Admit Card Photo Checker

How to check your exam photo

1. Pick your exam. Its uploads appear as numbered cards, with the size and KB range from its notice; for any other form, choose “Another form” and type its rules.
2. Choose the file you plan to upload in each card. Nothing is changed or sent anywhere.
3. Read the checklist: ✓ passes, ✗ fails and says why, ! is worth a look, and • is for you to check by eye. Fix a failing file with the tool linked under it, then check the new file.

Example: two files through the checker

Both files are described by their numbers only: these are the lines the checker gives for those numbers, worked out when this page was built. The IBPS pixel size is marked “preferred” and its DPI is a minimum scan resolution, so neither fails; the file size does. RRB's pixel size is a minimum, so a larger signature passes.

What the checker reads from your file

• The real file type. The first bytes of a file say what it is, whatever its name. A PNG renamed to .jpg, or an iPhone HEIC photo, is caught here.
• The stored pixel size. For a JPEG this comes from the file's header, which is what an upload portal reads, not from how your gallery shows it.
• The size in bytes. Compared with the notice's KB range both ways of counting a KB, 1,000 and 1,024 bytes, so a file right at the edge gets a warning instead of a false pass.
• The DPI, only where the notice states one. It's a number stored in the JPEG header; it doesn't change the picture, but a form that asks for 200 DPI can read it. Where the notice gives a minimum scan resolution, a file at or above it passes.
• The shape, where the notice gives an allowed range of width to height, or a size only in cm (a 3.5 × 4.5 cm photo is a 7:9 portrait).
• A rotate flag left by a phone camera, which can make a portal show the photo on its side.
• The background, as an estimate from the colours along the photo's edges, only where the notice asks for a white one.

Each line follows how firmly the notice words its rule. Exact sizes that a notice marks as “preferred”, like IBPS's, get a ! rather than a ✗ when they don't match, because the notice treats the KB range as the firm limit. A size given as a minimum, like RRB's 140 × 60 px or Sarathi's 420 × 525 px, fails only when the file is smaller. CLAT prints no size at all: 200 × 230 px is what its form's own cropper saves, so any size passes. A DPI the notice gives as the least scan resolution (CAT, the bank exams, Sarathi) passes at or above it, and only a notice that states the file's own resolution, like TNPSC's 200 DPI, fails another value. A size given only in cm, like CTET's 3.5 × 4.5 cm, is checked as a shape. A rule that needs eyes, like your name and the date printed on a TNPSC photo, is listed with a •.

Exams the checker knows

The rules come from each exam's official notice, the same ones its own resizer page uses and quotes. Check the latest notice before you apply: each exam page says when we will read it again.

What a passing file doesn't prove

The checker tests the rules a notice puts in numbers. It can't tell whether the photo is recent enough, whether your face fills the share the notice asks for, or whether the signature is really yours and in the right ink, so those rules are listed under each result for you to check. Several exams also take a live photo with your webcam or phone during the form; that isn't a file, so it can't be checked in advance.

To make files that pass, use your exam's own page from the table, the Signature Extractor for a signature on paper, or Add Name and Date to Photo where a notice wants them printed on the photo. For any other KB target, Increase Image Size in KB fits a photo to a range.