Why can't the draw #374 cut-off be compared with the Express Entry pool?

Because a provincial nomination is worth 600 CRS points. The 761 cut-off in this round belongs to a candidate whose score without the nomination was roughly 161. IRCC publishes the pool at base scores, so placing 761 on that distribution would suggest nobody qualified, on a day it invited 302 people. Only candidates already holding a nomination were eligible for this round, and the published pool does not identify them.

Provincial Nominee Program · 27 October 2025

Express Entry draw #374

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #374?

The cut-off for round #374, held on 27 October 2025, was 761. It was a Provincial Nominee Program round and it issued 302 invitations to apply, 17 points below the previous Provincial Nominee Program round 13 days earlier. Candidates who tied at 761 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at September 26, 2025 at 02:14:06 UTC.

On 27 October 2025, IRCC issued 302 invitations to apply in the Provincial Nominee Program category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 761 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 17 points below the previous Provincial Nominee Program round 13 days earlier. That was the 13th lowest of the 24 Provincial Nominee Program rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 10,553 invitations at cut-offs between 667 and 855. A Provincial Nominee Program cut-off includes the 600 points a provincial nomination is worth, so 761 here is roughly 161 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 #374 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

761

Provincial Nominee Program

Previous Provincial Nominee Program round: #372 on 14 Oct 2025 at 778 (-17)

302
Invitations issued: #374
Round: 27 Oct 2025
Date: September 26, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Provincial Nominee Program

Candidates tied on 761 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at September 26, 2025 at 02:14:06 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: 248,253 candidates on October 26, 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 October 26, 2025, against the 761 cut-off of round #374
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool
601–1200	306	0.1%
501–600	25,997	10.5%
451–500	69,503	28.0%
401–450	72,542	29.2%
351–400	52,468	21.1%
301–350	19,410	7.8%
0–300	8,027	3.2%

Why there is no line on this table. A provincial nomination is worth 600 CRS points, so the 761 cut-off in this round belongs to a candidate scoring about 161 without it. The pool above counts everyone at their base score — draw a line at 761 and it would report that not one of 248,253 candidates qualified, on a day IRCC invited 302 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 27 Oct 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the 13th lowest of 24.

761

667
Lowest cut-off: 855
Highest cut-off: 24
Rounds: 10,553
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #374 was held on 27 October 2025. IRCC has run 64 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 761.

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 #374, 27 October 2025; pool as published on October 26, 2025.

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