IGNOU MAPFHS Guess Paper: What 39 IGNOU Papers Show for December 2026

Five Year I Mornings and Six Year II Options on IGNOU’s December Sheet

The first MAPFHS paper of the December 2026 term-end examination is MEDS-071 Introduction to Population Studies on Saturday 5 December 2026, 10 AM to 1 PM, and the last is the MWG-111 Women in the Economy elective on Saturday 2 January 2027, also in the morning, per IGNOU’s date sheet of 30 October 2026. All eleven MAPFHS dates are the same as on the tentative sheet of 21 September 2026.

Year I: A Paper Every Two or Three Days, Always at 10 AM

The Year I core runs in code order with a gap before every paper. MEDS-071 on Saturday 5 December is followed by MEDS-072 on Tuesday 8 December, MEDS-073 on Thursday 10 December, MEDS-074 on Saturday 12 December and MEDS-075 on Tuesday 15 December. No two fall on consecutive days. All five are morning papers.

That rhythm suits a paper-by-paper plan. The two free days after MEDS-071 belong to MEDS-072; the single free day before each of MEDS-073 and MEDS-074 is enough only if those two were revised before the run began. The weekend of 13 and 14 December leaves room for a last pass through MEDS-075, the research methodology paper.

Year II: Six Electives Spread Over Twenty-Six Days

The six electives with a paper fall on 8, 12, 19, 22 and 24 December and on 2 January. A learner takes five electives in all, and since the MEDSP-071 project is one of them, a learner who chooses the project sits four of these papers.

The One Clash and the One Shared Day

Two pairs need attention, both for learners who still carry a Year I paper into Year II.

The planner further down flags both cases once the codes are ticked. Every programme’s December dates are summarised on the December 2026 date sheet summary, and the two daily sessions are explained on the IGNOU exam timing page. The admit card is covered by the IGNOU hall ticket guide, centre allotment by the exam centre page, and the form itself by the term-end exam fee page and its companion on paying the exam fee online.

Why the December Paper Carries More Weight Than the MAPFHS Assignment

For MAPFHS, the term-end paper carries 70 per cent of each theory course and the assignment 30 per cent, per section 6.0 of IGNOU’s MAPFHS Programme Guide; IGNOU’s assignment download list also prints a weightage of 30 against every MAPFHS assignment row. The term-end examination carries 70 per cent of the final course result and assignments carry the remaining 30 per cent. Not one of the 39 MAPFHS papers IGNOU published between December 2024 and June 2026 carries a weightage figure on its front page.

The same Programme Guide sets the pass rule: at least 40 per cent in the assignment and at least 40 per cent in the term-end examination, cleared separately for each course. A good assignment therefore cannot carry a weak paper. With every MAPFHS course worth 8 credits, one 3-hour morning decides most of a fairly heavy course. The IGNOU percentage calculator turns course marks into an overall figure.

Guess Paper, IGNOU Paper or Answered Paper: Picking One for a MEDS Code

For MAPFHS, a guess paper means a publisher’s collection of the questions that return most often for a single course code, such as MEDS-072, each with a full model answer, compiled after working through IGNOU’s past papers and the course blocks; sellers market the same thing as important questions, expected questions or a model paper. A previous year question paper is the exact paper IGNOU set in an earlier term-end examination, free on ignou.ac.in and without answers. Add a publisher’s answers to one of those IGNOU papers and it becomes a solved question paper.

The three do different jobs, and none of them stands in for the blocks.

The IGNOU solved question papers collection gathers answered papers across programmes, while the main IGNOU guess paper index lists sets for every other course family. A sensible MAPFHS order of work is to sit the June 2026 IGNOU paper for a code under timed conditions first, then use a set for the themes that paper did not cover.

Eleven Examined MAPFHS Codes and the Shape of Each Paper

MAPFHS has eleven course codes with a term-end paper, listed in section 3.49 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus: five compulsory Year I courses, MEDS-071 to MEDS-075, and six Year II electives, MSOE-002, MWG-111, MANE-004, MEDS-047, MEDS-076 and MEDS-077, every one worth 8 credits. Year II also offers the MEDSP-071 project, which has no paper. The programme totals 80 credits, is taught in English and belongs to the School of Extension and Development Studies.

The credit sum only works one way. Year I is 5 × 8 = 40. The prospectus prints seven Year II items and asks for “any Five courses”, which reads as 88 credits if the project is added on top. Section 3.7 of the MAPFHS Programme Guide settles it: the project is an elective, one of the five. So Year II is 5 × 8 = 40, and 40 + 40 confirms the 80. The revised prospectus of 6 October 2026 prints the same MAPFHS list.

Year I Core Courses and Their December Dates

Year II Electives and Their December Dates

The MAPFHS handwritten assignment page works from the same code list. None of the eleven codes has its own course page on this site, so each code’s facts are kept in these tables.

Picking Five Electives Around the Paper Formats

The six electives are set under five different programme headings and in three different layouts, so the choice affects revision as much as interest.

How IGNOU Laid Out Each MAPFHS Paper in June 2026

Nine of the eleven papers ask for any five answers. MWG-111 asks for four longer ones, and MANE-004 adds a section rule.

Whose Name Is on the Paper

Only 14 of the 39 MAPFHS papers from December 2024 to June 2026 name MAPFHS in their heading. IGNOU headed the December 2024 and June 2025 papers for MEDS-071 to MEDS-075 for the PG Diploma in Population and Family Health Studies alone, and named MAPFHS on all five Year I papers only from December 2025; the four borrowed electives, MSOE-002, MWG-111, MANE-004 and MEDS-047, carry their home programme’s name in every session.

The headings follow the programme’s history. IGNOU’s launch notification No. 132, dated 26 December 2023, opened MAPFHS from the January 2024 session, and IGNOU’s lists hold no MEDS-076 or MEDS-077 paper before December 2025, which fits a first intake reaching Year II in that session. A learner who opens a 2024 or early 2025 file and sees only PGDPFHS has the right paper if the code matches.

The elective layouts and headings above come from these IGNOU papers. MSOE-002: MSOE-002 Dec 2024, MSOE-002 Jun 2025, MSOE-002 Dec 2025 and MSOE-002 Jun 2026; MWG-111: MWG-111 Jun 2025, MWG-111 Dec 2025 and MWG-111 Jun 2026; MANE-004: MANE-004 Dec 2024, MANE-004 Jun 2025, MANE-004 Dec 2025 and MANE-004 Jun 2026; MEDS-047: MEDS-047 Dec 2024, MEDS-047 Jun 2025, MEDS-047 Dec 2025 and MEDS-047 Jun 2026; MEDS-076: MEDS-076 Dec 2025 and MEDS-076 Jun 2026; MEDS-077: MEDS-077 Dec 2025 and MEDS-077 Jun 2026.

Themes IGNOU Set Again in the MEDS-071 to MEDS-075 Papers

In IGNOU’s MEDS-074 Population and Development: Issues and Challenges papers, six themes appeared in all four sessions from December 2024 to June 2026: migration, governance and development, poverty and inequality, food and nutrition security, sustainable development, and slums with the urban paradox. Across the five Year I codes, nineteen themes reached four of four.

MEDS-071 set migration, mortality, demographic transition and the sources of population data in every session, and MEDS-075 did the same for measurement, statistics, research reporting and evaluation. The MEDS-073 Social Groups and Family Health paper behaves differently: only ageing and gender with women’s health reached four of four, but its December 2025 paper took six of its nine items from December 2024 themes.

The counts below come from IGNOU’s MAPFHS Year I papers for December 2024, June 2025, December 2025 and June 2026, four per code and 20 in all, each reviewed in full by ignouproject.com on 5 November 2026. A theme is counted when a question or short note asks about it in substance; matching is at topic level and is a human judgement rather than a word search, and every cell gives the question number so it can be checked against IGNOU’s file. The theme tables cover MEDS-071 to MEDS-075. For the six electives, the layouts appear in the tables above, and recurring themes are confirmed against the latest IGNOU paper on WhatsApp. A theme seen once is left out, and n of N counts past sessions; it is not a forecast.

MEDS-071: Four Demography Themes in Every Paper

Migration, mortality, demographic transition and the sources of population data are the four MEDS-071 themes asked in every session. Data sources take a different form each time: sources in general in December 2024, CRS against SRS in June 2025, demographic data in India in December 2025, and the Census of India and the NSS as two notes in June 2026. Many MEDS-071 questions split their marks 5+15, a definition first and a discussion second.

Every MEDS-071 cell can be checked in IGNOU’s own files: Dec 2024 MEDS-071 file, Jun 2025 MEDS-071 file, Dec 2025 MEDS-071 file and Jun 2026 MEDS-071 file.

MEDS-072: Schools of Thought, Projections and Policy

Three MEDS-072 themes reached four of four: the schools of thought on population, from Malthusian to neutralist; the techniques of interpolation, extrapolation, estimation and projection; and population policy, with the National Population Policy 2000 set as a full question in December 2024 and again in December 2025. The life table returned three times and missed only June 2026.

The MEDS-072 papers behind these counts: Dec 2024 MEDS-072 file, Jun 2025 MEDS-072 file, Dec 2025 MEDS-072 file and Jun 2026 MEDS-072 file.

MEDS-073: Wide Paper, Strong Seasonal Echo

MEDS-073 spreads across more topics than any other Year I paper. Twelve themes appear at least twice, but only two reach four of four. The pattern lies in the seasons. Disability, the digital divide, domestic violence, eating habits, intersectoral coordination and marginalised groups all came back from December 2024 to December 2025, while June 2026 repeated June 2025’s questions on substance abuse, the perspectives of ageing in India and poverty.

IGNOU’s four MEDS-073 papers, as filed: Dec 2024 MEDS-073 file, Jun 2025 MEDS-073 file, Dec 2025 MEDS-073 file and Jun 2026 MEDS-073 file.

MEDS-074: Six Themes That Never Missed a Session

MEDS-074 is the most predictable MAPFHS paper in theme, and the most repetitive in placement. Its short notes sat at Question 5 in all four sessions, migration was Question 8 in December 2024, December 2025 and June 2026, and “What is slum upgrading?” opened Question 7 in both December papers.

To trace the six MEDS-074 themes, open Dec 2024 MEDS-074 file, Jun 2025 MEDS-074 file, Dec 2025 MEDS-074 file and Jun 2026 MEDS-074 file.

MEDS-075: Method Questions That Return in Pairs

MEDS-075 is the research methodology paper, and four method families reached four of four: measurement, statistics, the research report with its proposal and dissemination, and evaluation with monitoring and impact assessment. The December 2024 and June 2026 papers both open with the same three-part question on research objectives.

MEDS-075 in each session: Dec 2024 MEDS-075 file, Jun 2025 MEDS-075 file, Dec 2025 MEDS-075 file and Jun 2026 MEDS-075 file.

Questions IGNOU Asked a Second Time, Nearly Unchanged

These are the closest repeats across the 20 Year I papers. Each pair names both sessions and question numbers; the theme column gives a short phrase from or about the question, never the whole question.

How a MEDS Set Is Put Together From IGNOU’s Papers

Each MAPFHS set follows the same five steps.

1. Pull the code’s last four IGNOU papers. For Year I that is December 2024 to June 2026, taken from IGNOU’s session lists, with the session checked on page 1 of each file.
2. Sort every question and note by theme. A two-part question is filed under its main theme; each short-note option counts on its own.
3. Rank by sessions, then by season. Anything IGNOU asked in three or all four sessions gets a full model answer before the rest. A theme seen only in December papers, as many MEDS-073 themes are, is marked as a December echo.
4. Write to the clock. A 20-mark answer is planned for about 34 minutes, and a split question is weighted by its marks, so a 5+15 question gives about 9 minutes to the first part.
5. Check against the blocks. Each answer is checked against the IGNOU block it comes from, with figures and policy years taken from the material.

One Real Question, Worked to the Clock

The June 2026 MEDS-071 paper asked learners to define fertility and fecundity, then explain the Total Fertility Rate and the measures to control fertility, for 5+15 marks. A 34-minute plan for it looks like this:

• About 9 minutes for the 5 marks: one crisp definition of each term and the difference between them, in four or five lines.
• About 25 minutes for the 15 marks: how TFR is calculated from age-specific fertility rates, what a TFR near 2.1 means, then a short run of control measures with one Indian programme named for each.
• The last minute or two for a closing line that ties fertility back to population growth, the theme MEDS-071 set in three of four sessions.

Limits of a MAPFHS Revision Set, Stated Plainly

Two Free MAPFHS Helpers: Morning Planner and Answer Timer

The planner sets the ticked codes against IGNOU’s December 2026 sheet, flags the clash and prices the order; the timer shows the layout of one paper and divides its three hours.

The timer’s arithmetic, written out for the three kinds of MAPFHS paper:

Neither tool sends data anywhere. Every date and layout either tool shows also appears in the static tables on this page.

Opening the MAPFHS Question Papers and Date Sheet Yourself

Each examination session has its own IGNOU index of question papers, and the MAPFHS files behind this page all came from four of them: the June 2026 question paper list, the December 2025 list, the June 2025 list and the December 2024 list.

1. Use the browser’s find box on an index page and type the code exactly, hyphen included, for example MEDS-074. For Women in the Economy, search “MWG-111”; IGNOU’s lists carry no MWG-111 file for December 2024, and none for MEDS-076 or MEDS-077 before December 2025.
2. Open the PDF and confirm the month and year on page 1. The December 2024 MAPFHS papers sit in a general downloads folder, so the address alone does not show the session.
3. Expect a two- or three-page English paper for every MEDS code. MSOE-002 and MWG-111 files run to four or five pages because a Hindi version follows the English one.
4. Take dates only from IGNOU’s sheet: the version headed 30 October 2026 replaced the tentative sheet of 21 September 2026. Codes appear on that sheet with no hyphen, and MSOE-002 is shortened to MSOE02, so search for strings like MEDS071.

Third-party pages give different release dates for the December 2026 sheet; only the file on ignou.ac.in settles a date. Other cycles and programmes are listed on the IGNOU date sheet hub.

Hall Ticket Before 5 December, Results and Grade Card After

A Year I learner needs the hall ticket before MEDS-071 on Saturday 5 December; a Year II learner taking MSOE-002 needs it by Tuesday 8 December. Check that every code on it matches the registration, especially MWG-111, which other documents print as MGW.

Results arrive in two parts. Term-end marks appear through the IGNOU result page, and the most recent cycle is tracked on the June 2026 result tracker. Assignment marks are checked on the assignment status page. A learner unhappy with a paper can follow the revaluation steps, and after both years the final grade card explainer and the CGPA calculator show where the programme stands.

Other Help Population Studies Learners Order With a Set

A revision set covers only the term-end paper. Typed assignment answers are on IGNOU solved assignments, handwritten ones on the MAPFHS page linked in the code tables, and wider course coverage in the IGNOU help books and the guide books available online. Learners who choose the project elective will find it handled separately on the MEDSP-071 project work guide.

MAPFHS Papers Are Set in English: What That Means for Hindi Requests

MAPFHS is taught in English, per section 3.49 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus and section 1.6 of the Programme Guide, and IGNOU printed all 20 Year I papers, MEDS-071 to MEDS-075, in English only from December 2024 to June 2026. So were MEDS-047, MEDS-076, MEDS-077 and MANE-004. Only the borrowed MSOE-002 and MWG-111 papers carry a Hindi version after the English one.

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 MAPFHS that means English sets for all eleven codes. A Hindi set is discussed only for MSOE-002 and MWG-111, and only where the learner’s Regional Centre accepts Hindi answers for a MAPFHS registration. IGNOU’s assignment list carries English rows alone for MEDS-071 to MEDS-077, which matches the papers.

Placing a MAPFHS Order Over WhatsApp

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.

1. Write the codes as the hall ticket prints them, for example MEDS-071, MEDS-075, MWG-111.
2. Mark each one PDF or printed; a single order can mix the two.
3. Send the list to WhatsApp +91 93546 37830, adding the language only if MSOE-002 or MWG-111 is on it.
4. Pay the total confirmed in the reply.

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.

Worked through for MAPFHS, the five Year I codes cost 5 × ₹49 = ₹245 as PDFs, or 5 × ₹100 + ₹100 courier = ₹600 printed. Four Year II electives with the project as the fifth come to ₹196 as PDFs. Rates for assignments and other work appear on the publisher’s full price list for services.

Sources Behind Every MAPFHS Figure and the Next Review

IGNOU documents. Codes, credits and medium come from section 3.49 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus, checked against the 6 October 2026 revision, with section 8.23 for the diploma; the project rule, the pass rule and the 70 and 30 per cent split come from the MAPFHS Programme Guide; the launch session comes from notification No. 132. Layouts, headings and every theme count come from IGNOU’s 39 MAPFHS papers for December 2024 to June 2026, linked code by code above. Dates come from IGNOU’s December 2026 sheet of 30 October 2026, and the assignment rows from IGNOU’s assignment download list. How IGNOU issues each prospectus is explained in the IGNOU prospectus guide.

The publisher’s analysis. The theme tables, the near-repeat list, the heading history, the elective comparison and the timer arithmetic are ignouproject.com’s own reading of those papers, compared by hand on 5 November 2026. Deciding that two questions share a theme is a judgement call, which is why each cell carries its question number.

The publisher’s terms. Rates, formats, dispatch and the language rule are set by Shri Chakradhar Publication Pvt. Ltd. as the seller and owe nothing to IGNOU.

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. Serving IGNOU learners since 2010.

Published 5 November 2026. Last reviewed 5 November 2026. The page will be checked again once IGNOU posts its tentative June 2027 date sheet, likely around March 2027, and sooner should the December 2026 sheet change.

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