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NEET UG Photo and Signature Size

Two of the commonest NEET rejections have nothing to do with kilobytes: a photograph taken before the first of January in the exam year, and a signature printed in capitals instead of written. The bulletin rules on both. This page does the part that is arithmetic, and tells you about the part that is not.

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How to NEET UG photo and signature size

  1. Check when your photograph was taken — the bulletin wants one from after 01 January of the exam year.
  2. Tap Choose your NEET photo and signature and pick the photograph, then the signature scan.
  3. Tap Resize for NEET. The photograph is fitted into 10 to 200 KB and the signature into 10 to 100 KB.
  4. Read the kilobytes printed under each result, then save them one at a time.

The NEET rules a resizer cannot fix

The bulletin asks for a photograph taken after the first of January in the exam year, on a white background, with the ears visible, no mask, and the face filling about 80 per cent of the frame. The signature has to be in running handwriting — not capitals. None of that is a file property, so none of it is something this tool can do for you: it crops, it encodes, it reports.

That matters here more than on most pages, because the portal prints a date on your photograph at the time of upload. An old picture cut to the right shape and the right weight is still an old picture, and it is a rejection cause. So is a signature in block capitals, however cleanly it is scanned.

There is no thumb impression tool here, on purpose

NEET also takes a left-hand finger impression, and you will find plenty of pages ready to give you its size. We are not one of them. The bulletin gives that file as 10 to 200 KB in one paragraph and 50 to 300 KB in another — one document, two answers — and we could not honestly tell you which one NTA’s upload screen enforces.

Rather than pick and present a guess as a rule, we left the slot out. Read the window off your own upload page and go by that. If it names a figure, any of the general compression pages here will hit it.

Whose numbers these are

The two kilobyte windows above are NTA’s, from the NEET UG information bulletin, last read on 20 August 2026. So are the white background, the visible ears, the 80 per cent framing, the JPG format and the handwriting rule.

The bulletin publishes no pixel dimensions and no DPI at all. Not a small one, not a range: none. Anything you have seen headed “official NEET photo size in pixels” was worked out by whoever published it. Ours is worked out too — 3.5 by 4.5 centimetres for the photograph and 6 by 2 for the signature, at 300 dots per inch, because those are the figures Indian forms print most often — and it is labelled as ours wherever it appears. If your screen shows a pixel size, type that in and it wins.

A grey signature stays grey

Photographing a signature off paper with a phone gives you a grey sheet, usually with a shadow down one side. Thresholding that back to black ink on white is not built into this version — the page flattens the image onto white and resizes it, and says so when it does. Signing again in thick black ink under a window is a minute’s work and beats anything a filter would have managed.

Questions

Can I use the photograph from last year’s form?
The bulletin asks for one taken after 01 January of the exam year, and the portal stamps that date onto the image at upload, so an old photograph is visible as an old photograph. No amount of resizing changes when a picture was taken.
What size should the NEET thumb impression be?
We do not know and we will not invent one. NTA’s own bulletin says 10 to 200 KB in one place and 50 to 300 KB in another. Use the window printed on your upload screen; that is the one being enforced.
My photo came out at 40 KB. Is that too small for NEET?
No. NTA’s floor is 10 KB and its ceiling is 200 KB, so 40 KB sits comfortably inside. There is nothing to gain by filling the ceiling — a larger file is not a better photograph, and a face on a plain background simply does not need many kilobytes.
My scan is a PNG. Does that work?
Yes, drop it in. The bulletin wants JPG or JPEG and that is what comes back out — the conversion happens as part of the resize, so you do not need a separate step for it.

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