The IGNOU Masters in English New Literatures in English is one of the courses that are offered by the university in the Masters Program in the English category. The paper is in English.

The Masters degree in English is a two years course. The Examination is conducted every June and December. The students have to give a total of 4 examinations in the two years course. The paper has a total mark of 100 and the time duration of the above paper is fixed at three hours. All the questions in the paper carry 20 marks each and the word limit of each and every answer to the question is limited by five hundred words.

There are no sections or the paper is not divided into any sections o any sort of thing. There are direct eight questions from the syllabus. The student has the liberty to choose and do any five of them making a total of 100. The questions that are there are basically discussion, the relationship, Compare and Contrast, How and what type of questions and the Comment and the typical type of questions that the paper is expected to have.