IGNOU BCA Handwritten Assignment: BCA_NEW and BCA (Revised) Codes, the Compulsory Viva and 2026-27 Dates

When a BCA Paper Is Due: the 20 November 2026 Upload Window and the 30 April 2027 Cut-Off

December 2026 examination: online upload reported open until 20 November 2026, the printed 31 October 2026 date having passed. June 2027 examination: 30 April 2027.

20 November 2026 is the last day to upload BCA assignments for the December 2026 term-end examination through IGNOU’s Online Assignment Management System, according to Shiksha and Indian Fast Job Alert reports of a Student Evaluation Division notice dated 28 October 2026. The portal works through the learner’s Samarth login, and the reports say learners who already handed papers in at a Study Centre or Regional Centre need not upload them again. Underneath that window, every BCA booklet read for this page printed 31 October 2026 for the July 2026 session, and IGNOU had already extended the university-wide December cut-off to that same day. A BCA learner who still has papers to submit for December 2026 therefore works to 20 November 2026, uploads a scan of the signed handwritten set, and checks on ignou.ac.in that the window applies to the programme concerned.

30 April 2027 is the printed last date for BCA papers going into the June 2027 term-end examination on the two 2026-27 Semester I booklets read for this page, the BCA_NEW file for BCS-111 and the BCA (Revised) file for FEG-02. SOCIS prints its BCA dates in pairs, 31 October for a December examination and 30 April for a June one, but the even semesters run on a different calendar. The BCA_NEW Semester II and IV booklets are issued per calendar year, for the January 2026 and July 2026 sessions, with assignment numbers ending in 2026 rather than 2026-27. No January 2027 booklet for Semesters II, IV or VI had been located by 6 November 2026, so 30 April 2027 for those papers is the established pattern, not a printed fact.

The date that binds you is the one on the booklet for your own code. A batchmate’s Semester III file can be right and still carry a different session line from your Semester IV paper.

Regional Centres sometimes extend on their own, and the 20 November window above rests on press reports, not on a reading of the notice. Fresh IGNOU notices go onto the site’s list of assignment deadline changes when they are published.

Twenty-Five or Thirty Per Cent: What One BCA Assignment Is Worth, Viva Included

A BCA_NEW assignment is worth 25, 30 or 10 per cent of its course result depending on the code, because section 5.1 of the BCA_NEW Programme Guide, Version 2.0 of July 2026, prints three evaluation schemes. BCS-111, BCS-012, BCS-131, BCS-151, BCS-041, BCS-040, BCS-042, BCS-053 and the BCSL labs carry 25 per cent continuous evaluation against a 75 per cent term-end examination. The MCS papers, the MCSL labs, FEG-02, BEVAE-181, BEGLA-136, BCOC-131, BCOS-184, BCOS-185 and BECS-184 carry the 30 and 70 split. MSEI-023 Cyber Security and MSEI-027 Digital Forensics give continuous assessment 10 per cent, the theory examination 30 and the practical examination 60. A BCA_NEW learner reads the weight off the course, not off a general IGNOU rule.

For the MCS papers and the shared courses, the guide keeps the split IGNOU uses almost everywhere else. Assignments carry 30 per cent of the final course result and the term-end examination carries the remaining 70 per cent.

A BCA_NEW assignment that is submitted but not defended at the viva voce is marked zero, because note 5 of the 2026-27 BCA_NEW Semester I booklet makes the viva compulsory for every course and treats an assignment without one as not successfully completed. On BCS-111 the split is 80 written marks across three questions and 20 marks for the viva. On the BCSL lab papers the BCA_NEW guide divides 100 marks into 40 for the lab record of practical sessions, 40 for the assignment problems and 20 for a combined viva. The written set is therefore only part of the mark, and the learner must be able to explain every answer and every program in it.

The bigger cost is the examination seat. Every BCA booklet read for this page says that submission by the due date is compulsory for eligibility to sit the term-end examination in that course, and the lab booklets add minimum attendance at practical sessions as a second condition for the term-end practical.

So a missing BCS-111 can cost a semester. A missing BCSL-013 can cost two papers, the assignment and the practical.

A Downloaded BCA Answer File Versus a Signed Set in Ink

Only the inked, signed set counts at a BCA Study Centre. A model-answer file helps you think and earns nothing on its own.

A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers, prepared against a single IGNOU course code in a single session, such as BCS-111 for July 2026 and January 2027. A BCA learner opens one to see how a 200-word answer on cache memory or a spreadsheet formula might be set out. It carries no enrolment number, no signature and no line in the learner’s own handwriting, and section 14.7 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus allows typed assignments only for learners with a valid disability certificate. A printout of a solved BCA file is therefore not a submission, and the viva that follows would expose it anyway.

A handwritten assignment is the same BCA questions answered by hand on A4 sheets, one course code per bundle, with the front page completed and signed, and handed to the coordinator of the learner’s Study Centre on or before the due date. Note 1 of the 2026-27 BCA_NEW Semester I booklet names that coordinator as the place of submission, while note 2 sends BCAOL learners to the LMS portal instead. The BCS-111 paper asks for precise answers of about 200 words a part and allows illustrations and diagrams. That bundle is what the Study Centre evaluates, and the viva is held on it.

On a phone, slide the table left to reach the last column.

A learner who wants nothing more than something to read before coding can look up BCS and MCS reference answers among the solved assignments. From here on, the page deals with the set that goes to the Study Centre.

Twelve Checks a BCA Set Passes Before It Is Couriered

BCA_NEW Has 32 Courses and BCA (Revised) Still Has Booklets: Every Code by Semester

A BCA_NEW learner writes assignments for 31 of the programme’s 32 courses, every course except the BCSP-165 project, inside the 120-credit, six-semester structure that section 6.3 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus sets out. Each semester adds to 20 credits: five courses in Semester I, six each in Semesters II to V, and three in Semester VI, where BCSP-165 alone carries 12. Those six totals sum to 120, the figure the BCA_NEW Programme Guide states for admissions from July 2024, and the guide counts the same courses as 23 theory, 8 practical and 1 project. The table below was trusted only after the semester sums held.

Rows follow the prospectus order. The prospectus writes BCS 111; booklets write BCS-111. They are the same course. Swipe on a phone for the last two columns.

Exits are built in. The guide awards an Undergraduate Certificate in Computer Applications after Semesters I and II, an Undergraduate Diploma after Semesters I to IV, and the degree after all six.

Two BCA syllabuses still receive assignment booklets from IGNOU for the 2026-27 cycle, although only BCA_NEW appears in the July 2026 Common Prospectus. The BCA_NEW Semester I file lists BEVAE-181, BEGLA-136, BCS-111, BCSL-013 and BCS-012. The BCA (Revised Syllabus) Semester I file for the same July 2026 and January 2027 sessions lists FEG-02, ECO-01, BCS-011, BCS-012 and BCSL-013, and a BCA (Revised) Semester II file for 2026-27 lists ECO-02, MCS-011, MCS-012, MCS-015, MCS-013, BCSL-021 and BCSL-022. A learner enrolled on the older syllabus answers the Revised file, and a learner admitted from July 2024 answers the BCA_NEW one, whatever a coaching list or a friend’s download says.

The BCA (Revised) codes come from IGNOU’s booklets rather than from the prospectus, which no longer prints that programme. Credits are left out of this table for that reason.

The year shown is the newest booklet seen for that semester. Slide sideways to read the last column.

The BCA_NEW assignment number is built from the programme, the semester in Roman numerals, the course number and the session, and IGNOU prints it two ways inside the same 2026-27 booklet. The Semester I contents table gives BCA_NEW/BCAOL(I)-111/Assignment/2026-27 for BCS-111, while the line above the BCS-111 questions reads BCA_NEW/BCAOL(I)111/Assign/2026-27, without the hyphen and with Assign shortened. The 2025-26 Semester I booklet did something similar, ending the contents entry in 2025 and the course-page entry in 2025-26. The even semesters use a calendar year instead, as in BCA_NEW(IV)/041/Assignment/2026 for BCS-041. A BCA learner copies the string printed directly above the questions being answered.

When these sources pull apart for your code, the booklet printed for that code and session, and a written reply from your Study Centre or bca@ignou.ac.in, outrank this page.

How a BCS or MCS Paper Is Turned Into Pages You Can Sign

Five stages. You are needed at the first and the last.

1. Your record is matched to a syllabus. Each code is checked against the 32 BCA_NEW courses and the BCA (Revised) lists. A BCS-011 on a BCA_NEW record, or a BCS-111 on a Revised one, comes back to you as a question before any payment.
2. The session picks the file. An odd-semester paper is answered from the 2026-27 booklet; an even-semester paper from the calendar-year booklet whose session line matches your slip.
3. Pages are planned around marks and the viva. Long questions get the space, short parts stay near their word band, and every program carries comments explaining what each block does, so you can talk it through at the viva.
4. The fair copy goes down in your matched hand. Blue or black ink on A4, code listings indented, diagrams ruled, the assignment number copied from the question page, and the front-page fields IGNOU asks for filled in except the signature, with the enrolment number in IGNOU’s own format.
5. The bundle is couriered and finished by you. You read the answers, run the programs if you can, sign, and follow the route for handing the papers to your Study Centre, or scan them for the online window.

Program Listings in Your Own Hand: Why the Sample Matters More Here

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

BCA answers lean on characters most essays never use. Curly braces, semicolons, square brackets, the zero against the capital O, the one against the small l: a page of code written in your own hand shows how you form all of them. A sample with a few lines of C or Python, some numbers and a capital or two gives the writer far more to match than a paragraph of plain English.

One page, photographed straight down in daylight, in the pen you normally use, is enough.

Why does it matter? Over six semesters the same Study Centre sees every BCA bundle under one enrolment number, and holds a viva on each.

Two BCA Calculators: an Upload-Window Countdown and a Syllabus Sorter

The first counts rupees and days to the cut-off you choose. The second tells you whether a code belongs to BCA_NEW, BCA (Revised) or both, and what its booklet prints. Neither sends anything you type off this page.

Finding the BCA Booklet on ignou.ac.in When Two Syllabuses Share One Folder

Search by course code, then read the file name before opening it. BCA_NEW and BCA (Revised) files for the same code sit side by side.

1. Type the code into IGNOU’s search. Use the official assignment download page on ignou.ac.in and enter a code such as BCSL-013.
2. Read the suffix. In the 2026-27 cycle, BCA_NEW files end in BCA-NEW-2026-27, BCA (Revised) files end in BCA-2026-27, and online-programme files carry BCA-NEWOL with a calendar year. BCSL-013 has both a BCA-NEW and a BCA file.
3. Check the cover against your slip. The cover names the syllabus, BCA_NEW/BCAOL or BCA (Revised Syllabus), and the two sessions it serves, such as July 2026 and January 2027.
4. Read the contents table and the notes. The dates and the viva rule sit on page two. Then copy the assignment number from the course page, not the contents.

If the file for your code has still not appeared as the cut-off nears, lodge it on IGNOU’s iGRAM grievance portal, attaching a screenshot of the search that came back empty. Reading the course itself costs nothing: SOCIS blocks can be pulled from the free IGNOU book downloads, from eGyanKosh, which keeps a BCA_New community of its own, or through the Gyankosh mirror on a day the main site lags.

Viva Day, Status Line and Grade Card: What Happens After a BCA Submission

The viva comes first, then the online status, then the marks. A BCA_NEW paper is not complete until the viva voce is held at the Study Centre, and the 2026-27 booklet records a submitted paper without one as zero.

Photocopy the set before it leaves your hands and keep the receipt. Status lines often stay empty for weeks; if yours is still empty when the next cycle opens, those two papers are your evidence.

The assignment status lookup by enrolment number shows whether a BCS or MCS code was received, and what each marks entry means is explained separately. The continuous evaluation mark lands in the assignment column of the grade card, the programme-wide grade card status fills in semester by semester, and the final grade card after Semester VI lists every code. For conversions there is a marks to percentage converter and a CGPA calculator for the degree.

Term-End Practice and the Rest of a BCA Learner’s Order

The 70 or 75 per cent still has to be earned in the hall. The December 2026 date sheet gives each paper its day, and practice comes from BCA term-end question papers, guess papers for the December 2026 examination, solved term-end papers and previous years’ papers. Learners revising MCS-201 or BCS-131 the week before tend to reach for condensed study notes, code-wise help books or guide books in print.

The Semester VI project is separate work: the BCSP-165 project guide covers it, alongside project report support, synopsis and proposal formats and the project and synopsis charges.

Codes BCA shares with other programmes have their own handwritten pages: the MCA_New page for the MCS papers that continue into the master’s and the BCOMF page, where BCOC-131 is a core paper.

English medium, backlog papers and the names around BCA

BCA_NEW is taught and examined in English only, according to section 6.3 and the programme list of the July 2026 Common Prospectus, and every BCA booklet read for this page, BCA_NEW and BCA (Revised) alike, was an English file. No Hindi BCA assignment booklet was found. A BCA learner therefore answers in English, including FEG-02 and BEGLA-136, which are English-language courses in their own right.

The service covers all mediums IGNOU issues the TMA paper in, at the same price.

A BCA (Revised) learner who moves to BCA_NEW can carry completed courses across under IGNOU’s internal credit transfer scheme, which charges ₹250 per course and maps old codes to new ones, BCSP-064 to BCSP-165 among them. Papers still pending under the old enrolment are answered from the BCA (Revised) booklet for the session on the current slip. A learner returning after a gap usually completes re-registration for the next semester, or readmission after the enrolment lapses, before writing anything.

On names: BCA_NEW is the programme code of the current Bachelor of Computer Applications; BCA (Revised Syllabus) is the older programme whose booklets still appear; BCAOL and BCA_NEWOL are the online-mode labels; and BCS, MCS, BCSL and MCSL are course prefixes shared across them.

Sending a BCA Order: Codes, Syllabus, Exam and Pin Code in One Message

1. Message +91 93546 37830 once. Include the four details listed below and a photo of a handwritten page that has some code on it.
2. Get the total and the courier answer. The reply prices your codes at ₹320 each and says whether your pin code is served. There is no minimum order: one subject or fourteen, same rate.
3. Pay; the set is posted. From then on the work is yours: reading, running the programs, signing, submitting, and the viva.

The four details:

• Every code exactly as your Samarth record prints it.
• Whether the record says BCA_NEW or BCA (Revised).
• The examination you are sitting, December or June, with the year.
• A delivery address with the pin code.

No soft copy or PDF is sold. Where the Samarth window or your Regional Centre needs an upload, the scan is made by you, from the signed paper set. Delivery depends on your pin code and is confirmed for your order before you pay. No figure is promised on this page.

The SOCIS Documents Read for This BCA Page, and What They Left Open

From the July 2026 Common Prospectus: the 32 BCA_NEW codes, titles, credits and semesters in section 6.3, the 20-credit semesters, the programme-list row giving English medium, three years minimum and six maximum, and the typed-assignment provision in section 14.7. The site has a plain guide to reading the Common Prospectus.

From IGNOU’s own files, read on 6 November 2026: the BCA_NEW Programme Guide, Version 2.0 of July 2026, for the evaluation schemes, exits, lab split and course counts; the 2026-27 BCA_NEW Semester I booklet and the 2026-27 BCA (Revised) Semester I booklet, both read in full; the contents and course pages of the 2026-27 BCSL-013, BCS-011 and MCS-015 files, the 2025-26 BCA_NEW Semester I files, the 2026 BCA_NEW Semester IV file, the 2025 BCA_NEW Semester II file, the 2026 BCA_NEWOL Semester II file and the 2025-26 BCA (Revised) BCAOL files, seen in search results and mirrors; and IGNOU’s credit transfer form from BCA (Revised) to BCA_NEW. Dates, marks, viva rules and assignment numbers come from these.

Set by ignouproject.com, not by IGNOU: a flat ₹320 a paper with postage absorbed, paper copies only, any session under either syllabus, script matching without a fee, orders of any size, and delivery estimated per pin code rather than promised.

What this research could not settle. The 20 November 2026 window was taken from press reports, not from the Student Evaluation Division notice. No 2026-27 BCA_NEW booklet for Semesters III or V was located, and no January 2027 booklet for the even semesters. Sections 5.2 and 5.3 of the BCA_NEW guide, which hold the assignment format and front-page instructions, could not be read in full, and neither booklet read prints a front-page layout. The only MSEI-023 booklet found sits in another school’s folder, is dated July 2025 and carries 20 maximum marks, so whether BCA_NEW learners receive a separate SOCIS file is open. Weightage figures come from the guide’s grouped tables and should be checked against the booklet for each code.

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.

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