IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical: what the PGDRPC handbook asks you to hand in
The IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical is Practical-I: Identification and Assessment, the 8-credit laboratory course of the Post Graduate Diploma in Rehabilitation Psychology (PGDRPC). You learn the tests in eight supervised sessions at your Work Centre, then write up real cases in a practicum notebook that your Academic Counsellor marks out of 100.
MPCL 075 in a few lines
For the IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical, PGDRPC learners attend eight 3-hour lab sessions at the allotted Work Centre, submit two case reports from Part I screening and five cases of psychological test records from Part II, and are marked internally out of 100, with 40 as the minimum and no viva printed.
The handbook behind this page is the October 2025 Handbook on Identification and Assessment (MPCL 075), issued by the Discipline of Psychology, School of Social Sciences. It is the course’s own document, so every rule below comes from it unless another IGNOU source is named. Search pages and course lists also write the course as MPCL 075 Identification and Assessment or MPCL-075. MPCL 076 Practical-II: Intervention is the programme’s second laboratory course and is not covered on this page.
Across practical courses, the lab file worries learners far more than the theory papers, and people who handle MPC-071 to MPC-074 comfortably can still stall here. MPCL 075 carries 8 of the 32 PGDRPC credits, twice the weight of any single theory course in the prospectus table.
Many learners who contact our desk are unsure which pages the file itself has to carry. For MPCL 075 the handbook answers it in one note: a title page, a certificate and a table of contents naming each practical with its page number, written on A4 ruled sheets organised in a file. The section on front pages below lists what the appendices actually print.
Many learners find out late in the session that their programme has a practical side. PGDRPC has two of them, MPCL 075 and MPCL 076, each worth 8 credits, so ask your WC Coordinator for the session schedule early.
Jump to a part of this MPCL-075 guide
- What the handbook asks you to hand in
- Matching participants to tests
- Part I: case history and screening tools
- Scoring the Part II tests
- The notebook format
- How the 100 marks are given
- Eight sessions at the Work Centre
- Front pages and appendices
- Your own cases, your own file
- Questions learners search
- MPC theory guides
- Submission at the Work Centre
Which participant fits which test?
The fastest way to lose a session in the IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical is to bring a participant who falls outside a test’s printed range. The handbook gives an age band or target group for most tools, and the five Part II cases cover three marked domains, so the age of each participant decides which tests you can write up.
Which tool suits which case
| Tool in MPCL 075 | Age or group printed | What you record |
|---|---|---|
| Developmental Screening Test | Birth to 15 years; above 15, chronological age is taken as 15 | Developmental age and DQ = DA/CA x 100 |
| NIMH Developmental Screening Schedule | Schedule I below 3 years, II for 3 to 6, III for 7 and above | Delays on the checklist items |
| Gesell’s Developmental Schedules | Birth to 6 years | Motor, personal-social, language and adaptive behaviour against age norms |
| PRASHAST checklist | School learners, primary to Class 12 | Part 1 teacher observation, Part 2 screening for 21 conditions |
| Seguin Form Board | Children 3 to 11 years, adults with intellectual disability | Best time of three trials, mental age from the chart, then IQ |
| Binet Kamat Test | 3 to 22 years | Basal age, terminal age, mental age, IQ = MA/CA x 100 |
| Malin’s scale (MISIC) | 6 to 15 years 11 months | Verbal IQ, Performance IQ, Full-Scale IQ |
| Vineland Social Maturity Scale | Birth to 18 years, through a parent or caregiver | Social age and SQ = SA/CA x 100 |
| BASIC-MR Part B | Children 3 to 16 or 18 with intellectual disability | Problem behaviours scored 0, 1 or 2 by frequency |
| PGI Battery of Brain Dysfunction | 20 to 45 years, usable up to 59 | Five subtests, 19 variables, separate norms for each |
| Bender Gestalt, Vocational Assessment Checklist, finger dexterity and steadiness tests | No band printed; the checklist is for persons with intellectual disability | Lacks signs, vocational profile, time and error counts |
Built from the MPCL 075 handbook (October 2025) read in November 2026. Norms and cut-offs come from the test manual kept at your Work Centre, not from this table.
Read across the rows and the planning problem is clear. A single school-age child can sit the DST, the Binet Kamat Test, MISIC and the Vineland scale, while the PGI battery needs an adult of at least 20. Planning the five Part II cases against these bands early saves you from repeating a session.
Three things trip learners up across programmes: rules reach them late, the lab assumes time and travel that working adults struggle to find, and the file gets treated as formatting. MPCL 075 asks for 24 lab hours at an allotted Work Centre and reports on real cases, so the time and the application are both built into the course.
Part I: case history, interview, observation and four screening tools
Part I of the IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical is Screening and Early Identification of Persons with Disabilities, marked as Developmental Assessment. It has two blocks of work. The first is case history taking, with observation and the clinical interview; the handbook prints a full Case Record Proforma (identification data, parents’ details, prenatal to postnatal history, immunisation, milestones, school, play, family and a pedigree chart) and walks through the five interview stages and the mental status examination. The second is four screening tools: the Developmental Screening Test (DST), PRASHAST from NCERT, the NIMH Developmental Screening Schedule and Gesell’s Developmental Schedules.
The output of Part I is fixed: two case reports based on actual work on cases with these techniques and tests. Two details in the handbook change how you take a history. Immunisation history is to be filled by a doctor or paediatrician, not by you. And the NIMH screening schedules are, in the handbook’s words, not meant to give a final diagnosis; a concern found on screening leads to a detailed assessment.
Consent comes before any test. The counsellor’s procedure in the handbook includes informed consent, a promise that the findings stay confidential and permission before a session is recorded, and the participant’s profile in the notebook treats the name as optional.
Some learners write up assumed figures in place of a real assessment. MPCL 075 asks for case reports based on actual work on cases, so each age, score and observation in your two Part I reports has to come from a child or adult you assessed yourself.
Learners tell us they hold three formats at once: the handbook’s, the counsellor’s and a senior’s sample. The MPCL 075 handbook itself says a particular case history format may be followed by the rehabilitation counsellor or psychologist, so if your counsellor hands you a different proforma, use it and keep the handbook’s headings as a checklist.
Learners from Hindi-medium schooling often struggle to write case reports in English. PGDRPC’s medium of instruction is English, and the MPCL 075 handbook notes that a mental status examination cannot be given to someone not fluent in the examiner’s language, so plan the interview language first and confirm the notebook language with your counsellor.
How the Part II tests are scored in the IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical
Part II of the IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical is Psychological Assessment, and the handbook asks for hands-on administration, scoring and interpretation, written up as psychological test records of five cases. It lists nine tools in three groups. Intellectual: Seguin Form Board, Binet Kamat Test of Intelligence and Malin’s scale. Adaptive behaviour: Vineland Social Maturity Scale and BASIC-MR Part B from NIEPID. Neuropsychological and vocational: Bender Gestalt Test, PGI Battery of Brain Dysfunction, a Vocational Assessment Checklist and psychomotor tests of finger dexterity and steadiness.
The handbook’s own worked numbers are worth copying into your rough work. On the DST it takes a child of 8 years 2 months (98 months) with a developmental age of 72 months and gets a DQ of 73. On the Binet Kamat Test each item credits 2 months at ages 3 to 10, 4 months at 12, 14 and 16, and 6 months at 19 and 22, added to the basal age. For the Bender test it describes the Lacks system of 12 signs, with five or more present taken as indicative of brain damage, and it says the test should be administered and interpreted only by a trained psychologist and not used as the only test for any clinical purpose.
The Behaviour Management Programme format sits inside the adaptive behaviour pages: nine steps from identifying problem behaviours to follow-up, with a baseline recorded by frequency or duration, and a plan that picks five problem behaviours and three targets.
In test-based practicals, wrong scoring, the wrong norm table and conclusions the score does not support are common. MPCL 075 asks you to interpret each score with the norms in the test manual, so write the formula, the raw figures and the norm used beside each IQ, DQ or SQ.
Weak lab records share a look: no table, half a calculation, an unlabelled profile and no precautions. The MPCL 075 format wants tables, figures and diagrams drawn in pencil on a blank page with a proper title and number, and a precautions heading under procedure.
The write-up is where lab marks slip away, and it is also the easiest part to fix. Because MPCL 075 is marked entirely on conduct and reporting, a careful scoring and interpretation section is where your effort shows.
Writing up a test in the practicum notebook format
The IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical uses one format for every test, introduced by the Academic Counsellor. In order, the headings are: Title; Aims or Objectives; Introduction; Description of the Test; Materials Required; Participant’s Profile; Procedure and Administration, with Preparation, Rapport, Instructions and Precautions under it; Introspective Report; Scoring and Interpretation; Discussion; Conclusion; and References.
The notebook format, heading by heading
- Description of the Test names the author, purpose, number of items, dimensions, time limit, reliability, validity and scoring.
- Participant’s Profile gives age, gender, education and occupation; the name is optional.
- Instructions are copied from the test manual.
- The Introspective Report records the participant’s feelings, experience and difficulties, written in the first person only.
- Scoring and Interpretation uses the scoring key and the manual’s norms.
- Discussion reads the result alongside the introspective report.
- References follow APA style, listed alphabetically.
The handbook also prints a case report format headed PGDRPC-MPCL-075 Identification and Assessment, with blocks for both developmental and intellectual assessment: demographic details, presenting complaints, histories, behavioural observation, purpose of assessment, tests administered, findings, profile analysis, clinical impression, recommendation, and a space for the supervisor’s comment and signature. Ask your counsellor whether to use it for the two case reports.
Practical reports expect their headings in a fixed order, and a missing one costs marks. In MPCL 075 the order is the handbook’s twelve headings from Title to References, and the introspective report sits between the procedure and the scoring.
Entries such as “administered the test and noted the score” say what happened and nothing more. For MPCL 075 the discussion is meant to discuss the result from your interpretation and read it in the light of the introspective report, so link it back to the concept your introduction defines.
Reference lists in the write-ups we see often mix styles and list sources the write-up did not use. The MPCL 075 handbook sets APA style, alphabetical order, and cites manuals and websites too, so list the test manual you actually used.
100 marks, all internal: how the IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical is evaluated
Evaluation in the IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical is internal only. The handbook gives the actual conduct of the practical work and its reporting in the prescribed format the full weightage, sets the total at 100 marks and sets the minimum at 40 marks. The Academic Counsellor at the Work Centre, called the supervisor on the marks sheet, awards the marks in four equal domains.
The four 25-mark domains
| Domain on the MPCL 075 marks sheet | Maximum | Tools the handbook lists for it |
|---|---|---|
| Developmental Assessment | 25 | Case history, observation and clinical interview, DST, PRASHAST, NIMH Developmental Screening Schedule, Gesell’s Developmental Schedules |
| Intellectual Assessment | 25 | Seguin Form Board, Binet Kamat Test, Malin’s scale for Indian children |
| Assessment of Adaptive Behaviour | 25 | Vineland Social Maturity Scale, BASIC-MR Part B |
| Neuropsychological Assessment and Vocational Assessment | 25 | Bender Gestalt Test, PGI Battery of Brain Dysfunction, Vocational Assessment Checklist, finger dexterity and steadiness tests |
Two things are missing from the handbook, and both matter. It prints no term-end practical examination and no viva for MPCL 075, and it does not say how the two case reports and the five test-record cases are split across the four domains. Ask your Academic Counsellor how many records each domain expects, and plan your cases against the age bands above.
Most of the distance learners we meet are working, running a home, or both, and theory counselling feels optional to them. The MPCL 075 handbook says plainly that the learner must attend the practical classes and that taking part in the counselling sessions for this practical course is compulsory, so a missed session is lab work you still owe.
Learners often ask us whether a viva comes with their practical. For MPCL 075 the October 2025 handbook describes internal assessment by the Academic Counsellor and prints no viva and no separate practical exam, so prepare the notebook as the thing that is marked.
Learners at our desk often confuse the Rs 300 and Rs 500 amounts in IGNOU’s fee table for projects and practicals. The MPCL 075 handbook prints no fee; if your PGDRPC exam form does charge a practical examination fee for it, an 8-credit course sits in the prospectus slab for courses above 4 credits, which is Rs 500.
Eight sessions of three hours at your Work Centre
Laboratory time for the IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical is fixed by its credits: the handbook sets 8 sessions of 3 hours each, a total of 24 hours, held in the psychology laboratory at the Work Centre the University allotted to you. The prospectus adds that the Work Centre allotted by the University shall be final. Tests are taught during these contact classes, and the counsellor demonstrates each one before learners administer it to each other in pairs.
The schedule does not come from headquarters. The handbook tells you to contact your WC Coordinator or In-charge for the dates of the MPCL 075 sessions, and that is the one place to confirm them. The handbook also lists seven supplementary videos on the EMPC-IGNOU YouTube channel to support your learning of MPCL 075 topics.
Lab classes run on fixed dates, now and then at a centre well away from where the learner lives, and a learner who does not check the notice board misses the batch and waits for the next one. For MPCL 075 the dates come from your Work Centre, so ask the WC Coordinator directly rather than waiting for a message.
Learners compare notes with friends at another centre and then find their own centre works differently. PGDRPC runs through allotted Work Centres, and the MPCL 075 handbook leaves the session schedule to each one, so follow your own WC Coordinator and the handbook, not a batchmate’s centre.
In our records, 70 to 80 percent of learners start moving only in the final month before a submission date. The MPCL 075 handbook prints no submission date for the notebook, so ask your Work Centre when it is collected and write each practical up while the session is still fresh.
Front pages, certificates and the appendix numbering slip
The front of an IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical file is set out in one note of the handbook: a title page, a certificate and a table of contents, on A4 ruled pages organised in a file, with a photocopy kept and an acknowledgement taken at submission. That note names the title page as Appendix 1, the certificate as Appendix 2 and the acknowledgement as Appendix 3. The appendices printed at the back are numbered differently.
Front pages and the four appendices
| Printed at the back | Who signs or fills it | Fields |
|---|---|---|
| Appendix I, Certificate of Attendance at the Work Centre | Academic Counsellor | Learner’s name, Work Centre, counsellor’s name and address, date |
| Appendix II, Acknowledgement | Whoever receives the file at the Work Centre | Learner’s name and enrolment number, Work Centre, Regional Centre, place, date |
| Appendix III, Evaluation Scheme for Practical | Academic Counsellor as supervisor | Programme code PGDRPC, course code, four domain marks, empanelment and CRR numbers |
| Appendix IV, Certificate of Completion | Learner and Academic Counsellor | Enrolment number, Work Centre, Regional Centre, counsellor’s CRR number |
No title page template is printed at all, and Appendix IV types the programme as PGDRP while Appendix III prints PGDRPC. Copy your programme code as PGDRPC, and ask your counsellor which certificates go at the front of the file. The handbook has smaller slips too: the Part II list calls Malin’s scale a test, BASIC-MR Part B is said to cover ten domains while nine are listed, and the Seguin heading is misspelt.
Many learners ask us about page order. For MPCL 075 the handbook names only a title page, a certificate and a table of contents with page numbers and sets no order for the rest, so number each page before writing the contents list, then follow the order your Academic Counsellor confirms.
Some learners spiral-bind their practical file. The MPCL 075 handbook asks for neatly written A4 ruled pages organised correctly in a file and names no binding type, so a plain file folder meets the printed rule.
Across lab courses, we see counsellor certificates left unsigned. Three MPCL 075 appendices carry the Academic Counsellor’s signature (the attendance certificate, the evaluation scheme and the completion certificate), and the completion certificate needs yours as well.
Why your MPCL 075 practical file must come from your own cases
An IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical notebook only works as evidence of your own assessments. The handbook builds the course on actual conduct: the counsellor demonstrates, learners administer to each other while the counsellor monitors, and the reports must rest on actual work on cases. Test descriptions can be read from the manual and the handbook, but the profile, the scores and the introspective report belong to one real participant and to you.
Many learners paste test histories from websites and hand them in unchecked. In an MPCL 075 introduction, write the history and features of each tool in your own sentences and cite the manual or book in APA style, as the handbook asks.
Some learners submit AI-generated write-ups as they are, which is one more reason so many read alike. An MPCL 075 introspective report has to be the participant’s own first-person account, and no tool can produce that for you.
Ready-made lab files circulate online, and some get handed in with just a new name and roll number on top; copies that match at one centre are easy to spot. In MPCL 075 the same Academic Counsellor who monitors your test administration in the lab corrects and evaluates the notebook.
IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical questions, answered from the handbook
What PGDRPC learners search about this course
How do I check my IGNOU practical status for MPCL 075?
To check your IGNOU practical status, use the IGNOU Assignment, Project and Practical Marks Transmission Status page with your enrolment number and programme code. The page itself says status appears only after study centres or regional centres transmit marks after evaluation. For MPCL 075 the marks are given at the Work Centre, so a blank status shows only that no marks have been transmitted yet.
Whom do I ask when the IGNOU practical result for MPCL 075 is missing?
Start with your Work Centre, because the Academic Counsellor there awards the MPCL 075 marks. If the IGNOU practical result still does not appear, the prospectus contact table lists practicalsed@ignou.ac.in and 011-29572212 for practical marks. Keep your acknowledgement and photocopy ready when you write.
Lab marks tend to show up on the grade card after the theory marks do, and the diploma status stays pending until they arrive. For a PGDRPC learner planning to apply to RCI as a rehabilitation counsellor, an MPCL 075 mark that has not been transmitted is worth chasing early.
Is the MPCL 075 practical file the same as the practicum notebook?
Yes. The handbook calls it the practicum notebook in its format pages and the Practical File (MPCL-075 Identification and Assessment) on the acknowledgement form; it is one file. On the IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical we sell no ready-made practical file, record or case report, because the course marks your own conduct of the tests.
Can the PGDRPC practical work be done from home?
The handbook says all the outlined practicals are conducted in the psychology laboratory at the allotted Work Centre, and the test kits and manuals are used there. Cases for the reports are real people you assess, but the teaching, the demonstration and the supervised administration happen at the Work Centre.
Reading for the theory side: MPC-071 to MPC-074 guides
Alongside the IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical, PGDRPC has four 4-credit theory courses, MPC-071 to MPC-074, and the July 2026 MPC 072 assignment file sends tutor-marked assignments to the Work Centre too. Our shelf for the programme holds study guides for those four theory courses. They are reading for the theory papers and assignments; the practical file stays your own work from your own cases.
MPC theory guides for the four PGDRPC papers
| Course | Guide | Coverage and format |
|---|---|---|
| MPC-071 Disability and Rehabilitation | MPC-071 study guide | 2026 edition, English, four blocks, A5 paperback |
| MPC-072 Psychosocial Issues in Disability | MPC-072 study guide | 2026 edition, English, four blocks, A5 paperback |
| MPC-073 Rehabilitation Assessment and Counselling | MPC-073 study guide | 2026 edition, English, five blocks, A5 paperback |
| MPC-074 Community Based Rehabilitation | MPC-074 study guide | 2026 edition, English, four blocks, A5 paperback |
Other practical and internship courses are grouped under IGNOU Practical and Internship.
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The learners who do well in lab courses start early, check rules with their own centre, write each record on the day it happens, get each signature at the session itself and can explain each page in their own words. For MPCL 075 that means the eight Work Centre sessions, a dated write-up after each one and both certificates signed before the file goes in.
Handing the notebook in at the Work Centre, and after
The IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical notebook is submitted at your Work Centre, where the Academic Counsellor corrects and evaluates it. Take the acknowledgement in the Appendix II form, keep the photocopy the handbook asks for, and note the date. The handbook names no postal route to headquarters; the file goes to the Work Centre.
Without a receipt, a learner whose marks disappear has no proof that the file was ever handed in. For MPCL 075 the handbook prints its own acknowledgement form, so carry a filled copy and get it signed when you hand the file in.
We often see attendance proof left out of lab files. The MPCL 075 handbook prints a Certificate of Attendance at the Work Centre as its first appendix, so ask your counsellor to sign it at the last session rather than weeks later.
A wrong enrolment number or centre name on the first page is an easy slip to make. MPCL 075 Appendices II to IV ask for your enrolment number, Work Centre and Regional Centre, so copy them from your admission record once and reuse the same spelling.
Taken together, the IGNOU MPCL 075 Practical rewards PGDRPC learners who plan real cases against each test’s age band, write each test up in the handbook’s headings on the day, and hand a signed, contents-listed file to their Work Centre with a receipt in return.
Documents behind this MPCL 075 page
- Handbook on Identification and Assessment (MPCL 075), PGDRPC, Discipline of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, IGNOU, October 2025 (course document supplied by the publisher’s desk, read in full)
- IGNOU Common Prospectus July 2026, section 8.13 (PGDRPC), the programme table and the practical examination fee rule
- IGNOU PGDRPC programme page
- MPC 072 assignment file for the July 2026 admission cycle (Work Centre submission instructions)
- IGNOU Assignment, Project and Practical Marks Transmission Status page
shrichakradhar.com is an independent publisher and is not affiliated with, authorised by or endorsed by IGNOU. The study guides listed here are reading material for the theory courses and are not for submission as your own work; IGNOU’s rules in your own handbook and at your Work Centre decide every practical requirement.
