Working out your 67 points and CRS score: how to use our free calculator

The calculator answers two questions that candidates often mix up. First: are you allowed to file a profile as a skilled worker? Second: once you are in the pool, where do you rank? Each tab of the page handles one of them.

Open /en/admissibilite.html and look at the two tabs at the top: Eligibility test (67 points) and CRS score (Express Entry).

What to have in front of you before you start

Filling this in from memory is a waste of time. Put your language test certificate with its four scores in front of you, your highest diploma, the educational credential assessment (ECA) report if you already have one, and the exact count of your skilled work years over the last ten years. If a partner is coming with you, you also need their level of education and their own language scores.

Without an account, your answers stay in your browser and are wiped as soon as the page reloads. With a free account they are kept, and you find them again on your next visit.

First tab: the 67 points

IRCC asks for 67 points out of 100, spread over six factors, before it lets you into the pool at all. The tool shows the breakdown as you type: language out of 28, age out of 12, education out of 25, experience out of 15, arranged employment out of 10, adaptability out of 10.

You never declare a Canadian level, only your real test scores. The page converts them into CLB and CEFR next to each box as you go. The minimum fits in one sentence: CLB 7 in all four abilities of the first language. A test in the second official language is optional and adds 4 points if you reach CLB 5 across the board.

For education, a diploma obtained outside Canada requires a credential assessment. For experience, the minimum is one continuous year in the last ten years, in the same occupation, in TEER category 0 to 3. Adaptability is capped at ten points: five for two years of study in Canada, ten for one year of skilled work in Canada, five for a close relative aged 18 or over, citizen or permanent resident, living in Canada. If your partner is coming with you, enter their language scores just like yours: the five points are earned from CLB 4 in all four abilities.

The TEF Canada trap

This is the most common mistake, and it throws the whole result off. Your TEF Canada certificate carries two columns of figures. The one IRCC asks for under Express Entry is the column marked Equivalence ancien score: listening out of 360, reading out of 300, speaking out of 450, writing out of 450. It is not the score out of 699.

The page reminds you of this under the boxes as soon as you pick TEF Canada. And if you type a figure outside the scale anyway, the box turns red with the test maximum or minimum, and no points are counted for that ability. The same check applies to TCF Canada, where comprehension runs from 100 to 699 and the expression papers are out of 20, to IELTS from 0 to 9, to CELPIP from 0 to 12 and to PTE Core from 10 to 90.

Second tab: the CRS score

Once you are eligible, your profile is ranked in the pool under the Comprehensive Ranking System, out of 1,200 points. The second tab of /en/admissibilite.html follows the grid in force since 25 March 2025, so without job offer points.

The breakdown comes in four blocks: core human capital out of 500, spouse out of 40, skill transferability out of 100, additional points out of 600. That last block is where the provincial nomination sits, worth 600 points, along with a provincial certificate of qualification, up to 50, and a sibling living in Canada, 15 points. Language alone is worth up to 160 points, and the French-language bonus on the second language can reach 50.

Reading the result properly

Under your score, the page shows the cut-offs of the latest official draws and, for each one, either a tick or the number of points you are short by. That figure is the one to remember: it tells you exactly what is left to close.

Just below, the box headed How do I gain points lists the levers for your own case: aim for CLB 9 in the first language, take a test in the second language, have a second diploma assessed. The page notes that moving from CLB 7 to CLB 9 can be worth more than 90 points. You can save your score as an image to keep it at hand.

Finally, remember what the tool does not do. It creates no profile, it sends nothing to IRCC, and it does not look at your documents. Its calculation stays an estimate: only the score calculated by IRCC counts. Run it again with different assumptions, it is free and instant: /en/admissibilite.html