SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 13 September 2024, Shift 3 · General Awareness · Question 5 of 98

Text as printed on a candidate's response sheet for this shift; answer per SSC's tentative key as marked on that sheet. Solution last reviewed 6 September 2026.

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In which of the following years will India host the World Badminton Championship?

(a)2025
(b)2027
(c)2026
(d)2028

Answer

Why

Correct — C. The BWF awarded the 2026 BWF World Championships to India, which is the year the question is testing.

India has staged the championship once before, at Hyderabad in 2009. One structural fact narrows the options on its own: the World Championships are not held in Olympic years, which removes 2028 outright. Option (c) is the awarded year.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
2025 — The 2025 edition was staged in Paris, not in India; picking the year immediately before the awarded one is the standard slip on a hosting question.
(b)
2027 — 2027 is not the year named in India's hosting award, which is for 2026 — the same adjacent-year error, made in the other direction.
(d)
2028 — 2028 is an Olympic year, and the BWF World Championships are not held in Olympic years, so there is no edition for anyone to host.

Concept

Hosting questions test one thing: which country was awarded which edition.

Badminton adds a calendar rule worth carrying. The BWF World Championships are held every year except in Olympic years, when the Olympic tournament takes their place. That is why 2024 and 2028 are blank.

India's place in that calendar is short and easy to hold: Hyderabad in 2009, and then the 2026 edition awarded to India.

SSC set this question before the 2026 event, which is why the stem is in the future tense. What is being tested is the award, not a result.

Key facts

India was awarded the 2026 BWF World Championships.
India previously hosted the BWF World Championships at Hyderabad in 2009.
The BWF World Championships are not staged in Olympic years.

Study next

Indian medallists at the BWF World Championships, beginning with Prakash Padukone's 1983 bronzeThomas Cup and Uber Cup, including India's Thomas Cup win in 2022All England Open and the tier structure of the BWF World Tour

Common traps

Picking a year adjacent to the awarded one, since all four options are plausible calendar years.
Forgetting that no World Championships are held in an Olympic year.

SSC asks badminton through titles and hosts. 24 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.19 asks who won the Swiss Open 2022, and 26 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q.17 asks the same of the Singapore Open 2022.

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