What I see, when checking the numbers from this year, is that the draws are searching new balance. And 440 is very close to it.Agreed that PNPs are controlled by looking at the above numbers, so coming to the spike that occurred on May 9th draw, what do you think might be the reason? If PNPs theory is ruled out?
The reason for so called "spike" in 9th May is most likely combination of several things:
1. Higher range in several categories (people were a bit slower to accept the nominations for previous draws, new batch of successful IELTS results, new batch of ECA for spouses for those who understood that 2017 is not going to happen, official releases of Canadian diplomas...).
2. Another influence was actually the 3 week gap from February, that pushed the CRS up again (from 442 to 456).
3. And then there is the overall trend of increasing competition that is slowly taking on. As there are still many applicants that can still increase their score, but for one reason or other they were not doing it.
Would there be another 3 weeks gap in June (and since they did specific draw last week, there is a good chance for it happening), this would spike the required CRS up again (above 445).
Yes all is needed is 6000-6500 ITA per month in order to easily fulfill the whole quota.