Assignments constitute the continuous evaluation. The submission of assignments is compulsory. The Grade that you get in your assignments will be counted in your final result. Assignments of a course carry 30% weightage while 70% weightage is given to the term-end examination. Therefore, you are advised to take your assignments seriously. You will not be allowed to appear for the term-end examination for any course if you do not submit the specified number of assignments in time for that course.

The main purpose of assignment is to test your comprehension of the learning material you receive from us and also to help you get through the courses. The information given in the printed course material should be sufficient for answering the assignments. Please do not worry about the non-availability of extra reading material for working on the assignments. However, if you have easy access to other books, you may make use of them. But the assignments are designed in such a way as to help you concentrate mainly on the printed course material and exploit your personal experience.

In case of any discrepancy regarding the set of material and assignment, contact Material Production & Distribution Division, IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110 068.

The assignment responses should be complete in all respects. The tutor marked assignments, are to be submitted on response sheets to the Coordinator of the Study Centre assigned. After evaluation these tutor marked assignments will be sent back with comments and grade.

The University/Co-ordinator of the Study Centre has the right not to entertain or reject the assignments submitted after the due date. You are, therefore, advised to submit the assignments before the due date.

Do not forget to get back your duly evaluated assignments alongwith a copy of the assessment sheets containing comments of the evaluator on your performance from your Study Centre. This may help you to improve future assignments and in preparing for term-end examination.

For your own record retain a copy of all assignment responses which you submit. If you do not get back your duly evaluated tutor marked assignments alongwith copy of assessment sheet containing comments of evaluator on your assignment within a month after submission, please try to get it personally from your Study Centre. This may help you to improve upon future assignments. Also maintain an account of all these corrected assignment responses received by you after evaluation. This will help you to represent your case to the University in case any problem arises.

If you do not get pass grade in any assignment, you have to submit it again. For this, you have to ask for/obtain a fresh set of assignments for that course, applicable to that particular semester. However, once you get the pass grade in an assignment, you cannot re-submit it for improvement of grade. Assignments are not subject to reevaluation except for factual errors, if any, committed by the evaluator. The discrepancy noticed by you in the evaluated assignments should be brought to the notice of the coordinator of the Study Centre, so that the correct score is forwarded by him/her to the Student Registration & Evaluation Division at Headquarters.

In case you find that the score indicated in the assessment sheet of your assignments has not been correctly reflected or is not entered in your grade cards; you are advised to contact the coordinator of your Study Centre with a request to forward correct award list to the SR & E Division at the Headquarters.

Do not enclose or express doubt for clarification, if any, alongwith the assignment. Send your doubts in a separate cover. Give your complete enrolment number, name, address, title of the course and the number of the unit or the assignment, etc. on top of your letter. If you want to draw our attention to something of an urgent/important nature, write to us separately.