IGNOU MAPS Handwritten Assignment — Every MPS and MPSE Code Plus the Eight Borrowed Papers

Everything Inside the MAPS Parcel

A Political Science order is priced and packed one course code at a time, because that is how a MAPS registration actually behaves. A learner in the first year usually holds four codes. A learner in the second year might hold MPSE-006 and MPSE-008 and nothing else, or might hold MGPE-011 and MED-002 because the Political Science booklet carries those papers too. Each code is written as its own file and each file arrives with its own supporting paper.

Four physical things travel in the packet for each code you order. The handwritten answer pages come first, written on one side, numbered, with the answers in the order the booklet prints them so the evaluator is never hunting. An IGNOU-format front page comes filled with your enrolment number, programme, course code, course title and the assignment code, leaving you the name, signature, date and study-centre boxes to complete on the day you hand it in. A printed copy of the official TMA paper the answers were written against is included, so the desk can put question and answer side by side without you visiting a cyber cafe. And the whole set arrives tied and ordered, ready to go into the file you carry to the centre.

What does not travel in the packet is a digital version. No soft copy or PDF is sold. That is a deliberate scope decision rather than an oversight, and the reason sits in the next two sections.

What ₹320 Buys for One MPS Paper

The rate is ₹320 per subject, hard copy only, with courier included in that price and no separate shipping charge. One MPSE elective is ₹320. Four MPS core papers are four times ₹320. There is no minimum order: one subject or fourteen, same rate. There is no packing fee, no handwriting surcharge, no front-page charge and no second price for the Hindi paper.

Three things the rate covers that learners often expect to be billed for separately. The IGNOU-format cover sheet is free with every order. The copy of the official question paper is included with the set. And the handwriting match, described further down, carries no extra charge whatever the length of the paper.

Two things the rate does not cover, stated plainly. It does not cover a dissertation. MPSE-010 is the 8-credit Masters dissertation in Political Science, roughly twenty thousand words of independent research written under a supervisor, and it is not a tutor marked assignment; it does not appear in any Political Science TMA booklet and it is not what this product prepares. It also does not cover submission. You carry the file to the coordinator of your allotted study centre yourself, you collect the receipt, and you keep it.

Delivery depends on your pin code and is confirmed for your order before you pay. No figure is promised on this page.

Reference PDF or Submission Copy: Sorting Out the MAPS Choice

These two products get bought interchangeably by Political Science learners and they are not interchangeable at all. A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers for one course code and one session, downloaded and read. A handwritten assignment is the answers written out by hand on A4 and submitted in hard copy at the study centre. One is study material. The other is the thing you hand over.

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IGNOU’s own Political Science booklet settles the ambiguity without any interpretation from anyone selling anything. The 2025-26 MPSE-001 paper instructs learners to write the answers to all the TMA questions in their own words, keep within the word limit for each section, submit the completed assignments to the coordinator of the allotted study centre, obtain a receipt and retain it, and keep a photocopy. A downloaded PDF satisfies none of that on its own. It is a reference to write from, not a submission, and nobody should hand a printout across the desk expecting it to be accepted.

If a reference file is what you actually need for MPS-002 or MPSE-005, the store keeps those on a different shelf entirely: browse the code-wise Political Science solved assignment listings rather than ordering a written set you will not use. This page sells the written set.

The Four MPS Core Papers Your First Year Rests On

Every learner registered under the pre-revision MPS structure writes the same four papers in year one. The titles below are read off IGNOU’s own 2024-25 and 2025-26 Political Science TMA booklets rather than off any aggregator, and that distinction matters here more than usual: mis-ordered versions of these four titles circulate widely, with MPS-001 shown as the development paper and MPS-003 shown as the theory paper. The booklet is the authority.

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That third column is not an oversight in the reading. The July 2026 Common Prospectus carries no course table at all for the pre-revision MPS structure. What it carries instead is the revised programme, and the revised programme is a different animal, laid out in the table below exactly as the prospectus prints it.

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Add those ten rows and you get 40 credits, which the two semester headings confirm at 20 credits each. The prose two paragraphs above the table states the programme carries a total weightage of 80. Semesters three and four are described in words as carrying core and elective courses, some of them interdisciplinary and drawn from other Schools, but no table for them is printed. So half the revised degree is documented and half is not, and the section’s own Total Credits row is left blank where the neighbouring History section prints 80 and the Public Administration section prints 64.

The MPSE Electives and the Eight Papers MPS Borrows

The second year is where a Political Science set stops looking like anyone else’s. IGNOU’s second-year Political Science booklet does not carry twelve elective papers. It carries twenty, because eight of them come from Environmental Studies and from Gandhi and Peace Studies, and a learner can build a legitimate second-year set in which the MPSE codes are the minority.

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Two features of that list are worth pausing on before you send your codes. The run skips 010 and jumps from MPSE-009 straight to MPSE-011, which reads like an omission and is not: MPSE-010 is the dissertation, worth 8 credits and roughly two hundred and forty study hours, submitted as a document of about twenty thousand words, and dissertations do not carry tutor marked assignments. And the borrowed papers do not merely sit in the booklet as guests; they print a different assignment code from the MPSE papers around them, which is the single most common source of a wrongly filled front page in this programme.

Learners holding MGP and MGPE codes as their Political Science electives often find the Gandhi and Peace Studies material easier to source under its own programme name; the store keeps the MGPS help books that cover MGP-004 and the MGPE papers and, separately, reference files for the same Gandhi and Peace Studies codes.

Where the Prospectus and the Booklets Part Company on MAPS

Political Science is mid-transition, and the documents have not caught up with each other. Everything in the box below was found by reading IGNOU’s own papers against one another while this page was written. None of it is a criticism of anyone; it is what a learner will hit if they trust one document and stop.

The practical consequence is small but real. If your registration shows MPS-101, you are on the revised structure, and there is currently no published tutor marked assignment against that code; the thing to do is confirm with your Regional Centre which paper they expect you to submit rather than downloading an MPS-001 booklet because the number looks close. If your registration shows MPS-001 to MPS-004 or an MPSE code, the live 2025-26 booklets apply to you directly.

31 March and 30 September: the SOSS Dates on Your MPS Paper

Seven Political Science booklets for the 2025-26 cycle were opened while this page was written, spanning the first-year core file and the MPSE-001, MPSE-002, MPSE-003, MPSE-006, MPSE-008, MPSE-011 and MPSE-012 papers. Every one of them prints the same two dates: 31 March 2026 for the July 2025 session, and 30 September 2026 for the January 2026 session.

Two things about those dates trip up Political Science learners specifically. The first is the direction. It is the July session that leads to the March cut-off and the January session that leads to the September one, not the other way about, and the two booklets even disagree on which order to print them in. The first-year file lists July first with the dates in a separate column block; the second-year file lists January first with the date inline. Read the label attached to your session rather than the first date your eye lands on.

The second is that these are not the dates most other IGNOU programmes run on. The School of Management Studies prints 31 October and 30 April. The School of Humanities prints 31 March and 30 September but over a two-year span in the code itself. Political Science sits in the School of Social Sciences and takes its own pair. Carrying a friend’s management deadline across to your MPSE-006 paper is a real way to lose a cycle.

Assignments carry 30 per cent of the final course result and the term-end examination carries the remaining 70 per cent. The booklet is also explicit that the submission has to be made within the stipulated time to be eligible to appear in the term-end examination for that course, so a missed Political Science date does not simply cost the assignment marks; it removes the sitting as well. IGNOU does extend dates from time to time, and only ignou.ac.in and your Regional Centre can confirm whether an extension applies to you.

Why Your MPS Paper Says ASST and Not MPS-001

Most IGNOU programmes print an assignment code that carries the course code inside it. Management papers print the course code, the letters TMA, the session name and the year. English and Hindi papers print the course code, TMA and a two-year span. Political Science does not do this. Every 2025-26 MPS and MPSE paper opened for this page prints exactly the same string: ASST/TMA/2025-26. Nothing in it identifies which of the twenty-odd Political Science papers you are holding.

That has one consequence at the study centre desk and it is worth understanding before you fill anything in. The assignment code box on the front page does not disambiguate your submission. The course code box does. If you write ASST/TMA/2025-26 in the assignment-code box and leave the course-code box vague, a bundle of five Political Science files becomes five identical-looking cover sheets. Write the course code in full, MPSE-008 rather than MPSE-8, and write the course title beside it.

The exception is the borrowed papers. If your elective is MED-002 or MED-008, the assignment code on the paper does carry the course code. If it is one of the Gandhi and Peace Studies papers, the code reads as the word Assignment followed by TMA and the session, with a stray space before the slash that IGNOU has printed consistently for several cycles. Copy whatever your own paper prints, character for character, including the spacing. The front page provided with a Shri Chakradhar set is filled with the code taken from the paper the answers were written against, not from a template.

One more thing follows from the code. Because it names only the session, a paper is unmistakably tied to its cycle and to nothing else, which means a 2024-25 Political Science paper and a 2025-26 one are not interchangeable even when the course code matches. The question sets are genuinely different; MPS-002 asked about the differences between international relations, international politics and global politics in 2024-25, and about the realist approach and the North-South divide in environmental crises in 2025-26. Order against the session your study centre will accept, and if there is any doubt, ask them before writing.

Your Own Hand, Copied from a Photo You Send

The point of a handwriting match is not decoration. IGNOU’s Political Science booklet asks for answers in the learner’s own words and the cover sheet carries the learner’s declaration, and a set that plainly comes from a different hand than everything else in the file invites a question nobody wants at the desk. Send a photo of a page you have written yourself and the handwritten set is matched to your handwriting at no extra charge.

What Makes a Usable Sample Photo

Half a page is enough. Write it on white or ruled A4 in the pen you normally use, in daylight, and photograph it flat from directly above rather than at an angle. Ordinary prose beats a list, because the writer needs to see how your letters join, how you cross a t, how you slant, and how big your capitals run relative to your lower case. A sample sent in blue ink will be matched in blue ink. If your MPSE codes are Hindi-medium, send a Devanagari sample as well as a Roman one, since the two hands are rarely the same.

The sample goes back and forth before payment, not after it. You look at the writer’s attempt against your own page, and if it is not close enough you say so and it is redone or the order does not proceed. Ask for the handwriting check before committing to anything.

No claim is made about the marks any assignment will receive, about how an evaluator will assess it, or about whether it will be accepted. Assignment evaluation is entirely a matter for IGNOU.

English, Hindi, Old Cycles and Backlog MPSE Papers

The service covers all mediums IGNOU issues the TMA paper in, at the same price. For Political Science that means the English file or the Hindi file for whichever codes IGNOU has published both in for your cycle; the prospectus lists the medium of instruction for the programme as English and Hindi, and the assignment index has historically carried a Hindi PDF beside every English one. Where IGNOU has only issued one medium for a particular code in a particular session, that is the medium the answers are written in, and the order confirmation will say so before you pay rather than after.

Any session is accepted, current cycle or older, including backlog courses, at the same ₹320 per subject. This matters more in Political Science than in most programmes because the second year is entirely elective and learners frequently carry one or two MPSE papers forward across cycles while completing the rest. A 2022-23 MPSE-009 paper and a 2025-26 MPSE-009 paper are two different question sets, and the older one is written against the older paper, not retro-fitted from the current one.

Learners returning to a stalled MPS registration usually need the study material as much as the written set. The store’s Political Science help books for the MPS and MPSE codes and its previous-year Political Science question papers are the two things most often ordered alongside a backlog set.

The Five Things a MAPS Order Needs From You

Ordering is short by design. Five pieces of information settle a Political Science order completely, and nothing else is asked for.

1. Your enrolment number. Nine digits, exactly as IGNOU issued it. It goes on every front page in the parcel.
2. Your course codes. Written in full, MPSE-011 rather than MPSE-11, and MED-008 rather than MED-8. If you are on the revised structure and your codes read MPS 101 or MPS 106, say so, because that changes what can be written.
3. Your session. The July or January cycle your study centre will accept, not the year you enrolled. If you are unsure, the session is printed at the top of the booklet you downloaded.
4. Your medium. English or Hindi, per code rather than for the whole order, since Political Science learners sometimes mix.
5. Your handwriting sample and delivery address. One photo, one full postal address with pin code.

Nothing else is requested. No password, no IGNOU portal login, no scan of your identity card, no payment before the sample has been agreed.

Once the Parcel Is in Your Hands

Open the parcel and check it on the day it arrives, well before the deadline gets close. Confirm that the course code and title on each front page match your registration, that the session printed on the enclosed question paper is the session your centre is accepting, and that the answer pages actually correspond to the questions on that paper rather than to a neighbouring cycle. This takes a few minutes and is the only quality check that genuinely protects you.

You sign the declaration on the assignment cover page, so you should read and review the content before submitting it, and satisfy yourself that it represents your own understanding of the course. That sentence is not a formality on a Political Science paper. The booklet’s own guidance asks for essay answers with an introduction and a conclusion for the descriptive questions and concise analytical answers for the short ones, and it expects the argument to be yours.

Then complete the name, signature, date and study-centre boxes, tie the pages, and hand the file to the coordinator of the study centre allotted to you. Obtain a receipt and retain it. Keep a photocopy or a phone photograph of every page. IGNOU’s booklet asks for both, and the receipt is the only thing that settles a dispute if the assignment status page stays blank for a cycle.

After that, marks reach the Student Evaluation Division and appear against the course on the grade card in due course. Nothing about that stage is influenced by who wrote the pages, which is precisely why no promise about it is made anywhere on this page.

What MAPS Learners Add to the Same Order

Most Political Science orders arrive with a second request attached, and the pattern is consistent enough to be worth naming. Learners short on time for the written set are usually short on revision time too.

The most common addition is exam-side material rather than assignment-side. The Political Science solved guess papers are ordered by second-year learners who have four MPSE electives to revise and six weeks to do it in. Where the elective set includes Gandhi and Peace Studies codes, the parallel MGPS guess paper listings cover MGP-004 and the MGPE papers.

Second-year learners who have taken the dissertation route rather than a fourth elective need something this product deliberately does not sell. The MPS project and dissertation hard-copy listings are the correct shelf for MPSE-010, and they are priced and prepared entirely separately from a TMA set.

Learners who want the whole reference bundle in one go rather than code by code sometimes take the all-programme solved assignment volume for any session, and learners who came here from a different degree can start again from the handwritten assignment hub covering every IGNOU programme or from the store-wide reference file index. Undergraduate Political Science learners are in a different place entirely and should be looking at the BAPSH honours Political Science books rather than anything on this page.

If you would rather write the set yourself and simply want the process explained end to end, the companion editorial site covers it without selling you anything: read the step-by-step guide to writing and submitting an IGNOU handwritten assignment.

MAPS Questions That Come Up Before Payment

My registration says MAPS but my course codes say MPS. Which is it?

Both, and they are not in conflict. MAPS is the programme code the July 2026 Common Prospectus uses for Master of Arts (Political Science). MPS is the older programme code, still used by the store, by the assignment portal and by IGNOU’s own booklets, and it is also the prefix on the course codes themselves. The prospectus itself slips between the two, heading the section MAPS and then calling the same degree the revised MPS programme in its own body text. Order by course code and the ambiguity disappears.

I am registered against MPS-101. Can you write that assignment?

Not yet, and no honest supplier can. Searching IGNOU’s published assignment files for the revised MPS-101 to MPS-110 codes returned nothing while this page was written; every live Political Science TMA booklet is for MPS-001 to MPS-004 and the MPSE series. If your registration shows the revised codes, ask your Regional Centre which paper they will accept for your session before ordering anything from anyone. Once IGNOU publishes the revised papers, they are covered at the same ₹320 per subject.

Can I download a Political Science solved assignment PDF and hand the printout in?

No. A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers for a course code and session; it is something to read and write from. IGNOU’s Political Science booklet asks for the answers in your own words, submitted to the coordinator of your allotted study centre, and a printed file is not a handwritten submission. Use the reference file to understand the shape of the answer, then either write it yourself or order the written set.

What is the difference in what I actually receive, PDF versus handwritten?

The reference file reaches you as a download you open on a phone. The handwritten set reaches you as a parcel of written pages with the IGNOU-format front page and a copy of the official TMA paper, ready to be signed and handed over. The first saves you research time. The second saves you writing time. Political Science learners with three or four MPSE electives due in the same window usually need the second.

Does IGNOU reject typed Political Science assignments?

IGNOU’s assignment instructions ask for answers written by the learner, and study centres routinely decline typed or printed submissions where no specific permission has been granted. Rules on this vary by centre and by circumstance, and learners with a documented reason for needing a printed submission should raise it with their Regional Centre in advance rather than assume either way. What is safe to say is that the handwritten hard copy is the format the Political Science booklet describes.

Why does every MPS paper carry the same assignment code?

Because the Political Science faculty prints ASST/TMA followed by the session and nothing else. Unlike management or literature papers, the assignment code carries no course code, so the same string appears on MPS-001 and on MPSE-012 in the same cycle. Write the course code and course title in full on the front page; that is what actually distinguishes one file from another at the desk.

My elective is MGPE-011. Is that still a Political Science assignment?

Yes, and it is printed inside the Political Science second-year booklet alongside the MPSE papers. Eight second-year options come from outside the discipline, two from Environmental Studies and six from Gandhi and Peace Studies. The one thing to watch is the assignment code, which differs from the MPSE format on both borrowed groups.

Where has MPSE-010 gone in your code list?

Nowhere. MPSE-010 is the Masters dissertation in Political Science, an 8-credit independent research project of roughly twenty thousand words carrying about two hundred and forty study hours. Dissertations do not have tutor marked assignments, which is why the elective run jumps from MPSE-009 to MPSE-011 in every booklet. It is a separate piece of work and is not what this product prepares.

Is my last date 31 March or 30 September?

It depends on your session, not on the calendar. Every 2025-26 Political Science booklet opened for this page prints 31 March 2026 for the July 2025 session and 30 September 2026 for the January 2026 session. The two booklets print those rows in opposite orders, so read the session label rather than the first date you see. Dates are extended from time to time and only ignou.ac.in and your Regional Centre can confirm the current position for your enrolment.

My friend on the MBA says the last date is 31 October. Does that apply to me?

No. Submission dates are set per School, not centrally. The School of Management Studies prints 31 October and 30 April. Political Science sits in the School of Social Sciences and prints 31 March and 30 September. Borrowing a deadline across Schools is one of the more common ways a Political Science learner loses a cycle.

Can I order a Hindi-medium MPSE paper at the same price?

Yes. The service covers all mediums IGNOU issues the TMA paper in, at the same price. Send a Devanagari handwriting sample as well as a Roman one if you are mixing mediums across codes, because the two hands rarely match on their own.

I have a 2022-23 MPSE backlog. Is that more expensive?

No. Any session is accepted, current cycle or older, including backlog courses, at the same ₹320 per subject. The older paper is written against the older question set rather than adapted from the current one, so send the session along with the code.

How many subjects do I have to order at once?

There is no minimum order: one subject or fourteen, same rate. A single MPSE-006 file is a perfectly normal order. Ordering several together does have one practical advantage in this programme, which is that the whole second-year set then comes from a single hand.

When will the parcel reach me?

Delivery depends on your pin code and is confirmed for your order before you pay. No figure is promised on this page. The confirmation you receive on WhatsApp before payment carries the window for your specific address, and a tracking reference follows once the parcel is dispatched.

Will this get me good marks in Political Science?

No claim is made about the marks any assignment will receive, about how an evaluator will assess it, or about whether it will be accepted. Assignment evaluation is entirely a matter for IGNOU. What is within anyone’s control is that the answers address the questions on your session’s paper, in the word ranges the booklet sets, on the format the booklet describes, submitted before the date the booklet prints.

Three Sources Behind Every Line on This Page

Three separate bodies of evidence sit behind this page and they are kept apart deliberately, because they carry different weight and can be checked independently.

Source one, the prospectus. The revised MAPS structure, the MPS 101 to MPS 110 codes and titles, the 4-credit weighting, the 20-credit semester headings, the English and Hindi medium of instruction and the 80-credit total in the prose all come from section 3.18 of the IGNOU Common Prospectus July 2026. The blank Total Credits row and the absent third and fourth semester tables are described exactly as the document prints them. The 8-credit figure against MPS-003 comes from the Public Administration section of the same prospectus, because it appears nowhere in a Political Science table.

Source two, the live TMA booklets. The submission dates, the ASST/TMA/2025-26 assignment code, the question pattern, the course titles, the borrowed MED, MGP and MGPE papers and the MPSE-010 gap were read off IGNOU’s own files: the 2025-26 first-year Political Science booklet carrying MPS-002 and the 2025-26 MPSE-001 elective booklet, alongside the 2024-25 bundled first-year and second-year files still posted on the M.A. Political Science assignment index. Current papers for any code can be downloaded from the IGNOU assignment download service. Where a booklet was not opened, the tables above say so rather than filling the gap.

Source three, this publisher’s own commercial terms. The ₹320 rate, the hard-copy-only scope, the included courier, the free front page, the included question paper, the handwriting match, the absence of a minimum order and the refusal to quote a delivery figure are Shri Chakradhar Publication’s terms of trade. They are not IGNOU rules and are not presented as such.

Written and reviewed by BK Sahni, Founder, Shri Chakradhar Publication Pvt. Ltd. and ignouproject.com, who has guided 5,00,000 students till date. ORCID 0009-0005-8092-459X. Published 21 August 2026. This page is next reviewed ahead of the 30 September 2026 Political Science cut-off, and again ahead of 31 March 2027.

Important Notice

Shri Chakradhar Publication Pvt. Ltd. and shrichakradhar.com form an independent IGNOU study-support publisher. This is not the official website of Indira Gandhi National Open University, is not affiliated with, endorsed by or authorised by the university, and no page on this site should be treated as an official IGNOU communication.

Programme structures, course codes, submission dates and rules change, and only ignou.ac.in and your Regional Centre can confirm the current position for your enrolment.

You sign the declaration on the assignment cover page, so you should read and review the content before submitting it, and satisfy yourself that it represents your own understanding of the course.

No claim is made about the marks any assignment will receive, about how an evaluator will assess it, or about whether it will be accepted. Assignment evaluation is entirely a matter for IGNOU.