IGNOU MAANY Guess Paper for December 2026: MAN-101 to MAN-110 Revision Built on 20 MAAN Papers

When the Ten MAN Papers Sit in December 2026

The December 2026 MAANY papers open with MAN-101 on Monday 7 December 2026 and close with MAN-110 on Wednesday 30 December 2026, per IGNOU’s tentative December 2026 date sheet dated 21 September 2026. The whole cycle runs from 25 November 2026 to 13 January 2027, and the sheet asked for any discrepancy to reach datesheet@ignou.ac.in by 25 September 2026, so a final version may still move a date.

The sheet prints its two slots once, at the top, as 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM; it does not separate the blocks clearly enough to read a slot for each MAN code with confidence, so check the slot on the hall ticket. Slot rules are explained on the IGNOU exam timing page, and the full cycle sits on the December 2026 date sheet summary.

One Free Day Between Every MAN Paper

No two MAN papers share a date and none fall on consecutive days. A learner carrying all ten, a Semester I backlog plus Semester II, gets at least one clear day before each paper, and three clear days before MAN-104 and MAN-109.

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The older MAAN codes run on a different rhythm. MANE-007, MANI-001, MANI-002, MAN-001 and MAN-002 sit on five consecutive days from 1 to 5 December 2026, and MANI-003, MANE-001 and MANE-002 follow on 7, 8 and 9 December. Their dates are in the code tables further down.

How Much a MAN Term-End Paper Counts Toward the Grade

IGNOU prints no weightage figure for MAANY or MAAN on any of the twenty MAAN papers from June 2024 to June 2026, or on the MAN-101, MAN-102, MAN-105 and MAN-107 assignment booklets for 2026. The marks split between the assignment and the term-end paper for MAANY is therefore something to confirm in the MAANY Programme Guide or at the Regional Centre, not something to assume from another programme.

What the papers do print is the stake in the room: 3 hours, 100 marks, five answers worth 20 marks each. One weak answer costs a fifth of the paper. The assignment, by contrast, is written at home over months, which is why most learners who lose a grade lose it in the exam hall. Once the result is out, the percentage calculator converts a grade card into a percentage.

Guess Paper, IGNOU Past Paper or Solved Paper for an Anthropology Learner

A guess paper is a revision set of important and recurring questions for one course code, such as MAN-102 Physical/Biological Anthropology, with model answers, prepared by a publisher from past IGNOU papers and the syllabus; sellers also call it important questions, expected questions or a model paper. It is not an IGNOU document.

A previous year question paper is the actual paper IGNOU set in an earlier term-end examination, such as the June 2026 MANI-002 paper, and it is free on IGNOU’s archive. A solved question paper is that actual paper with a publisher’s model answers added; ignouproject.com keeps those on its solved question papers page.

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For a MAN code the choice is unusual. The free option, IGNOU’s own MAN paper, does not exist yet; the nearest free papers are the MAAN ones in the table in the evidence section below, which is where a careful learner starts either way.

MAN, MANE and Old MAAN Codes, With the Layout IGNOU Sets

MAANY is an 80-credit Master of Arts (Anthropology) of the School of Social Sciences, four semesters of 20 credits each, per section 3.24 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus. The ten compulsory first-year courses carry 4 credits each; the third semester adds two Group A and two Group B electives and one interdisciplinary course; the fourth adds a practical, a dissertation and one more interdisciplinary course. The credits add up: 20 + 20 + (8 + 8 + 4) + (8 + 8 + 4) = 80. The IGNOU prospectus guide explains where the document lives.

Semester I and II Codes and Their December 2026 Dates

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Semester III and IV Theory Codes

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None of the eight MANE-101 to MANE-108 electives, and not MGS-109, appears on the tentative December 2026 sheet, so no second-year MAANY elective paper is scheduled this cycle. MPA-033, MED-008 and MED-002 are shared with other programmes and do appear. MPA-033 and MED-002 are both on Thursday 10 December, which matters only to someone sitting a third- and a fourth-semester choice together.

Old MAAN Code to New MAN Code: Where the Titles Line Up

The older Master’s Degree in Anthropology (MAAN) is not in the July 2026 Common Prospectus, but its learners are still examined: all twelve MAAN theory codes are on the December 2026 sheet. Several old and new courses share a title, and two old codes look almost like new ones.

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The matches in the fourth column are ignouproject.com’s reading of the titles and the 2026 booklets, not an IGNOU equivalence; IGNOU does not publish a MAAN-to-MAANY credit transfer on any document compared here. MANE-007 and MANI-001 are listed in the same prospectus at 8 credits under the Post Graduate Diploma in Tribal Studies (PGDTRBS), which is one reason they are still examined.

Paper Anatomy of Six MAAN Courses

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Every MAAN paper compared from June 2024 to June 2026 carries the same layout: 3 hours, 100 marks, Section A with questions 1 to 5 and Section B with questions 6 to 10, five answers in all with at least two from each section, 20 marks per question, and a word limit of 500 words for a 20-mark answer and 250 words for a 10-mark note. No layout change was found across the five sessions, which is itself unusual next to programmes whose papers dropped a case study or a section in the same period.

The 2026 MAN booklets use the same rule: five questions, at least two from each of Sections A and B, with the same 500 and 250 word limits. That is a booklet, not a term-end paper, so the first MAN paper’s layout is known only when IGNOU sets it.

Conflicts, Look-Alike Codes and Outdated Material

No per-code ignouproject.com page exists yet for any MAN or MANE code, so the codes above are not linked one by one. For the whole programme, the MAANY handwritten assignment guide lists the same codes with their booklet dates.

Twenty IGNOU Anthropology Papers Compared, June 2024 to June 2026

Seven themes appeared in all five MANI-002 Physical Anthropology papers from June 2024 to June 2026, and physique assessment by Sheldon or Heath-Carter sat at question 4 in four of those five. That regularity, across a course whose successor is MAN-102, is the strongest single finding in the MAAN archive.

IGNOU has not published a single MAN-101 to MAN-110 paper. Its December 2025 question-paper index lists twelve MAAN files, from MAN-001 to MANI-003, and no MAN-101 to MAN-110 file; its June 2026 index page shows no rows at all, although the June 2026 MAAN papers are live in IGNOU’s June 2026 folder. December 2026 is therefore the first published sitting for every MAN code.

MANI-002: Seven Themes in All Five Papers

MANI-002 is the most regular MAAN course by theme, though not by question number. In June 2026 IGNOU moved physique assessment from question 4 to question 7 and palaeoanthropology from question 9 or 10 to question 2, so a learner who memorised question numbers would have been misled; one who revised the themes would not.

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MANE-007: Scheduled Tribe Provisions Asked Every Time

A question on the constitutional or special provisions for Scheduled Tribes appeared in all five MANE-007 Tribes in India papers, at question 8 in four of them and question 9 in June 2026. Vulnerable or denotified groups and social differentiation also reached five of five. MANE-007 shares its title with MAN-105.

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MANI-001: Ethnography and Excavation in All Four

MANI-001 Anthropology and Methods of Research mixes theory with method. Ethnography, archaeological exploration and excavation, the scope of the discipline, and variables or hypothesis each appeared in all four papers from December 2024 to June 2026; the Renaissance origin of anthropology came twice, at question 2 both times.

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MAN-001: Question 1 Never Changed Its Subject

Question 1 of all four MAN-001 Social Anthropology papers asked about the growth, scope or definition of social anthropology. Culture, kinship and religion also came in every paper, though religion usually as a short note in question 10.

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How the July 2026 MAN Booklets Echo the MAAN Papers

Nine of the ten question parts in IGNOU’s MAN-105 Tribes in India assignment for July 2026 and January 2027 deal with a theme that also appeared in at least one MANE-007 paper from June 2024 to June 2026, including PVTGs, debt bondage and land alienation, depopulation and loss of dialects; only sacred spaces did not. The MAN-101 booklet for the same session shares 7 of its 10 parts with MANI-001, MANI-002 or MAN-001 themes, and the MAN-102 booklet shares 5 of 10 with MANI-002.

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An assignment booklet is not a term-end paper, and an overlap is not a forecast. It does show that the new MAN courses were written from the same blocks of ideas, which is the honest basis for revising a MAN code from MAAN evidence.

Counting Method and the Papers Used

The counts above come from twenty IGNOU term-end papers, each compared in full by ignouproject.com on 8 October 2026: MANI-002 and MANE-007 from June 2024 to June 2026 (five sessions each), MANI-001 and MAN-001 from December 2024 to June 2026 (four each), and MAN-002 and MANE-005 from December 2025 (one each, used only for layout). A theme counts once per paper however many parts it filled; matching wording to a theme is a human judgement, not string matching, and a theme seen once is reported as seen once, never as important.

The theme tables cover MANI-001, MANI-002, MAN-001 and MANE-007. For MAN-101 to MAN-110, and for any code outside the tables, the format is confirmed on WhatsApp against the latest IGNOU paper the moment one is published. Every paper is linked below, so any count can be checked against IGNOU’s own file.

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Misprints in IGNOU's Own Anthropology Files

• The December 2025 MANI-002 paper prints “Health and Carter’s Method” at question 4; the method is Heath-Carter somatotyping.
• In the December 2024 MANI-002 paper the Hardy-Weinberg law is spelled “Hardy-Wienberg”, and the June 2026 paper prints “Catup growth” for catch-up growth.
• The June 2025 MAN-001 paper spells potlatch “Pottach” and ends one instruction “Attempt five questions in.”
• The June 2024 MANI-002 paper shows no marks against questions 4 and 9, and the June 2024 MANE-007 headings read “Section&A” and “Section&B”.
• IGNOU’s archive files MANE-007 as MANE-7.pdf for December 2022 and MANE-007.pdf later, and moved the folder name from MAAN to MASTERS IN ANTHROPOLOGY.

A misprint does not change what is being asked, but searching “Pottach” or “Health and Carter” in a textbook finds nothing, which wastes revision time a day before the paper. The previous year paper guide explains how IGNOU’s archive is organised by session.

How a MAANY Revision Set Is Assembled

1. Match the code first. The hall-ticket code decides the set; MAN-103 is prepared as MAN-103, with MAN-001 used only as theme evidence.
2. List the recurring themes. The MAAN theme tables above set the first draft of priorities for the matching MAN course.
3. Add the 2026 booklet themes. Themes in the July 2026 MAN booklet that no MAAN paper asked are added, because they show where the new course departs.
4. Write to the paper’s shape. Answers run to the 500-word, 20-mark slot or the 250-word, 10-mark note, with diagrams where a physical or archaeological answer calls for one.
5. Review against the blocks. BK Sahni reviews each set against the IGNOU blocks for the code before it is shared.

A worked example of step 4: for a physique-assessment question, the answer opens with what a somatotype is, sets out Sheldon’s three components and the Heath-Carter anthropometric method side by side, sketches the somatochart, and closes with one limitation of each. That structure fits 500 words and 34 minutes.

What a MAANY Guess Paper Can Promise Before a First MAN Sitting

Two Free Anthropology Tools: Alternate-Day Planner and Five-Answer Clock

Both tools run in the browser with no sign-in, and every date and layout they show is also in the tables above.

Where IGNOU Files Its Anthropology Papers and the 21 September Sheet

IGNOU keeps term-end papers in two places: session index pages on ignou.ac.in and older folders on webservices.ignou.ac.in. The December 2025 index lists the MAAN files by code, while the June 2026 index showed no rows when compared on 8 October 2026, even though the June 2026 files open directly. For June 2024 and earlier, the June 2024 question-paper portal leads to a School of Social Sciences list that names all twelve MAAN courses.

1. Open the session index for the latest session and search the page for the code, for example MANI-002.
2. Open the PDF and check the session printed on page 1; some folders hold more than one session.
3. For the date sheet, open the tentative December 2026 date sheet PDF and search for the code without its hyphen, such as MAN101.
4. Check the version date at the top of the sheet; the one compared here is dated 21 September 2026.

The site’s general date sheet guide covers how tentative and final sheets differ.

Hall Ticket Before 7 December, Grade Card After the MAN Results

The hall ticket for the December 2026 cycle is issued shortly before the first paper; the hall ticket guide covers when it appears, and the hall ticket download steps walk through the enrolment-number login. It also names the centre, which the exam centre page explains how to change. The exam fee page lists what the exam form costs per course.

After the papers, December results appear on the IGNOU result page, with Master of Arts results tracked on the MA result page; legacy MAAN learners who sat June 2026 can still check the June 2026 term-end result. Assignment marks show on the assignment result and grade card checker, and the final grade card page covers the completed programme. A disputed mark goes through IGNOU revaluation, and the CGPA calculator turns grades into a CGPA.

Alongside a MAN Set: Assignments, Help Books and Guides

The MAN assignment is the other half of each course: solved versions are on the IGNOU solved assignments page, and the programme’s handwritten option is the guide already linked in the code section. For deeper reading, the IGNOU help books range and guide books online cover theory courses, and every programme’s guess papers are listed on the IGNOU guess paper hub. The MANL-101 practical, the MANP-101 dissertation and the MANE-106 Ethnographic Training Project are not examined by a theory paper, so they are handled separately on the anthropology dissertation guide. All service rates are on the services and charges list.

English, Hindi and the December 2026 Session for MAANY Sets

Each set is prepared for the upcoming term-end examination, in every medium IGNOU examines that course in, and the medium for your course code is confirmed on WhatsApp before you pay.

For MAANY the medium is the one fact IGNOU’s documents disagree on. The prospectus lists English and Hindi, the programme page lists English, and all twenty MAAN papers compared were printed in English only, with no Hindi half. MAN sets are therefore prepared in English; a Hindi set for a MAN code is prepared only where IGNOU confirms a Hindi paper for that code, and that check happens on WhatsApp before any payment. Every set on this page targets the December 2026 TEE.

Placing a MAANY Order: Prices, Codes and Dispatch

The rate is ₹49 per subject code for a solved guess paper as a PDF, or ₹100 per subject code as a printed copy. Printed copies carry a one-time courier charge of ₹100 per order, whatever the number of subject codes; the PDF has no courier charge.

Worked totals: all five Semester I codes come to ₹245 as PDFs, or ₹500 printed plus the ₹100 courier, ₹600 in all. All ten MAN codes come to ₹490 as PDFs, or ₹1,000 printed plus ₹100 courier, ₹1,100 in all.

1. Send the codes from the hall ticket, as printed, on WhatsApp +91 93546 37830.
2. Say PDF or printed, and confirm the medium for each code.
3. Pay the quoted total once it is confirmed back.
4. Receive the PDF on WhatsApp, or the courier details for a printed copy.

The PDF is shared on WhatsApp once payment is confirmed. A printed copy is dispatched the next day after payment is confirmed, and the courier details are shared on WhatsApp. No arrival date is promised, because transit time depends on the courier and your location. There is no minimum order: one subject or ten, same rate per format.

₹49 PDF · ₹100 printed, per subject code · one-time ₹100 courier on printed orders

Who Compiled This MAANY Page and From Which IGNOU Files

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 8 October 2026. Last reviewed 8 October 2026. Next review: when IGNOU issues the final December 2026 sheet or the first MAN papers, whichever comes first, and again for the June 2027 cycle.

IGNOU documents. The July 2026 Common Prospectus, section 3.24; the MAANY programme page; the tentative December 2026 date sheet dated 21 September 2026; the twenty MAAN papers linked in the evidence section; and the 2026 MAN assignment booklets, namely the MAN-101 booklet for January 2026, the MAN-101 booklet for July 2026, the MAN-102 booklet for July 2026, the MAN-105 booklet for July 2026 and the MAN-107 booklet for January 2026. The MANE-006 title comes from its July 2025 assignment.

ignouproject.com’s own analysis. The theme counts, the MAAN-to-MAANY title matches, the booklet overlaps, the clear-day arithmetic and the minutes per answer. These are judgements made from the documents above and are labelled as such.

Commercial terms. The prices, formats, dispatch and medium rule belong to ignouproject.com, not to IGNOU.

Limits, stated plainly: no MAN paper exists yet; the June 2024 papers for MANI-001 and MAN-001 could not be opened in IGNOU’s folder; the date sheet is tentative; and theme matching is a reading, not a count of identical words.

MAANY and MAAN Exam Questions, Answered Briefly