IGNOU MATS Handwritten Assignment — Every MTT Code Plus the Two Borrowed MEG Papers

What Lands on Your Desk When the MATS Packet Opens

Four physical things travel in one courier bag, and nothing else is promised. The first is the written answer set itself, on A4, in blue or black ink, one file per course code, so an MTT 013 set and an MEG 15 set arrive separated the way the Learner Support Centre wants them separated rather than stapled into one block. The second is an IGNOU-format cover sheet for each code, already filled in with your enrolment number, programme code, course code, course title, assignment code and study centre code, free with every order. The third is a printed copy of the official Tutor Marked Assignment paper the answers were written against, which is how you check on arrival that the writer used the file you meant and not last cycle’s.

The fourth is the thing most MATS learners actually care about: the pages are in a hand that matches yours. Send a photo of a page you have written yourself and the handwritten set is matched to your handwriting at no extra charge. There is no minimum order: one subject or fourteen, same rate. A learner who has cleared eight MTT papers and is stuck on MEG 14 alone pays for one code, not for a year.

What does not travel is a download. No soft copy or PDF is sold. This is not a scanning service and there is no file emailed after dispatch; the ₹320 buys a physical object that goes to a physical address.

Where ₹320 Stops and Where MATS Puts You on Your Own

The rate is ₹320 per subject, hard copy only, with courier included in that price and no separate shipping charge. Inside that figure sit the writing, the cover sheet, the printed question paper, the handwriting match and the courier. Outside it sit four things a MATS learner should plan for separately.

The first is MTTP 22, the sixteen-credit Project Work with Viva-voce that closes the second year. It is not a Tutor Marked Assignment, it carries no downloadable TMA booklet, and it is not what this page sells. The second is anything an evaluator does after the file reaches the study centre. 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.

The third is the choice of which paper is yours. MATS runs on a code family that IGNOU shares across four programmes in the same school, and the number range is the only thing separating them, so the code you send has to be the code your admission record prints. The fourth is a delivery figure. Delivery depends on your pin code and is confirmed for your order before you pay. No figure is promised on this page. Real cut-off dates are the only urgency this page recognises, and they are set out further down with the disagreement between the two sources named rather than smoothed over.

Reference File or Submission Copy: Reading the Difference Before You Buy

Two very different products get sold under names that sound alike, and the confusion costs MATS learners more than it costs most, because the MTT booklets are thin on the open web and the MEG ones are everywhere. A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers written against a particular course code and session, downloaded and read. A handwritten assignment is the answers written out by hand on A4 and submitted in hard copy at your Learner Support Centre. One is study material. The other is the thing you hand in.

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The reason the distinction is not a matter of taste is printed on the paper itself. Instruction 6 on the MEG-14 booklet issued for the July 2025 and January 2026 sessions reads, in full, that you should write in your own handwriting. Instruction 4 on the same booklet restricts the paper stock. Neither instruction can be satisfied by printing a downloaded file, and a printed PDF handed across the counter is a printed PDF whatever its contents. That is the honest scope of a reference file: it is something to write from, not something to hand in.

If a reference file is genuinely what you came for, it is stocked separately and should be bought separately. The full reference-file library arranged by programme and by course code is where those live, and the master’s-degree shelf is the branch that will carry the MTT files. Neither product replaces the translation blocks IGNOU already posted to you.

The Ten MTT Papers That Fill Your MATS First Year

The July 2026 Common Prospectus sets out MATS as a two-year, 80-credit degree, and the first year is unusually flat: ten courses, four credits each, forty credits, no electives and no choices to make. Every MATS learner in year one holds the same ten codes. That is rare enough among IGNOU master’s programmes to be worth stating plainly, because it means nobody has to check an elective list before ordering.

One sourcing note belongs on the table rather than under it. Section 3.52 of the prospectus prints each MATS course title in Hindi first, with the English title following in brackets. The English titles below are the ones IGNOU prints inside those brackets, reproduced as they appear. Read your own codes off your admission record before sending anything, because a title is not a code.

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Ten codes at four credits sum to forty. The arithmetic matters because the MTT prefix is not exclusive to MATS. The same three letters carry MTT-001 to MTT-005 for two postgraduate certificate programmes in Bangla-Hindi and Malayalam-Hindi translation, MTT 031 for another certificate, and MTT 033 with MTT 051 to MTT 055 for the Post Graduate Diploma in Translation. Four programmes, one prefix, disjoint number ranges and nothing on the file name to separate them. A learner who searches the assignment portal for “MTT assignment” and takes the first result will very often download a certificate paper. The MATS range is 010 to 021, and nothing else.

Second Year, Where Two MEG Codes Arrive From Another School

The second year is where MATS stops looking like a normal single-school degree. Two MTT papers continue at four credits each. Then two eight-credit courses appear that belong, by code and by booklet, to the MA English programme run by the School of Humanities. Then the sixteen-credit project closes the degree. Forty credits again, from five items rather than ten.

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Forty plus forty is eighty, which is the total the prospectus prints, and the two figures were summed independently before this page was written rather than copied from the total line. Of those eighty credits, sixteen sit in a project that carries no assignment paper and sixteen more sit in two codes whose booklets are written, numbered and dated by a school MATS learners never otherwise deal with. That leaves fourteen course codes carrying a Tutor Marked Assignment paper: the twelve MTT codes issued by the translation school, and MEG 14 and MEG 15 issued by the humanities school.

The borrowing runs in one direction only, and the status of the two codes flips as it crosses. In the MEG programme table in the same prospectus, MEG 14 and MEG 15 are both marked Elective, inside a second-year block headed “Any Five of the following courses”. In the MATS table they carry no elective marker and no choice instruction at all. The same two course codes are optional for an MA English learner and compulsory for a MATS learner, and the only way to see that is to read the two tables against each other.

Because those two codes belong to another programme’s shelf, the study support for them sits there too. The MA English book shelf carries the MEG titles, the online-mode MEG volumes cover the same syllabus for MEGOL and MATSOL learners, and guess papers written against the MEG syllabus are filed under English rather than under translation. Nothing on this store files MEG 14 under MATS, which is exactly the trap this section exists to name.

Eight Places IGNOU’s Own MATS Records Contradict Each Other

The following were found by reading IGNOU’s July 2026 Common Prospectus, its live Current Assignments service and two live booklets from ignou.ac.in against one another. They are set out because a MATS learner will hit them, not because they reflect badly on anyone. The last item is this publisher’s own.

Two Cut-Offs, and Why the MEG Booklet and the Portal Print Different Ones

Every IGNOU programme runs on two annual submission windows tied to the two term-end examination sittings. For MATS the position on IGNOU’s live Current Assignments service, read for the MEG-14 and MEG-15 rows carrying the MATS and MATSOL programme codes, is 30 April 2027 for the June term-end examination and 30 September 2027 for the December term-end examination, against files valid for the July 2026 and January 2027 sessions.

The booklets themselves print something narrower. MEG-14 heads its instruction “Last Date for Submission of Assignment” and gives 31 March for the June examination and 30 September for December. MEG-15 words the same instruction as a session rather than an examination: submit by 31 March for the July session and 30 September for the January session. Both booklets were issued for the July 2025 and January 2026 sessions, one cycle behind the rows on the portal, which is the most likely explanation for the March-versus-April gap. It is not this page’s place to decide which governs your enrolment.

The safe reading is the earlier of the two. A MATS learner who works to 31 March is inside both figures; one who works to 30 April is inside only one of them. Whichever you choose, verify it against the file you personally downloaded and against your Regional Centre before you commit, and treat your fourteen MTT and MEG codes as fourteen separate deadlines rather than one, because IGNOU’s own table stores every code as its own row. The Current Assignments service on ignou.ac.in shows the due date for each code beside the download link.

What MEG-14/TMA/2025-26 Tells the Evaluator

The assignment code is the one line on your cover sheet that tells an evaluator which paper you answered, and MATS learners write two different formats in the same year without necessarily noticing.

The MEG booklets fetched for this page print MEG-14/TMA/2025-26 and MEG-15/TMA/2025-26. Read left to right: the course code, then TMA for Tutor Marked Assignment, then a two-year span rather than a single year. The two-year span is a School of Humanities convention, and it is why a MATS learner should not assume the format carried on their MTT papers will look the same. Copy the code exactly as it appears on the booklet you downloaded, including the punctuation and the year span, onto every cover sheet. An evaluator holding a 2025-26 answer script against a 2026-27 question paper has a filing problem before they have a marking one.

One further detail is worth knowing before you write the cover sheet: MEG-14 sets its own answer-sheet header layout, listing course title, assignment number and study centre in the centre of the first page with enrolment number, name, address and date at the top right. MEG-15 prints the same fields in a different arrangement. Follow the layout printed on the booklet in front of you rather than a template, because the two are not interchangeable even within one programme year.

Your Own Hand, Copied From One Photograph

Send a photo of a page you have written yourself and the handwritten set is matched to your handwriting at no extra charge. That is the whole mechanism, and it is the reason nothing is paid before you have seen a sample.

What the sample photo has to show

Half a page of your ordinary handwriting is enough, photographed straight on in daylight, with the whole page in frame. It does not need to be MATS content and it does not need to be neat. Anything with a full range of letters and a few numbers works; a shopping list works. What matters is slant, letter height, spacing and the way you form descenders, because those are what a writer copies. A sample written slowly and carefully to look good is the least useful kind, since the finished set will then look nothing like the pages you hand in for the other codes.

A written sample page comes back on WhatsApp before any payment is taken. If the match is wrong, say so and it is redone. That step is where the risk in ordering handwritten work actually sits, and it is deliberately placed before the money rather than after it.

Hindi Paper, English Paper, and Every Cycle Behind You

The service covers all mediums IGNOU issues the TMA paper in, at the same price. For MATS that sentence carries more weight than it does on most programmes, because the prospectus records the medium of instruction as English and Hindi both, and IGNOU’s live assignment service records the MATS and MATSOL entitlement for MEG-14 and MEG-15 as Hindi while the MEG and MEGOL entitlement for the identical codes is English. A MATS learner and an MA English learner can hold the same course code and be marked against two different papers.

Send the medium printed on the file you downloaded, not the medium you would prefer to write in. If the file you have says English and your record says Hindi, that mismatch is worth resolving with your Regional Centre before anything is written, because it is cheaper to fix a download than a finished set.

Session coverage has no such complications. Any session is accepted, current cycle or older, including backlog courses, at the same ₹320 per subject. A MATS learner clearing a 2022-23 MTT 015 backlog alongside a current MEG 15 pays the same rate for both, and the two are written against the two different papers rather than against one. Papers expire and are replaced every cycle, which is precisely why the session on the file matters as much as the code.

The Five Lines That Turn a MATS Query Into an Order

Five things, and the quote comes back the same day with the paper named. Anything beyond these five is not needed and is not asked for.

1. The course codes. Written as your admission record prints them, MTT 010 through MTT 021, plus MEG 14 or MEG 15 if you are in the second year.
2. The session on the file. The one printed on the cover of the booklet you downloaded, not the year you enrolled.
3. The medium. Hindi or English, as the downloaded file states it.
4. Your pin code. Six digits, and nothing else about the address is needed at the quote stage.
5. One photograph of your handwriting. Half a page, daylight, whole page in frame.

Your enrolment number and study centre code are asked for at the cover-sheet stage, not at the quote stage. Nothing is paid until the sample page has come back and you have said it looks like yours.

When the MATS Bundle Reaches Your Address

Open it and check three things before anything else. First, that the course code on each cover sheet matches the code on your record, one file per code. Second, that the printed question paper enclosed is the same session as the one your study centre expects. Third, that the handwriting looks like yours across all the pages rather than only the first few.

Then read it. 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. On a translation-studies degree that instruction has teeth: MEG-14 asks for critical appreciation of named texts and MEG-15 asks for positions on Eurocentrism and interliterariness, and an answer you have not read is an answer you cannot defend at the counter or afterwards.

Submission goes to the Coordinator of the Learner Support Centre you were allotted at admission, as a single document per course code and never two codes combined into one file. Ask for a receipt and keep it. Marks appear on the grade card well after submission, and the receipt is the only thing you hold if a file goes missing between the counter and the evaluator.

What MATS Learners Put in the Same Basket

A handwritten set solves one problem, and MATS learners tend to arrive with three. Where the shelves already exist on this store, they are linked here; where they do not yet exist for MATS specifically, that is said rather than papered over.

For revision ahead of the term-end examination, the MATS solved guess papers shelf is the one built for this programme code. For reading rather than revision, a first-year MTT reference volume covers the opening theory paper, and learners who also sat the diploma route will find the PGDT translation titles useful, since PGDT runs on the same MTT prefix in a different number range.

PGDT learners who landed here by mistake want the diploma-level translation handwritten page instead, which covers MTT 051 to MTT 055 and MTT 033 rather than the MATS range. If your programme is not MATS at all and you simply need a code written out, the open handwritten order form for any code and any session takes it, and the handwritten desk that serves every programme is the parent shelf above all of these. A printed reference booklet covering any programme and session exists for learners who want model answers on paper rather than on a screen.

Two shelves are genuinely missing and are named here rather than hidden: there is no MATS solved-assignment category on this store yet, and no MATS project category for MTTP 22. Until they exist, send the codes on WhatsApp and availability is confirmed by hand.

What MATS Learners Ask Before Sending Codes

How many MATS course codes actually have an assignment paper?

Fourteen, and they come from two schools. Twelve carry the MTT prefix, MTT 010 to MTT 021, issued by the School of Translation Studies and Training. Two more, MEG 14 and MEG 15, are issued by the School of Humanities under the MEG programme. The fifteenth item in the degree, MTTP 22, is the sixteen-credit project with viva-voce and carries no Tutor Marked Assignment booklet at all.

Why does my MEG 14 booklet say MEG and not MATS anywhere on it?

Because IGNOU issues one booklet for the course code, not one per programme, and the School of Humanities writes its covers for MEG. Both fetched booklets print “Programme: MEG” and “School of Humanities” with no mention of MATS or MATSOL. IGNOU’s live Current Assignments service, separately, lists both codes against MATS and MATSOL. The file is yours; the cover simply does not say so.

Is the MATS deadline 31 March or 30 April?

IGNOU’s own two sources currently disagree. The MEG-14 and MEG-15 booklets issued for July 2025 and January 2026 print 31 March for the June examination. The live Current Assignments service, against the MATS rows for the July 2026 and January 2027 files, prints 30 April 2027. Both print 30 September for the December sitting. Working to the earlier date keeps you inside both, but confirm with your Regional Centre.

Kya main MATS ka typed ya printed solved assignment jama kar sakta hoon?

Nahin. Instruction 6 on the MEG booklets says to write in your own handwriting, and instruction 4 restricts the paper stock. A printed file is a printed file whatever is on it. A solved assignment is a reference to write from; it is not a submission. That is exactly the gap this handwritten product fills.

Solved assignment aur handwritten assignment mein kya difference hai?

A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers for a course code and session, meant for reading and writing from. A handwritten assignment is those answers written out by hand on A4 and submitted in hard copy at the Learner Support Centre. This page sells only the second. No soft copy or PDF is sold.

Will one MTT paper and one MEG paper take the same amount of writing?

No, and MATS is unusual in how far apart they sit. MEG-14 asks you to attempt all ten questions at ten marks each. MEG-15 asks for any five of eight at twenty marks each. Both total 100 marks, but the answer lengths the two imply are very different, and the MTT papers are four-credit courses against the MEG papers’ eight. The rate does not move for any of them.

I downloaded an MTT paper and it turned out to be a certificate course. What went wrong?

The MTT prefix is shared across four School of Translation Studies and Training programmes with disjoint number ranges: MTT-001 to MTT-005 for the Bangla-Hindi and Malayalam-Hindi certificates, MTT 031 for another certificate, MTT 033 and MTT 051 to MTT 055 for PGDT, and MTT 010 to MTT 021 for MATS. Only the number separates them. Search the assignment service by programme code MATS rather than by prefix.

My paper is in Hindi but my friend on MA English has the same code in English. Which is right?

Both are, for their own programmes. IGNOU’s live service lists MEG-14 and MEG-15 in Hindi against MATS and MATSOL, and the same two codes in English against MEG and MEGOL. Send whichever medium your own downloaded file states. The service covers all mediums IGNOU issues the TMA paper in, at the same price.

Can I order just one code, or do I have to take the whole year?

One is fine. There is no minimum order: one subject or fourteen, same rate. Learners commonly send four or five and write the rest themselves, or send only the two MEG codes because the eight-credit papers eat the most evenings.

Is MTTP 22, the project with viva-voce, covered by this?

No. MTTP 22 carries sixteen credits and no Tutor Marked Assignment booklet, and it is not what this product sells. Note also that the prospectus prints it as MTTP 22 while the same document prints the cognate PGDT project as MTTP 006 and third-party sites circulate MTT-022. Use the form on your own registration record when you raise it with your school.

I am on MATSOL, the online-mode version. Does this page apply?

The course codes are the same and IGNOU’s live service lists MATS and MATSOL together on the MEG-14 and MEG-15 rows with identical dates and medium. Note that the prospectus itself titles the online variant “Master of Arts in Translation Studies (MATSOL)” while the main section reads “Master of Arts (Translation Studies) (MATS)”. Confirm your submission route with your Regional Centre, because online-mode learners are sometimes routed differently.

How much do the assignments actually affect the MATS result?

Assignments carry 30 per cent of the final course result and the term-end examination carries the remaining 70 per cent. On an eight-credit course such as MEG 15 that is thirty marks on a paper worth twice a normal MTT course, which is why the two second-year MEG codes are the ones most often sent for writing.

Are backlog MTT codes from an older cycle accepted?

Yes. Any session is accepted, current cycle or older, including backlog courses, at the same ₹320 per subject. Send the session printed on the file you downloaded for that code, because the questions change between cycles and an old answer set against a new paper is a rejected file.

What is the total including delivery?

The rate is ₹320 per subject, hard copy only, with courier included in that price and no separate shipping charge. There is nothing added at dispatch. Delivery depends on your pin code and is confirmed for your order before you pay. No figure is promised on this page.

Can you tell me what marks the MATS set will get?

No. 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 offered is the writing, the format, the cover sheet and the courier at a fixed rate.

How This MATS Page Was Put Together

Source one, the prospectus. Programme structure, all fifteen course codes, English course titles, credits, the eighty-credit total, the school, the medium of instruction and the two-year minimum with a four-year maximum come from section 3.52 and the master’s-degree fee table of the IGNOU Common Prospectus, July 2026. The MEG elective status of MEG 14 and MEG 15 comes from the MEG table in the same document, and the PGDT comparison from section 8.3. Credit totals were summed independently, ten times four for year one and four plus four plus eight plus eight plus sixteen for year two, and both reached forty before the printed total of eighty was accepted.

Source two, the live files on ignou.ac.in. Two booklets were opened and read in full: MEG-14 for the July 2025 and January 2026 sessions and MEG-15 for the same sessions. Submission dates, assignment code format, question pattern, mark split, paper-stock instruction and cover-page applicability were read off those two files, not carried from another programme. Programme-code entitlement, medium, maximum marks, weightage and the current due dates were read from IGNOU’s live Current Assignments service. The MATS programme index on the assignment portal was also opened and is recorded above as still headlining an older session. One further live file, an MTT booklet on the School of Translation Studies and Training path, was opened and returned no machine-readable text, so nothing has been quoted from it and no MTT question pattern is stated on this page.

Source three, this publisher’s own commercial terms. The ₹320 rate, hard-copy-only scope, courier inclusion, free cover sheet, enclosed question paper, medium and session coverage, free handwriting match and absence of a minimum order are Shri Chakradhar Publication’s own terms and are not IGNOU rules. Where a legacy page elsewhere on this store states something different, this page is the current position. 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 4 September 2026. Next review due before 31 March 2027, the earlier of the two cut-off dates in dispute above.

If you would rather write the MATS set yourself, the editorial side of this operation covers the programme structure and the project separately at the MATS programme guide on ignouproject.com, which carries no order form.

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.