IGNOU MFAP Handwritten Assignment: The Four MVA Theory Papers, Written on Foolscap

What the Courier Brings to Your Door

The packet is physical and there is nothing to download alongside it. Four things travel together for each course code you order, and the set is tied rather than stapled, because instruction one on the MVA booklets asks for the pages to be tied carefully.

• The answers to that code’s Tutor Marked Assignment, written by hand on foolscap sheets in a single consistent hand, with the question number written beside each answer as instruction two on the booklet requires.
• A photocopy of the official question paper the set was written against, so you can hold the answers beside the questions before you sign anything.
• An IGNOU-format front page, filled in with your enrolment number, name, address, course title and assignment number, laid out the way the response-sheet block on the MVA booklet prints it. This is free with every order.
• The assignment code written where the booklet asks for it, in the form the paper for your session actually prints rather than the form a neighbouring session used.

There is no minimum order: one subject or fourteen, same rate. A learner clearing a single stranded MVA 026 pays the same per-code rate as a learner ordering all four theory papers at once.

Where the ₹320 Stops, on a Programme That Is Half Studio Work

MFAP is unusual among IGNOU master’s programmes in that written work is the minority of it. Of 64 credits, 24 sit in theory and 40 sit in practical courses, a split IGNOU’s own academic support pages for the drawing and painting stream state directly. That shape decides what a handwriting service can honestly sell.

Inside the rate: the written answers for an MVA theory code, the foolscap sheets themselves, the front page, the copy of the question paper, and the courier. The rate is ₹320 per subject, hard copy only, with courier included in that price and no separate shipping charge. The service covers all mediums IGNOU issues the TMA paper in, at the same price.

Outside the rate, and outside the service altogether: the eight MVAL portfolios, the fifteen days of studio practice each semester at the programme study centre in Maidan Garhi, the practical counselling attendance that IGNOU’s MFAP programme guide sets at a minimum of 75 per cent before you can sit the term-end practical examination, and the term-end examination itself. Nothing on this page reduces any of those.

Delivery depends on your pin code and is confirmed for your order before you pay. No figure is promised on this page. 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.

Reference File or Submission Copy: Telling the Two Apart on MFAP

Two different things get called an assignment in the same breath, and on a fine arts programme the gap between them is wider than usual. A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers prepared for one course code and one session, read on a phone or a laptop and used as raw material while you write. A handwritten assignment is the same answers put on foolscap in ink, one bundle per MVA code, carried or posted to the school as a physical object. The first is preparation. The second is the submission. Printing the first does not convert it into the second.

Every MVA theory booklet read for this listing settles the point in IGNOU’s own words at instruction three: you should write in your own handwriting. The MVA 023 paper issued under the MFAP heading prints exactly that line, immediately under the foolscap instruction. There is one recorded exception in the same programme, and it runs the other way: the MVA-029 booklet for the July 2024 fourth semester prints an instruction to write the research paper in typed format, in APA layout at font size 12, on the same page that tells you to use foolscap. That contradiction is IGNOU’s, not this listing’s, and section nine below sets out what to do with it.

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If a reference file is what you actually want for an MVA code, it is not sold here, and the honest route is the store’s own master’s degree solved assignment listings arranged by programme, where per-code files are priced on their own terms. Where a study centre has accepted a printed reference bound as a booklet, the hard-copy solved assignment book covering any programme and session is the closer fit. Neither is a substitute for a handwritten submission on a programme whose booklets ask for your own handwriting.

The Four MVA Theory Codes This Order Can Be Written For

Titles and credits below are read off section 3.66 of the Common Prospectus July 2026 and cross-checked against the course records on IGNOU’s live MFAP programme page, which label each code Theory or Practical. The four theory codes sit one per semester, which is why an MFAP learner rarely has more than one written paper outstanding at a time.

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The four together carry 24 credits. MVA 029 is worth noticing before you order: it is the only place a dissertation appears in the MFAP structure, folded into a taught six-credit code rather than issued as a separate project code with its own prefix, which is why there is no MFAP project listing anywhere on this store to point you at.

The Eight MVAL Codes That Are Portfolios, Not Written Answers

The remaining 40 credits carry the MVAL prefix and every one of them is recorded as a practical course. Their booklets do not print questions. MVAL 021, read in full for this listing, asks for a compositional creative drawing with human, animal, nature and object elements, three art works, on Full Imperial paper, in charcoal or graphite pencil or a single colour, worked for rendering, tone, texture and form. That is your hand at an easel, not anyone’s pen on a page, and it is not offered here at any price.

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Four theory codes at six credits plus four practical codes at four credits plus four practical codes at six credits comes to 64, which is the total the prospectus prints, and the same 24 and 40 split that IGNOU’s academic support pages state for the drawing and painting stream. The arithmetic was run before either table above was trusted.

Where IGNOU’s Own MFAP Papers Disagree With Each Other

Five booklets and six official programme records were read against each other for this listing. They do not agree, and the disagreements are the reason a code list copied from an aggregator is not enough to order safely. Every one below is disclosed rather than quietly resolved, including the two that belong to this store.

None of that is a reason to avoid the programme. It is a reason to confirm your own codes and dates against the paper your enrolment points to, rather than against a neighbouring programme’s. 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.

One Date Per Booklet, and the April IGNOU Spells Aril

Most IGNOU programmes print two submission dates on one paper, one for each session. MFAP does not. Each booklet read here prints a single row under the heading Last Date of Submission, and that date belongs to the semester the booklet covers rather than to a session in the abstract, which follows from a structure the prospectus fee table records as semester-wise with a July admission cycle.

The dates read directly off the papers form a pattern rather than a rule. A first-semester paper for a July intake carried 31 December of the same calendar year. A second-semester paper for the same intake carried 31 May of the following year, and the MFAP-headed second-semester booklet for the next intake carried 30 April. A fourth-semester paper carried 30 April. Two of those four print the month as Aril, so if your own copy reads that way it is a typographical fault in the file and not a different month.

One consequence matters commercially. Because the dates run per semester and the papers for later semesters are not always posted when the cycle opens, an MFAP learner can be sitting on a semester with no downloadable paper at all. Any session is accepted, current cycle or older, including backlog courses, at the same ₹320 per subject, which is what makes a stranded third or fourth semester code workable rather than a dead end. Confirm the operative date with SOPVA before you rely on it, because a date printed on a two-year-old file is not a commitment the university has made for your cycle.

Reading MVA 023/AST/TMA/26A Segment by Segment

The assignment code goes on your first page and it is the string an evaluator matches your bundle against. MFAP uses four segments plus, on some papers, a trailing letter, and the segments carry meaning.

• MVA 023 is the course code. Theory codes take MVA, practical codes take MVAL, and the digits run 020 to 031 across the whole programme.
• AST sits where most IGNOU programmes put nothing at all. It is fixed across every MFAP and MADP paper read here, appearing on theory and practical codes alike, and is best copied rather than interpreted.
• TMA marks it as a Tutor Marked Assignment, the continuous assessment half of the course.
• 26 is the two-digit year the deadline falls in, not the year you enrolled. A learner admitted in July 2024 can hold a paper coded 26.
• A, where it appears, distinguishes one issue of a code from another. MVA 023 has been issued as both 25A and 26A, and MVA 029 as plain 26 with no letter.

The same booklet often prints the code twice with different spacing, once as MVA023/AST/TMA/26A in the submission table and once as MVA 023/AST/TMA/26A above the questions. Copy the form printed above the questions on your own paper, and write it exactly, because the evaluator is matching a string rather than reading your intent.

Your Own Hand, Copied From a Photo You Send

An MFAP bundle that arrives in a hand nothing like yours is a problem you do not need on a programme where you are already handing in original art works under your own name. Send a photo of a page you have written yourself and the handwritten set is matched to your handwriting at no extra charge.

What the sample photo needs to show

One full page in ordinary daylight, written the way you actually write rather than the way you write when you are being careful. Six or seven lines is not enough to copy a hand from. Capitals, lowercase, digits and a few crossings-out all help. If you write in Hindi as well as English, send a line of each, because a Krutidev-era Hindi paragraph and an English one are different problems for a writer.

You sign the declaration on the assignment cover page, so you should read and review the content before submitting it, and satisfy yourself that it represents your own understanding of the course. On a research paper code such as MVA 029 that reading matters more than usual, because the topic you name is one you may be asked about in the studio.

Send a photo of your handwriting first, and decide afterwards.

English on Paper, Krutidev on the Dissertation Code

Section 3.66 of the prospectus records the medium of instruction for MFAP as English and notes that the self-learning material is issued in English. That is the position to work from. It is not the whole position: IGNOU’s own academic support page for the drawing and painting stream states that although the material is supplied in English, learners are allowed to complete assignments and examinations in Hindi, and the MVA-029 paper goes further by specifying a Krutidev font at size 12 for Hindi submissions.

The service covers all mediums IGNOU issues the TMA paper in, at the same price. Practically, that means the English paper for every MVA code, and a Hindi set where you have confirmed with SOPVA that Hindi is accepted for your enrolment. Confirming that in writing before you order costs one message and removes the only real ambiguity in the medium question.

Backlogs sit in the same place. Any session is accepted, current cycle or older, including backlog courses, at the same ₹320 per subject. On MFAP a backlog is more often a stranded theory code from an earlier semester than a whole year, because the theory papers arrive one per semester.

Six Lines to Send Before Anything Is Written

Ordering is a short message rather than a form. Six lines settle it, and nothing else is needed.

1. The course codes you want written, in full, as MVA 020 or MVA 023 rather than as a semester number.
2. The semester those codes belong to, because the same code has been issued against more than one semester heading.
3. Your admission session and year, so the correct issue of the paper is pulled rather than the most recent one.
4. Whether your enrolment is recorded as MFAP or MADP, since the index files both under one heading and the papers differ.
5. The medium you have been permitted to write in.
6. A delivery address with the pin code, and a photo of your handwriting.

The booklet is pulled and read before a price is confirmed. If the paper for your semester is not currently posted, you are told that rather than sold a set written against a neighbouring cycle.

Foolscap in Hand: What to Do Before You Reach SOPVA

Open the packet and check three things against your own record: the enrolment number on the front page, the course title, and the assignment code above the first answer. Those are the fields an evaluator uses to attach marks to a person, and a digit wrong in any of them is the common cause of a bundle going unmatched.

Keep the codes separate. Every MVA booklet asks that each assignment on each course be written on separate sheets and tied or pinned properly, and it repeats the instruction in its closing checklist. Do not bundle two codes into one tie.

Then decide where it goes, and do it from a live instruction rather than from this page. The booklets read here point in two directions at once, to SOPVA at Maidan Garhi and to the coordinator of your allotted study centre, in a sentence IGNOU never finished. A message to the programme coordinator naming your code and semester resolves it in a way no third party can. Keep the receipt or acknowledgement, and check the assignment status entry on IGNOU’s portal a few weeks later rather than assuming silence means safe.

What Else Painting Learners Pick Up With the Set

Most MFAP orders are one or two theory codes rather than a full year, so the rest of the basket tends to be preparation for the term-end paper. Learners ordering across programmes usually start at the handwritten assignment section covering every IGNOU programme to see how the same rate applies elsewhere, then narrow down.

For reading material rather than submissions, the course-wise solved assignment hub organised by code is where per-code files live, and the master’s degree guess paper shelf is the closest thing to term-end practice at postgraduate level. Fine arts codes are not stocked in either at the time of writing, which is worth knowing before you go looking.

Two neighbouring School of Performing and Visual Arts listings do exist and are the nearest match in subject matter: the performing arts honours book shelf for learners who came into MFAP through a performing arts route, and the theatre arts diploma guess papers for anyone holding a diploma alongside the degree.

MVA 029 is a dissertation code rather than a separate project, so it does not appear in the store’s project listings. If you are looking anyway, the project report section arranged by programme shows how project work is handled where IGNOU does issue a distinct project code, and the performing arts hard-copy project listing is the only arts-side entry currently on that shelf.

If you would rather write the pages yourself, the format rules, front page templates and submission routes are set out free at the step-by-step handwritten assignment guide on ignouproject.com, and the official papers themselves are on IGNOU’s assignment download service.

Questions Fine Arts Learners Send Before Paying

Is the MFAP assignment written on A4 or on foolscap?

Foolscap. Instruction one on every MVA booklet read for this listing says to use only foolscap size paper for your responses and to tie all the pages carefully. That instruction appears on the MVA 020 and MVA 023 papers and on the MVA-029 research paper booklet. It differs from the A4 convention most IGNOU programmes follow, including the convention stated on this store’s own handwritten category page, which is being corrected. Sets prepared here are cut to foolscap for MVA codes.

Can I submit a printed or typed copy for an MFAP theory code instead?

For MVA 020, MVA 023 and MVA 026 the booklets say you should write in your own handwriting, so a printout is not what the paper asks for. MVA 029 is the exception and it is IGNOU’s exception, not a general one: that booklet asks for a typed research paper in APA format at font size 12, on the same page that specifies foolscap. Where a booklet contradicts itself, confirm with SOPVA in writing before you print anything, and keep the reply.

What is the difference between an MFAP solved assignment and an MFAP handwritten assignment?

A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers for one course code and session, meant to be read while you write your own pages. A handwritten assignment is the answers written out by hand and handed in as a hard copy. This listing sells only the second, at ₹320 per subject. No soft copy or PDF is sold here, and a reference file is not a submission however neatly it is printed.

Can a downloaded MVA 023 answer file be handed in at SOPVA as it is?

Not as a printout, because the MVA 023 booklet asks for your own handwriting. There is a further trap specific to this programme: a file sold or shared for MVA 023 may have been written against the MADP issue of the paper rather than the MFAP issue, and the two carry different questions under the same code. Check the questions in the file against the questions in your own downloaded booklet before you use it for anything.

Why does my MVA 023 booklet say MADP when my enrolment says MFAP?

Because IGNOU publishes the twelve codes on its master’s degree assignment index under the Master of Arts (Drawing and Painting) heading, and MFAP is not listed there at all. Separately, MFAP-headed versions of some papers exist elsewhere on ignou.ac.in. Both are genuine IGNOU files. Send the desk the heading printed on your own copy and the set is written against that one.

Do you write the MVAL 021 or MVAL 025 portfolio?

No, and no writing service can. Those are practical courses. MVAL 021 asks for three original creative drawings on Full Imperial paper in charcoal, graphite or a single colour, worked for rendering, tone, texture and form. The portfolio is your own art work and there is nothing here that substitutes for it.

My booklet prints the last date as Aril, 30 st 2026. Which date is that?

30 April 2026, on the copy that carries it. Two of the papers read for this listing spell April as Aril, and one writes the day as 30 st. It is a typographical fault in IGNOU’s file rather than a different month. Confirm the operative date for your own semester with SOPVA, because a date printed on an older file is not a commitment for your cycle.

Does an MFAP assignment carry 30 marks or 100 marks?

Both figures are printed by IGNOU. The MVA 020 booklet says each assignment carries 30 marks and its question paper adds to 30. The MVA 023 booklet says 100 and its nine questions run at 20 marks each. The MVA-029 booklet says 100 in its opening paragraph and 30 on its own question page. The headline figure does not change the weighting. Assignments carry 30 per cent of the final course result and the term-end examination carries the remaining 70 per cent.

What does AST mean inside MVA 023/AST/TMA/26A?

It is a fixed segment on MFAP and MADP papers, present on theory and practical codes alike, sitting where most IGNOU programmes place nothing. It is not a course code and it does not vary with your semester. Copy it exactly as your own booklet prints it above the questions, rather than reconstructing the string from another programme’s pattern.

Can the MVA 029 dissertation paper be prepared here?

The written work can be prepared, but the format instruction on that booklet contradicts itself, asking for foolscap in one line and typed APA output in the next. Send the desk your copy and the position is confirmed with you before anything is written. A handwritten set is only supplied for MVA 029 where you have confirmed that handwriting is what your coordinator expects.

Can the MFAP set be written in Hindi?

The prospectus records the medium as English. IGNOU’s academic support page for the drawing and painting stream says learners may complete assignments and examinations in Hindi, and MVA-029 specifies a Krutidev font for Hindi. The service covers all mediums IGNOU issues the TMA paper in, at the same price, so a Hindi set is prepared where you have confirmed Hindi is accepted for your enrolment.

Where does the finished MFAP bundle actually go?

The booklets point two ways at once. MVA 020 names SOPVA at Maidan Garhi, New Delhi 110068, and instruction four on the same page says the completed assignment should be sent to the coordinator of the study centre allotted to you, in a sentence that stops mid-clause. The response-sheet block prints SOPVA, Headquarter as the study centre. Ask the programme coordinator, and keep the reply in writing.

Can a semester 3 or semester 4 backlog paper from an older cycle be written?

Yes. Any session is accepted, current cycle or older, including backlog courses, at the same ₹320 per subject. This comes up often on MFAP because third and fourth semester papers for a running cycle are sometimes unlinked on the index while older issues remain downloadable.

Do all four MVA codes have to be ordered together?

No. There is no minimum order: one subject or fourteen, same rate. Since MFAP issues one theory paper per semester, single-code orders are the normal case rather than the exception.

What does the ₹320 include, and is courier charged separately?

The rate is ₹320 per subject, hard copy only, with courier included in that price and no separate shipping charge. The IGNOU-format front page and a copy of the question paper travel with the set at no extra cost. Delivery depends on your pin code and is confirmed for your order before you pay. No figure is promised on this page.

Which Document Each Line on This Page Came From

From the Common Prospectus July 2026, section 3.66 and the programme fee table. The twelve course codes, their official titles, their credits, the semester each sits in, the 64-credit total, the two-year minimum and four-year maximum duration, the English medium, the six bachelor’s degrees that make a candidate eligible, the July admission cycle, the semester-wise fee pattern and the ₹9,000 per year figure. Every credit column was added independently before the table above was written, and the sum matched the printed total of 64.

From live IGNOU files. Five assignment booklets were opened and read for this listing: MVA 020, MVAL 021 and MVA 023 for the July 2024 cycle under the MADP heading; MVA-029 for the July 2024 fourth semester; and MVA-023 for July 2025 under the MFAP heading. From these came the submission dates, the assignment code formats, the marks figures, the question patterns, the foolscap and Full Imperial paper instructions, the handwriting and typing instructions, the submission addresses and the semester and code misprints. The programme index that files these codes under MADP supplied the session list and the unlinked third and fourth semester rows, and IGNOU’s own MFAP programme record supplied the theory and practical labels, the duration and the ₹16,500 fee figure that disagrees with the prospectus.

From this publisher’s own commercial terms. The ₹320 rate, the hard-copy-only format, the included courier, the free front page, the included question paper copy, the handwriting matching from a sample photo, the no-minimum-order position and the absence of any delivery figure. These are commercial terms set by Shri Chakradhar Publication Pvt. Ltd. and they are not IGNOU rules. Where this page names something as an IGNOU requirement, it was read off an IGNOU document, and where a document disagreed with another, both are printed above rather than one being chosen silently.

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. Next review before the next MFAP semester cut-off, and in any case when a new MVA booklet is posted for the running cycle. The house method used here is the same one applied to the MBA handwritten assignment listing, where the code tables were built the same way.

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.