Specs you can trace to the source.
Most exam-prep websites copy photo and signature specifications from each other. When an authority changes its rules — switches to live photo capture, tightens a file-size limit, moves to a one-time registration system — those copied numbers quietly go stale, and candidates get rejected forms during application season.
CorrectForm works differently: every specification on an exam page is researched from the official notification itself, and we show you the evidence. This page explains exactly what our verification means, so you can judge our work rather than take our word for it.
What the “Verified” badge means
A green “Verified against the official notification” badge means a human has checked that exam's photo and signature requirements against the current official notification or upload instructions, and recorded the provenance: the document's exact title, its publication date, the page or clause the requirement appears in, a link to the live PDF on the authority's own website, and the date we verified it. All of that is displayed in the “Source & verification” block on the exam page — not hidden in a database.
A neutral “Based on the latest public notification” note means the exam has not yet been through this full pipeline for the current cycle — the specs reflect the most recent public information, but the source-by-source check is still pending.
Sources: official documents only
We verify only against documents published by the exam authority itself — notification PDFs, information bulletins, and photo/signature upload instructions hosted on official domains such as ssc.gov.in, upsc.gov.in, upsconline.nic.in, ibps.in, sbi.bank.in, the NTA's official portals, the Railway Recruitment Boards, jeeadv.ac.in and natboard.edu.in. We never treat coaching blogs, news articles, or other resizer websites as sources — those are exactly where stale specs come from.
The verbatim-quote rule
Wherever the official PDF allows it, we quote the requirement word-for-word on the exam page, so you can compare our numbers against the authority's own sentence. Some official notices are published as scanned images rather than digital text; in those cases we corroborate the values across multiple official documents, check them by eye against the notice, and only then mark the exam verified. If we cannot quote a document verbatim, we say so rather than fabricate a quote.
We document the awkward cases honestly
Real upload rules are messier than “200×230 pixels”, and we render the mess truthfully. Some exams capture your photograph live in the application and take no upload at all — those pages say so instead of advertising a photo size. Some ask for both a scanned upload and a live photo, and the page explains both steps. Some reuse your images from another exam's registration, and the page leads with that instead of pretending there is a fresh upload. Where an authority specifies sizes in centimetres rather than pixels, we show the centimetre rule in the notes instead of inventing false pixel precision.
Freshness and review
Exam authorities publish new notifications every cycle, and we re-verify against the newest published document — the verified-on date shown on each exam page tells you when that last happened. When a cycle's notification has not yet been published, the page carries the latest published regime and we watch for the new notice. Every exam page also states, in its disclaimer, that the official notification is final: if our page and the notification ever disagree, trust the notification and tell us.
Corrections
If you spot a specification that does not match the current official notification, please contact us with the exam name and, if you can, a link to the notice. Corrections are our highest-priority work: a wrong spec on a form-filling website is worse than no website at all.