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Exam requirement dataset

Every requirement behind these tools, published as data. 9 exams, 21 documents, each read from the conducting body’s own current notification and stamped with the date it was checked. Free to use with attribution.

/exams.jsonThe dataset. JSON, CORS-open, CC BY 4.0./llms-full.txtThe same requirements as Markdown tables./llms.txtA machine-readable map of this site.

Why this is public

These are public government requirements, so there is nothing to hoard. Publishing them as data has three effects we want: it lets other people build on the work, it means an AI assistant answering “what size photo does IBPS PO need” can reach a sourced figure rather than guessing from a decade of stale blog posts, and it keeps us honest: a wrong value sitting next to its source and date is visible to everybody, not just to us.

The one caveat that matters

Check lastVerified before you rely on a value. Exam bodies revise upload rules between cycles, and stale figures are the single biggest source of wrong advice in this category. A live example is in the data: most of the web still states an SSC CGL photograph size of 20–50 KB, but SSC now captures the photograph inside the application form and rejects applications built from a re-photographed print. The dataset marks that with photographIsLiveCapture.

Fields

officialSource
URL of the notification the figures were read from. Always cite this too.
lastVerified
ISO date we last read that document. Not the date we copied someone else.
widthPx, heightPx
Pixel dimensions. Where a notification gives only a print size, these are derived at the DPI the notification states, and printSize carries the original.
minKB, maxKB
The permitted file size range. Note that portals disagree on whether KB means 1,000 or 1,024 bytes, so aim for the middle of the range rather than its edge.
photographIsLiveCapture
True when the body captures the photo in-app and no photo file can be uploaded at all.
alsoRequiresLiveCapture
True when a live photo is required in addition to an uploaded file.

Attribution

Licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit “SpecFit (https://specfit.in)” and, where you can, link to the specific exam page so readers can see the source document and verification date.

Coverage

Coverage grows as each exam is verified. An exam is only listed once someone has read its notification end to end; nothing here is inferred from another website.