How many candidates ranked above the cut-off in draw #384?

On December 7, 2025, the Express Entry pool held 242,379 candidates. 1,110 of them sat in score bands entirely at or above the 520 cut-off. A further 27,096 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 520 is not knowable from the data.

Canadian Experience Class · 10 December 2025

Express Entry draw #384

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #384?

The cut-off for round #384, held on 10 December 2025, was 520. It was a Canadian Experience Class round and it issued 6,000 invitations to apply, 11 points below the previous Canadian Experience Class round 2 weeks earlier. Candidates who tied at 520 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at July 15, 2025 at 17:30:33 UTC.

On 10 December 2025, IRCC issued 6,000 invitations to apply in the Canadian Experience Class category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 520 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 11 points below the previous Canadian Experience Class round 2 weeks earlier. That was the second lowest of the 14 Canadian Experience Class rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 30,850 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 #384 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

520

Canadian Experience Class

Previous Canadian Experience Class round: #381 on 26 Nov 2025 at 531 (-11)

6,000
Invitations issued: #384
Round: 10 Dec 2025
Date: July 15, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Canadian Experience Class

Candidates tied on 520 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at July 15, 2025 at 17:30:33 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 520 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On December 7, 2025 it held 242,379 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on December 7, 2025, against the 520 cut-off of round #384
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool	Against the cut-off
601–1200	1,110	0.5%	All invited
Cut-off — CRS 520
501–600	27,096	11.2%	Split by the cut-off
451–500	68,679	28.3%	Below the cut-off
401–450	66,302	27.4%	Below the cut-off
351–400	52,344	21.6%	Below the cut-off
301–350	18,799	7.8%	Below the cut-off
0–300	8,049	3.3%	Below the cut-off

1,110 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 520 — 0.5% of the pool.

A further 27,096 sat in the 501–600 band, which 520 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 520 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Canadian Experience Class rounds in the year to 10 Dec 2025

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

520

518
Lowest cut-off: 547
Highest cut-off: 14
Rounds: 30,850
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #384 was held on 10 December 2025. IRCC has run 54 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 520.

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Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 520 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 #384, 10 December 2025; pool as published on December 7, 2025.

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