IGNOU BASOH Handwritten Assignment: BSOC 101 to 114, BSOE and BANE Electives, ₹320 per Subject

Inside the Parcel a BASOH Learner Signs For

A Sociology order leaves as paper and arrives as paper. For every BSOC or BSOE code on the list there is one complete set of answers, written out in ink on loose sheets, ordered question by question in the sequence the booklet prints them, and kept inside the word bands the booklet asks for rather than padded out to fill a page. The rate is ₹320 per subject, hard copy only, with courier included in that price and no separate shipping charge.

Clipped to the front of each set is the IGNOU-format cover sheet, filled in with the enrolment number, name, address, course code, course title, study centre and the assignment code exactly as that particular booklet prints it. The cover sheet costs nothing extra. Behind the answers sits a printed copy of the official question paper for that code and session, so the Study Centre counter can see the paper the set was written against without anyone having to download it again.

What is deliberately absent matters as much. No soft copy or PDF is sold. There is no emailed file, no shared drive link and no typed manuscript, because the only version of this work that a Study Centre will log is the one on paper with a signature under the declaration. The declaration block is left blank on purpose: it is yours to read and sign.

Where the ₹320 Stops, and What Sits Outside It

The figure is per subject, not per semester and not per parcel. A BASOH learner ordering the three third-semester core papers pays for three subjects; a learner ordering only BSOE 143 because the rest of the semester is already written pays for one. There is no minimum order: one subject or fourteen, same rate.

Inside the figure: the writing itself, the ink, the paper, the cover sheet, the question-paper copy, the handwriting match and the courier. Delivery depends on your pin code and is confirmed for your order before you pay. No figure is promised on this page, and any page that does promise one is guessing on behalf of a courier network that does not work to a single national timetable.

Outside the figure: nothing is charged for Hindi rather than English, nothing is charged for a 2023-24 backlog paper rather than a current one, and nothing is charged for a second look at the handwriting sample. What genuinely sits outside is the submission itself. Shri Chakradhar Publication does not carry sets to Study Centres, does not sign declarations and does not collect receipts, because all three are acts IGNOU attaches to the learner personally.

Reference PDF or Submission Copy: Which Sociology Product You Actually Need

Two different things are sold against the word assignment, and BASOH learners buy the wrong one often enough that it is worth separating them before the code list is even discussed.

A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers for one course code and one session. You read it, you disagree with parts of it, you borrow a structure from it and you write your own answer. A handwritten assignment is the answers written out by hand on paper and submitted in hard copy at the study centre. One is reading material. The other is the artefact that goes over the counter.

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On the instruction side, the BSOC booklets are not ambiguous. The 2026-27 BSOC-106 paper tells the learner to answer in their own words, to stay inside the word limit for each section, to write neatly and underline the points being emphasised, to obtain a receipt from the Study Centre and keep it, to keep a photocopy of the assignment, and to ask the Study Centre to return the evaluated work. Every one of those instructions assumes a physical object changing hands. A downloaded model-answer file satisfies none of them on its own.

If what you actually want is the reference file rather than the written set, the BASOH solved assignment shelf is where the per-code PDFs sit, and that is the better page for that purchase. This page does not sell one and should not be read as offering one.

The Fourteen BSOC Papers That Make Up the Honours Core

BASOH is a 148-credit programme, and 84 of those credits sit in fourteen six-credit core courses with a BSOC prefix. The arithmetic was checked rather than copied: fourteen core courses at six credits give 84, four discipline electives at six give 24, two ability-enhancement courses at four give 8, two skill-enhancement courses at four give 8, and four generic electives at six give 24. The five figures total 148, which matches both the column totals and the semester totals printed in the Common Prospectus July 2026.

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Semesters III and IV are where the written load jumps. Both carry three core papers rather than two, and both add a skill-enhancement course and a generic elective on top, which is five assignments and 28 credits in a single semester. A learner who treats the third semester like the first will be two papers short. If you want the printed course content alongside the written set, the BSOC 106 help book on Sociology of Religion is an example of what the store carries per code.

Choosing Four Discipline Electives From a Pool of Six

The discipline-specific electives arrive late. Nothing is chosen before the fifth semester, and then two are taken in the fifth and two in the sixth, each worth six credits, 24 credits in all. The pool is not open across both semesters: the prospectus splits it, with three options offered in the fifth and three in the sixth.

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Two of the six carry a BANE prefix and come from Anthropology, which is why a Sociology learner can end up holding a booklet that never prints the word Sociology on its cover. They are counted as BASOH discipline electives all the same, and they are written at the same ₹320 per subject as a BSOC core paper. Printed material for the electives is shelved inconsistently on this store, so the BSOE 143 title the store still files under BAG Sociology is the same book a BASOH learner needs, and a guide book for Sociological Thinkers I sits correctly under BASOH. Both facts are flagged further down.

The AECC, SEC and Generic Elective Slots That Complete 148 Credits

The remaining 40 credits are the ones learners forget to order, because they do not carry a Sociology prefix and so do not feel like Sociology work. They are assessed exactly the same way.

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The generic-elective row is the one worth reading twice. Across the whole Honours chapter of the Common Prospectus July 2026, BASOH is the only BA Honours structure table whose generic-elective pool contains no BSOG code at all. Economics, History, Political Science, Public Administration, Anthropology and English honours learners can all take BSOG 171 Indian Society: Images and Realities as an outside subject. A Sociology honours learner cannot, because for them it is not outside. That single omission is the clearest structural signature BASOH has, and it is also the reason a BSOG code appearing on a BASOH record is worth querying before it is written.

Eight Places Where the BASOH Paper Trail Disagrees With Itself

None of what follows is a complaint. It is the working list a writer has to resolve before the first word of a BSOC answer goes down, and publishing it is more useful than quietly picking one side.

Where a document disagrees with itself, the rule applied here is simple and is stated so you can audit it: the code and the assignment-code string are taken from the booklet actually in your hand, the credit structure is taken from the Common Prospectus July 2026, and anything that cannot be reconciled is written here rather than smoothed over.

The April and October Cut-Offs Printed on a BSOC Booklet

Submission dates in IGNOU are set per school and per discipline, and the pair circulating for management programmes does not apply here. Every BSOC booklet read for this page prints the same two dates in the same direction: the July batch submits by 30 April of the following year, and the January batch submits by 31 October of that same year.

For the current cycle that means a July 2026 admission has until 30 April 2027, and a January 2027 admission has until 31 October 2027. The cycle before it ran the same way: July 2025 until 30 April 2026, January 2026 until 31 October 2026. Both sets were read off the covers rather than carried across from another programme, because a BA (Honours) Sociology learner comparing notes with a management learner will find the same two calendar dates attached to the opposite batches and conclude, wrongly, that one of them is mistaken.

Two further points the booklets make and aggregators tend to drop. Assignments carry 30 per cent of the final course result and the term-end examination carries the remaining 70 per cent. And the BSOC covers state that submitting assignments on time is a condition of eligibility for the term-end examination, so a missed BSOC paper is not only a lost thirty marks, it can close the door on the other seventy. Papers also expire: each cycle issues a fresh BSOC file and withdraws the previous one, which is why the session has to be stated when an order is placed. The current files sit on IGNOU’s own assignment download service, searchable by course code.

Four Code Strings, One Discipline, One Session

The assignment code is the short string printed on the booklet that also has to be copied onto the cover sheet. For most IGNOU programmes it follows one predictable shape. Sociology currently does not, and the four booklets read for this page printed four different shapes.

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There is no single correct BASOH format to memorise, and any site offering one is generalising from a single file. The string that belongs on your cover sheet is the one printed on the booklet you downloaded for your code, your session and your medium. Each set prepared here is captioned with that string copied character for character from the 2026-27 BSOC-106 booklet or whichever file applies, including the stray spacing the originals contain. If you are unsure which file is yours, the 2026-27 BSOC-104 file headed BASOH and BAFSO and the BAFSO-only BSOC-113 paper for 2025-26 show how different two covers for the same discipline can look.

The question pattern underneath is at least stable. Each BSOC paper carries 100 marks across ten compulsory questions in three sections: two at 20 marks in roughly 500 words, three at 10 marks in roughly 250 words, and five at 6 marks in roughly 100 words. That is 40, 30 and 30. The BAFSO files label the same three blocks Assignment A, B and C instead of Section I, II and III, which is another difference that is cosmetic on the page and alarming on a cover sheet.

Matching the Hand That Signs the Declaration

The declaration on an IGNOU cover sheet is signed by the learner, and a set in handwriting visibly unlike the learner’s own is an awkward object to put your name under. Send a photo of a page you have written yourself and the handwritten set is matched to your handwriting at no extra charge.

The Photo That Decides the Match

One clear photograph of a full page is enough, taken in daylight, flat on a table rather than held at an angle, with the whole sheet in frame. Sociology helps the matching more than most subjects: a BSOC 111 answer on Durkheim or a BSOC 102 answer on caste carries dozens of proper nouns, which gives far more letterform variety to copy than a page of equations would. Hindi-medium learners should send a Devanagari page, since matching a Devanagari hand from a Latin sample produces a poor result. Matching is done before the bulk writing starts, so a sample can be rejected and replaced without cost. You can send a sample page for matching before deciding anything else.

English, Hindi, Old Cycles and Dropped Papers

BASOH is admitted in English and Hindi, and IGNOU publishes the BSOC booklets separately for each. The service covers all mediums IGNOU issues the TMA paper in, at the same price. A learner enrolled in Hindi medium receives Devanagari answers written against the Hindi booklet, not a translation of the English one.

If Your Booklet Is in Hindi

The Hindi BSOC files are published under a different file-naming pattern from the English ones, and the Hindi BSOC-102 file for 2025-26 is a live example. One practical consequence is worth knowing before you go looking: that file’s text layer uses a legacy Devanagari font, so the cover text does not come out as searchable Hindi and the submission dates on it could not be read by machine while this page was prepared. Read the date off the printed cover with your own eyes, and if the Hindi cover and the English cover for the same code appear to disagree, treat the earlier of the two as your working deadline and ask the Study Centre to confirm.

On sessions, the position is deliberately unrestricted. Any session is accepted, current cycle or older, including backlog courses, at the same ₹320 per subject. A BSOC 105 paper abandoned two cycles ago, a BSOE 141 elective dropped when the fifth semester went badly, a re-registration gap that left three codes unwritten: none of these is treated as a special case or priced as one. What is required is the session, because the questions changed when the file was replaced.

What a Sociology Order Needs From You Before Writing Starts

Five things, and nothing more is asked for. There is no form, no account and no upload portal.

1. The course codes, written as they appear on your record, for example BSOC 109, BSOC 110 and BANE 143.
2. The session, meaning the admission cycle the booklet belongs to, such as July 2026 to January 2027.
3. The medium, English or Hindi, since the two booklets carry different questions.
4. The delivery pin code, which decides the courier answer that comes back with the total.
5. A photo of a page in your own handwriting, which is optional but is what the matching works from.

What is not asked for: your enrolment password, your IGNOU login, your date of birth or a payment before the sample has been looked at. If a code on your list turns out not to belong to BASOH, and BSOM and BSOG codes are the two that most often do not, it is raised with you before anything is written rather than billed and explained afterwards.

When the Courier Arrives and the Study Centre Receipt Follows

Open the parcel and check it against your own list first: one set per code, the cover sheet attached, the question-paper copy behind it, and the assignment-code string on the cover matching the booklet you downloaded. Anything mismatched is easier to correct in the first day than in the last week before the cut-off.

Then read the answers. 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. For a Sociology paper this is not a formality: an evaluator at a Study Centre may well ask about the Weber material in a BSOC 111 answer, and a learner who has not read their own submission is in a poor position.

At the counter, do what the BSOC cover itself instructs. Obtain a receipt and keep it, keep a photocopy of the set before handing it over, and ask the Study Centre to return the evaluated assignment once marks have gone to the Student Evaluation Division. The receipt is the only proof of submission that exists if the status page is slow to update.

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.

Revision and Exam Material BASOH Learners Pair With a Written Set

The written set closes the 30 per cent. The other 70 per cent still has to be taken in a hall, and the material that prepares for it is a different shelf. Many learners pair an order with the BASOH guess paper shelf for the codes they feel least secure in, and with past BSOC question papers with solutions, which show how the same theory is asked across cycles.

For reading rather than revision, the first-semester Introduction to Sociology I guide and the Economic Sociology study notes cover two of the heavier core papers, while the wider Social Sciences book shelf carries the generic electives a BASOH record picks up in the first four semesters. Learners holding codes from more than one bachelor’s programme can work from the bachelor-degree assignment index, and the handwritten assignment hub for every programme lists the other programme sets prepared the same way.

If the decision is to write the papers yourself rather than order them, that is a reasonable decision and there is a step-by-step guide to writing one yourself on the companion site, which costs nothing. Learners who turn out to be on the four-year programme rather than the honours one should read the companion BAFSO write-up instead, since the code list there is shorter and the cover pages differ.

What BASOH Learners Check Before They Pay

Will a typed or printed BSOC answer sheet be accepted at the Study Centre?

The BSOC booklets read for this page instruct the learner to write answers in their own words and to write neatly, underlining points being emphasised, and they describe a physical set handed over against a receipt. They do not describe a printed or emailed submission. Study Centres apply this in practice as a handwriting requirement, which is the whole reason this product exists. Confirm with your own Study Centre if you have been told otherwise, because only they and ignou.ac.in can rule on it for your enrolment.

What is the difference between a BASOH solved assignment and a BASOH handwritten assignment?

A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers for one course code and one session. A handwritten assignment is the answers written out by hand on paper and submitted in hard copy at the study centre. The first is something to read and write from. The second is the object that goes across the counter with your signature on it. This page sells the second.

Can a downloaded BSOC solved PDF be handed in as it is?

No. A downloaded file is reading material. Even printed out, it is not written in your hand and it is not what the cover declaration describes. Learners sometimes copy a solved file out by hand themselves, which is legitimate and free, and is exactly the route the step-by-step guide linked above sets out.

Should a BASOH learner buy both the reference file and the written set for the same code?

Rarely. The two solve the same problem by different routes. The reference file suits a learner with time who wants a model to write from; the written set suits a learner with several BSOC codes open and a cut-off approaching. Buying both for one code mostly duplicates the content.

My booklet is headed BASOH/ BAFSO. Which programme goes on the cover sheet?

The one you are actually enrolled in, which your admission record states. IGNOU issued a joint 2026-27 booklet for BSOC-104 covering both BA (Honours) Sociology and the four-year BA (Major) Sociology, so the heading describes who may use the paper, not who you are. Send the booklet heading along with your codes and it will be matched to your programme before the cover sheet is filled in.

IGNOU’s website shows BSOC-133 on the BASOH page but my prospectus does not. Which do I order?

Order against your own admission record and your own downloadable booklets. BSOC 131 to 134 sit in the general BA Sociology major in the Common Prospectus July 2026, not in any BASOH table, yet the BASOH programme page on ignou.ac.in lists BSOC-133 and BSOC-134. Where the two disagree, the booklet IGNOU actually issues for your enrolment is the one that decides, and a code that cannot be reconciled is raised with you before writing.

I took admission in July 2026. When is my BSOC assignment due?

30 April 2027, as printed on the 2026-27 BSOC booklets. A January 2027 admission has until 31 October 2027. Those are the dates on the covers read on 9 October 2026, and your own file is the authority if IGNOU revises them.

Why does a management student have an October date when mine says April?

Because submission dates are set per school, not per university. The School of Management Studies prints 31 October for its July batch and 30 April for its January batch. The Sociology booklets print the same two dates attached to the opposite batches. Neither is an error, and neither should be copied across.

Are BSOE and BANE elective papers charged differently from BSOC core papers?

No. An elective is a subject like any other. BSOE 141, BSOE 142, BSOE 143, BSOE 144, BANE 143 and BANE 144 are each ₹320, the same as a core paper, and the two BANE codes are included even though their booklets are issued under Anthropology.

Is a Hindi BSOC set priced above an English one?

No. The service covers all mediums IGNOU issues the TMA paper in, at the same price. The Hindi files are separate downloads with their own questions, so the medium has to be stated with the order, but it does not change the rate.

Can one BSOE paper be ordered on its own?

Yes. There is no minimum order: one subject or fourteen, same rate.

I never submitted BSOC 105 two cycles ago. Can an old paper still be written?

Yes, provided the code is still open on your record. Any session is accepted, current cycle or older, including backlog courses, at the same ₹320 per subject. State the session, because the 2023-24 questions for a code are not the 2026-27 questions.

What exactly has to be sent to start a BASOH order?

Codes, session, medium, delivery pin code and, if you want the matching, a photo of a page in your own handwriting. Nothing else, and no payment until the sample has been seen and the total confirmed.

Does ₹320 really include the courier to my address?

Yes. The rate is ₹320 per subject, hard copy only, with courier included in that price and no separate shipping charge. Delivery depends on your pin code and is confirmed for your order before you pay. No figure is promised on this page.

Does the parcel include the question paper itself?

Yes. A printed copy of the official TMA paper for that code and session travels with the set, so the Study Centre can see the questions the answers were written against. The IGNOU-format front page is included free as well.

How close is the handwriting to mine in practice?

Close enough that the set does not look like someone else’s work when you sign under it, which is the standard being aimed at. The match is made from your sample before the bulk writing starts, and a sample can be replaced if the first match is not convincing. No promise is made beyond that, because handwriting is matched by a person, not reproduced by a machine.

The Three Sources Behind Every Claim on This Page

Source one, the prospectus. The programme structure, the 148-credit total, the fourteen BSOC core codes, the six-code discipline-elective pool, the AECC, SEC and generic-elective slots, the medium and the duration are taken from the IGNOU Common Prospectus July 2026. The credit arithmetic was recomputed from the table rather than accepted from it: 84 plus 24 plus 8 plus 8 plus 24 equals 148, and the semester column also sums to 148.

Source two, live booklets. Four Sociology assignment booklets on ignou.ac.in were opened on 9 October 2026: BSOC-106 for 2026-27 headed BASOH, BSOC-104 for 2026-27 headed BASOH and BAFSO, BSOC-108 for 2025-26 headed BASOH, and BSOC-113 for 2025-26 headed BAFSO. The Hindi BSOC-102 file for 2025-26 was also opened; its legacy-font text layer could not be read by machine and no date is quoted from it here. The submission dates, the assignment-code strings, the mark split and the submission instructions on this page all come from those covers. The course list on IGNOU’s BASOH programme page was read the same day and is the source of the BSOC-133, BSOC-134, BSOG-171 and BSOG-176 discrepancy.

Source three, the publisher’s own commercial terms. The ₹320 rate, hard-copy-only format, included courier, free cover sheet, included question-paper copy, handwriting matching, backlog acceptance and absence of a minimum order are Shri Chakradhar Publication’s own terms and are not IGNOU rules. They are set by the publisher and can be changed by the publisher.

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 9 October 2026. Next review due before 30 April 2027, the submission date printed for the July 2026 BASOH batch.

Important Notice

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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.