Selected from the EOI pool

04 June, 2008
Every 2nd Wednesday, the EOI selection is being done from the pool, and we've made it! We're selected finally, and I don't have to worry about $400 I spent from my credit card anymore (you'll be out of the pool if you're not selected within 6 months). We've had only 125 points with no job offer. If you have less than 120 points with no job offer, you're very unlikely to be selected from the pool - but 125 points is not so much better than that. I'm surprised that my husband's educational qualification didn't contribute much to add the points - he's got a ph.D but his dull IELTS score (7.0) was more critical than his ph.D!  He was late for the IELTS exam that morning and had to give up the 1st half of the listening comprehension test.



2008年6月4日

2週間に1回あるEOI選考の日。とうとう選抜された！万歳！これで400ドルを払った甲斐があるというもの。6ヶ月の間に選抜されなければ、EOIプールから外されるのだから。

我が家は125点しかなかった。しかもJob offer（就職内定）なし。120点以下は考慮もされないらしいが、125点もそうかわらない。

おかしいのは、夫の学歴（最終学歴は博士号）が大して点数アップに貢献しなかったこと。IELTS7.0という冴えないスコア（←試験に遅刻しリスニングの半分は白紙のままだったらしい）の方がよっぽど点数を稼いだ。

何はともあれ、予選突破。一安心。