How we check sizes

The charts contradict each other

Compare any two of the popular exam resizers and you find rows that cannot both be true:

Both sides carry the same disclaimer — requirements may change, always check the official notification — with no source and no date attached to any row. That disclaimer moves the entire risk onto the candidate while still presenting the number as an answer.

The GATE row is settled for 2026. The information brochure (page 22) states a range — photograph 200 × 260 to 530 × 690 px at 5–600 KB, signature 250 × 80 to 580 × 180 px at 3–300 KB — so neither chart’s single figure is the rule.

What our badges mean

Unverified means exactly what it says: the number is transcribed from secondary sources and nobody has opened the notification to confirm it. 94 of 129 presets are currently unverified, and the page says so rather than hiding it in a footer.

Verified means a person opened the notification published by that authority, found the upload specification, and recorded the date and URL. That date is shown to you. A badge applied loosely is worth less than no badge, so the bar is deliberately narrow. 35 presets have cleared it.

Every exam also has an application check, linked from the exam page and from the size chart. A verified check cites the bands that were read and links into that exam’s resizer. An unverified check shows the stored preset as guidance and does not call the file accepted.

Where published sources disagree, we mark the conflict and show both numbers. An honest we don't know which is more useful than a confident wrong answer, because it tells you to go and look.

Checking a size yourself

1. Open the recruitment notification PDF for the specific cycle you are applying to — not last year's, and not a coaching site's summary.
2. Search it for photograph, scanned, KB or pixel. The upload specification is usually an appendix near the end.
3. Check whether dimensions are an exact size, a preferred size, or a permitted range. Some notices state a file size and no pixel size at all.
4. Check whether there is a minimum file size as well as a maximum. This is the one people miss.
5. Check whether the photo must carry your name and the date. NTA, TNPSC and several state boards require it. The current UPSC photo instruction does not.

If you find a size here is wrong, that is worth telling us — a corrected number with the PDF page it came from is the most valuable thing anyone can send this site.