Yaa !! Could be ! And if that is the case, then the new entrants for the following 2 draws of this month should be significantly lower than the previous 1k.
Well, we know that for sure, I just posed a screenshot of the case where the applicant was awarded the 50 CEC points beginning of August even though his work started in September last year.
So, following this reason, the CEC points are already distributed for this month. Now are left only French speakers and new accounts since even the Canadian education candidates I believe have entered their credentials in July, right?
Result, I don't think we can expect more than 550 new entrants in the 501+ club in the next draw. Perhaps even less if we take into account previous months averages. Compared to the last draw on July 20th where almost 13,000 candidates joined the EE pool, this time there weren't any increase whatsoever, still 238k.
If this reasoning is true, I wouldn't be surprised if the CRS dropped to 525 in the next draw.