Canada CRS Calculator (Express Entry)

About the Canada CRS Calculator (Express Entry)

Work out your Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score for Express Entry the way IRCC’s published criteria do: age, education, your first and second official languages (each result converted to a CLB or NCLC level with IRCC’s equivalency charts for IELTS General Training, CELPIP-General, PTE Core, TEF Canada and TCF Canada), Canadian work experience, your spouse’s or partner’s factors, skill transferability (capped at 100) and the additional points for a provincial nomination, French, a brother or sister in Canada and Canadian study. Job offers no longer earn CRS points: IRCC removed them, and the calculator shows that line at 0.

You also see what each change would add — CLB 9 in every ability, another year of work in Canada, French at NCLC 7 — worked out with the same rules, and on request the lowest scores invited in IRCC’s recent rounds with the pool’s score distribution, loaded from IRCC’s own rounds file. The second tab checks the Federal Skilled Worker 67-point grid, a separate pass mark for that program. The free preview shows each factor with its most points, the first rows of each table and the rounds’ cut-offs, with your score and every figure of it hidden; a Pro pass unlocks the score, the full tables, the CSV and the print.

Common uses

• Checking your CRS score before you create an Express Entry profile, with the points behind every factor.
• Seeing which change helps most — a retake for CLB 9, a French test, another year of work, a provincial nomination.
• Setting your score against the lowest scores invited in recent general, program and category rounds.
• Checking the Federal Skilled Worker 67-point pass mark before choosing a program.

How the CRS adds up

The maximum is 1,200 (IRCC: CRS criteria):

• Core / human capital: up to 500 without a spouse (460 with one): age 110 (100), education 150 (140), first official language 34 (32) per ability, second official language up to 24 (22), Canadian work experience 80 (70).
• Spouse or common-law partner: up to 40: education 10, first official language 20 (5 per ability), Canadian work 10.
• Skill transferability: up to 100: education with language or with Canadian work (up to 50 together), foreign work with language or with Canadian work (up to 50 together), a trade certificate of qualification with language (up to 50).
• Additional points: up to 600: a provincial or territorial nomination 600, French 25 or 50, a Canadian credential 15 or 30, a brother or sister in Canada 15. Arranged employment gives nothing.

Age points fall each year from 30 and reach 0 at 45, so a profile loses points on every birthday from 30.

Test results and CLB or NCLC levels

IRCC converts each ability separately (IRCC: language test results). Common cut-offs:

• IELTS General Training: CLB 7 is 6.0 in each ability; CLB 9 is speaking 7.0, listening 8.0, reading 7.0, writing 7.0; CLB 10 is 7.5 / 8.5 / 8.0 / 7.5.
• CELPIP-General: the level equals the score from 4 to 9; 10 to 12 count as CLB 10.
• PTE Core: CLB 9 is speaking 84, listening 82, reading 78, writing 88.
• TEF Canada (the “équivalence ancien score”, not the score out of 699): NCLC 7 is speaking and writing 310, listening 249, reading 207.
• TCF Canada: NCLC 7 is speaking and writing 10, listening 458, reading 453.

IELTS Academic, PTE Academic and IELTS One Skill Retake results are not accepted for Express Entry, and results must be less than 2 years old.

The Federal Skilled Worker grid

Before your CRS score matters you must be eligible for a program. For the Federal Skilled Worker Program IRCC scores six factors out of 100 and the pass mark is 67 (IRCC: Federal Skilled Worker Program): language up to 28 (CLB 7, 8 and 9+ give 4, 5 and 6 per ability, plus 4 for CLB 5 in all four of the other language), education up to 25, skilled work experience up to 15 (1 year 9, 2–3 years 11, 4–5 years 13, 6+ years 15), age up to 12 (12 from 18 to 35, then one point less each year to 46), arranged employment 10 and adaptability up to 10. You also need CLB 7 in all four abilities, a year of continuous skilled work in the last 10 years, a completed credential with an ECA if it is foreign, and proof of funds unless you can already work in Canada with a valid job offer.

Rounds and the pool

IRCC holds general rounds, program rounds (such as the Canadian Experience Class or the Provincial Nominee Program) and category rounds (such as French-language proficiency, healthcare or trades), each with its own lowest invited score. A program or category round invites only the candidates it is for, so beside each round the calculator says what your entries lack (a nomination for a Provincial Nominee Program round, Canadian work experience for the Canadian Experience Class, NCLC 7 in French for a French round) and marks a round you reach only as “if eligible” when it depends on your occupation or program. When several candidates share the lowest score, the cut-off follows the date and time they submitted their profiles. The calculator loads the rounds and the pool’s score distribution from IRCC’s own file (IRCC: rounds of invitations, IRCC: the pool’s score distribution); a past cut-off says nothing certain about the next round.

Limitations

• An estimate from what you enter, not legal advice: IRCC scores the profile you submit, checks your documents and decides who is invited.
• Foreign education counts only with an Educational Credential Assessment, and “two or more credentials” needs an assessment for each.
• It does not check eligibility for the Canadian Experience Class, the Federal Skilled Trades Program, provincial streams or category-based rounds.
• Work experience counts only when it is skilled (TEER 0, 1, 2 or 3) and paid, full-time or the same amount part-time; the calculator takes the years you choose as they are.

Privacy

Your entries stay in your browser and are never uploaded. Only when you load the rounds does the page fetch IRCC’s public rounds file from canada.ca, and nothing you entered goes with it.