IGNOU MSWC Handwritten Assignment: The Ten MSW Codes That Carry a Paper, and the Four MSWL Codes That Do Not

What the MSWC Packet Holds When It Reaches Your Door

A counselling learner ordering here is buying four physical things per course code, and it is worth naming them plainly because the gap between a stack of answer pages and a submission-ready set is where most study-centre trouble starts.

The first is the answer pages themselves, written by hand on A4 in blue ink, one answer starting on a fresh page, laid out the way the SOSW booklet asks for it. That instruction is not a house preference. The counselling paper tells the learner directly to make sure that each answer starts on a new page, to build long and medium answers with an introduction, sub-titles, body and conclusion, and to leave a line between paragraphs. The written set follows that shape because the paper prescribes it.

The second is the front page, filled with your enrolment number, your programme code, your course code and your session, and left blank exactly where IGNOU expects your own pen: name, signature and study-centre code. That page is free with every order and is not billed as an extra.

The third is a printed copy of the official Tutor Marked Assignment paper for that code and that session, so the questions in your hand and the questions on the counter match, and so an academic counsellor can verify the pairing without opening a laptop.

The fourth is the packing itself, tied course-wise so that MSW-013 does not travel loose against MSW-015. No soft copy or PDF is sold. Nothing in this order arrives by email, and nothing here is a download.

Where the ₹320 Stops, and Where It Does Not Reach

The rate is ₹320 per subject, hard copy only, with courier included in that price and no separate shipping charge. Read per subject as per course code. A learner ordering the whole second year, meaning MSW-012 through MSW-016, is buying five subjects. A learner clearing only MSW-014 is buying one, at the same rate per code, because there is no minimum order: one subject or fourteen, same rate.

Inside the price sit the writing, the paper, the front page, the printed question paper and the courier. Outside it sit three things that the price cannot touch and that no publisher should pretend to control. The first is evaluation. 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. The second is your field work. MSWL46, MSWL47, MSWL48 and MSWL49 involve placement, supervision and a journal signed by your Field Work Supervisor; those are yours to complete and cannot be written for you. The third is the calendar at your Regional Centre, which can extend a date or change a submission route without warning.

Delivery depends on your pin code and is confirmed for your order before you pay. No figure is promised on this page. Shri Chakradhar Publication confirms a realistic window against your address once the codes and session are settled, and that confirmation is per order rather than a number printed here for everybody.

Reference File or Submission Copy: Sorting Out Which One MSWC Needs

Two very different things get called an assignment in MSWC search results, and buying the wrong one costs a submission cycle. A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers for a given course code and session, downloaded and read on a screen. A handwritten assignment, which is what this product supplies, is the answers written out by hand on A4 and submitted in hard copy at the study centre.

Scroll the table sideways on a narrow screen to see all three columns.

IGNOU settles the format question itself, on the paper. The 2025-26 counselling booklets state that assignments are an open book examination, that 30 per cent weightage is assigned to the assignment while calculating the overall grade for each course, and that assignments are to be handwritten and duly signed before submission at the Study Centre. That last clause is printed on both the first-year and the second-year booklet, in the same paragraph, in identical words. A downloaded reference file cannot satisfy it, however good the answers are. It is a thing to write from, not a thing to hand in.

If a reference file is what you actually want, it is cheaper and quicker than this, and it lives on its own shelf: browse the soft-copy solved answers listed code by code for the counselling papers rather than ordering a written set you did not need.

The Ten MSW Theory Codes That Carry a Counselling TMA

The table below reproduces the MSWC structure as the Common Prospectus for July 2026 prints it, with the credits shown as the prospectus shows them. The codes appear in the prospectus with a space and no zero padding, as MSW 5 and MSW 13; the assignment booklets print the same courses zero-padded and hyphenated, as MSW-005 and MSW-013. Both forms are given because your admission record is likely to use one and your downloaded paper the other.

Scroll the table sideways on a narrow screen to reach the credit and year columns.

Ten papers at four credits each account for 40 of the programme’s 72 credits. There are no electives anywhere in MSWC and no dissertation course. Every one of these ten is compulsory for every enrolled learner, which is unusual: the generic Master of Social Work, taught by the same school and also totalling 72 credits, asks its learners to choose two electives in the first year and one in the second, and offers a dissertation among those choices. A counselling learner has no such fork. That single structural fact is why the ordering conversation here is shorter than for most programmes: your year decides your five codes.

The Four MSWL Codes That Carry No TMA at All

The other 32 credits are the reason MSWC arithmetic confuses people. They belong to four eight-credit field-work courses, and none of them has an assignment paper on either of IGNOU’s two assignment distribution points.

Scroll the table sideways on a narrow screen to compare the two code series.

Read the right-hand column carefully, because it is the single most expensive mistake available to a social work learner on this store or any other. Social Work Practicum-I exists twice at IGNOU under two different course codes in the same school, once as MSWL13 for the generic programme and once as MSWL46 for counselling. Block Placement, Social Work Practicum-II and Internship repeat the same pattern. A learner who searches by title rather than by code lands on the wrong programme’s material with no visible warning, because the titles are word-for-word identical. Nothing is written against any MSWL code here, but the codes are stated so that a counselling learner reading their own admission record can see which series belongs to them.

Field work also has its own submission channel. A notice published by an IGNOU Regional Centre for all School of Social Work programmes, naming BSW, BSWG, MSW and MSWC together, directs learners to submit hard copies of the Field Work Journal and project directly to the Regional Centre, with online submission not accepted for admissions from January 2022 onward. Regional Centres set their own arrangements, so treat that as the position at one centre and confirm yours rather than assuming it applies everywhere.

Five Places IGNOU’s Own MSWC Paperwork Contradicts Itself

The following disagreements were found by reading IGNOU’s documents against each other rather than by copying any of them. They are published here because a learner who meets them mid-download deserves to know they are real, and because one of them is the store’s own error.

Both Cut-Offs Printed on the SOSW Counselling Booklet

Every MSWC assignment booklet prints its two dates on the cover, directly under the university address, under the heading Last Date of Submission of Assignments to the Study Centre. The 2025-2026 papers for both years print July, 2025 Session followed by March 31, 2026, then January, 2026 Session followed by September 30, 2026. The 2024-2025 second-year paper prints the same rule shifted back a year: July, 2024 Session then March 31, 2025, and January, 2025 Session then September 30, 2025.

The pattern is therefore stable and easy to state. A July intake submits by 31 March of the following calendar year. A January intake submits by 30 September of the same calendar year. What matters is that this is the opposite way round from the 31 October and 30 April pairing used by the School of Management Studies, which is the pairing most third-party date lists reproduce for every programme at IGNOU. Carrying a management-school date onto a counselling paper costs a term-end attempt.

Two further cautions belong here. First, IGNOU periodically issues university-wide extensions covering assignments, project reports, field work journals, practicums, dissertations and internship reports at once, and those notices circulate widely with dates such as 30 April or 16 August attached. An extension does not change what your booklet printed; it overrides it for a stated cycle only, and it is announced on ignou.ac.in rather than deduced. Second, papers expire. The MSW-014 questions on the 2025-26 booklet are not the MSW-014 questions on the 2024-25 booklet: where the older paper opened by asking the learner to define case work and elaborate its components, the newer one opens on types of problems in a family and the strategies a case worker uses. Answering last year’s paper this year is a rejection risk that has nothing to do with handwriting.

What Your Counselling Paper Prints Where Others Print a TMA Number

Learners arriving from management or humanities programmes expect a long assignment code on the paper, of the sort MMPC-001/TMA/JULY/2026 or MEG-08/TMA/2026-27, and go looking for one on the counselling booklet. It is not there.

What the MSWC paper prints instead, above each question set, is two short lines: the course title, then Course Code followed by the code itself, then Total marks: 100. That is the whole identifier. There is no TMA segment, no session token and no year in the code line. The session information lives only on the cover page, in the Assignment: 2025-2026 line and in the two submission dates. This matters when you fill your front page, because a front page asking for an assignment code should carry the course code exactly as the booklet prints it, and nothing invented around it.

The question pattern behind that line is consistent across every counselling code checked. Five questions, all to be attempted, all carrying equal weight at 20 marks apiece. Questions one and two are long answers capped at 600 words each and each offered with an Or alternative, so you choose one of two. Question three asks for any two of four sub-questions at about 300 words and 10 marks each. Question four asks for any four of six at about 150 words and 5 marks each. Question five asks for short notes on any five of eight at about 100 words and 4 marks each. A full MSWC set is therefore twelve written answers per course, not five, which is the honest reason a five-code year takes the time it does.

Your Own Hand, Copied From a Photo You Send

The counselling booklet asks for assignments that are handwritten and duly signed. A set in a hand that plainly is not yours, submitted under your signature, is an awkward thing to put on a counter. Send a photo of a page you have written yourself and the handwritten set is matched to your handwriting at no extra charge.

What Makes a Usable Sample Photo

Half a page of ordinary writing is enough, in the pen you normally use, photographed flat in daylight rather than under a lamp at an angle. Include a few capital letters, a few numerals and at least one full sentence, because letter joins and digit shapes are what the matching actually works from. Rough notes are better than a careful specimen: the target is your everyday hand, not your best one. The sample goes across on WhatsApp before any payment, so the risk of paying for handwriting you have not seen does not arise. Photograph half a page and send it across before anything is confirmed, at ₹320 per subject with courier included.

English, Hindi, Old Sessions and Repeat Attempts

The service covers all mediums IGNOU issues the TMA paper in, at the same price. For MSWC that means both, and it is worth stating because third-party programme pages circulate a claim that the counselling programme runs in English only. IGNOU’s own material contradicts them twice over. The Common Prospectus lists the medium of instruction for MSWC as English and Hindi, and the programme-wise assignment index carries a separate Hindi booklet alongside the English one for every session it lists, first year and second year alike. Hindi-medium learners will see their field-work courses written in Devanagari on IGNOU’s own listings, with MSWL48 and MSWL49 appearing there as the practicum and internship papers.

On sessions, any session is accepted, current cycle or older, including backlog courses, at the same ₹320 per subject. A learner clearing MSW-009 from an earlier cycle while sitting the current second-year papers can order both in one packet. The only requirement is that you say which session each code is for, because the questions differ between cycles and the wrong paper is a wasted set regardless of how it is written.

The Short List of Things to Message, and Nothing Beyond It

Ordering is deliberately narrow. Five items settle it, and none of them is a document you have to hunt for.

1. Your course codes, in either form. MSW-013 and MSW 13 both parse; so does a plain list of five second-year papers.
2. Your year of study, first or second, which is how the correct booklet cover is identified.
3. Your session, given as July or January with the year, for example July 2025 or January 2026.
4. Your medium, English or Hindi.
5. A photo of a page in your own handwriting, plus your delivery pin code so a realistic window can be confirmed.

Nothing else is needed. Your enrolment number is used on the front page and is asked for once the codes are settled, not upfront. Payment follows the availability check and the handwriting confirmation, not the other way round.

Opening the Parcel and Checking It Against Your Enrolment

Do the checks the day the packet arrives rather than the day you submit, because a correction made a week out is routine and a correction made at the counter is not.

Confirm four things. That the course codes on the front pages match the codes on your admission record, in your programme and not the generic MSW series. That the session line on each front page matches the session you are submitting for. That the enclosed question paper is the same paper your study centre is working from, which is worth a two-minute comparison against the copy on the IGNOU portal. And that the pages are still grouped course-wise after transit, since the booklet instruction to keep courses separate is one that study centres apply strictly.

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 counselling papers this is not a formality: MSW-014 and MSW-015 both carry questions on ethics, confidentiality and the limits of a professional relationship, and an academic counsellor may well ask you about them.

What Else Counselling Learners Put in the Same Order

Most MSWC orders here arrive alongside one or two other things, and the pattern is consistent enough to be worth setting out. Learners preparing for the term-end paper as well as the assignment tend to add the unit-wise counselling help books built against the MSW syllabus, then work backwards from the worked term-end papers from earlier counselling cycles to see how a question is actually marked. Closer to the examination, the short-form guess papers for the counselling codes are the usual last-fortnight purchase.

Learners in cognate programmes order across categories more than most, because the counselling subject matter overlaps so heavily. The PGDCOUN diploma shelf and its matching diploma-level reference answers cover the same School of Social Work ground at diploma depth, and learners who studied counselling and family therapy at master’s level often hold material that maps onto MSW-015 directly. Those coming up from the revised bachelor’s programme can trace their own earlier work through the BSWG reference answers, and second-year learners approaching a report often look first at the bound social work project shelf.

If your programme is not MSWC at all, or you want to compare rates across programmes before committing, the full handwritten catalogue across every IGNOU programme is the place to start, and the course-code hub for soft-copy answers covers the reference side of the same question. If you would rather write the pages yourself and only need the method, the step-by-step guide to writing an IGNOU assignment by hand on the companion site walks through it without selling anything.

What MSWC Learners Ask Before They Pay

Which MSWC codes actually have an assignment to write?

Ten of the fourteen. First year: MSW-001, MSW-002, MSW-005, MSW-008 and MSW-009. Second year: MSW-012, MSW-013, MSW-014, MSW-015 and MSW-016. The four MSWL codes are field work and internship and have no Tutor Marked Assignment paper on either of IGNOU’s assignment distribution points.

My booklet says MSW-005 but my admission record says MSW 5. Are these the same paper?

Yes. The Common Prospectus prints counselling codes with a space and no padding, as MSW 5, and the assignment booklets print the same courses zero-padded and hyphenated, as MSW-005. It is a formatting difference between two IGNOU documents, not two courses. Either form is fine when you message your codes.

I am enrolled in MSWC but all my codes start with MSW. Did I download the wrong booklet?

Probably not. MSWC is the programme code; MSW and MSWL are the course-code prefixes it uses. Check the cover page instead of the codes: a counselling booklet is headed MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK COUNSELLING with MSW(C) First Year or MSW(C) Second Year beneath it. If the cover says MASTER DEGREE IN SOCIAL WORK, that is the generic programme’s paper.

Do I need to order anything for MSWL46, MSWL47, MSWL48 or MSWL49?

No, and nothing is written for them here. Those four carry 32 of the programme’s 72 credits through placement, supervision and an internship, assessed on a field work journal signed by your Field Work Supervisor. Watch the code series though: the generic MSW programme uses MSWL13 to MSWL16 for courses with identical titles.

Solved assignment aur handwritten assignment mein kya farq hai?

Solved assignment ek soft-copy reference file hai: model answers jo aap padhkar apne shabdon mein likhte hain. Handwritten assignment wahi answers hain jo A4 par haath se likhe jaate hain aur study centre par hard copy mein jama hote hain. Yeh product doosra wala hai, ₹320 per subject, courier included.

Can I print a downloaded solved assignment and submit that instead?

The counselling booklet states that assignments are to be handwritten and duly signed before submission at the Study Centre, so a printout does not meet the instruction as written. A solved file is material to write from, not a submission in itself. If that is what you want, order it from the counselling solved-assignment category rather than here.

Is a typed MSWC assignment accepted at the study centre?

The booklet instruction says handwritten, and study centres apply it. Practice does vary a little by Regional Centre, particularly where a centre has asked for signed and scanned copies through a specific route, so confirm your centre’s current position before typing anything. Where the instruction is applied as printed, a typed set is a rejection risk.

What is my last date if I took admission in the July session?

31 March of the following calendar year, as printed on the counselling booklet cover. The 2025-2026 papers print July, 2025 Session followed by March 31, 2026. This is not the 31 October date used by management programmes, and confusing the two is the most common MSWC deadline error.

What is my last date if I took admission in the January session?

30 September of the same calendar year. The 2025-2026 counselling booklets print January, 2026 Session followed by September 30, 2026, and the previous year’s paper prints the same rule as September 30, 2025 for the January 2025 intake.

A date list I found says 16 August. Which one do I follow?

Follow your booklet cover unless IGNOU has issued a formal extension for your cycle. The university does periodically extend submission of assignments, project reports, field work journals, practicums, dissertations and internship reports together, and those notices circulate with dates attached. Extensions are announced on ignou.ac.in; a date on an aggregator page is not one until it appears there.

Can the Hindi-medium counselling papers be written?

Yes. The service covers all mediums IGNOU issues the TMA paper in, at the same price. IGNOU’s programme-wise index lists a separate Hindi booklet beside the English one for MSW(C) first year and second year in every session it carries, so the Hindi papers are not a special request.

I am clearing a backlog counselling paper from an old cycle. Is that still possible?

Yes. Any session is accepted, current cycle or older, including backlog courses, at the same ₹320 per subject. Send the session along with the code, because the questions change between cycles: the 2025-26 MSW-014 paper opens on problems within a family while the 2024-25 paper opened on defining case work.

How many answers does one MSWC paper actually need?

Twelve, not five. Each paper carries five questions worth 20 marks each. Questions one and two are single long answers capped at 600 words. Question three needs any two of four at about 300 words, question four any four of six at about 150 words, and question five short notes on any five of eight at about 100 words.

Does the packet include the question paper, or do I download it myself?

A copy of the official Tutor Marked Assignment paper for your code and session travels with the written set, along with the free IGNOU-format front page. Comparing it against the copy on the IGNOU portal before submission is still worth two minutes, since study centres occasionally work from a different sheet.

Can I order only two codes rather than the whole year?

Yes. There is no minimum order: one subject or fourteen, same rate. Ordering MSW-013 and MSW-015 alone costs the same per code as ordering all five second-year papers, and mixing a first-year backlog into a second-year order changes nothing about the rate.

Does the handwriting genuinely match mine?

It is matched from a photo of a page you have written yourself, at no extra charge, and the sample exchange happens on WhatsApp before payment. Half a page of ordinary writing with a few numerals and capitals is enough to work from. If the match is not right, you have seen it before any money has moved.

Three Separate Sources Behind Every Line Above

The material on this page comes from three different kinds of source, and they are kept apart deliberately, because collapsing them is how a commercial page ends up asserting something IGNOU never said.

The Common Prospectus for July 2026. Every course code, official title and credit figure in the two tables above is read from the MSWC section of that document. The credits were re-added independently before the tables were published: five theory papers at four credits and two field-work papers at eight credits give 36 for the first year, the same arithmetic gives 36 for the second, and the total of 72 matches the figure the prospectus prints. Programme duration, eligibility, medium and the Learner Support Centre restriction come from the same section.

Live Tutor Marked Assignment booklets on ignou.ac.in. Three were opened for this build: the 2025-26 first-year counselling paper for MSW-005, the 2025-26 second-year paper for MSW-014, and the full 2024-25 second-year booklet reached through the programme-wise MSW(C) assignment index. Both submission dates, the code format, the twelve-answer question pattern, the handwritten-and-signed instruction and the cover-page course lists are read off those three files. Current papers for your own codes should be downloaded from the official IGNOU assignment download service; programme details are on the university’s own MSWC programme page.

Shri Chakradhar Publication’s own commercial terms. The ₹320 rate, the inclusion of courier, the free front page, the enclosed question paper, the handwriting matching and the absence of a minimum order are the publisher’s terms and are set by the publisher, not by IGNOU. They are stated as such throughout and are not represented as university policy anywhere on this page.

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 27 August 2026. Sources last checked against ignou.ac.in on 27 August 2026. Next scheduled review before 31 March 2027, the printed cut-off for the July intake.

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.