File size exceeds the maximum limit: how to fix it
Your photo or signature is bigger in KB than the form allows. Choose your exam and the document in the tool, then drop the file. It comes back at the exam's pixel size and under its KB limit. To get there, the tool picks the highest JPG quality that fits instead of shrinking your face or your signature.
The tool runs in your browser and nothing is uploaded. Updated 28 October 2026.
1. Choose
- Pixels:
- 200 × 230 px
- File size:
- 20–50 KB
- Format:
- JPG
- Background:
- white
- Face share:
- about 70% (suggested; the notice gives no figure)
Source: CRP PO/MT-XVI, notified 30.06.2026 — Common Recruitment Process for Probationary Officers / Management Trainees (Vacancies of 2027-28) (30 Jun 2026), checked 11 Oct 2026
2. Fix
JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC (where the browser can open it). Large phone photos are fine.
Nothing is uploaded. Everything runs on this device.
What "File size exceeds the maximum limit" means
Every form sets a ceiling in KB. In our exam data the photo limit is 50 KB on the bank and insurance forms, 100 KB on the railway (RRB) forms and 200 KB on UPSC and on NTA forms such as NEET UG and JEE Main. A photo straight from a phone camera is usually a few MB, which is many times any of these.
File size depends on the pixel count and on how hard the JPG is compressed. Bring the pixels down to what the notice asks for first, then compress. If you squeeze a 4,000 pixel photo until it fits, it usually turns blurry, and notices list a blurred photo as a reason to reject it.
Why it happens
- You picked the photo straight from the camera or the gallery at full resolution.
- The file was resized to the right pixels but saved at top JPG quality, so it stayed heavy.
- The signature was scanned at 300 or 600 dpi, so even a small signature came out large.
- The file looks fine on your computer but is a few hundred bytes over. Windows counts 1 KB as 1,024 bytes, and the portal may count 1,000.
Photo and signature limits by exam
Photo up to 50 KB
- CWC · 200 × 230 px, 20 to 50 KB
- IBPS Clerk · 200 × 230 px, 20 to 50 KB
- IBPS PO · 200 × 230 px, 20 to 50 KB
- IBPS RRB Clerk · 200 × 230 px, 20 to 50 KB
- IBPS RRB PO · 200 × 230 px, 20 to 50 KB
- LIC AAO · 200 × 230 px, 20 to 50 KB
- NICL AO · 200 × 230 px, 20 to 50 KB
- RBI Assistant · 200 × 230 px, 20 to 50 KB
- SBI Clerk · 200 × 230 px, 20 to 50 KB
- SBI PO · 200 × 230 px, 20 to 50 KB
- TNPSC Group 4 · 130 × 170 px, 20 to 50 KB
- UPPSC PCS · 200 × 230 px, up to 50 KB
- WB Police Constable · 138 × 177 px, 10 to 50 KB
Photo up to 100 KB
- CTET · 200 × 230 px, 10 to 100 KB
- India Post GDS · 320 × 400 px, 30 to 100 KB
Photo up to 200 KB
- CSIR NET · 200 × 230 px, 10 to 200 KB
- CUET UG · 200 × 230 px, 10 to 200 KB
- JEE Advanced · 200 × 230 px, 10 to 200 KB
- JEE Main · 200 × 230 px, 10 to 200 KB
- NEET UG · 200 × 230 px, 10 to 200 KB
- NIFT · 200 × 230 px, 10 to 200 KB
- RIMCEE · 200 × 230 px, 10 to 200 KB
- RMS CET · 200 × 230 px, 10 to 200 KB
- SWAYAM · 200 × 230 px, 10 to 200 KB
- UGC NET · 200 × 230 px, 10 to 200 KB
- UPSC CAPF AC · 350 × 350 px, 20 to 200 KB
- UPSC CDS · 350 × 350 px, 20 to 200 KB
- UPSC CSE · 350 × 350 px, 20 to 200 KB
- UPSC ESE · 350 × 350 px, 20 to 200 KB
- UPSC Geo-Scientist · 350 × 350 px, 20 to 200 KB
- UPSC NDA · 350 × 350 px, 20 to 200 KB
Signature up to 20 KB
- BPSC TRE 4.0 · 280 × 180 px, up to 20 KB
- CWC · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- IBPS Clerk · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- IBPS PO · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- IBPS RRB Clerk · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- IBPS RRB PO · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- JKSSB Class-IV (MTS) · 280 × 120 px, 10 to 20 KB
- LIC AAO · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- NICL AO · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- RBI Assistant · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- SBI Clerk · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- SBI PO · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- SSC CGL · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- SSC CHSL · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- SSC CPO · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- SSC GD Constable · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- SSC JE · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- SSC MTS · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- SSC Selection Post · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- SSC Stenographer · 140 × 60 px, 10 to 20 KB
- TNPSC Group 4 · 230 × 75 px, 10 to 20 KB
- WB Police Constable · 350 × 63 px, 5 to 20 KB
From each exam's latest notification in our data. Each exam page shows its source and the date we checked it.
Tips
- Compress the original, not a copy you already compressed. Every time a JPG is saved again it gets a little softer.
- Crop away empty background or blank paper before you shrink. The tool's crop keeps the exam's shape, and less area means fewer bytes at the same sharpness.
- Aim a little under the limit, say 45 to 48 KB on a 50 KB form, so the file passes whichever way the portal counts a kilobyte.
- Check the signature limit on its own. On the bank forms it is 20 KB, far less than the photo.
Other upload errors
Rejected for something other than size? See photo rejected and signature rejected. Only need the file smaller? Use compress to KB.
Frequently asked questions
- Why does my photo turn blurry when I compress it to 50 KB?
- Usually it still has thousands of pixels. Bring it down to the exam's pixel size first, such as 200 x 230 on bank forms, and a 50 KB JPG looks sharp. The tool resizes first and compresses after.
- My file shows 50 KB and the form still says it is too big. Why?
- Your computer may count 1 KB as 1,024 bytes, so a file it shows as 50 KB holds 51,200 bytes, and a portal that counts 1,000 bytes to the KB reads that as 51.2 KB. The tool keeps the file at or under 50,000 bytes, so it passes either way.