IGNOU MASS Handwritten Assignment – All 15 TMA Codes Across Both Year Booklets

Inside the MASS Packet When It Reaches You

A MASS order arrives as paper and nothing else. The answers for each course code you named are written out by hand on A-4 sheets, in a single consistent hand across every paper in the order, with the question written above each answer as the booklet asks. Behind them sits an IGNOU-format front page for each course, free with every order, left blank in the fields only you can fill: your enrolment number, your name, your Regional Centre, your signature and the date. A copy of the official TMA paper for each code travels in the same packet so the questions and the answers never separate on the way to the counter.

What is deliberately absent matters as much. No soft copy or PDF is sold. Nothing is emailed, nothing appears in a download folder, and there is no scanned version held back for later. The packet is the product. That single decision is what keeps the service on the correct side of the instruction printed on both MASS booklets, which asks for each answer to be written in your own handwriting rather than produced by any other means.

The MASS booklets ask for something most programme papers do not, and it changes what a complete submission looks like. Before your answers begin, the booklet wants a first page carrying the assignment number, your name, your enrolment number, a mandatory email address and a phone number; a second page that is a copy of your IGNOU identity card, marked compulsory; and a third page carrying the assignment questions themselves. Shri Chakradhar Publication supplies the front page and the question paper. The identity-card page is yours to add, because a copy of your card is not something any publisher can or should produce for you. That gap is stated here rather than left for you to discover at the counter.

The ₹320 Line, Item by Item

One rate covers one course code. The rate is ₹320 per subject, hard copy only, with courier included in that price and no separate shipping charge. A MASS learner sitting the full first year sends nine codes and pays nine times that figure. A second-year learner sends six. A learner clearing two stranded backlog papers sends two. There is no minimum order: one subject or fourteen, same rate, and no tier changes if the list grows.

Inside the rate: the handwritten answers themselves, the IGNOU-format front page for each course, a copy of the official TMA paper for each course, the handwriting match against the sample you send, and the courier that brings the packet to your address. Outside the rate: nothing that is charged separately, because nothing is. The reason the price is stated this plainly is that MASS learners routinely order alongside other things, and it should be obvious which figure belongs to which item.

Two things the rate does not buy, stated directly. It does not buy a submission 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. And it does not buy a delivery date. Delivery depends on your pin code and is confirmed for your order before you pay. No figure is promised on this page.

Reference File or Submission Set: Telling the Two Apart

Two different things are sold under names that sound alike, and MASS learners lose time to the confusion every cycle. A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers for a course code and a session, read on a screen and used to understand how an answer is built. A handwritten assignment is the answer set written out by hand on paper and handed in as a physical submission. One is study material. The other is the thing you submit.

The distinction is not a marketing line on this page. It comes from the MASS booklets, which instruct that each question be answered in around five hundred words in your own handwriting, and that the response sheets use A-4 paper written on both sides with a margin kept and the pages secured. A file read on a phone satisfies none of that. Printing a downloaded file and carrying it to the counter satisfies none of it either, and no page on this site suggests otherwise.

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If a reference file is what you actually want, this is not the page that sells it. The store keeps MASS solved assignment files listed by course code in their own section, and that is where a soft-copy reference belongs. Ordering from there and writing the answers yourself is a legitimate route and a cheaper one. This page exists for the learner who has run out of time to write.

The Nine MSD Papers That Make Up MASS Year One

The first year of MASS is thirty-six credits made entirely of four-credit MSD theory courses. Nine of them, no electives, no laboratory work, no project. Every one carries a TMA, and all nine sit on a single booklet whose contents page is headed PGDSS/MASS-1, because the same paper serves both the diploma and the first year of the master’s degree.

The left column below is how the Common Prospectus July 2026 prints each code. The middle column is how the live booklet prints the same code. They are not the same, and section eight of this page explains why that matters when you go looking for your paper on the assignment portal.

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Read the code column downwards and something is missing. The sequence runs eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, and then jumps to nineteen. There is no MSD 18 in the MASS table, no MSD 18 in the PGDSS table, and no MSD 18 anywhere in the Common Prospectus July 2026. Learners who count their codes and conclude they have missed a paper have not missed one. The number eighteen was taken up in a different code family, by MSDP 18 Project Work, and the theory sequence simply steps over it.

Year Two: Six Papers, Four Code Families, One Project With No TMA

The second year is also thirty-six credits, but it is built differently. Where year one drew every course from one prefix, year two pulls from four. Two papers keep the MSD prefix. One arrives from the environmental family as an MEV code. Two are six-credit courses borrowed from the School of Extension and Development Studies under the MEDS prefix, one of which is a core paper of the MA in Corporate Social Responsibility and the other a core paper of the PG Diploma in Urban Planning and Development. The last row is the project.

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Thirty-six and thirty-six give the seventy-two credits the prospectus states for MASS, and the arithmetic was summed rather than assumed before either table was published here. Sixteen course rows, fifteen of which appear on a booklet. MSDP 18 appears on neither, which is the correct outcome for a project: it is examined through a report and a viva, not through a Tutor Marked Assignment, and it is therefore never counted into a handwritten order. Anyone quoting you for sixteen MASS papers has counted the project as an assignment. If the project itself is what you need, the store lists an MSDP 18 project report in hard copy separately, and PGDSS learners at the diploma stage have the diploma-stage project listed on its own.

If You Entered MASS Laterally From PGDSS

MASS has a genuine exit and re-entry structure rather than a single straight path. A learner who completes the first thirty-six credits may exit with the Post Graduate Diploma in Sustainability Science, and a PGDSS holder may enter the second year of MASS laterally. For one specific cohort that changes the assignment list entirely. The prospectus states that learners registered in PGDSS, in either the distance or the online mode, between July 2017 and July 2022 must complete three named courses in place of MSDP 018 Project Work.

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The MASS-2 booklet confirms all three, listing them under a heading that reads additional courses for lateral entry. For a learner in that cohort the second-year count is therefore nine TMA papers rather than six, and no project at all. That is three more papers at ₹320 each than the standard route, which is a real difference in what an order costs, and it is confirmed against your enrolment record before anything is written rather than assumed from the year you name.

Where IGNOU’s MASS Prospectus and MASS Booklets Contradict Each Other

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 is resolved silently here in favour of whichever version reads better. The disagreements are listed so that a MASS learner recognises them rather than assuming an error has been made on their own record.

The Two SOITS Cut-Offs Printed on Your MASS Booklet

Assignments carry 30 per cent of the final course result and the term-end examination carries the remaining 70 per cent. That is why a cut-off matters more than it looks: a paper that misses the date is thirty marks that never enter the calculation, and no term-end performance recovers them.

Both MASS booklets print the same instruction, in the same words, at point four of their instruction list. The last date for submitting the assignments for the June Term End Examination is 30 March, and for the December Term End Examination it is 30 September. Read what those dates are keyed to. They are keyed to the examination you intend to sit, not to the month you took admission. A learner admitted in July who plans to sit in December works to 30 September. A learner admitted in January who plans to sit in June works to 30 March of the following calendar year.

Two things about that pair are worth holding on to. The first is the day of the month. The booklets print 30 March, not the 31 March that several other IGNOU schools print for their June cycle. One day, but a real one. The second is that the figure widely circulated for MASS on third-party study pages is 31 October, which belongs to a different school’s calendar and appears nowhere on either MASS booklet. Where a third-party page and the booklet disagree, the booklet governs the paper it is printed on.

Separately from the booklet dates, IGNOU has in several recent cycles issued central extensions covering all distance and online programmes, moving a deadline after the booklets had already been published. Those extensions are announced by the Student Evaluation Division rather than by a school, and they do not appear on any booklet. That is a reason to check the official IGNOU assignment download service close to your submission day rather than to rely on a figure copied from anywhere, including from here.

MASS-1 and MASS-2: Reading a Year Code Instead of a Course Code

Most IGNOU programmes give each course its own assignment code, built from the course code plus a session marker. MASS does not work that way, and learners who go looking for a per-course assignment number spend a long time not finding one.

The MASS assignment number identifies the year of the programme. The first-year paper is numbered MASS-1/PGDSS-2026 and the second-year paper MASS-2/2026. There is no TMA token in either, no July or January session name, and no course code inside the number. One number covers every paper in that year. When a front page asks for an assignment number, the number that belongs there is the year block printed at the top of your booklet, not something derived from MSD 013 or MEDS 051.

The booklets also give an envelope instruction that no course-level code replaces. The note asks that the programme code be written on the envelope itself, PGDSS for a diploma learner and MASS for a master’s learner, which is how a shared first-year paper is routed to the right file once it arrives. On a shared booklet, that single word on the outside of the envelope is doing the sorting work that a per-course assignment code does elsewhere.

Your Own Hand, Matched From a Photo You Send

The MASS booklets ask for each answer to be written in your own handwriting, and that instruction is the reason a handwriting match is part of the service rather than an upgrade to it. Send a photo of a page you have written yourself and the handwritten set is matched to your handwriting at no extra charge. Every paper in one order is written by the same writer, so a learner sending nine first-year codes receives nine papers in one consistent hand rather than a set that visibly changes character halfway through.

What Makes a Usable Sample Photo

A full page rather than a line. Ordinary handwriting at your normal speed, not a careful specimen, because a careful specimen is not what the rest of your submission will look like. Daylight rather than a flash, the page flat rather than held, and the whole sheet in frame. The sample comes back to you as a written sample on real A-4 before anything else happens, and you decide from that whether to go ahead. Nothing is paid before you have seen it.

English Only, Any Cycle, Backlogs Included

The service covers all mediums IGNOU issues the TMA paper in, at the same price. For MASS that set has exactly one member. The Common Prospectus July 2026 records the medium of instruction for Master of Arts (Sustainability Science) as English, with no Hindi entry, so there is no Hindi MASS paper to request and nobody should be selling you one. It is worth naming because two of the courses MASS prescribes behave differently in their home programmes: MEDS 044 is a core paper of the PG Diploma in Urban Planning and Development, which the same prospectus records as English and Hindi. The course is bilingual for a PGDUPDL learner and English for you, because the medium follows the programme you are enrolled in.

Session coverage is wider than medium coverage. Any session is accepted, current cycle or older, including backlog courses, at the same ₹320 per subject. MASS runs January and July cycles with a minimum duration of two years and a maximum of four, which means a MASS learner may legitimately be clearing a paper from a cycle three years behind the current one while a classmate admitted the same month has already finished. Both are ordinary. A backlog code is quoted at the same rate as a current one, and the only thing that changes is which booklet the questions are read from, because papers expire and are replaced each cycle and an answer written to a superseded paper is not a submission.

What to Send Before Any Writing Starts

Five things, and the order is deliberate.

1. Your MASS course codes. Written as they appear on your record. Either code form is fine here; the list is normalised against both booklets at this end.
2. Your cycle and the sitting you are working towards. January or July, and whether you are aiming at the June or December term-end examination, because that is what fixes which cut-off applies.
3. Your entry route. Direct entry into MASS, or lateral entry from PGDSS, and if lateral, the year you registered for the diploma. This is what decides whether the project or the three substitution papers apply.
4. A photo of your handwriting. One full page, written by you.
5. Your delivery pin code. Delivery depends on your pin code and is confirmed for your order before you pay. No figure is promised on this page.

Nothing else is needed and nothing else is asked for. There is no form on this page, no account to create and no upload step. The five items go on WhatsApp, the list comes back checked against the current booklets, and the writing starts after you have approved the sample.

Once the MASS Packet Is in Your Hands

Open the packet and check it against your own list before anything else. Every code you named should have its own set of sheets, its own front page and its own copy of the question paper. 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.

Then complete the parts only you can complete. Fill the front page fields, add the copy of your IGNOU identity card that the MASS booklets require as the second page, and keep the three-page order the booklet describes: details, identity card, questions, then answers. Write the programme code on the envelope, MASS or PGDSS as applies to you.

Submission for MASS goes to the Regional Centre, which both booklets state at point five. This differs from the Study Centre route most IGNOU programmes use, and it is the single most common place a MASS submission goes astray. Keep a receipt or an acknowledgement, keep a photograph of the pages before they leave your hands, and check your assignment status on IGNOU’s own portal a few weeks later rather than waiting for the grade card.

What MASS Learners Add to the Same Order

Handwritten papers rarely travel alone. Learners preparing for the same sitting usually pair them with reading material, and the store keeps each of those on its own shelf rather than bundling them into this rate. MASS help books cover the MSD theory papers for learners who want condensed reading before the term-end sitting, and guess papers for the MASS term-end sitting sit alongside them for exam practice. Diploma-stage learners will find PGDSS study material covering the same nine first-year codes from the other side of the exit point.

Because MASS borrows courses from three other programmes, two of its papers turn up under headings that do not say MASS at all. MEDS 051 belongs to the MA in Corporate Social Responsibility, so it is worth knowing where MEDS 051 sits in the MACSR listing if a search under MASS comes up short. MEDS 044 belongs to the urban planning diploma, and the PGDUPDL listing that MEDS 044 belongs to carries it. MEV 025 and MEVE 016 come from the environmental side, and the MAEVS shelf where the same MEV papers reappear holds those.

Learners registered in the online mode should order against MASSOL, the online-mode version of the programme, which IGNOU lists separately in its online-programme schedule. If your programme is not MASS at all, the handwritten assignment hub lists every programme covered, and the any-programme handwritten order takes a mixed list of codes across programmes. Learners who would rather write the papers themselves will find the free code tables, booklet links and cut-off explanations set out at length in the MASS handwritten assignment guide on ignouproject.com, which sells nothing.

Answers to What MASS Learners Ask First

How many MASS assignments do I actually have to submit?

Fifteen across the whole programme if you entered MASS directly: nine in the first year and six in the second. The sixteenth course row, MSDP 18 Project Work, appears on neither MASS booklet because a project is assessed through a report rather than a Tutor Marked Assignment. A PGDSS lateral-entry learner from the July 2017 to July 2022 window has a different second year, with nine papers and no project.

Why can I not find MEV 25 on the assignment portal?

Because the portal follows the booklet, and the booklet prints it as MEV 025. The Common Prospectus July 2026 prints MEV 25 in the MASS table, but the same course appears as MEV 025 in the MA Environmental Studies and M.Sc. Climate Change tables and as MEV-025 in two others. Search the three-digit form. The same applies to MEDS 51 and MEDS 44, which are filed as MEDS 051 and MEDS 044.

My booklet says 2024 in the header and 2026 on the first page. Which is current?

Both are printed on the first-year MASS booklet and both are stamped for the June 2026 and December 2026 term-end examinations, so the paper is the current one for that cycle regardless of which line you read. This is IGNOU’s own inconsistency in the document, not an error in your download. Download from the official assignment service rather than from a copy circulating elsewhere and you will have the current questions.

Is MASS available in Hindi?

No. The Common Prospectus July 2026 records the medium of instruction for Master of Arts (Sustainability Science) as English, and no Hindi TMA paper is issued for the programme. That holds even for MEDS 044, which is a bilingual course in its home diploma, because the medium follows the programme you are registered in rather than the course.

Can I print a MASS solved assignment PDF and submit that?

No, and nothing on this page suggests you can. The MASS booklets ask for each answer to be written in around five hundred words in your own handwriting. A downloaded file is reference material for understanding how an answer is built. It is not a submission, and printing it does not turn it into one.

What is the difference between the MASS solved assignment and this?

Format and purpose. A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers for a course code and session, which you read and then write from. A handwritten assignment is the answer set already written out by hand on A-4, which you sign and hand in. If the reference file is what you want, it is listed separately in the MASS assignment section of this store at its own price.

Do I submit MASS assignments to my Study Centre or my Regional Centre?

The Regional Centre. Both MASS booklets state at point five that responses go to the Regional Centre concerned, which differs from the Study Centre route used by most IGNOU programmes. Write the programme code, MASS or PGDSS, on the envelope as the booklets ask. If a notice from your own Regional Centre says otherwise, that notice governs.

When is the last date for MASS assignments?

Both booklets print 30 March for the June term-end examination and 30 September for the December one. These are School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-disciplinary Studies dates keyed to the sitting you intend to take, not to your admission month. The 31 October figure that circulates on several study pages for MASS belongs to another school and appears on neither MASS booklet. IGNOU has also issued central extensions in recent cycles, so confirm on ignou.ac.in close to your date.

Is MSD 18 missing from my course list?

There is no MSD 18. The theory sequence in both the MASS and PGDSS tables runs MSD 11 to MSD 17 and then resumes at MSD 19. Nothing has been left off your record. The number was used in the project code family, as MSDP 18.

I came into MASS from PGDSS. Which papers do I owe?

If you registered for PGDSS between July 2017 and July 2022, the prospectus directs you to MSD 019, MSD 020 and MEVE 016 in place of MSDP 018 Project Work, and the MASS-2 booklet lists those three under additional courses for lateral entry. Note that MSD 019 and MSD 020 also appear as first-year PGDSS courses in the same prospectus, so confirm your exact list with your Regional Centre before ordering. Your list is checked against your record here before writing begins.

What does the MASS assignment number look like on the front page?

MASS-1/PGDSS-2026 for a first-year paper and MASS-2/2026 for a second-year one. It is a year block rather than a course code, so the same number goes on every paper in that year. There is no TMA token and no session name in it, unlike the assignment codes used by several other IGNOU schools.

Do you supply the IGNOU identity card page the booklet asks for?

No, and no publisher should. The MASS booklets require the second page of your response sheet to be a copy of your IGNOU identity card, marked compulsory. The front page and a copy of the official question paper come with your order free. The identity-card page is yours to add before you submit.

How many questions are on a MASS paper, and how long should each answer be?

Four questions carrying twenty-five marks each, for a total of one hundred, with the instruction to answer all of them. The booklets ask for roughly five hundred words per answer, written on A-4 with both sides used and a margin kept, and for the question to be written above each answer. That is the pattern the handwritten set follows.

Can I order a single backlog MASS paper?

Yes. 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. The current booklet for that code is used, because papers expire and are replaced each cycle and answers written to a withdrawn paper are not a valid submission.

Will this guarantee my MASS assignment is accepted?

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 within this service’s control is that the answers follow the pattern the MASS booklet prints and reach you as paper you can sign and submit.

Three Sources Behind Every Figure on This Page

Source one, the Common Prospectus July 2026. Every course code, official title, credit value, the seventy-two-credit total, the two-year minimum and four-year maximum duration, the English medium of instruction, the graduate eligibility, the PGDSS exit award, the lateral-entry rule and the July 2017 to July 2022 substitution window come from section 3.41 of that document, cross-checked against section 8.38 for PGDSS, section 3.42 for MA Environmental Studies, section 3.47 for MA Corporate Social Responsibility and the urban planning diploma section for MEDS 044. Both year totals were summed independently and matched the stated figures of thirty-six and thirty-six before either table above was published.

Source two, two live TMA booklets fetched from ignou.ac.in. The first-year MASS and PGDSS assignment booklet and the second-year MASS assignment booklet supplied the two submission dates, the assignment number format, the four-question and twenty-five-mark pattern, the five-hundred-word guidance, the A-4 and both-sides instruction, the three-page front matter requirement, the Regional Centre submission route, the envelope-marking note and the cover-page list of programmes each paper applies to. Nothing about dates or question patterns on this page was carried over from another programme. The current index of papers is at IGNOU’s assignment portal.

Source three, this publisher’s own commercial terms. The ₹320 rate, the hard-copy-only format, the included courier, the free front page, the free handwriting match, the absence of a minimum order and the acceptance of backlog sessions are Shri Chakradhar Publication’s own terms and are not IGNOU policy. They are set by the publisher, they can change, and they are stated separately here so that no reader mistakes a commercial term for a university rule.

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 29 August 2026. Sources verified against the Common Prospectus July 2026 and both live SOITS assignment booklets on 29 August 2026. Next scheduled review before 30 September 2026, the December sitting cut-off printed on the MASS booklets.

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.