In order to complete an IGNOU course successfully, the submission of an assignment is a must. The importance of assignment in IGNOU can be understood from a single fact that IGNOU gives 30 per cent weightage to assignment in a particular course and a student need to achieve at least 40 per cent marks in assignments in order to successfully complete a course. Therefore, there cannot be any escaping from Assignment Submission. If you happen to be an IGNOU student, you will have to write and submit your assignment to your study centre on or before the prescribed date.
However, there are lots of students who face the rejection of their assignments and hence they fall into great trouble. If you are also a student of IGNOU facing such kind of trouble, read this article till the end.
Given below are 11 important reasons for the rejection of IGNOU Assignments:-
This is one of the most common reasons for the rejection of IGNOU Assignments. Suppose, your assignment is 4 pages. "Out of these pages, you wrote two pages on your own and for the remaining two, you asked your friend, or brother/sister to write" In this case, the handwriting in your assignment will be different. And hence, it will face rejection. Therefore, make sure that your assignment has only one handwriting throughout.
When you take admitted to "IGNOU", then if you have a yearly program, you need to submit your assignment after one year, whereas if your program is semester or certificate-based, you will need to submit your assignment after 6 months. And, according to the situation, the date of submission of assignments may vary. Here, the important thing to know is you need not prepare your assignment well in advance and wait for the announcement by IGNOU for its submission. If you do not respect the time period after which, the assignment should be submitted, you may face the rejection of your assignment. So, you stay updated with the notification of IGNOU/Gullybaba and submit fresh assignments.
Some students, in an attempt to impress the examiner, do something that comes in the category of "Unacceptable." They make assignments of their own as well as that of similar subjects. While some do this out of confusion, whereas some do it deliberately. Any such activity leads to the rejection of assignments.
Those students of IGNOU face rejection of their assignments who either write "the incorrect course code or miss mentioning the appropriate course code" This also happens to be the strong reason for the rejection of the assignment. So, do not miss to mention your course code. You need to write your course code on the front page of your assignment.
If you miss mentioning the program code or write the incorrect program code, then your assignment will be rejected for sure. Knowing the program code for your program is quite easy. Suppose, you are doing English Hons., then just type in Google IGNOU BA English Hons. You will get its Program Code BAEGH. So, do not give writing the program code of your program a miss.
If your name does not appear on the first page of your assignment, in that case also you might have to face the rejection of your assignment. Some students do not mention their names or do not feel the need to mention their names on the first page of the assignment and face the consequence. Double-check the spelling of your name so that there could be no discrepancies in spelling or related things.
This reason is also one of the most common reasons for the rejection of assignments. If the enrollment number entered in the assignment, proves to be wrong, in that case also rejection will come as consequence. The enrollment number tends to be 10 digits.
On the front page of the IGNOU assignment, the students of IGNOU are required to mention their study centre along with the code. Some students either do not become able to find these or mention them wrongly. In order to find these, you need to log in to the student management portal. On this portal, you will see these things. Write on your assignment, to every letter as mentioned on the portal.
The students of IGNOU are required to mention the name along with the code of their study centre. Even if there is a small discrepancy, IGNOU might reject your submission. You need to know the complete name of your study centre, and its code and fill these in properly. If you struggle to find these, you can log on to the study management portal and come to know about these exactly.
In the online submission of the assignment, the PDF of your assignment needs to be submitted one by one. Suppose, you have 4 subjects, you need to send their assignment per subject, and not in just one PDF File. You need to submit this subject-wise, not all subject assignments in one go. If the students of IGNOU fail to follow this guideline, they face the rejection of their assignments.
When you are about you submit your assignment, you are provided with a limit of the PDF file. If your file size exceeds 25 MB, in that case also your assignment might get rejected. Importantly, 25 MB alone may not be the limit to submitting your assignment. It could be less or more than 25 MB. The bottom line is that you need to limit your assignment as per the prescribed limit.