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Ray of Hope - 102nd draw

sawab don

Star Member
May 22, 2018
129
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Karachi, Pakistan
NOC Code......
2148
60 days is not enough? If not, decline and wait for next one. But don't keep doing this for every round.
Every ITA you decline is a PR another deserving person could have gotten.
Thank you for being so considerate for others, but it already was a tough decision for me, there was no choice..
Don't create new one. You will get an advantage if there is a tiebreaker :)
Thank you, I had to edit the work history as well because one of the companies did not give me the reference letter, thats not a problem right?
 

Takentaken421

Hero Member
Aug 30, 2018
289
62
Waiting for WES to share my ECA report. It is due on 10/12. My CRS is 469. I didn't include ECA for my spouse's bachelors. Saved me some money ;) .

Job letters, India PCC, Bank letters, IELTS score are ready. Applied for FBI PCC. Scheduled medical exam on 10/18 assuming next draw on 10/17. Being US Resident, hoping the process will be fast.
 

shahid_oman

Full Member
Oct 4, 2018
26
0
Round #100 – September 24, 2018
Program specified:

Federal Skilled Trades

See full text of Ministerial Instruction

Candidates invited under the Federal Skilled Trades Program
Number of invitations issued: 400

Rank required to be invited to apply: 400th or above

Date and time of round: September 24, 2018 at 05:34:21 UTC

CRS score of lowest-ranked candidate invited: 284

Tie-breaking rule: February 18, 2018 at 12:31:16 UTC


----> what does this mean ????
 

YPS

Hero Member
Mar 7, 2018
557
222
Round #100 – September 24, 2018
Program specified:

Federal Skilled Trades

See full text of Ministerial Instruction

Candidates invited under the Federal Skilled Trades Program
Number of invitations issued: 400

Rank required to be invited to apply: 400th or above

Date and time of round: September 24, 2018 at 05:34:21 UTC

CRS score of lowest-ranked candidate invited: 284

Tie-breaking rule: February 18, 2018 at 12:31:16 UTC


----> what does this mean ????
This was specific to Federal Skilled Trade stream ..

Not for FSW
 

abhishek_89

Champion Member
Feb 9, 2017
1,621
3,038
Toronto, Canada
Category........
FSW
NOC Code......
2173
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26-05-2017
AOR Received.
26-05-2017
Med's Done....
22-05-2017
Passport Req..
24-07-2017
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04-08-2017
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16-03-2018
@abhishek_89 Your thoughts on the whole situation?
For the whole of Aug/Sept, we were seeing the cut off staying around the 440 mark. The last draw in Sept had a 441 cut off, but then the invites were down to 3500 from 3900, so no surprise there. So, definitely seeing a 445 cut off within 2 weeks with 3900 invites is shocking.

In the next draw (if on Oct 17th), if the cut off goes down to 440-443 range with 3900 ITAs then it means there was an abnormal increase in the intake between Sept 19 and Oct 3. If the cut off stays around the 444-445 range or increases above 445 with 3900 ITAs, then it means the intake levels have increased and 440/441 would not be a safe cut off score going forward.
 

SithLord

VIP Member
Aug 18, 2017
6,873
5,135
Looks like score is getting high with every draw. :(:(
Last draw was definitely a shocker!! I think main reason for the sudden increase in intakes could be because of computer IELTS. Let's see what happens in the next draw(hopefully, Oct 17).
 

vensak

VIP Member
Jul 14, 2016
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1225
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Pre-Assessed..
For the whole of Aug/Sept, we were seeing the cut off staying around the 440 mark. The last draw in Sept had a 441 cut off, but then the invites were down to 3500 from 3900, so no surprise there. So, definitely seeing a 445 cut off within 2 weeks with 3900 invites is shocking.

In the next draw (if on Oct 17th), if the cut off goes down to 440-443 range with 3900 ITAs then it means there was an abnormal increase in the intake between Sept 19 and Oct 3. If the cut off stays around the 444-445 range or increases above 445 with 3900 ITAs, then it means the intake levels have increased and 440/441 would not be a safe cut off score going forward.
Actually the increase was a bit steep.

You need to consider 2 things.
1. There was no 3 weeks gap between normal draws
2. There was no significant decrease there (yes 2 weeks before it was 3500, but this week it was 3900, which makes it an average 3700 for each draw)
Now compare the behaviour during this summer where the amount of ITA were more or less the same but you did not see such movement upwards).
So yes something must have change in the system that helped lot of people to get 445+ And that would be IELTS on computer (as there is no other significant change we know about).

Secondly, when you look the total size of EE pool and compare it before 2 draws happens (this week normal draw and FST draw). it did jump more than normal.
So that would again point to a change in the system.

So if rounds of English test just became more available to anybody who had the money for it (and that was in some cases the only reason why people could not get better score - monthes of waiting to get a date for IELTS exam), this will push competition up.

Of course once you see the bigger jump up within first 3 months of new testing availability in place, EE will find new stability point.
 
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puneet.arora

Star Member
Aug 20, 2018
61
22
USA
Category........
FSW
NOC Code......
2173
Do any academic results come out at this time of the year which may have given some applicants extra points for Canadian education?