Why can't the draw #366 cut-off be compared with the Express Entry pool?

Because a provincial nomination is worth 600 CRS points. The 746 cut-off in this round belongs to a candidate whose score without the nomination was roughly 146. IRCC publishes the pool at base scores, so placing 746 on that distribution would suggest nobody qualified, on a day it invited 228 people. Only candidates already holding a nomination were eligible for this round, and the published pool does not identify them.

Provincial Nominee Program · 15 September 2025

Express Entry draw #366

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #366?

The cut-off for round #366, held on 15 September 2025, was 746. It was a Provincial Nominee Program round and it issued 228 invitations to apply, 26 points below the previous Provincial Nominee Program round 13 days earlier. Candidates who tied at 746 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at March 31, 2025 at 13:39:06 UTC.

On 15 September 2025, IRCC issued 228 invitations to apply in the Provincial Nominee Program category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 746 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 26 points below the previous Provincial Nominee Program round 13 days earlier. That was the 11th lowest of the 23 Provincial Nominee Program rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 11,876 invitations at cut-offs between 667 and 816. A Provincial Nominee Program cut-off includes the 600 points a provincial nomination is worth, so 746 here is roughly 146 before the nomination — and it cannot be compared with cut-offs in any other category.

Read and checked by Jay Sharma, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant R710507, licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Round #366 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

746

Provincial Nominee Program

Previous Provincial Nominee Program round: #363 on 02 Sept 2025 at 772 (-26)

228
Invitations issued: #366
Round: 15 Sept 2025
Date: March 31, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Provincial Nominee Program

Candidates tied on 746 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at March 31, 2025 at 13:39:06 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

The pool behind this round

IRCC published the pool’s shape alongside this round: 251,630 candidates on September 14, 2025. No cut-off line is drawn across it, and that is deliberate — a Provincial Nominee Program score is not on the same scale as the rest of the pool. The reason is below the table.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on September 14, 2025, against the 746 cut-off of round #366
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool
601–1200	220	0.1%
501–600	24,870	9.9%
451–500	71,427	28.4%
401–450	74,178	29.5%
351–400	52,883	21.0%
301–350	19,978	7.9%
0–300	8,074	3.2%

Why there is no line on this table. A provincial nomination is worth 600 CRS points, so the 746 cut-off in this round belongs to a candidate scoring about 146 without it. The pool above counts everyone at their base score — draw a line at 746 and it would report that not one of 251,630 candidates qualified, on a day IRCC invited 228 of them.

Only candidates already holding a nomination could be invited in this round, and the published pool does not identify them. The distribution is still worth seeing — it is the field this round was drawn from — but its scale and this cut-off are not the same scale.

In context

Provincial Nominee Program rounds in the year to 15 Sept 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the 11th lowest of 23.

746

667
Lowest cut-off: 816
Highest cut-off: 23
Rounds: 11,876
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #366 was held on 15 September 2025. IRCC has run 72 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 746.

The latest draw and the current pool All 438 rounds

Free CRS assessment

Would this round have taken you?

The table above is the pool this round was drawn from. 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 #366, 15 September 2025; pool as published on September 14, 2025.

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