Ray of Hope 66th Draw

[4RyL]

I'm not a Software Engineer or anything, but I don't understand how the word maintenance is taken literally, like reconstruction of a damaged house, or re-building a collapsed house in a missile hit town. Software bugs are not synonymous to a earthquake hit town. It is strange, what has taken them so long for the website updates. This isn't supposed to take that long, as it is just a matter of a change in algorithm and maybe some hundred lines of server side script. There will be a draw tomorrow.

I disagree!. No draw until next week.. The have a two week window to make sure all is fine before they go ahead with the next draw!

 

[kvin1087]

I disagree!. No draw until next week.. The have a two week window to make sure all is fine before they go ahead with the next draw!

I dont think that there won't be a draw until next week. I am hoping to see a draw tomorrow or Thursday. Fingers crossed.

 

[gurpreet.ts]

How did you get time to write 300 words ? . I believe, you have done good practice. But mark will be considered only for

Coherence and Cohesion
Lexical Resource
Grammatical Range
Accuracy

I don't think for word limit. Hope you will get good score. All the pretty best for you Mate!

In both my attempts, I wrote more than 250 words in Task 1 and more than 400 words in Task 2. Interestingly, in both attempte I completed my writing task in around 40 minutes.

PS - I scored 7.5 in both attempts

 

[lino82]

I disagree!. No draw until next week.. The have a two week window to make sure all is fine before they go ahead with the next draw!

this is titled Ray of Hope...for your kind information.......
let us all remain optimistic here.......positivity is contagious and there's nothing lost by staying optimistic...given we have done our best about our scores and the only thing left is to wait for a draw and the cut off to drop...
So let there be a draw if not today,at least by Friday....and let the ball moving..

 

[4RyL]

I dont think that there won't be a draw until next week. I am hoping to see a draw tomorrow or Thursday. Fingers crossed.

Not when there are still some maintenance and update issues. If we receive a notification that everything is complete, then we can have that ray of hope!

 

[xibalban]

I disagree!. No draw until next week.. The have a two week window to make sure all is fine before they go ahead with the next draw!

CIC mentions that the update may take up to two weeks. Recall the up to that you see in hoardings outside malls, up to 70% off. That word is tricky!!

 

[4RyL]

this is titled Ray of Hope...for your kind information.......
let us all remain optimistic here.......positivity is contagious and there's nothing lost by staying optimistic...given we have done our best about our scores and the only thing left is to wait for a draw and the cut off to drop...
So let there be a draw if not today,at least by Friday....and let the ball moving..

I am more than hopeful and optimistic. Currently, I am not even in the pool let alone to receive a draw but I am 100% certain I will have my residence in Canada by next February!

 

[zainab.p]

Affirmative! Have hope.

wow ... really shold be ..my ielts expires on july 11...n i dont wanna be writing again ...it was the second attempt already!
was thinking to book by 24 jun ...so that i shouldnt miss ita coz of result time delay ...wat do you suggest ?

 

[4RyL]

CIC mentions that the update may take up to two weeks. Recall the up to that you see in hoardings outside malls, up to 70% off. That word is tricky!!

Yea I know but ....draw will be on next week

 

[4RyL]

wow ... really shold be ..my ielts expires on july 11...n i dont wanna be writing again ...it was the second attempt already!
was thinking to book by 24 jun ...so that i shouldnt miss ita coz of result time delay ...wat do you suggest ?

I am predicting 3 draws from next week until 11 July... to be safe, register asap!

 

[xibalban]

Yea I know but ....draw will be on next week

I, and all others in this thread (and many from the 65th Ray of Hope Thread) hope that you are wrong, and we will prove you wrong. Just wait for another 22 hours. You'll see!!

 

[4RyL]

I, and all others in this thread (and many from the 65th Ray of Hope Thread) hope that you are wrong, and we will prove you wrong. Just wait for another 22 hours. You'll see!!

Okay bro. But Good luck to everyone. We all hope to connect greatly in Canada one day!

 

[lino82]

I am more than hopeful and optimistic. Currently, I am not even in the pool let alone to receive a draw but I am 100% certain I will have my residence in Canada by next February!

that's great....I too joined the pool today only with my ECA getting done yesterday....
as we wait,let us all wait in hope that things move fast for everyone.... it is right to stay realistic about what we hope for but let us sound more optimistic in this thread....than being just realistic or a tad bit pessimistic...
All the best and may your dream be soon accomplished...

 

[arunroy007]

I'm not a Software Engineer or anything, but I don't understand how the word maintenance is taken literally, like reconstruction of a damaged house, or re-building a collapsed house in a missile hit town. Software bugs are not synonymous to a earthquake hit town. It is strange, what has taken them so long for the website updates. This isn't supposed to take that long, as it is just a matter of a change in algorithm and maybe some hundred lines of server side script. There will be a draw tomorrow.

I am a software engineer (at least I would like to think so ) a system maintenance in this scenario could mean they would have to update their logic to re-calculate scores. Yes this is comparatively a small change. Once they finalize their logic and complete development of their software code, they would update current profiles (in batches based on current CRS score or date time of profile creation etc..) validate their changes and post it. They could do it in one go but I believe they do in batches as we see a few people saying their scores are updated and others do not have theirs. Doing it in batches would also give them flexibility of identifying any bug at an earlier stage so they can fix it.

They could also be doing some system cleanup, upgrade or what not when they say maintenance.

Any other thoughts?

 

[fahadsheikh]

I'm not a Software Engineer or anything, but I don't understand how the word maintenance is taken literally, like reconstruction of a damaged house, or re-building a collapsed house in a missile hit town. Software bugs are not synonymous to a earthquake hit town. It is strange, what has taken them so long for the website updates. This isn't supposed to take that long, as it is just a matter of a change in algorithm and maybe some hundred lines of server side script. There will be a draw tomorrow.

I agree with that, and I am a dev. A nicely developed application (which should be as this is crucial) and with good architecture and design patterns, shouldn't take long to update such a thing. Personally, I would have wrote just one line of code to get this thing done. No hotchpotch logic or anything like that. Once done, I would have executed just one service to update all the records. Considering there are just 50K active candidates approximately in the CIC database, the service (on my local VM not even on a server) will take less than an hour to execute. Add a day to test (I am being generous) and analyze everything.