IGNOU BFTTM Handwritten Assignments for BTSC-101 to BTSC-109 and BFO-018

BFTTM Cut-Offs: 30 April 2027 Next, and a 31 October That Sister Booklets Print as 30 October

June 2027 examination: 30 April 2027. December 2027 examination: 31 October 2027 on the BTSC-102 booklet, with 30 October the safer day.

30 April is the last date for BFTTM assignments meant for the June term-end examination, as printed on the BTSC-102 booklet for Tourism Resources of India-I in both its English and Hindi files. The booklet prints the day and month without a year, so for a learner sitting the June 2027 examination it reads as 30 April 2027. The School of Tourism and Hospitality Services Management uses the same day on its 2026 booklets for first-year MTTM, the Diploma in Tourism Studies and the Certificate in Tourism Studies, though its 2026 MTTM-12 booklet prints 31 March. A BFTTM learner planning for June 2027 therefore works to 30 April 2027 and checks ignou.ac.in in April for any change.

31 October is the December examination cut-off printed on the BTSC-102 booklet, one day later than the 30 October printed on the tourism school’s 2026 booklets for MTTM, DTS, CTS and the BAVTM courses. The 2026 BTSC-101 and BTSC-103 booklets print no date at all. For December 2026, Careers360 reported that IGNOU moved the university-wide assignment cut-off from 30 September to 31 October 2026, and that day has now passed; no further extension had been found when this page was checked on 3 November 2026. For December 2027, submitting by 30 October 2027 satisfies both versions of the school’s date.

A learner who missed 31 October 2026 has not lost the course. The same paper moves to the next examination the learner registers for, and the date that matters becomes 30 April 2027.

IGNOU moves dates by notice, and Regional Centres sometimes set their own collection days, so the booklet in hand and the centre’s own notice outrank any summary, this one included. The site keeps a IGNOU assignment date notices as they are published as notices appear.

Thirty Marks on Paper and a Seat in the BTSC Examination Hall

Assignments carry 30 per cent of the final course result and the term-end examination carries the remaining 70 per cent.

The marks are only half of it. The tourism school’s 2025 MTTM booklet tells learners that assignments must be submitted in time in order to appear in the term-end examination, and BFTTM is run by the same school. An unsubmitted BTSC paper can therefore cost the exam seat for that course as well as its 30 per cent.

Each BFTTM course carries one Tutor Marked Assignment of 100 marks, made of ten questions of which the learner attempts any five, each worth 20 marks and each answered in about 600 words. The 2026 BTSC-101 and BTSC-103 booklets and the BTSC-102 booklet all print that note word for word. Some questions split the 20 marks: BTSC-102 asks for two short notes of 10 marks each in two of its ten questions, and BTSC-103 asks for four notes of about 150 words at 5 marks each. Five complete answers come to roughly 3,000 words per course, which is the writing load a BFTTM learner plans around.

Across six semesters, the ten core papers alone mean around 30,000 handwritten words. The minors, language and skill courses add their own booklets on top.

Downloaded Answer File or Handwritten Bundle: What a Study Centre Accepts for a BTSC Paper

The Study Centre accepts the handwritten bundle. A downloaded answer file is something to read, not something to submit.

A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers for one IGNOU course code and one session, for example BTSC-103 Understanding Tourism Marketing for the January and July 2026 cycles. A BFTTM learner might open one to see how an answer on market segmentation for tourism products can be organised. Because the file is typed and unsigned, it fails the rule in section 14.7 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus, which permits typed assignments only where a learner has a valid disability certificate; printing it out does not turn it into a BFTTM submission.

A handwritten assignment is the learner’s own ink answer to a BTSC booklet: five of its ten questions written out on A4 paper, a separate bundle for each course code, and a first page the learner signs. Each BFTTM booklet read for this page closes its instructions with one line on where the work goes: “Send your TMA to the coordinator of your Study Centre.” That signed bundle is what the Study Centre marks and forwards.

On a phone, slide the table sideways to see the last column.

Reference files for BTSC courses are listed with tourism reference answers among the IGNOU solved assignments. Everything after this point concerns the paper bundle.

Twelve Checks a BFTTM Set Passes Before It Is Posted

Ten Core Papers, 120 Credits: The BFTTM Course Map From BTSC-101 to BTSC-109

A BFTTM learner writes core assignments for ten discipline-specific courses of 6 credits each, 60 credits in all, inside the 120-credit, six-semester structure that section 5.22 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus sets out at 20 credits a semester. The remaining 60 credits are six 4-credit minors (24), two 4-credit ability enhancement courses (8), four 4-credit skill courses and one 6-credit interdisciplinary course (22), and one 6-credit value-added course (6). Those blocks sum to 120, the total the prospectus states, and the ten codes in the table below sum to 60. The table was used only after both sums held.

Titles are copied as the prospectus prints them, spacing included. The prospectus writes BFO 18 in its course list and BFO-018 in its semester grid; both mean the same course.

BFO-018 is the odd one out. Its BFO prefix belongs to the facility-management series, and the same prospectus lists BFO 18 as a Semester VI course of the BA (Facility and Services Management), so its booklet may carry that programme’s name on the cover.

The other 60 credits sit around the core, semester by semester.

Scroll the table sideways on a narrow screen. The prospectus refers BFTTM learners to the BA (Major) lists for minors, skill, language, interdisciplinary and value-added courses.

Courses are grouped in semesters, but the term-end examination is not. IGNOU’s programme list gives the BFTTM examination as year wise, and the launch notification for the programme, APL Notification No. 162 of 3 December 2024, gives the examination mode as annual. Exits are built in: a UG Certificate at 40 credits after the first year, a UG Diploma at 80 after the second, each with a 4-credit vocational course, the degree at 120 and an Honours year to 160.

BFTTM replaced the discontinued BA in Tourism Studies (BATS) when it launched in January 2025, and IGNOU’s credit-transfer form for tourism programmes maps five old courses onto new ones: TS-1 to BTSC-101, TS-4 to BTSC-102, TS-6 to BTSC-103, TS-3 to BTSC-106 and TS-2 to BTSV-114, each old course worth 8 credits and each new one 6. A learner who moved across from BTS, BTSOL, BATS, BATSOL or BAVTM writes assignments only for the BFTTM courses the transfer did not cover. BTSV-114 appears in no BFTTM table of the July 2026 Common Prospectus, so a learner whose transfer letter names it should ask the Regional Centre where it sits.

The 2026 BTSC-101, BTSC-102 and 2026 BTSC-103 booklets print the BFTTM assignment code in three different forms, so a learner copies the string from the booklet in hand rather than from a classmate’s. The 2026 BTSC-101 booklet prints BTSC-101/ TMA/2026, with a space after the first slash. The BTSC-102 booklet prints BTSC-102/TMA and stops, with no year anywhere in the file. The 2026 BTSC-103 booklet drops the hyphen and prints BTSC 103/TMA/2026. An older BTSC-101 file still online prints BTSC-101/TMA/2025. None of these is wrong for its own paper; mixing them up on a first page is.

Faced with two of these at once, a BFTTM learner follows the BTSC file for the examination being sat and gets the Study Centre’s answer in writing; this page ranks below both.

From Your Code List to a Couriered BTSC Bundle in Five Moves

You are needed at the start and at the very end. The three moves in between happen without you.

1. Codes checked against the 2026 template. Each code is read against the BFTTM core and the shared lists. A TS-series code, a Semester I BCOS-185 or a project code comes back to you as a question before any payment.
2. The examination you sit picks the file. A learner sitting June 2027 gets BTSC-101 written from the 2026 file, not the 2025 one. A Hindi-medium BTSC-102 is written from the Hindi booklet.
3. Five questions chosen, then planned. The five of ten are chosen so that no two answers repeat the same material, and the 20 marks of each are spread across its sheets in proportion.
4. Fair copy in your matched script. The ink is blue or black, the question numbers follow the booklet’s, and every one of the first-page details IGNOU expects is filled in apart from the signature, including the ten-digit enrolment number in IGNOU’s format.
5. Couriered to you, signed by you. After reading the answers and signing, the learner hands them over using the Study Centre submission steps. A photocopy and the receipt stay with the learner.

The BFTTM booklets read for this page print no first-page layout. The same school’s 2026 MTTM booklet asks for the enrolment number, name, address, assignment code and Study Centre code on the first page, and its 2026 BAVTM booklets print a form with address, course code, course title, assignment number, Study Centre and date. A BFTTM set carries all of those.

Matching Your Script, Down to the Place Names

Send a photo of a page you have written yourself and the handwritten set is matched to your handwriting at no extra charge.

Tourism answers lean on proper nouns. Khajuraho, Konark, the Ajanta caves, UNWTO, Kerala, Rajasthan: a single BTSC-102 answer can carry thirty capital letters, and capitals are where one person’s writing differs most from another’s. A sample page that includes a few place names and a date gives far more to match than lowercase prose.

Photograph one page from directly above in natural light. The pen should be the one used day to day.

For a Hindi BTSC-102 set the sample has to be in Devanagari, because the headline stroke and the placement of matras are what make a Hindi hand recognisable.

Two Free BFTTM Checkers: Days to the Cut-Off and the Right Code String

The first counts rupees and the days left before the examination you are sitting. The second places any code on a BFTTM record and gives the string its booklet prints. What you type stays on this page.

Locating Your BTSC Question Booklet on ignou.ac.in

Search by course code, then check the year on the code line before reading a single question. Two BTSC-101 files with different years sit side by side.

1. Search the code. Open the assignment download page on ignou.ac.in and type a code such as BTSC-102.
2. Choose by medium. BTSC-102 has an English file and a Hindi file under separate names. Hindi-medium BFTTM learners take the Hindi one; BFTTMOL learners take the English one.
3. Read the code line before the questions. A code ending 2026 serves the 2026 examinations; a code ending 2025 is the earlier paper. BTSC-102 prints no year, so the code line cannot settle it, and the file name and download date become the guide.
4. Take the date from BTSC-102 or from IGNOU’s notices. BTSC-101 and BTSC-103 print none. BTSC-102 prints 30 April and 31 October.

If no BTSC file turns up for your code in the weeks before a cut-off, report it through IGNOU’s iGRAM grievance route and attach a screenshot of the search that came back empty. Reading material costs nothing: BTSC study blocks to download, eGyanKosh for tourism blocks and the alternate Gyankosh route when the first is slow.

After Handing In: Following a BTSC Paper Through to the Grade Card

Keep the receipt, check the online status a few weeks later, and expect the marks on the grade card after that. The tourism school’s 2026 booklets tell learners to obtain a receipt, keep a photocopy, and insist on getting the evaluated assignment back from the Study Centre, which sends the marks to the Student Evaluation Division in New Delhi.

An empty status line in the first weeks after submission means little. If it is still empty when the next examination form opens, the receipt and photocopy are what the Regional Centre will ask to see.

Three IGNOU records matter, in order. Receipt of each BTSC code shows first, through the BTSC submission status lookup on the assignment result page; then a marks entry appears, decoded on the page on assignment marks entries; and finally the 30 per cent shows in the assignment column of the grade card. BFTTM is an undergraduate programme, so the relevant tools are the grade card lookup for bachelor’s programmes, a guide to reading the undergraduate grade card and the grade card status across the programme. The final grade card issued after Semester VI is the one that lists every BTSC code at once. Converting grades into figures takes a grade-to-percentage converter or the CGPA calculator for BFTTM results.

Exam Revision and Other Work Tourism Learners Pair With an Order

The term-end paper that carries the other 70 per cent has the same shape as the TMA. IGNOU’s December 2025 BTSC-101 examination asked for any five answers of about 600 words each, so a learner who has written the assignment has already rehearsed the format. Exam days are on the December 2026 date sheet. For timed practice, use guess papers for the coming examination, worked answers to past term-end papers and BTSC papers from earlier years. Revision is quicker with condensed study notes, help books listed by course code and guide books in print.

The Semester VI project BTSP-115 sits in the July 2026 prospectus template without a credit figure, and the 120-credit total adds up without it; project work is handled on the BFTTM project report page, with project report help across programmes, synopsis and proposal templates and charges for project and synopsis work kept separate from this page.

Related tourism pages have their own handwritten guides: the MTTM handwritten page for a BFTTM graduate moving to the master’s, and the BAMSME page, whose BTMC-134 also comes from the tourism school.

Medium, mode, older sessions and the names around BFTTM

BFTTM is taught in English and Hindi in distance mode, while BFTTMOL, the online-mode version, is English only, according to section 5.22 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus. IGNOU issues the BTSC-102 booklet as separate English and Hindi files with the same 30 April and 31 October dates. A Hindi-medium BFTTM learner answers the Hindi paper in Hindi; a BFTTMOL learner answers the English paper and, as the prospectus asks, chooses only English-medium courses for the rest of the programme.

The service covers all mediums IGNOU issues the TMA paper in, at the same price. Hindi-medium writing and layout tips cover Devanagari presentation.

Returning after a break works the same way. The learner first completes re-registration for the next year, or readmission if the enrolment period has expired, and the BTSC paper to answer is then the one for the examination the new registration leads to.

A note on the codes: BFTTM is the distance-mode programme code; BFTTMOL is the online-mode code; BTSC is the prefix on nine of the ten core papers; and BTS, BATS and BAVTM are older tourism programmes, of which BATS was discontinued when BFTTM began. Some admission portals shorten the programme to BTM or BTTM, which IGNOU’s own documents do not use.

Placing a BFTTM Order: Codes, Examination, Medium, Pin Code

1. Write once to +91 93546 37830. Include the four details below and a photo of your handwriting.
2. Receive one total. Back comes a single figure, ₹320 times the number of codes, with confirmation that courier serves your pin code. There is no minimum order: one subject or fourteen, same rate.
3. Pay, then receive the bundle. Once paid, the bundle travels by courier; checking the answers, signing and handing them in remain your part.

The four details:

• Each code exactly as your record prints it, core and non-core alike.
• The term-end examination you will sit, June or December, with the year.
• English or Hindi, and whether you are on BFTTM or BFTTMOL.
• A delivery address with its pin code.

No soft copy or PDF is sold. Where a Regional Centre collects scans, the scan is made from the signed paper set after it arrives. Delivery depends on your pin code and is confirmed for your order before you pay. No figure is promised on this page.

Evidence Behind This BFTTM Page, and What It Could Not Confirm

From the July 2026 Common Prospectus: the ten core codes, titles and credits and the semester template in section 5.22, with its 60, 24, 8, 22 and 6 credit blocks and the exits at 40, 80, 120 and 160 credits; the BFTTMOL English-only rule; the programme-list row giving English and Hindi and a year-wise examination; the BFO 18 entry in the BA (Facility and Services Management) table; the BMPS-183 skill course; and the typed-assignment provision in section 14.7. This site also has a walkthrough of how the Common Prospectus is organised.

From IGNOU’s own documents, read on 3 November 2026: the 2026 English BTSC-101 booklet and the older 2025 BTSC-101 file; the English and Hindi BTSC-102 booklets; the 2026 BTSC-103 booklet; APL Notifications No. 162 and 163 of 3 December 2024, launching BFTTM and BFTTMOL from January 2025; the tourism credit-transfer form; and, for school practice, the dates and first-page instructions printed on the 2026 MTTM, DTS, CTS and BAVTM booklets. The December 2025 BTSC-101 term-end paper was seen in search results. Dates, marks, word limits and code strings come from these.

The publisher’s own terms, which IGNOU has no hand in: the ₹320 subject rate and the courier cost folded into it; hard copy as the only format; every medium and session at that rate; handwriting matched from a photo for nothing extra; single-paper orders welcome; and delivery quoted for each pin code, never promised in advance.

Open questions this research left. No booklet was located for BTSC-104 to BTSC-109, which does not mean IGNOU has not published them; the first BFTTM batch, admitted in January 2025, would reach those courses from 2026. The BFO-018 booklet was not opened. No BFTTM booklet prints its own first-page layout, and the BFTTM Programme Guide was not found. The Hindi BTSC-102 file was read through text extraction that garbled parts of the Devanagari, so its questions were not compared word by word with the English file. The 31 October 2026 extension comes from press reports, not from an IGNOU notice opened for 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 3 November 2026 · Last reviewed 3 November 2026 · Next scheduled review in March 2027, before the 30 April 2027 cut-off, and again in October 2027. Corrections are welcome through the ignouproject.com contact form; who runs the site is set out on BK Sahni’s profile, the publisher information page and the site privacy policy.

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