Drop your photo and get a JPEG inside the 10–200 KB window from the CUET (PG) information bulletin — padded up to the 10 KB floor if your file is too light, never pushed below it. The signature (10–50 KB — the window moved) and the 50–300 KB UDID certificate PDF fit here too. Nothing is uploaded; everything runs in your browser.
CUET (PG) is NTA’s entrance test for postgraduate admission across central and participating universities — one form, up to four test papers, one 90-minute CBT per paper. Its Information Bulletin asks for scanned images in JPG/JPEG format: a photograph between 10 KB and 200 KB — recent, colour or black and white, 80% face (without mask) visible including ears, against a white background — and a signature between 10 KB and 50 KB. Both windows have floors: a file that compresses below the minimum is as invalid as one over the cap. This page is preset for the photo — drop it, and the result lands inside the window, padded up to the 10 KB floor with spec-valid JPEG data if your photo is too light, never pushed below it.
Earlier CUET (PG) bulletins put the signature at 4–30 KB — the 2023 bulletin says exactly that. The current bulletin says 10–50 KB. That quiet change broke a lot of advice: a major admissions site’s “CUET PG Signature Specifications 2026” table still sells 4–30 KB (plus an invented “140 × 60 pixels” box that belongs to bank exams, not CUET), and a big coaching portal’s upload guide manages to state both windows on one page — “10 kb to 50 kb” in its table, “4 kb to 50 kb” in its checklist. Follow the stale floor and a 4 KB signature file — legal in 2023 — now lands under the current minimum. For the signature pass here, type 11-48kb into Target (inside every reading of the current window), and sign on white paper first; the signature cleanup tool whitens grey scans and trims to the ink if yours needs it.
The bulletin gives no pixel or centimetre dimensions for either upload — the same article that garbles the signature window also declares the photo “must be 200 x 230 pixels,” a figure that appears nowhere in the bulletin. File type and kilobytes are what the requirement actually states. If you want a concrete shape, the Indian passport-photo proportion works: type 350x450 into Exact size — a suggestion, not an NTA rule.
The form also captures a live photograph at the time of filling (webcam or phone camera) alongside the scanned upload — that one can’t be prepared in advance, so plan for decent lighting and a plain background at registration time. And the bulletin is unusually blunt about quality: if the uploaded photograph or signature is blurred or not visible enough to identify you, the application is rejected and no option for correction or revision is permitted thereafter. Check both images before you submit. Uploading someone else’s photo or signature is treated as an unfair-means practice. One more hard rule: one mobile number and one email address work for exactly one application form, and multiple forms from the same candidate are not accepted.
The PwD/PwBD (Disability/UDID) certificate uploads as PDF only, between 50 KB and 300 KB. PixFit builds that too: drop the page images, choose PDF as the output format (tick Combine into one PDF for a multi-page certificate), set Target to 50-300kb, and the finished PDF lands inside the window. Already have an oversized scan-app PDF? The PDF compressor re-fits it under the cap locally.
On exam day the bulletin requires a printed e-Admit Card with the filled Self Declaration, a transparent ballpoint pen, an original photo ID — and one passport-size print of the same photograph you uploaded, for pasting on the Attendance Sheet at the centre. (A widely-read guide says “two postcard size photographs” — the bulletin says one, passport size.) Keep a few prints of the upload with your admit card so the paste-on photo matches what NTA has on file.
From the bulletin’s own table: registration for the 2026 cycle ran 14 December 2025 to 14 January 2026, correction window 18–20 January, exams through March 2026 — that cycle is done, and the next bulletin (expect it around December) publishes at exams.nta.nic.in/cuet-pg/; its PDF and the form’s own error messages win over any guide, this page included. Don’t confuse the two CUETs: CUET (UG) is the undergraduate test with its own portal, bulletin and page here — see CUET UG photo & signature. (For 2026 both tests happen to agree on 10–200 KB / 10–50 KB — but each bulletin is its own authority.) A photo tied to your university admission doesn’t need to pass through a resizer’s server: PixFit runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded, and the re-encode strips EXIF metadata (including GPS) as a side effect. UGC NET, GATE and the full verified table cover the rest.
Spec source: the CUET (PG) 2026 Information Bulletin, fetched from NTA’s own CDN as linked from exams.nta.nic.in/cuet-pg/, read August 2026; the 4–30 KB window cited for contrast comes from the CUET (PG) 2023 bulletin (NTA copy served by a participating central university). If the current form’s upload screen states different numbers, believe the screen over this page.