Would you have been invited?

A score of 470 would have been invited in 25 of the 52 category and general rounds IRCC held in the twelve months to 04 Sept 2026, across 7 different categories, in rounds that issued 89,445 invitations in total. That is a more useful answer than good enough or not, because it describes real rounds rather than a threshold somebody guessed at. Cut-offs in that period ranged from 169 to 534, which is a spread wide enough that no single score is a pass mark for the system as a whole. Which category you qualify for matters more than the number itself, and it is the thing most candidates have never checked. Enter your own score above and the same calculation runs against every round. The result names the rounds rather than returning a verdict, so you can see which categories did the work and whether you would qualify for any of them.

There is no fixed CRS score you need, because the cut-off is set by each round rather than by a published rule. Over the last twelve months the lowest cut-off in a non-provincial round was 169 and the highest was 534, and both of those are real rounds that really invited people. Category-based rounds for healthcare, trades, French-language ability and others routinely draw well below the general cut-off, so a candidate who qualifies for a category needs a far lower score than one who does not. That is where the effort is best spent for most people: establishing whether you fall into a category is often worth more than months of work aimed at lifting a general score by a few points. The tool above shows which rounds your own score would have cleared.

Provincial Nominee rounds are excluded because a nomination adds 600 points to a CRS score, which puts PNP cut-offs in the 700s and 800s and off the scale of every other round. Including them would tell a candidate scoring 470 that they had failed 25 rounds that were never open to them on score at all, since only nominated candidates could be invited from them whatever their base. That would be a misleading answer dressed up as a thorough one. Those 25 rounds are therefore left out of this comparison. If you already hold a provincial nomination, the arithmetic is simple and works in your favour: you clear those rounds regardless of your base score, and the comparison above understates your position rather than overstating it. Every excluded round is still listed in the draw archive if you want to read it.