Drop your photo and get a 3.5×4.5 cm, 200 dpi JPEG inside NORCET’s 50–100 KB window — padded up to the 50 KB floor if your photo is too light, never pushed below it. Signature and left thumb impression fit their 10–50 KB windows the same way. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
The Nursing Officer Recruitment Common Eligibility Test is AIIMS’s common gate for Nursing Officer posts at AIIMS New Delhi and the other AIIMS — and NORCET-11 also recruits for JIPMER and ESIC hospitals, each with its own advertisement PDF on the same page. The live advertisement (Notice No.103/2026, dated 24.07.2026) is blunt about images, verbatim: “The candidate must ensure that images of the photo, signature and thumb impression should be as per the guidelines mentioned in the ‘Upload Image Instructions’ given in the General links… If the photo/signature/thumb impression image is not as per instructions given in the ‘Upload Image Instructions’ in that case, your application will be rejected.” Three images, one rejection clause. The same advert lists uploading “irrelevant photos” or “morphed/digitally modified photos” as unfair means — grounds for debarment — and warns that your photo is verified against biometric data captured during the examination. The photo you upload is not a formality; it is your identity anchor for the whole recruitment.
The current portal shows the ‘Upload Image Instructions’ inside the application flow, behind the OTP login. But AIIMS has published the same-named document on its NORCET portals for years, and its own instructions page (as served on the NORCET 2021 portal, preserved by the Internet Archive) spells the numbers out: photograph — recent (not more than 6 months old) passport-size colour photo, white background, no border, 3.5×4.5 cm (width×height), scanned at 200 dpi, saved as .jpg/.jpeg/.gif/.png, size between 50 and 100 kb. Signature — your full signature in a 6×3 cm box with a thick black or blue pen, 10–50 kb. Left thumb impression — blue or black ink pad, 4×3 cm box, ridge lines clearly visible, 10–50 kb. This page’s preset matches that spec exactly: 276×354 px is 3.5×4.5 cm at the instructions’ own 200 dpi, and the DPI label is written into the file. If the upload screen in front of you states different numbers, believe the screen — type its limits into the target fields and PixFit will hit those instead.
NORCET’s photo window has a minimum, and that minimum is high: 50 kb. A photo that has been through WhatsApp, a screenshot crop, or any “compress photo for government forms” tool is very often under 50 kb already — and a compressor can only push size down. Generic exam-photo resizers make it worse: most sell SSC-style presets (200×230 px, “under 50 KB”) — the exact opposite of what NORCET wants. PixFit fits from your original at the best quality that stays under 100 kb, and if the encode lands below the floor it pads the file up with spec-valid JPEG comment data — bytes any portal reads as a normal JPEG — so you clear the minimum at zero quality cost. The preset targets 51–95 KB, safely inside the window under both byte conventions.
The signature rules are the classic Indian-recruitment set, and AIIMS’s instructions state them explicitly: sign in full — initials-only, CAPITAL-letter and overwritten signatures are not acceptable — with a thick-tipped black or blue pen (AIIMS suggests a fountain pen) in a 6×3 cm box, and the signature must be yours: signature mismatch at the exam hall is a standard rejection ground. Photograph the box straight-on, tick Signature photo cleanup to put the ink on pure white, and fit to about 48 KB with an 11 KB minimum (6×3 cm at 200 dpi is 472×236 px — use the Exact size field). For the left thumb impression: ink the whole thumb on a blue/black stamp pad, press gently — too hard and the ridge lines smear — in a 4×3 cm box (315×236 px at 200 dpi), same 10–50 kb window. The thumb print matters more here than in most exams: AIIMS captures biometrics on exam day and matches them. OPSC and IBPS ask for thumb impressions the same way; the signature pad can draw a clean signature if you have no scanner.
From the NORCET-11 advertisement’s own table: online registration runs 24.07.2026 to 13.08.2026, up to 5:00 PM — and AIIMS states flatly that “No extension of dates of any kind will be provided.” Examination-city information comes 03.09, admit cards 09.09, Stage I CBT on Saturday 12 September 2026, Stage II on 30 September. Fees: ₹3000 (General/OBC), ₹2400 (SC/ST — refunded after you actually appear), PwBD exempt. If you work in a government or PSU institution, note the separate NOC upload deadline — the advert cancels candidature for NOCs not uploaded in time, without correspondence. Prepare the three image files before you sit down to register: the window closes hard, and the form is long.
Applications happen only at aiimsexams.ac.in — advertisement, registration and the in-portal Upload Image Instructions all live there. A passport photo tied to your nursing-recruitment profile — one that AIIMS will match against your biometrics — has no business passing through a resizer’s server, and most exam-photo tools are exactly that: server-side uploads. PixFit runs entirely in your browser; the photo, signature and thumb impression never leave your device, and the re-encode strips EXIF metadata (including GPS) as a side effect. Applying to other medical or central-government exams too? See NEET PG, Railway RRB and the full verified table.
Spec sources: the NORCET-11 advertisement (Notice No.103/2026 dated 24.07.2026) from AIIMS’s own examination portal aiimsexams.ac.in, and AIIMS’s own “Upload Images Instructions” page as published on its earlier NORCET portals (norcet2021.aiimsexams.ac.in, read from the Internet Archive’s capture — the legacy subdomains no longer resolve publicly) — both read August 2026. The current portal shows its Upload Image Instructions inside the application flow, behind login; if the upload screen states different numbers, believe the screen over this page.