IGNOU MADJ Handwritten Assignment — All 12 MDC, MDJ, MDCE, MRDE and MGSE Codes

What the Courier Hands Over on a MADJ Order

Four things travel together in one packet, and the list does not change with the size of the order. First, the written answer set itself, one file per course code, produced against the exact question paper IGNOU has live for the session named on your order. Second, an IGNOU-format cover sheet for each code, filled with the enrolment number, programme code, course title, course code, assignment code and study centre code, matching the cover-page layout the SOJNMS booklet prints for MADJ. Third, a printed copy of the official Tutor Marked Assignment paper the answers were written against, so the evaluator and the counter clerk can see the questions beside the answers without opening a phone. Fourth, the packaging and courier, already inside the price.

What does not travel is a file. No soft copy or PDF is sold. That is a deliberate scope line rather than an omission: a downloadable answer set and a written submission copy are two different products serving two different moments in the semester, and this page sells only the second.

One practical note specific to MADJ. Because the booklet asks for roughly 500 words on each of five questions, a single course code runs to something in the region of 2,500 words of continuous longhand. Six codes in a year is therefore a substantial physical object, not a thin file, and ordering all of a year’s codes together keeps the same hand across the whole set instead of splitting it between two writers on two dates.

What ₹320 a Code Includes, and Where the Line Falls

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 itself, the paper and ink, the IGNOU-format front page, the printed question paper, packing and the courier leg to your address. Nothing on that list is billed separately afterwards and nothing on it is an upgrade.

Outside the figure sit three things worth naming plainly. The university’s own fees, which are a matter between you and IGNOU and are unrelated to this order. Anything you decide to add yourself, such as a spiral binding or a plastic folder, which the study centre does not require. And any judgement about the outcome. 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.

Two further conditions attach to the rate rather than sitting outside it. There is no minimum order: one subject or fourteen, same rate. Any session is accepted, current cycle or older, including backlog courses, at the same ₹320 per subject. A learner clearing a single stranded MDC code from an old first year pays exactly what a learner ordering six fresh Year Two codes pays, per code.

On timing, one thing is deliberately not stated anywhere on this page. Delivery depends on your pin code and is confirmed for your order before you pay. No figure is promised on this page. A window quoted before anyone has looked at the destination pin code is a guess dressed as a commitment, and the confirmation you receive on WhatsApp before payment is the only figure worth holding anyone to.

Reference File or Submission Copy: Which MADJ Product You Actually Need

These two get conflated constantly, and the confusion is expensive because it is usually discovered at the submission counter. A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers prepared for a particular course code and session, downloaded and read. A handwritten assignment is the answer set written out by hand and submitted in hard copy at the study centre. The first is study material. The second is the submission.

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IGNOU’s own paperwork settles the point about form. The PGDRD booklet that carries the live MRDE-203 paper, which is one of your Year Two MADJ codes, prints the instruction that the assignment must be submitted in handwritten form only. That instruction is on the question paper itself, not on a study-help site, and it is the reason a downloaded reference file cannot simply be printed and handed over. The reference file is something to write from. It is not a submission, and nobody should imply otherwise.

If a reference file is what you are actually after for MADJ, the honest answer is that it belongs on a different page of this store rather than this one. The programme-wise master’s degree soft-copy assignment listing is where that request goes, and where a MADJ entry should sit alongside the ones already built for neighbouring programmes.

The Six MDC Codes That Also Make Up the Whole of PGDDC

Year One of MADJ is not merely similar to the Post Graduate Diploma in Development Communication. Read section 3.65 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus against section 8.27 of the same document and the two code lists are identical, course for course and credit for credit, and the prospectus states that a learner who completes the first year of MADJ is issued PGDDC. That has a direct ordering consequence: a first-year MADJ order and a full PGDDC order are the same six question papers, so a backlog code carried over from a diploma enrolment is not a different product.

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Six theory codes at six credits plus a four-credit project course sum to forty credits, which is what both the MADJ first year and the standalone diploma are stated to carry. The arithmetic was checked against the printed total rather than trusted from the extracted table, because adjacent programme tables in this prospectus sit close enough together to bleed into one another.

MDCP-006 is the one Year One code with nothing to order. It is an internship or a development-based research project, and no Tutor Marked Assignment paper is issued against it. If the diploma side of this is what you need instead, the store’s PGDDC study-guide shelf and the bound PGDDC project listing cover the two halves that this page does not.

Year Two’s MDJ Papers and the Two Codes Borrowed From Other Schools

Year Two is where MADJ stops behaving like a self-contained journalism programme. Three codes carry the MDJ prefix and belong squarely to the School of Journalism and New Media Studies. A fourth, MDCE-006, carries a prefix that appears exactly once in the whole July 2026 Common Prospectus, in the MADJ table and nowhere else. The remaining two are on loan. MRDE-203 is a rural development elective that also appears in the MA (Rural Development) and PGDRD tables, and MGSE-010 is a gender studies elective from the School of Gender and Development Studies.

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Four six-credit codes, one four-credit code and one six-credit project chosen from two options come to forty credits, and forty in each year gives the eighty the prospectus states for the programme as a whole. Note that MGSE-010 is the odd one out at four credits where every other taught MADJ code carries six, so a Year Two set is not six identical-sized files.

The borrowing matters at the moment you go looking for question papers. The SOJNMS booklet names all six Year Two codes in its opening paragraph, but it prints papers only for its own. To reach MRDE-203 you have to open a rural development file, and the store’s PGDRD course-wise listing is organised around exactly those codes. MGSE-010 sits in the same relationship to the MAGD gender studies listing. Sending both codes on WhatsApp along with the year avoids the round trip entirely, because availability is checked against whichever file actually carries the paper.

Where IGNOU Spells MADJ Two Ways and Numbers One Code Twice

Everything below was found by reading IGNOU’s own documents against each other. None of it is a complaint about the university, and none of it changes what is written for you. It is published here because a learner who knows which spelling to copy onto a cover sheet has one fewer thing to be told off about at the counter.

One more item is an absence rather than a contradiction, and it is worth stating because a learner will otherwise assume the page is hiding something. MGSE-010 has no MADJ-specific assignment file published under the journalism school, and no separately dated gender studies file for the current cycle surfaced in the searches run for this page. Availability for that code is therefore checked on the day you order rather than assumed.

March 31 and September 30, Printed as a Standing Pair

Read the cut-off off the MADJ paper and it does not look like the cut-offs quoted for most other programmes. Both live SOJNMS papers print the line Due Date: March 31 / September 30 every year, directly under the assignment code. The phrase every year is the unusual part. Where the management school prints a single session-tied date and the rural development booklets print a schedule table keyed to July and January admission, the MADJ paper prints a standing annual pair and leaves the learner to map it onto their own cycle.

The mapping is the part that trips people up, so here it is spelled out. March 31 is the cut-off for the June term-end examination. September 30 is the cut-off for the December term-end examination. The live MRDE-203 paper, which is one of your own Year Two codes, prints the same two calendar days in a different grammar: 31st March 2026 for a July 2025 admission and 30 September 2026 for a January 2026 admission. Two IGNOU schools, two ways of writing it, the same two days.

What circulates elsewhere does not match either. General assignment-deadline pages currently push a single date for most programmes and an extended date on top of it, neither of which appears on any MADJ paper opened for this page. Deadlines are also extended by the university from time to time, and an extension is announced centrally rather than reprinted on the booklet. Treat the two days printed on your own paper as the working deadline and check ignou.ac.in for an extension rather than the other way round.

Assignments carry 30 per cent of the final course result and the term-end examination carries the remaining 70 per cent. Missing the day does not cost you thirty marks. It costs the eligibility to sit the term-end paper for that code at all, which is why the date on the booklet is the only urgency this page has any business pointing at.

Reading MDC-001/Jan 2025- July 25 Before You Copy It Down

The assignment code is a small string that causes a disproportionate amount of trouble, because it goes on the cover sheet and because the SOJNMS version of it does not follow the pattern most study-help sites describe. Taken apart, MDC-001/Jan 2025- July 25 reads as the course code, then the two admission cycles the paper serves, written once in full and once abbreviated. The same paper therefore covers a January intake and a July intake of the same year, which is why the booklet cover says January 2025 and July 2025 Cycle rather than naming one session.

Two consequences follow. First, the year in that string is the year of the paper, not the year of your term-end examination, so a learner sitting the June examination is still writing against a code that names the previous January. Second, because MRDE-203 comes from a different school, one of your six Year Two cover sheets will carry a completely different string, in the form MRDE-203/AST/TMA-6/2025-2026, where AST marks it as an assignment and TMA-6 is its position in the PGDRD booklet rather than anything to do with MADJ.

The safest habit is mechanical. Open the paper you are actually submitting against, copy the assignment code exactly as printed including its spacing, and do not normalise it to look like a neighbour’s. The front page prepared with your order is filled from the paper on file for your session, and if your registration record spells a code differently from the booklet, say so when you order and the cover sheet follows your record.

Your Own Hand, Reproduced From a Photograph

The default assumption behind a handwritten service is that somebody else’s handwriting arrives and you hope nobody looks closely. That is not how this works. Send a photo of a page you have written yourself and the handwritten set is matched to your handwriting at no extra charge. The matching is done before payment, and the sample that comes back is a real page written in the matched hand rather than a stock image.

What Makes a Sample Photo Usable

A phone photograph is fine. What matters is that it shows continuous natural writing rather than a display specimen: half a page of ordinary sentences beats a carefully lettered alphabet, because the useful signal is in slant, spacing, letter joins and how the hand degrades over a paragraph. Daylight, the page flat, the whole sheet in frame, and no filter. If you write differently in English and in a second script, send both, though on MADJ the medium question resolves to one answer, which the next section covers.

Order all of a year’s codes in one go if you can. Six codes written across one order stay in one hand throughout; six codes ordered on six different dates may not, and an evaluator seeing two hands across one submission set is a conversation nobody wants to have.

English Only, Any Cycle, Backlogs Priced the Same

The service covers all mediums IGNOU issues the TMA paper in, at the same price. On MADJ that resolves to a single medium rather than a choice, because both the July 2026 Common Prospectus entry for the programme and IGNOU’s live MADJ programme page record the medium of instruction as English. There is no Hindi MADJ paper to issue against, so a request for a Hindi set on these codes is a request the university itself has not made possible.

Session coverage is the opposite: deliberately wide. Any session is accepted, current cycle or older, including backlog courses, at the same ₹320 per subject. A stranded MDC-004 from a first year finished two cycles ago is ordered on the same terms as a fresh MDJ-002, and no premium attaches to the older paper.

One caution that belongs with backlogs rather than with pricing. The paper is what expires, not the offer. IGNOU replaces MADJ question papers cycle by cycle, and the answers written against a 2025 paper do not transfer to a 2026 paper that asks different questions. Tell the order which session the cover of your downloaded booklet names, and if you are unsure, send a photograph of that cover instead of guessing. 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.

The Short List of Things to Message

Ordering does not need a form. Five pieces of information settle it, and nothing beyond them is asked for.

1. The MADJ course codes you need, spelled the way your registration record spells them, whether that is MGSE-010 or MGSE 10.
2. Which year they belong to, since MDCE-006 and MRDE-203 both look ambiguous out of context.
3. The session named on the cover of the booklet you downloaded, or a photograph of that cover.
4. Your delivery pin code, which is what the timeline is calculated from.
5. A photo of a page in your own handwriting.

Nothing else is required and nothing else should be sent. Enrolment number, name and study centre code go on the front page at your end on the day you submit, not into a WhatsApp thread. The official IGNOU assignment download service is where the current paper for your codes is fetched from, and checking your codes against it before ordering removes most of the back and forth.

Once the Parcel Is in Your Hands

Open it and check the codes against your registration record before anything else, because a wrong code caught on day one is a small problem and a wrong code caught at the counter is not. Then read what has been written. 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 is not a formality on a programme built around development reporting, where a counsellor may well ask you about an argument in your own MDJ-002 answer.

Fill in your name, signature, date and study centre code on each front page. Submit to the coordinator of your study centre, and take the receipt: the SOJNMS booklet tells you in as many words to obtain a receipt for the assignments submitted and retain it, and to keep a photocopy. Evaluated assignments are returned to you by the study centre and the marks are sent onward, so keeping the receipt is what lets you chase a missing entry later.

After that, the outcome is out of everybody’s hands but IGNOU’s. 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 MADJ Learners Add to the Same Order

Most MADJ orders are not only for written sets. The commonest companions are study support for the term-end paper, which carries the other seventy per cent, and the project side of Year Two.

For examination preparation, the store’s MADJ guide-book shelf is organised by the same MDC and MDJ codes, and the MADJ solved guess paper listing is where learners go in the last fortnight before the examination. Neither is a substitute for the assignment, and neither is included in the ₹320.

For the Year Two project choice, the decision between the dissertation route and the production portfolio route is worth making early, and the companion article on the MDJP-005 production portfolio route on ignouproject.com sets out the activities, the marks and the supervisor question if you would rather work through it yourself. If your codes sit outside MADJ entirely, perhaps because you are also carrying a paper from a diploma, the handwritten assignment hub lists the programmes already built out and the any-programme handwritten order page takes a mixed set. And if what you actually want is the reference file rather than the submission, the soft-copy assignment hub is the right starting point.

One neighbouring programme is worth naming purely to prevent a wrong order. MADJ, MAJDM and the string MADJM that the prospectus prints once inside the MAJDM section are three ways of writing two different degrees. If your codes begin MNM or MJM rather than MDC or MDJ, you are on the wrong page and the MAJDM digital media shelf is where you belong.

Questions That Come Up Before a MADJ Order Is Placed

Which MADJ codes actually have an assignment to order?

Twelve of the fifteen codes in the programme carry a Tutor Marked Assignment paper: MDC-001, MDC-002, MDC-003, MDC-004, MDC-005 and MDC-006 in Year One, then MDJ-001, MDJ-002, MDJ-003, MDCE-006, MRDE-203 and MGSE-010 in Year Two. MDCP-006 in Year One and whichever of MDJP-004 or MDJP-005 you choose in Year Two are project courses with no question paper, so there is nothing to write against them.

Is MADJ Year One the same as PGDDC?

In code terms, yes. Section 3.65 and section 8.27 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus list the identical six MDC codes plus MDCP-006 at identical credits, and the prospectus states that PGDDC is issued to a learner on completing the first year of MADJ. A first-year MADJ order and a full PGDDC order are therefore the same six papers, which is useful if you are carrying a code across from a diploma enrolment.

Why is MRDE-203 not in the MADJ booklet?

Because it is issued by a different school. The SOJNMS booklet names MRDE-203 as a MADJ second-year requirement in its opening paragraph but prints no paper for it. The live paper sits in the Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Development booklet from the School of Continuous Education, carries the assignment code MRDE-203/AST/TMA-6/2025-2026, and does not mention MADJ on its cover at all.

Is the code MGSE-010 or MGSE 10?

Both forms are live in IGNOU’s own documents. The MADJ table in the July 2026 prospectus prints MGSE 010 and the SOJNMS booklet prints MGSE-010, while every other appearance of the same course in the same prospectus, including the MAGD elective table, prints MGSE 10 without the leading zero. The title and the four-credit value are identical. Send it the way your registration record spells it and the cover sheet will follow.

What is the last date for a MADJ assignment?

Both live MADJ papers print Due Date: March 31 / September 30 every year, as a standing annual pair rather than a session-dated one. March 31 governs the June term-end examination and September 30 governs the December one. The MRDE-203 paper prints the same two calendar days keyed to admission cycles instead. Extensions are announced centrally on ignou.ac.in and are not reprinted on the booklet.

How long is one MADJ assignment?

Every MADJ paper opened for this page is one hundred marks over five equally weighted questions with a printed instruction to answer each in about 500 words, so roughly 2,500 words of continuous handwriting per course code. MRDE-203 is structured differently, with long, medium and short answer sections capped at 1000, 400 and 100 words, which still totals one hundred marks but reads very differently on the page.

Can a downloaded solved assignment be printed and submitted?

No. A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers for a course code and session, meant to be read and written from. The PGDRD booklet carrying your MRDE-203 paper prints the instruction that the assignment must be submitted in handwritten form only, so a printed file is not a submission whatever it contains.

What is the difference between a solved and a handwritten MADJ assignment here?

The solved version is a file you download and study; the handwritten version is paper written by hand, prepared with an IGNOU-format front page and the official question paper, and couriered to you for submission. Only the second is sold on this page, at ₹320 per subject. The first belongs in the store’s soft-copy listings, and a MADJ entry there is a gap currently being filled.

Does a typed MADJ assignment get rejected?

Whether a particular study centre rejects a typed set is a matter for that centre, and no claim about acceptance is made anywhere on this page. What can be stated is what IGNOU’s own paper says: the live booklet carrying MRDE-203 instructs that the assignment must be submitted in handwritten form only. That instruction is on the question paper itself.

Is MADJ available in Hindi medium?

No. Section 3.65 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus and the live MADJ page on ignou.ac.in both record the medium of instruction as English, and no Hindi MADJ paper is issued, so there is nothing to write a Hindi set against. The service covers all mediums IGNOU issues the TMA paper in, at the same price, which on this programme resolves to one.

Can a backlog MDC code from an old cycle be ordered?

Yes. Any session is accepted, current cycle or older, including backlog courses, at the same ₹320 per subject. The only thing that matters is which paper you are writing against, because IGNOU replaces MADJ papers cycle by cycle and the questions change. Send the session printed on the cover of the booklet you downloaded, or a photograph of it.

Is there a minimum number of MADJ codes per order?

There is no minimum order: one subject or fourteen, same rate. A single stranded MDC-003 is ordered on the same terms as a full second year. Ordering a whole year together does have one practical advantage, which is that the entire set stays in one hand rather than being split across writers on separate dates.

How is the handwriting matched to mine?

Send a photo of a page you have written yourself and the handwritten set is matched to your handwriting at no extra charge. Half a page of ordinary sentences in daylight works better than a carefully lettered specimen, because the useful signal is in slant, spacing and letter joins over a paragraph. A matched sample comes back to you before any payment is made.

When will a MADJ packet reach my address?

Delivery depends on your pin code and is confirmed for your order before you pay. No figure is promised on this page. A window quoted before anyone has seen the destination is a guess, and the confirmation sent on WhatsApp before payment is the figure that applies to your order.

Is a PDF version of the MADJ set available?

No soft copy or PDF is sold. What is prepared is a physical written set with an IGNOU-format cover sheet and a printed copy of the official question paper, packed and couriered. That scope line is deliberate, because a file and a submission copy are two different things and only one of them can be handed in at a counter.

Do MDJP-004 and MDJP-005 need an assignment?

No. Both are six-credit project courses in Year Two and you choose one of the two, and IGNOU issues no Tutor Marked Assignment paper against either. The prospectus prose calls that choice two electives while the table types both rows as Project, which is a wording mismatch rather than an extra requirement. Project work is governed by its own manual, not by a TMA.

How This MADJ Page Was Put Together

From IGNOU’s Common Prospectus, July 2026. Section 3.65 supplied the MADJ programme structure, every course code and title, the credit value of each, the year-wise split, the eighty-credit total, the English medium of instruction and the statement that PGDDC is issued on completion of the first year. Section 8.27 supplied the PGDDC table used to cross-check the six Year One codes. The credit arithmetic was summed independently and matched the printed total of eighty before either table was used.

From live assignment booklets on ignou.ac.in. Three papers were opened for this page rather than described from memory. The MDC-001 booklet issued by the School of Journalism and New Media Studies supplied the cover text, the January and July cycle line, the full list of first-year and second-year codes, the cover-page layout, the assignment-code format, the hundred-mark five-question pattern with its 500-word instruction and the March 31 and September 30 cut-off line. The MDJ-001 paper in the same series supplied the second-year comparison and the Programme Code discrepancy. The rural development booklet carrying MRDE-203 supplied the different assignment-code grammar, the three-section question structure, the session-dated submission schedule and the handwritten-form-only instruction quoted above.

From Shri Chakradhar Publication, as publisher. Everything commercial on this page belongs to the imprint and to no university document: the ₹320 rate, the refusal to sell a file, the inclusion of courier and the front page, the absence of an order floor, the treatment of older cycles and backlogs, the free handwriting match, and the refusal to state a delivery figure or any expectation about marks.

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 10 September 2026. Reviewed against IGNOU sources on 10 September 2026. Next scheduled review before the 31 March 2027 MADJ cut-off, and again before 30 September 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.