repeats and self-correction.

• Two back-to-back dialogues, three or four times this week, on material you haven't seen. Remember each must reach 29 out of 45 on its own.
• Check NAATI's technical requirements for the online test and set up your room, computer and second camera in advance.
• Ease off the day before. Light review of your glossary and numbers is enough.

Recording yourself only helps if you review it with a purpose. Listen once with the transcript in front of you and mark every omission, change of meaning and addition. Listen a second time without the transcript, as an examiner would, and note long pauses, fillers, corrections and English words where your language has a common term. Then pick the single most frequent problem and make it the focus of tomorrow's session. Reviewing takes about as long as the dialogue itself, and it's where most of the improvement happens.

• Practising silently — reading dialogues instead of speaking them.
• Only practising into your stronger language.
• Re-using the same dialogues until you've memorised them, then mistaking familiarity for progress.
• Leaving technical setup until the morning of the test.

Our article on common CCL mistakes goes into each of these in more detail.