aircanada said:Cut off score won't be 481 or lower unless they do a 5000+ ITA mega draw. 481 is extremely easy to obtain... There's a reason that the lowest score has been 482 for quite a while.
Please don't forget that not everyone can score CLB 10 in IELTS, and not everyone in the general pool who is single and below 30 years of age can have 18 years of education.Sluffy said:My personal speculation that about half of them is 481 - just because the age group 20-30 is big, but CLB 10 is not easy for everyone to obtain
So 1300-1400 ppl with 481
and the draw should be about 2000 to bottleneck them.
To reassure myself, I looked at all previous draws since January 2015. I think there cannot be too many of us in the 480-482 score range (if you look at previous draws with scores below 480, you can easily see that few people get such high CRS scores of 480-482 because many people with even a low score of 450 have been issued ITAs in the past when ITA numbers were ~200 higher than at present).
If they raise the number of ITAs to 1,800, we have a good chance InshAllah, which I think they will do at some point - they earlier said they would raise the number of ITAs in Fall 2016 and so far they have been true to their word. I think they may even raise the number of ITAs to a record level (more than 1,600).
And another thing, logically speaking they cannot reach their immigration targets if they continue to give only 700-1300 ITAs in every draw. They will InshAllah raise their number of ITAs soon, cutoff scores are bound to fall InshAllah.
Keep your hopes up guys and gals!