maayakobarima ji,

I think you can ask your friends (from nepal, who were you partners, but who are here now) to write you reference letter. I think that will work. In that case, you can either go as a programmer, web developer or system analyst, whichever closely related to the things that you did...i am sure that will work.

good news is, the work that you did for your professor counts...i will send you the NOC code for that tomorrow, as I need to check it again...i did work as a ga as well and I have figured out that it works...it falls under group A. we both are good to go!

If you get 7.0 or higher, you will get 4 in each section (16 total). if you get below 7 in any section, you will get lesser point in that specific section. so, your score might be 16, 14, 12 etc, depending upon what you get. But i think its hard not to get 7.0, honestly.

yea, you are in the right site...www.cic.gc.ca...but  I have been following a lot of other blogs and stuffs and well...that tells me things in great detail where as cic.gc.ca might tell me something vague...