How many candidates ranked above the cut-off in draw #365?

On September 1, 2025, the Express Entry pool held 254,672 candidates. 99,552 of them sat in score bands entirely at or above the 446 cut-off. A further 15,220 sat in the 441-450 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 446 is not knowable from the data.

French-language proficiency · 4 September 2025

Express Entry draw #365

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #365?

The cut-off for round #365, held on 4 September 2025, was 446. It was a French-language proficiency round and it issued 4,500 invitations to apply, 35 points below the previous French-language proficiency round 4 weeks earlier. Candidates who tied at 446 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at June 16, 2025 at 07:21:06 UTC.

On 4 September 2025, IRCC issued 4,500 invitations to apply in the French-language proficiency category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 446 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 35 points below the previous French-language proficiency round 4 weeks earlier. That was the 5th lowest of the 9 French-language proficiency rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 29,100 invitations at cut-offs between 379 and 481.

Read and checked by Jay Sharma, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant R710507, licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Round #365 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

446

French-language proficiency

Previous French-language proficiency round: #360 on 08 Aug 2025 at 481 (-35)

4,500
Invitations issued: #365
Round: 04 Sept 2025
Date: June 16, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Federal Skilled Worker Program, Canadian Experience Class and Federal Skilled Trades Program

Candidates tied on 446 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at June 16, 2025 at 07:21:06 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 446 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On September 1, 2025 it held 254,672 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on September 1, 2025, against the 446 cut-off of round #365
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool	Against the cut-off
601–1200	246	0.1%	All invited
501–600	25,123	9.9%	All invited
451–500	74,183	29.1%	All invited
Cut-off — CRS 446
401–450	74,314	29.2%	Split by the cut-off
351–400	52,798	20.7%	Below the cut-off
301–350	19,955	7.8%	Below the cut-off
0–300	8,053	3.2%	Below the cut-off

99,552 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 446 — 39.1% of the pool.

A further 15,220 sat in the 441–450 band, which 446 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 446 is not knowable from the data.

In context

French-language proficiency rounds in the year to 04 Sept 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the 5th lowest of 9.

446

379
Lowest cut-off: 481
Highest cut-off: 9
Rounds: 29,100
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #365 was held on 4 September 2025. IRCC has run 73 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 446.

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Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 446 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 #365, 4 September 2025; pool as published on September 1, 2025.

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