How many candidates ranked above the cut-off in draw #333?

On January 23, 2025, the Express Entry pool held 232,924 candidates. 200 of them sat in score bands entirely at or above the 527 cut-off. A further 24,001 sat in the 501-600 band, which the cut-off runs through — IRCC does not publish scores at a finer resolution than these bands, so how many of that group cleared 527 is not knowable from the data.

Canadian Experience Class · 23 January 2025

Express Entry draw #333

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #333?

The cut-off for round #333, held on 23 January 2025, was 527. It was a Canadian Experience Class round and it issued 4,000 invitations to apply, 15 points below the previous Canadian Experience Class round 2 weeks earlier. Candidates who tied at 527 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at July 23, 2024 at 07:06:43 UTC.

On 23 January 2025, IRCC issued 4,000 invitations to apply in the Canadian Experience Class category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 527 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 15 points below the previous Canadian Experience Class round 2 weeks earlier. That was the 7th lowest of the 12 Canadian Experience Class rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 31,850 invitations at cut-offs between 507 and 547.

Read and checked by Jay Sharma, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant R710507, licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Round #333 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

527

Canadian Experience Class

Previous Canadian Experience Class round: #332 on 08 Jan 2025 at 542 (-15)

4,000
Invitations issued: #333
Round: 23 Jan 2025
Date: July 23, 2024
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Canadian Experience Class

Candidates tied on 527 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at July 23, 2024 at 07:06:43 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 527 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On January 23, 2025 it held 232,924 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on January 23, 2025, against the 527 cut-off of round #333
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool	Against the cut-off
601–1200	200	0.1%	All invited
Cut-off — CRS 527
501–600	24,001	10.3%	Split by the cut-off
451–500	67,548	29.0%	Below the cut-off
401–450	62,426	26.8%	Below the cut-off
351–400	51,213	22.0%	Below the cut-off
301–350	21,903	9.4%	Below the cut-off
0–300	5,633	2.4%	Below the cut-off

200 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 527 — 0.1% of the pool.

A further 24,001 sat in the 501–600 band, which 527 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 527 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Canadian Experience Class rounds in the year to 23 Jan 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the 7th lowest of 12.

527

507
Lowest cut-off: 547
Highest cut-off: 12
Rounds: 31,850
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #333 was held on 23 January 2025. IRCC has run 105 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 527.

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Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 527 fell through the pool. Whether your own score reaches a category, and what would move it — a language retake, a provincial nomination, a spouse’s credentials — is a different question, and it is the one worth answering.

Data: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Round #333, 23 January 2025; pool as published on January 23, 2025.

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