Ray of Hope - 89th Draw

[indpnv]

My score is 468. Whats the chance of getting ITA tomorrow?

No draw tomorrow.

 

[chhabra.dkc]

Mine is british council ielts. Is there any similar link for british council so that i can see trf number?

The number is easy to guess, it is formed of the following criteria:

The last two digits of the year + the short name of the country where you gave the test + Candidate number + Your last name's first three letters + your first name's first letter + the code of the test center + the module

For (James Kumar) who has given the general module test in Saudi Arabia in 2015, and who has the candidate number (003819) in the test center number 019,
his reference number is:

15KSA003819KUMJ019G

You can try your luck with this, and if you got the ITA and then you received your IELTS TRF and found out that there is a mismatch, you can safely reject the ITA and return to the pool (and fix your IELTS entry).

 

[AlliBatista]

It is no where mentioned on cic website funds have to be 6 months old. No idea how is this misinformation got so much popularity.

Indeed, the only mention of this in the website is the sentence "include, for each current bank and investment account, the average balance for the past six months".

It only means they want the records for the last 6 months ( most likely to look for suspicious deposits or irregular changes), but it doesn't mean you must have the minimum amount since the beginning of the document.

 

[chhabra.dkc]

This is very unfortunate. I hope you get a better score next time. Have you tried subscribing to any IELTS tutoring website? Its worth it. I would recommend Liz.. Go through her free videos on youtube to decide if you want to subscribe or not. I know many people who improved their scores by a big margin (some even went from 6 to 7.5) after following her tips in writing section. I didn't pay much attention, and didn't study at all Here I am now, losing 3 precious points because of my band 7 in writing test

Well, thank you for motivating and providing tips. I forgot to mention that finally in the 5th attempt, I scored the desired. R8.5, L8.5, W7, S8

thank you!

 

[Reddiered07]

No draw tomorrow.

why? how do you know?

 

[parth115]

Need suggestion regarding PoF.
I have equity shares which I'm holding since few years now. I'm in the process of selling all of them and adding that money to my savings account which I am going to present to CIC. I am going to provide letter of explanation stating that all of the funds are proceeds of sell of shares held by me and along with that I'm planning to provide them ledger statement showing my shares holding before selling.
Will this be enough? Or anything else would be needed?
I'm sitting at 441 and expecting ITA in upcoming draw.
Thanks in advance!

Same here, sitting at 441.
Most of my money is in Mutual Fund, i am going to liquidate all them.
Also will be going to sell my vehicles and explain everything in LoE

 

[parth115]

It is no where mentioned on cic website funds have to be 6 months old. No idea how is this misinformation got so much popularity.

yeah even i am confused. My cousin got ITA a month back and she is only required to submit a latest statement from bank.

Can anyone confirm if 6 month requirement is true ? Required ?

 

[ersandee]

As all taking about Funds and POF, can someone confirm that we don't need any POF/FUNDs if have a valid Job offer (LIMA approved)?

 

[NOMAD2017]

As all taking about Funds and POF, can someone confirm that we don't need any POF/FUNDs if have a valid Job offer (LIMA approved)?

if job offer is from Canada, then you don't need to provide any proof of funds.

 

[NOMAD2017]

Well, thank you for motivating and providing tips. I forgot to mention that finally in the 5th attempt, I scored the desired. R8.5, L8.5, W7, S8

thank you!

oh wow,,thats great. Congrats. I will try once more too.

 

[NOMAD2017]

No draw tomorrow.

lol, come on. don't do this

 

[ersandee]

Another good draw today + declining applicants entering pool is very positive.

Here are my abridged calculations for a May 9th draw of 3500, using Alexross' figures above. I'm using the new applicants from April 4th-19th.

On May 9th there will be approx 2500 applicants sitting at 441 and above - thus with a 3500 draw we will take out 1000 applicants from 440 and below.

On May 9th there will be approximately 7400ppl between 431 and 440 in the pool. If we assume the distribution between this range is even we have about 740ppl sitting at each CRS score. Therefore based on 740ppl at 440CRS they will all be cleared and a further 260 people will be cleared on 439CRS (leaving about 500people on 439 score).

TLDR: My estimate is 439 cutoff for May 9th draw. But cutoff date will impact a lot of people with 439.

PS: I know the distribution will not be even like I have said, this is just an estimation for the fun of it. There is likely a lot of people sitting on 438 and 435 scores. So it is possible there is a lot less than 740 ppl sitting at 440 and 439, so perhaps we could even start nibbling away at 438 on the next draw.

I hope this come true, My profile is only a month old at 439. Fingers crossed.

 

[Annlinet]

All the best for tomorrow, everyone...

 

[special3220]

A very important day wait for people like us who are in the 430-440 region. If a draw happens tomorrow then there is a real possibility for the cut off to go below 440 for the first time in more than 6 months. That will boost our hope of getting an ITA. With the current trend of influx of high scoring entry in the pool every week, a draw below 440 will certainly mean that CIC is willing to invite people with such score.

 

[hope2018]

A very important day wait for people like us who are in the 430-440 region. If a draw happens tomorrow then there is a real possibility for the cut off to go below 440 for the first time in more than 6 months. That will boost our hope of getting an ITA. With the current trend of influx of high scoring entry in the pool every week, a draw below 440 will certainly mean that CIC is willing to invite people with such score.

Lets hope this month (May 2018) is as exciting as May 2017 which had 5 draws. 3 were meant for all and one each for PNP and ST stream.