IGNOU BAFEG Handwritten Assignment: Ten BEGC Codes, Five Booklets That Disagree, And A BEGC 113 The Prospectus Leaves Out

When BAFEG Assignments Are Due: 30 September, 31 March, And Two Booklets That Say Otherwise

30 September 2026 is the last date for a January 2026 BAFEG learner sitting the December 2026 term-end examination, on four of the five BAFEG-labelled booklets read on 23 September 2026.

The School of Humanities gives BAFEG learners 31 March for the June examination and 30 September for the December examination, tying each assignment to the examination it feeds rather than to the month of admission. The BEGC-101 booklet for the July 2025 and January 2026 sessions prints that pair, and so do the BEGC 113 and BEGM-163 booklets. BEGC-105 says the same thing in batch language: 30 September 2026 for the January 2026 batch sitting the December examination. All four files sit in the School of Humanities assignment folder on ignou.ac.in. In practice, a learner admitted in January 2026 who wants to sit the December 2026 examination has until 30 September 2026 to hand the BEGC set in, and should confirm that date with the Study Centre before relying on it.

Two BAFEG booklets from that same July 2025 and January 2026 cycle print different dates. BEGC-103, Indian Writing in English, gives 30 April for the June examination and 31 October for the December one, which is the calendar of the School of Management Studies rather than the School of Humanities. BEGC-105, American Literature, gives 30 March 2026 instead of 31 March for its July 2025 batch. Both are official IGNOU files, so neither can be dismissed as a blog error. When a record mixes codes, work to the earliest date any of them prints and ask the Study Centre coordinator in writing which date they will apply to BEGC-103.

The web adds a third version. A Careers360 article on current assignments puts the December 2026 cut-off at 31 October 2026, which matches BEGC-103 and nothing else in the BAFEG set. Extensions are real but late: an IGNOU study centre’s notification list records the December 2025 cut-off moved to 31 October 2025 and then to 20 November 2025. Each of those was announced close to the date. None was known in advance, and none should be planned around.

Dates also shift by session and by Regional Centre, so the only confirmation that counts is the one on ignou.ac.in and at your own Study Centre.

What The 30 Marks On Every BEGC Paper Decide

Every BAFEG Major paper from BEGC 101 to BEGC 112 carries a 100-mark assignment that becomes a 30 per cent share of that course’s result. Assignments carry 30 per cent of the final course result and the term-end examination carries the remaining 70 per cent. The BAFEG booklets add a condition that matters more than the arithmetic: it is compulsory to submit the assignment before you can take the term-end examination for that course. Ten Major papers over three years means ten separate conditions, each tied to its own code and its own date.

IGNOU has been blunter about it before. The January 2024 BAFEG booklet for BEGLA-135 warned that a learner who misses the date “will not be allowed to appear in the examination”. That sentence is not repeated in the 2025-26 BEGC files, but the rule behind it has not changed.

The writing load is not even. BEGC-101 asks for four reference-to-context answers of about 100 words and four essays of about 350, roughly 1,800 words for 100 marks. BEGC-103 asks for four notes of 200 words, four answers of 350 and five of 600: close to 5,200 words for the same 100 marks. BEGC-105 asks for at least 3,600, since its Section A passages carry no printed limit, and BEGC 113 for 2,500 to 3,000. Two codes, one weighting, three times the pages.

Printed Model Answers Or A Handwritten BAFEG Set: Which One The Study Centre Takes

Only the handwritten set can go to the Study Centre. The two products look similar in a search result, which is why the question keeps arriving.

A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers for one course code and one session, such as BEGC-105 for July 2025 and January 2026. It is reading material. The BAFEG booklets rule it out as a submission: BEGC-101, BEGC-103, BEGC-105 and BEGC 113 each print the instruction “You should submit the assignment in your own handwriting.” A printed or typed copy of a solved file fails that instruction however good its answers are, so a BAFEG learner uses one only to read against while preparing.

A handwritten assignment is the answer set written out by hand on the paper the booklet names and submitted as a hard copy at the Study Centre against a receipt. For BAFEG the paper differs by code: A4 for BEGC-101 and BEGC 113, foolscap only for BEGC-103 and BEGC-105, either for BEGM-163, according to the July 2025 and January 2026 booklets. That hard copy is the object the BAFEG booklets ask for, and the receipt is the learner’s record that it went in on time.

On a narrow screen, slide the table sideways to read every column.

Reading-only answers for the BEGC codes sit among the BEGC model-answer files on the solved assignments hub, priced for reference use. The handwritten route is the one this page describes.

BAFEG Course Codes: Ten BEGC Papers, 120 Credits, And The Codes That Only Look Like Yours

BAFEG’s Major is ten BEGC courses of 6 credits each, 60 credits in all, inside a 120-credit three-year Major degree that becomes a 160-credit Honours degree after a fourth year. Section 5.1 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus lists the ten codes, and the Bachelor of Arts section that precedes it fixes Discipline Specific Courses at 60 credits, which ten times six matches exactly. The same section sets exit points at 40 plus 4 credits for a UG Certificate, 80 plus 4 for a UG Diploma and 120 for the degree with Major. A BAFEG learner therefore writes one assignment for each of the ten Major codes across three years, plus one for every minor, skill, ability, interdisciplinary and value-added course on the record.

Slide sideways for the booklet column. Titles are as printed in section 5.1, with spacing tidied.

The prospectus prints these codes without a semester column. Its structure template places one Major course in each of semesters 1 and 2 and two in each of semesters 3 to 6, but it never pins BEGC 107 or BEGC 110 to a particular semester. Your Samarth admission or re-registration record does, and that record decides which BEGC papers you write this cycle.

Slide sideways if the rows are cut off on your phone.

The rest of a BAFEG record comes from a common pool that every four-year BA shares. The table below lists what the July 2026 prospectus offers in the first to fourth semesters, with the one restriction that bites an English Major.

Slide sideways for the restriction column.

The July 2025 and January 2026 BAFEG booklets print their assignment code in two parts, BEGC-101/2025-26 on the cover and TMA 01/2025-26 above the questions, and BEGC 113 prints a third form. BEGC-103, BEGC-105 and BEGM-163 follow the same two-part pattern as BEGC-101. BEGC 113 breaks it with a single string, BEGC 113/TMA/1/2025-2026, the year written in full. Copy the string your own booklet prints: the sample cover on BEGC-103 and BEGC-105 includes an ASSIGNMENT NO line, while BEGC-101 and BEGC 113 leave that line out.

BEGC 113, Modern European Drama, has a BAFEG-labelled booklet but no place in the BAFEG Major table. IGNOU posts a BAFEG booklet for BEGC 113 for the July 2025 and January 2026 sessions, headed “BA English Major Compulsory Course”, with the assignment code BEGC 113/TMA/1/2025-2026, and an earlier one for January and July 2024. Section 5.1 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus lists ten Major codes without it and places BEGC 113 in semester VI of BA English Honours (BAEGH). Write BEGC 113 only if it is printed on your own Samarth record, and if it is, ask the Regional Centre which credit total it counts toward.

How A BAFEG Handwritten Set Is Prepared, From Code Check To Courier

Five steps. Only the first and the last need anything from you.

1. Your record is read against the ten-code table. Send the codes as Samarth prints them; BEGC101 without a hyphen is fine. Anything outside the BAFEG Major list, a BEGC 113 or a BEGM minor, is raised with you before a page is started.
2. The booklet is matched to your cycle. A learner in the July 2025 or January 2026 cycle gets that cycle’s questions; a backlog paper gets the questions of the cycle printed on the record. The paper size and the due date are taken from that same booklet, never from a neighbouring code.
3. A page of your writing is photographed. One full page in your usual pen is enough, and the next section explains what the photo is used for.
4. The answers are written to each section’s pattern. Reference-to-context passages, short notes and long essays each get the length their own section prints, with the question number beside every answer and the Section A, B and C order kept as IGNOU set it.
5. The set is couriered, and you finish it. You write the top of page one, following the layout in the assignment cover page guide, read every answer, sign where your Study Centre asks, and hand the set in against a receipt.

Matching The Set To The Way You Write

Send a photo of a page you have written yourself and the handwritten set is matched to your handwriting at no extra charge. The most useful photo is a full page of ordinary prose on lined paper, in the blue or black pen you normally use, rather than a signature or a few words.

Over three years a BAFEG learner may submit ten Major sets and a dozen common-pool sets, and many prefer that those pages look consistent from one course to the next. The sample photo is how that is done. It changes nothing in the price.

Two Free BAFEG Tools: A Cut-Off Countdown And A BEGC Booklet Checker

The first tool counts days to your next BAFEG cut-off from today’s date and prices the papers. The second reads what IGNOU’s booklet for one code actually prints. Neither needs an order.

Where IGNOU Keeps The BAFEG Question Papers

The BAFEG booklets are on IGNOU’s Current Assignments page at ignou.ac.in, filed by the School of Humanities, and not on the older webservices index that many learners still bookmark. On that older index, the Four Year Under Graduate page for the July 2025 to July 2026 session has a heading for English (BAFEG) and an empty cell beneath it, which explains a complaint that recurs in learner forums: the official website seemed to show no assignment link at all.

1. Open the Current Assignments page. Go to IGNOU’s assignment download page on ignou.ac.in.
2. Search by the code, then by BAFEG. Type BEGC-101 or your own code. The School of Humanities files carry names such as BAFEG-BEGC-101-July-25-Jan-26.
3. Pick the BAFEG row, not the BAEGH one. BEGC-103 has a separate BA English Honours booklet for the same cycle, with its own cover and programme line.
4. Read the cover and the last-date box before anything else. The cycle on the cover must match your record, and the date inside is the one your code carries.

If a code’s paper is missing altogether, an assignment-section FAQ circulating among IGNOU Study Centres tells learners to email the course coordinator in the school concerned. For BAFEG, section 5.1 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus names Dr. Mridula Rashmi Kindo, mridulak@ignou.ac.in, as programme coordinator. The course blocks themselves are free through eGyanKosh, IGNOU’s digital block library, with an alternative Gyankosh route when the first is slow, and the free official study material download page covers printed blocks.

Tracing A Submitted BEGC Assignment To The Grade Card

Three places record a BAFEG assignment, in this order: the submission status, the marks, and then the grade card beside the term-end result. The first check needs your enrolment number as IGNOU issued it and the programme code BAFEG, and the steps for checking whether IGNOU has recorded a submitted assignment are laid out on this site.

Marks follow later, sometimes weeks later. The BEGC marks lookup once they are uploaded and the explainer on how assignment marks sit on the grade card cover the gap. At the end of the Major, the final grade card for the full programme is the document that lists all ten BEGC codes together.

Two calculators convert what you see. The percentage calculator for IGNOU grades turns a course result into a figure, and the CGPA calculator does the same across semesters. Keep the Study Centre receipt that every BAFEG booklet tells you to take. It is the only record of the day your BEGC set went in.

Other Help BAFEG Learners Ask For In The Same Message

The 70 per cent term-end paper is the other half of every BEGC result, and learners preparing one usually ask about the other. For practice there are IGNOU guess papers for the coming examination, previous year question papers with solutions and a single last year paper per course, useful for seeing how often a BEGC reference-to-context passage comes back. For revision, condensed IGNOU study notes, IGNOU help books and guide books ordered online cover the literature papers.

Households often hold more than one enrolment. The BAM handwritten assignment page covers the multidisciplinary BA, whose English papers run BEGC 131 to BEGC 134 rather than BAFEG’s series, and the MA English handwritten assignment page covers the next step up, with the School of Humanities MA English overview for the programme itself. The research credits of an Honours fourth year are a different kind of work, and topic and report help sits on the IGNOU projects page with proposal drafting on the synopsis format page. Rates for anything outside assignment writing are on the fee list for non-assignment services.

Placing A BAFEG Order: Three Messages, Five Details

1. Message the codes. One WhatsApp message to +91 93546 37830 with the five details below.
2. Confirm the quote. The reply states the total at ₹320 per code and the delivery position for your pin code. There is no minimum order: one subject or fourteen, same rate.
3. Pay and receive. The set is couriered to you; the final step, handing the finished pages in at the Study Centre, is yours.

The five details, in the order that saves a reply:

• The codes as your Samarth record prints them, BEGC and common-pool alike.
• The cycle on that record, July 2025, January 2026 or older.
• The paper your booklet names, A4 or foolscap, if you have read it already.
• A photo of one page of your own handwriting.
• The delivery address with its pin code.

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

Sources Behind This BAFEG Page And What They Could Not Settle

From the July 2026 Common Prospectus: the ten BEGC Major codes, their titles and credits (section 5.1), the four-year structure template, the 60-credit Major total, the 120 and 160 credit awards, the exit points, the common-pool course lists and the rule that minor and interdisciplinary courses sit outside the Major. A guide to the document itself is on the IGNOU prospectus page.

From IGNOU’s live booklets, read on 23 September 2026: BEGC-101, BEGC-103, BEGC-105, BEGC 113 and BEGM-163 for July 2025 and January 2026, from the School of Humanities folder on ignou.ac.in, plus the January 2024 BEGLA-135 booklet. Dates, paper sizes, section patterns, word limits, assignment strings and cover layouts on this page come from those files.

The publisher’s own commercial terms: the ₹320 rate, courier inside that rate, hard copy only, all mediums, any session, handwriting matching at no charge, no minimum order and no promised delivery time. These are ignouproject.com’s terms, not IGNOU’s.

What the research could not settle. Five BAFEG booklets were read; BEGC 102, 104, 107, 108, 109, 110 and 112 were not, so their dates and paper sizes are not stated here. The prospectus does not say which semester each BEGC code belongs to, nor why BEGC 113 carries a BAFEG booklet. No July 2026 BAFEG booklet was found, so dates for the June 2027 examination rest on the pattern of the current files rather than on a printed page. Where a gap remains, the page says so instead of filling it.

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 23 September 2026 · Last reviewed 23 September 2026 · Next scheduled review in October 2026, after the 30 September 2026 cut-off, and again in April 2027, after the 31 March 2027 cut-off.

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