Drop your photo and get a JPEG inside the 10–200 KB window from the NCHM JEE information bulletin — padded up to the 10 KB floor if your file is too light, never pushed below it. The signature (10–100 KB — a far roomier window than the stale 4–30 KB figure most guides still print) and the 10–300 KB category / PwD certificate PDFs fit here too. Nothing is uploaded; everything runs in your browser.
NCHM JEE is NTA’s entrance for the B.Sc. Hospitality & Hotel Administration programme across the NCHMCT-affiliated Institutes of Hotel Management — and its Information Bulletin is unusually tidy about uploads, stating the same numbers in all three places they appear. The photograph must be a recent one in JPG format between 10 KB and 200 KB, in colour or black & white, with 80% face (without mask) visible including ears against a white background — no cap or goggles, though spectacles are allowed if you use them regularly, and Polaroid or computer-generated photos are explicitly not acceptable. The signature goes in a JPG between 10 KB and 100 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.
Search for the NCHM JEE signature spec and the big admission guides tell you “4 KB to 30 KB” — one popular documents-required article sells that window today, and another guide’s freshly dated “Registration 2027” page prints the same figure. That is stale NTA folklore: the current bulletin says 10 KB to 100 KB, in the summary steps and in the detailed upload instructions. Follow the guides and two things go wrong at once — a 5 KB scan passes their check but lands under the bulletin’s 10 KB floor, and you needlessly crush a signature that’s allowed three times the file size they permit. For the signature pass here, type 11-95kb into Target — inside every reading of the real window. The bulletin’s content rules matter more than bytes: the full signature in running handwriting, on white paper with a blue or black ink pen. Writing your name in capital letters is not accepted as a signature and the application would be rejected — as are unsigned forms. If your scan is grey or shadowed, the signature cleanup tool whitens the paper and trims to the ink before the byte-fit.
The bulletin gives no pixel or centimetre dimensions for the uploads — file type and kilobytes are the requirement, plus “passport size”. If you want a concrete shape, type 350x450 into Exact size — the Indian passport-photo proportion, a suggestion rather than an NTA rule. More important is the bulletin’s own print advice: keep 6 to 8 passport-size coloured prints of the same photograph, because the one you upload is also the one you paste on the attendance sheet at the examination centre — and a mismatch between the two is the kind of thing checkers notice. The photo need not be attested, and an application without a photograph is rejected outright. One more reason to keep it honest: morphed photographs or signatures on the form are listed among the bulletin’s unfair-means practices.
Two more uploads hide in the steps: the PwD certificate and the category certificate (SC/ST/OBC/EWS), each a PDF between 10 KB and 300 KB. Note the floor: NTA’s other exams typically put certificate PDFs at 50–300 KB, but the NCHM bulletin says 10 KB — so a certificate fitted for a sibling exam passes here too, while a tiny low-quality scan that squeaks under 50 KB is legal for NCHM even though it wouldn’t be elsewhere. To produce one: drop the certificate page images here, choose PDF as the output format (tick Combine into one PDF for multi-page certificates), set Target to 50-300kb — a window that satisfies NCHM and every NTA sibling at once. An oversized scan-app PDF re-fits locally with the PDF compressor.
From the bulletin’s own list: the printed admit card with the filled Self Declaration on A4, a simple transparent ballpoint pen, an additional print of the uploaded photograph to paste on the attendance sheet, a personal transparent water bottle — and sugar tablets or fruit if you are diabetic. The 120-minute-class CBT for 2026 ran 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM on 25 April.
From the bulletin’s table and the public notices published beside it on NTA’s own page: applications for 2026 opened 26 December 2025 with a stated close of 25 January, then were extended by public notice — finally to 1 April 2026 (5 PM, fees till 11:50 PM) “in view of the recent addition of examination cities”; the correction window ran 2–4 April; the exam was held 25 April 2026 and the result declared in May. Fees: ₹1,000 general/OBC-NCL, ₹700 Gen-EWS, ₹450 SC/ST/PwD/third gender. That cycle is done — the next bulletin publishes at exams.nta.nic.in/nchm-jee/, and that PDF plus the form’s own upload screen win over any guide, this page included. A photo tied to your 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. Applying to the other NTA gates too? CUET UG shares the 10–200 KB photo window (but caps the signature at 50 KB — don’t reuse the NCHM sig file blindly), JEE Main matches NCHM’s windows exactly, and the full verified table covers the rest.
Spec source: the NCHM JEE 2026 Information Bulletin (December 2025) and the public notices of 25 March and 2 April 2026, all fetched from NTA’s own CDN as linked from exams.nta.nic.in/nchm-jee/, read August 2026. If the current form’s upload screen states different numbers, believe the screen over this page.