Ray of Hope - 119th Draw
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CRS 448
BSc. Environmental Management
MSc. Environmental Sciences
IELTS: R8.5 W7.5 S8 L8
Age 30, Single
Work experience: currently 2.5 years in NOC 4161 (natural and applied science policy researchers, consultants and officers) and NOC 4012 (post-secondary teaching and research assistants).
Would hit 3yrs in October, but that seems to be a long wait at this point.
It seems it will be difficult to raise your points higher unless you apply for an actual cert course. I'm quoting from the CRS tool calculator:
Note: to answer yes:
4b) Have you earned a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate:
- English or French as a Second Language must not have made up more than half your study
- you must not have studied under an award that required you to return to your home country after graduation to apply your skills and knowledge
- you must have studied at a school within Canada (foreign campuses don’t count)
- you had to be enrolled full time for at least eight months, and have been physically present in Canada for at least eight months
My suggestions:
- Enroll in a real course in Canada ( Cert, Masters or PhD)
- Max Ielts for a few more points. It wouldn't be much though.
- Wait for 3 full years of work experience and try again.
- Try looking for PNP options.
Thank you all so much for the valuable inputs. I guess I will have to wait till October for my scores to go up or wait for the cut off to drop to 448.
Dont wanna learn French at this point, still recovering from learning German haha. Sitting for IELTS again for one CLB 9 would be risking the other three CLB 10s and at the end won't improve my score drastically.
Once again, thanks for the advice. Guess nothing to do but wait
Dont wanna learn French at this point, still recovering from learning German haha. Sitting for IELTS again for one CLB 9 would be risking the other three CLB 10s and at the end won't improve my score drastically.
Once again, thanks for the advice. Guess nothing to do but wait
Don't be lazy, start French. What's French after German hahaThank you all so much for the valuable inputs. I guess I will have to wait till October for my scores to go up or wait for the cut off to drop to 448.
Dont wanna learn French at this point, still recovering from learning German haha. Sitting for IELTS again for one CLB 9 would be risking the other three CLB 10s and at the end won't improve my score drastically.
Once again, thanks for the advice. Guess nothing to do but wait
Entered EE pool on the 14th of May with a score of 459 and I was sure that I would receive an ITA the very next day. Well, that didn't happen, and today we witnessed this 470 CRS fiasco due to 4 weeks delay in draw. With a birthday on 2nd of July I can't help; but worry if I'll receive an ITA by draw 120.
Actually I did beginners french course few years ago and I hated it, hahah. Didn't even finish it cause I thought why is there a gender for everything? Then got forced to learn German which actually has three genders. Fml.
I think you still have a pretty good chance. This time's draw is an anomaly because of backlogs. Until July we might see some significant decrease in score.
I really hope that this is true. Looking at the history of draws it seems to me that getting an ITA by draw 120 for my score seems plausible, provided they conduct these draws at regular intervals. If not, with a reduced score of 454 on 2nd July I presume I'll get an ITA by draw 122.
Honestly this long wait is killing me as I am unable to focus on other important things. I realise that there are people here who have been waiting for an ITA since January and I feel that I understand them better now.
