Just ask her if she already had ITA or even PR. If yes, she is out of what we are talking about. When making argument about something, you need to focus on the facts/assumptions that are given. The entire discussion is about people who are ~440 and waiting for ITA.
I don't know if you keep going out of the topic just to prove you are right on purpose or not. But you really make me feel that you did it on purpose. Can you stay in the topic lane or not?
I gave you calculation according to the points given when you are married or single. And that calculation is valid regardless if your total points are 440 or not.
So to summarize:
You can loose max. 10 points for age part when you are accompanied by a spouse. That is for the prime age 25-30 years. After that you start to loose slowly less and less points for being married.
You can loose max. 8 points for language skills (if all your skills are CBL 9 or higher). Of course if your language skill is weaker the penalisation for a spouse is smaller.
You can loose max. 10 points for education if you happen to have PHD. Anything below that is less points to loose.
So if you have nothing to do with Canada you would loose max 28 points on your prime age with top language skills and with a PHD.
To be able to go close to your "40 points", you would have to have 5 years of Canadian experience on the top.
But those very same 5 years would give you a boost of 70 points for Canadian work experience itself and practically undo all the damage which could be caused by an imperfect language (additional transferability points).
Now if you are saying that somebody with so much Canadian work experience is still hovering around 440 points, then something is wrong with that person and he must have suffered some severe penalisation elsewhere.
Why?
Because in those years in Canada getting a decent language knowledge is a must
And he must have some more education (to be able to have skilled work experience). (even a 2 years trades diploma will give you nice boost).
So now back to your 440 points example.
Such example would most likely suffer from lost of app. 25 points.
And this can be easily compensated if his / her spouse is good at 1 language and has some higher education.
So there are 2 basic scenarios there:
1. those that did all possible and maxed their score including spouses. Mostly experience people that got some age penalty. So these are less hoping and more learning French right now.
2. those young ones with master that can still get few extra points if they really want to, but they choose to hope and sit and wait instead of doing all needed to get ITA (for example paying 1500 CAD to get into Ontario, which is on a wish list of so many people).
So then you get post from the first group how they managed to get through
And also from the second group how they got and opportunity but let it be wasted.
Competition game, that what it is.
