GATE (Engineering) Photo & Signature Size

Application-specific notes for GATE

• GATE constrains the PROPORTIONS of both files. The photograph must fall between an aspect ratio of 0.66 and 0.89 with the face covering 60-70% of the frame after cropping, and the signature must be roughly 1:2.75 to 1:3.75 in height to width with the writing filling 70-80% of its image. A file inside the size limit but outside those ratios is still wrong.
• The photograph is 3.5 cm wide by 4.5 cm high on a white background with nothing and nobody else in the frame. The instruction is specific that a signature on a dark background is not accepted, so scan on plain white paper rather than photographing a page in poor light.
• The aspect-ratio rules are checked mechanically at upload, so a photograph that looks correct can still be refused for sitting a few percent outside the band. If the form objects without saying why, the ratio is the first thing to re-measure rather than the file size.
• The published aspect band of 0.66 to 0.89 is wide enough to include 3.5 x 4.5 cm (0.78) comfortably, so the standard passport proportion satisfies it. An ad-hoc crop can still fall outside the band, so re-measure the exported width-to-height ratio before upload.