How many candidates ranked above the cut-off in draw #378?

On November 9, 2025, the Express Entry pool held 245,706 candidates. 696 of them sat in score bands entirely at or above the 533 cut-off. A further 26,414 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 533 is not knowable from the data.

Canadian Experience Class · 12 November 2025

Express Entry draw #378

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #378?

The cut-off for round #378, held on 12 November 2025, was 533. It was a Canadian Experience Class round and it issued 1,000 invitations to apply, unchanged from the previous Canadian Experience Class round 2 weeks earlier. Candidates who tied at 533 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at October 17, 2025 at 03:39:05 UTC.

On 12 November 2025, IRCC issued 1,000 invitations to apply in the Canadian Experience Class category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 533 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, unchanged from the previous Canadian Experience Class round 2 weeks earlier. That was the 6th lowest of the 14 Canadian Experience Class rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 24,650 invitations at cut-offs between 518 and 547.

Read and checked by Jay Sharma, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant R710507, licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Round #378 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

533

Canadian Experience Class

Previous Canadian Experience Class round: #375 on 28 Oct 2025 at 533 (0)

1,000
Invitations issued: #378
Round: 12 Nov 2025
Date: October 17, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Canadian Experience Class

Candidates tied on 533 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at October 17, 2025 at 03:39:05 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 533 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On November 9, 2025 it held 245,706 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on November 9, 2025, against the 533 cut-off of round #378
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool	Against the cut-off
601–1200	696	0.3%	All invited
Cut-off — CRS 533
501–600	26,414	10.8%	Split by the cut-off
451–500	70,175	28.6%	Below the cut-off
401–450	68,939	28.1%	Below the cut-off
351–400	52,360	21.3%	Below the cut-off
301–350	19,104	7.8%	Below the cut-off
0–300	8,018	3.3%	Below the cut-off

696 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 533 — 0.3% of the pool.

A further 26,414 sat in the 501–600 band, which 533 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 533 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Canadian Experience Class rounds in the year to 12 Nov 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the 6th lowest of 14.

533

518
Lowest cut-off: 547
Highest cut-off: 14
Rounds: 24,650
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #378 was held on 12 November 2025. IRCC has run 60 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 533.

The latest draw and the current pool All 438 rounds

Free CRS assessment

Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 533 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 #378, 12 November 2025; pool as published on November 9, 2025.

Three fields · about 30 seconds