100 Hardest and easiest questions for SC as of June 2025 : Sentence Correction (EA only)

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100 Hardest Sentence Correction Questions (Jun 1st, 2025 - Jul 1st, 2025) Are you familiar with the GMAT Club's timer ?We have pulled timer results from our database and analyzed every question in the forum. Based on those results, we have compiled a list of the hardest questions in each of the question forums we have. Below I am presenting to you the top 100 questions from SC forum. Sentence Correction (SC) Rank Title Topics 1 GMAT Club World Cup 2022 (DAY 2): Named after Austrian player Marcus Difficulty: 805+ Level, Meaning/Logical Predication, Modifiers, Parallelism, Source: Competition Questions, Source: Manhattan GMAT 2 In the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778, the rearguard of the Frankish Difficulty: 805+ Level, Clauses, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Parallelism, Source: Magoosh 3 Despite the fact that the impact of Daylight Saving Time, at the onset Difficulty: 805+ Level, Meaning/Logical Predication, Subject Verb Agreement, Source: Manhattan GMAT 4 Statisticians have constructed many complex mathematical models design Difficulty: 805+ Level, Meaning/Logical Predication, Source: Manhattan GMAT 5 Although to provide Internet access through wearable technology Google Difficulty: 805+ Level, Subject Verb Agreement, Source: e-GMAT 6 Ending a contentious political stalemate that frightened global Difficulty: 805+ Level, Verb Tense/Form, Source: Veritas Prep 7 GMAT CLUB OLYMPICS: For 800 years the smiths of the Kruijswijk Forge Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Meaning/Logical Predication, Pronouns, Verb Tense/Form, Source: Competition Questions, Source: GMAT Club Tests 8 For Ralph Waldo Emerson, transcendentalism was his professed ideal ove Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Source: Veritas Prep 9 The ability of neuroscientists to pinpoint the exact locations in the Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Subject Verb Agreement, Source: Magoosh 10 The preliminary agreement to what was to be ... Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: GMAT Hacks 11 Descending approximately 4,000 years ago from the African wildcat, it Difficulty: 805+ Level, Modifiers, Source: Manhattan GMAT 12 GMAT Club World Cup 2022 (DAY 4): Down to its last three stores, the o Difficulty: 805+ Level, Adjectives and Adverbs, Source: Competition Questions 13 Over 6M hectares of emerald bamboo groves – one fifth of the world’s r Difficulty: 805+ Level, Meaning/Logical Predication, Modifiers, Source: e-GMAT 14 Although most of Kafkas books are centered on either a protagonist's Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Meaning/Logical Predication, Modifiers, Source: Experts' Global 15 Having extracted the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes from human DNA to isolate Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Pronouns, Source: Veritas Prep 16 Daniel Bernoulli (1700 – 1782) derived the famous fluid equation named Difficulty: 805+ Level, Clauses, Parallelism, Source: Magoosh 17 Those who maintain that technology is negatively rewiring our brains Difficulty: 805+ Level, Parallelism, Source: Magoosh 18 Nelson Mandela is the most unfortunate of men, yet the embodiment of e Difficulty: 805+ Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Parallelism, Source: GMAT Club Tests 19 A 2009 study from the California State Housing Authority concluded Difficulty: 805+ Level, Modifiers, Parallelism, Punctuation, Source: Veritas Prep 20 Proponents of the school of thought positing that the Americas were Difficulty: 805+ Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: Magoosh 21 A newly released study on the tectonic plates forming the Pacific basi Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Verb Tense/Form, Source: Magoosh 22 While airline travel can be detrimental to your health, many exercise Difficulty: 805+ Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Modifiers, Subject Verb Agreement, Source: Veritas Prep 23 Recent indications of weakness in the economy have lead consumers to Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Modifiers, Source: Kaplan 24 Pack 14 Q5: In 2018, American cybersecurity executives indicated... Difficulty: 805+ Level, Verb Tense/Form, Source: EMPOWERgmat 25 Anticipating an outbreak of another pandemic, TDI Biotechnology GmbH p Difficulty: 805+ Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Parallelism, Source: GMAT Club Tests 26 GMAT CLUB OLYMPICS: Painting a picture with a brush is like playing a Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: Competition Questions, Source: GMAT Club Tests 27 Whereas on many petty issues that were not very important for the comp Difficulty: 805+ Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Parallelism, Source: GMAT Club Tests 28 Isotopes in the recently excavated bones of a 14-year-old girl from th Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Meaning/Logical Predication, Source: Veritas Prep 29 Technological innovations such as the internet, which proliferated at Difficulty: 805+ Level, Comparisons, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Pronouns, Verb Tense/Form, Source: Manhattan GMAT 30 As the baby emerges from the darkness of the womb with a rudimentary Difficulty: 805+ Level, Modifiers, Source: Experts' Global 31 The data being collected in the current geological survey are providin Difficulty: 805+ Level, Pronouns, Use of Being, Source: Veritas Prep 32 If medical researchers are correct, then the human microbiome, made up Difficulty: 805+ Level, Modifiers, Source: Magoosh 33 The people of the ancient Near East believed that the Earth’s dry land Difficulty: 805+ Level, Verb Tense/Form, Source: Magoosh 34 In the field of eugenics, geneticists have thoroughly scrutinized the Difficulty: 805+ Level, Adjectives and Adverbs, Source: Veritas Prep 35 12 Days of Christmas GMAT Competition - Day 4: Although German Johann Difficulty: 805+ Level, Adjectives and Adverbs, Whole Sentence Underline, Source: Competition Questions, Source: Manhattan GMAT 36 In order to be converted into high-quality digital versions, analog au Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Modifiers, Subject Verb Agreement, Source: Manhattan GMAT 37 Recent studies have shown that the antioxidants found in the acai berr Difficulty: 805+ Level, Comparisons, Modifiers, Pronouns, Source: Manhattan GMAT 38 After all the recent political changes, the Syrians are figuring out Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Source: Veritas Prep 39 In Hinduism, cows are considered sacred and are given the highest Difficulty: 805+ Level, Parallelism, Source: Experts' Global 40 Brutus and Cassius, in participating in the brutal assassination of Ju Difficulty: 805+ Level, Clauses, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Source: Magoosh 41 Bioconservatives, a group who believe that technological innovation th Difficulty: 805+ Level, Comparisons, Modifiers, Parallelism, Subject Verb Agreement, Source: Veritas Prep 42 There are a few acts of nature, such as a total solar eclipse or a Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Parallelism, Source: Veritas Prep 43 Purchasers of television advertising are increasingly discouraged by Difficulty: 805+ Level, Parallelism, Source: Manhattan GMAT 44 Medieval monks, through their manuscript illuminations, meticulously Difficulty: 805+ Level, Modifiers, Source: Veritas Prep 45 With the private space industry at the early stages of launch revoluti Difficulty: 805+ Level, Subject Verb Agreement, Source: Kaplan 46 Where once the union had acquiesced to the prejudices of its English Difficulty: 805+ Level, Modifiers, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Manhattan GMAT 47 Motive of the crime decides whether the guilty, after the legal Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Parallelism, Source: Experts' Global 48 HOT Competition 2 Sep/8PM: With temperatures at minus 88 degrees Fahre Difficulty: 805+ Level, Parallelism, Source: Competition Questions 49 Commanding the defenses of Charleston Harbor at the start of the Ameri Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Meaning/Logical Predication, Modifiers, Source: Experts' Global 50 As the housing affordability gap widens, middle-income families are es Difficulty: 805+ Level, Parallelism, Source: 1000 Series 51 While the Eastern Whip-poor-will a nocturnal bird that feeds Difficulty: 805+ Level, Clauses, Comparisons, Source: Veritas Prep 52 GMAT CLUB OLYMPICS: In a recent neurological study of the intraparieta Difficulty: 805+ Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Meaning/Logical Predication, Modifiers, Source: Competition Questions, Source: GMAT Club Tests 53 At nearly 38 million dollars, one of the least costly options being co Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Source: Veritas Prep 54 The paradox of longer, drier droughts and larger, more devastating flo Difficulty: 805+ Level, Meaning/Logical Predication, Modifiers, Source: EMPOWERgmat 55 The British hospitality industrys cost to address issues related to t Difficulty: 805+ Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Meaning/Logical Predication, Modifiers, Whole Sentence Underline, Source: Experts' Global 56 Examples of "tulipomania," a term coined from the tulip craze of the Difficulty: 805+ Level, Parallelism, Source: Manhattan GMAT 57 The standard framework of cap and trade is fundamentally conservative, Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Parallelism, Source: Manhattan GMAT 58 Although there is still disagreement among the scientific community Difficulty: 805+ Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Meaning/Logical Predication, Modifiers, Source: Manhattan GMAT 59 Once thought to be impossible, Alex Honnold successfully free soloed Difficulty: 805+ Level, Meaning/Logical Predication, Modifiers, Source: Manhattan GMAT 60 The proposed simplification of the tax code would repeal or Difficulty: 805+ Level, Subject Verb Agreement, Source: Aristotle 61 Early medieval monasteries, while clearly less accessible to Difficulty: 805+ Level, Modifiers, Source: Kaplan 62 Because of the fear that the company's latest efforts to contain the Difficulty: 805+ Level, Verb Tense/Form, Source: e-GMAT 63 The man was always aware, sometimes proudly and sometimes Difficulty: 805+ Level, Conjunctions (FANBOYS), Verb Tense/Form, Source: 1000 Series 64 The distribution of stars within the Milky Way's central bar, like Difficulty: 805+ Level, Comparisons, Source: Experts' Global 65 At the time of the Mexican agrarian revolution, the most radical facti Difficulty: 805+ Level, Subject Verb Agreement, Verb Tense/Form, Source: 1000 Series, Source: OG 1988, Source: Official Guide (Pre-2000) 66 Camille Claudet worked continuously through the 1880’s and early 1890’ Difficulty: 805+ Level, Verb Tense/Form, Verb Tense/Form, Source: 1000 Series, Source: GMAT Paper Tests 67 At the heart of euro crisis is Mrs. Merckel’s lack of quick or bold Difficulty: 805+ Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: e-GMAT 68 Okonkwo, the protagonist of Chinua Achebes novel Things Fall Apart Difficulty: 805+ Level, Comparisons, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Pronouns, Verb Tense/Form, Source: Experts' Global 69 Contemporary accounts of the life of Charlemagne, crowned emperor by Difficulty: 805+ Level, Parallelism, Source: Kaplan 70 Out of the public’s interest in the details of and conflicts in other Difficulty: 805+ Level, Subject Verb Agreement, Source: Kaplan 71 Though viewed from a distance, Saturn's main rings may Difficulty: 805+ Level, Comparisons, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Source: Manhattan GMAT 72 Unlike the successors of many Roman towns which are generally Difficulty: 805+ Level, Comparisons, Meaning/Logical Predication, Source: Economist 73 12 Days of Christmas GMAT Competition - Day 10: In evaluating the Difficulty: 805+ Level, Adjectives and Adverbs, Source: Competition Questions, Source: Experts' Global 74 12 Days of Christmas GMAT Competition - Day 4: Homeowners who budget Difficulty: 805+ Level, Adjectives and Adverbs, Source: Competition Questions, Source: Experts' Global 75 Out of public's interest in the details of and conflicts Difficulty: 805+ Level, Modifiers, Subject Verb Agreement, Source: Kaplan 76 12 Days of Christmas GMAT Competition - Day 1: When regulations that l Difficulty: 805+ Level, Adjectives and Adverbs, Source: Competition Questions, Source: Manhattan GMAT 77 Spains governing coalition has come under strain as it pushes its Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Modifiers, Whole Sentence Underline, Source: Veritas Prep 78 At approximately 22 weeks, a fetus becomes fully covered by lanugo, or Difficulty: 805+ Level, Modifiers, Source: Magoosh 79 In good years, the patchwork of green fields that surround Difficulty: 805+ Level, Modifiers, Subject Verb Agreement, Subject Verb Agreement, Source: 1000 Series 80 Pack 16 Q4: Some wildlife managers recognize that the impact... Difficulty: 805+ Level, Parallelism, Source: EMPOWERgmat 81 Building large new hospitals in the bistate area would constitute a wa Difficulty: 805+ Level, Adjectives and Adverbs, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Source: 1000 Series, Source: OG 1988, Source: Official Guide (Pre-2000) 82 Historical revisionism is different from history in that the former Difficulty: 805+ Level, Meaning/Logical Predication, Source: Experts' Global 83 Because the Supreme Court has ruled that the prosecution in a job disc Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Modifiers, Verb Tense/Form, Source: GMAT Prep 84 Carbon monoxide levels in the atmosphere grew by enough of an increase Difficulty: 805+ Level, Modifiers, Pronouns, Source: Manhattan GMAT 85 Classical guitar was neither prestigious nor was often played in conce Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Modifiers, Verb Tense/Form, Verb Tense/Form, Source: Manhattan GMAT 86 Discovered by the scientists from the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) Difficulty: 805+ Level, Modifiers, Source: GMAT Club Tests 87 A recent study showed that the constant roar of jet aircraft could be Difficulty: 805+ Level, Parallelism, Verb Tense/Form, Source: Kaplan 88 In assessing the problems faced by rural migrant workers the question Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Meaning/Logical Predication, Modifiers, Pronouns, Source: OG 1988, Source: Official Guide (Pre-2000) 89 Having evolved to survive in the pitch black darkness and crushing pre Difficulty: 805+ Level, Meaning/Logical Predication, Modifiers, Subject Verb Agreement, Source: Experts' Global 90 Because country music plays on more radio stations there and is thus Difficulty: 805+ Level, Parallelism, Source: Kaplan 91 Prairie dogs live in tight-knit colonies, called coteries, of roughly Difficulty: 805+ Level, Modifiers, Parallelism, Pronouns, Source: GMAT Club Tests 92 Dante Rossetti and his colleagues, in calling their group the Difficulty: 805+ Level, Parallelism, Source: Magoosh 93 Asias biggest democracy and, in Japan, its richest one, were on oppos Difficulty: 805+ Level, Adjectives and Adverbs, Pronouns, Source: Economist 94 The total remittance transfers sent across the world Difficulty: 805+ Level, Modifiers, Source: Veritas Prep 95 The selection of figures on the Frieze of Parnassus reflects Difficulty: 805+ Level, Use of Being, Source: GMAT Hacks 96 Since the 1980s, when Chile adopted free market economic policies Difficulty: 805+ Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Meaning/Logical Predication, Modifiers, Source: Manhattan GMAT 97 Around the World in 80 Questions (Day 6): Accepting the proposed Difficulty: 805+ Level, Adjectives and Adverbs, Source: Competition Questions, Source: Experts' Global 98 The near extinction of the feral bee population in some parts of the U Difficulty: 805+ Level, Modifiers, Source: Kaplan 99 12 Days of Christmas GMAT Competition - Day 10: A substance derived Difficulty: 805+ Level, Adjectives and Adverbs, Source: Competition Questions, Source: Experts' Global 100 Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses ea Difficulty: 805+ Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Pronouns, Source: Manhattan GMAT

Sentence Correction (SC)

Rank

Title

Topics

1

Carnivorous mammals can endure what would otherwise be lethal levels

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Modifiers, Verb Tense/Form, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2016, Source: OG 2015/OG13, Source: OG 12, Source: OG 11

2

The boys spent the entire night lost in the forest , therefore they

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Adjectives and Adverbs, Clauses, Source: GMAT Club Tests

3

If the new airboat does what it is to be doing—travel at high speeds

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Meaning/Logical Predication, Modifiers, Source: 1000 Series, Source: GMAT Paper Tests

4

In the Soviet Union the attorney’s role is often played by the judge,

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Official Guide

5

Delighted by the reported earnings for the first quarter of the fiscal

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Modifiers, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 10, Source: OG 9, Source: Verbal Review 2018, Source: Verbal Review 2017, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2015/2ND, Source: Verbal Review 1ST

6

It is a special feature of cell aggregation in the developing nervous

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Parallelism, Source: 1000 Series, Source: OG 1988, Source: Official Guide (Pre-2000)

7

The concept of the grand jury dates from the twelfth century, when Hen

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Verb Tense/Form, Source: 1000 Series, Source: GMAT Prep, Source: OG 10, Source: Verbal Review 1ST

8

The psychologist William James believed that facial expressions not

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Parallelism, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 10, Source: Verbal Review 2018, Source: Verbal Review 2017, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2015/2ND, Source: Verbal Review 1ST

9

Manufacturers rate batteries in watt-hours; if they rate the

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Parallelism, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2018, Source: OG 2017, Source: OG 2016, Source: OG 2015/OG13

10

To control public unease over the regime's impending economic collapse

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Clauses, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Verb Tense/Form, Source: Kaplan

11

Many policy experts say that shifting a portion of health-benefit cost

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Parallelism, Source: 1000 Series, Source: OG 10, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2015/2ND, Source: Verbal Review 1ST

12

Convinced at last of the soundness of her advice, the villagers tried

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Parallelism, Source: 1000 Series

13

Quasars, at billions of light-years from Earth the most distant observ

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2015/OG13, Source: OG 12, Source: OG 11, Source: OG 10

14

Some sociologists claim to have found a direct link from the appearanc

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Meaning/Logical Predication, Source: Official Guide, Source: Verbal Review 2022, Source: Verbal Review 2021, Source: Verbal Review 2020

15

The Wallerstein study indicates that even after a decade young men and

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Subject Verb Agreement, Source: 1000 Series, Source: OG 10, Source: OG 9, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2015/2ND, Source: Verbal Review 1ST

16

Surprised by unexpected budgetary constraints, it was chosen by the de

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Modifiers, Source: Veritas Prep

17

The automotive conveyor-belt system, which Henry Ford modeled after an

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2017, Source: OG 2016, Source: OG 2015/OG13, Source: OG 12, Source: OG 11

18

Some 200 world-famous physicists recently attended a conference whose

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: Verbal Review 2017, Source: Verbal Review 2016

19

Oaks preferring drier ones, pine trees thrive in relatively

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Comparisons, Source: GMAT Prep

20

Using study groups managed by the principal popular organizations and

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Modifiers, Verb Tense/Form, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2022, Source: OG 2021, Source: OG 2020, Source: OG 2019, Source: OG 2018, Source: OG 2017

21

The possibility of an attack on Indian Point, a nuclear power plant

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Parallelism, Source: Manhattan GMAT

22

The prospect of a new wave of automobile imports has prompted domestic

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Parallelism, Source: 1000 Series

23

In the 1950’s astronomers were divided between those who believed the

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: 1000 Series

24

Parents are concerned not only with finding good schools for their chi

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: Manhattan GMAT

25

Travelers to Mars would have to endure low levels of gravity

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Parallelism, Verb Tense/Form, Source: Official Guide, Source: Verbal Review 2019, Source: Verbal Review 2018, Source: Verbal Review 2017, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2015/2ND

26

Today, because of improvements in agricultural technology, the same

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Comparisons, Verb Tense/Form, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Executive Assessment (EA), Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2015/OG13, Source: OG 12, Source: OG 11, Source: OG 10

27

The market for so-called functional beverages drinks that promise

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Meaning/Logical Predication, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2022, Source: OG 2021

28

By studying the primitive visual systems of single-cell aquatic

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Meaning/Logical Predication, Modifiers, Source: 1000 Series, Source: OG 1988, Source: Official Guide (Pre-2000)

29

Using digital enhancements of skull fragments from five prehistoric

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Verb Tense/Form, Source: Verbal Review 2022, Source: Verbal Review 2021, Source: Verbal Review 2020, Source: Verbal Review 2019, Source: Verbal Review 2018, Source: Verbal Review 2017

30

Of all the possible disasters that threaten American agriculture, the

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 11, Source: OG 10, Source: OG 9

31

The investor who is uncertain about the future is more likely to put m

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Parallelism, Source: 1000 Series, Source: GMAT Prep

32

Satisfied by the strong performance on GMAT test, it was decided by Pe

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Pronouns, Source: 1000 Series

33

According to Kepler’s Second Law of Planetary Motion, as a planet move

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Comparisons, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: Magoosh

34

Because the budget package in Congress promises a combination of highe

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Clauses, Source: GMAT Prep, Source: Official Guide

35

Unlike a typical automobile loan, which requires a fifteen- to twenty-

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Comparisons, Parallelism, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 11, Source: OG 10, Source: OG 9

36

At the end of the 1930's, Duke Ellington was looking for a composer to

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Punctuation, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2018, Source: OG 2017, Source: OG 2016, Source: OG 2015/OG13

37

Found in the wild only in Australia and New Guinea, powerful back legs

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Modifiers, Source: GMAT Prep

38

Researchers at Cornell University have demonstrated that homing pigeon

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Parallelism, Source: 1000 Series, Source: OG 1988, Source: Official Guide (Pre-2000)

39

The winds that howl across the Great Plains not only blow away valuabl

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Parallelism, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 10, Source: Verbal Review 1ST

40

Foods high in tryptophan, an amino acid that is a precursor to seroton

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Parallelism, Source: Manhattan GMAT

41

Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Parallelism, Source: 1000 Series, Source: GMAT Paper Tests, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 11, Source: OG 10

42

With respect to most species of animals, they are evenly divided in

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Comparisons, Source: Verbal Review 2022, Source: Verbal Review 2021, Source: Verbal Review 2020, Source: Verbal Review 2019

43

Like ants, termites have an elaborate social structure in which a few

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Comparisons, Parallelism, Source: Verbal Review 2022, Source: Verbal Review 2021, Source: Verbal Review 2020, Source: Verbal Review 2019, Source: Verbal Review 2018, Source: Verbal Review 2017, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2015/2ND

44

Dr. Hakuta’s research among Hispanic children in the United States ind

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 10, Source: OG 9

45

Radiocarbon dating of fossils taken from caves on islands

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Subject Verb Agreement, Source: GMAT Prep

46

In Britain, "pig" refers to any member of the class of domes

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Parallelism, Source: GMAT Prep

47

A facsimile of Van Gogh's Starry Night was so accurately

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Clauses, Modifiers, Source: Veritas Prep

48

It took the museum decades of creative and persistent effort

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: Kaplan

49

Whereas a ramjet generally cannot achieve high speeds without the init

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Comparisons, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2020, Source: OG 2019, Source: OG 2018, Source: OG 2017, Source: OG 2016, Source: OG 2015/OG13

50

The rivalry between Apple, a multinational technology company based in

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Meaning/Logical Predication, Modifiers, Subject Verb Agreement, Source: Economist

51

During the last interglacial period, the climate on the Earth was warm

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Verb Tense/Form, Source: GMAT Prep

52

Like embryonic germ cells, which are cells that develop early in the

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2020, Source: OG 2019, Source: OG 2018, Source: OG 2017, Source: OG 2016, Source: OG 2015/OG13

53

Kleine-Levin syndrome, a rare neurological disorder primarily affectin

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Parallelism, Source: Manhattan GMAT

54

In an attempt to produce premium oysters, a firm in Scotland has devel

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Modifiers, Parallelism, Source: GMAT Prep

55

She was an educator, a builder of institutions and organizat

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Use of Being, Source: GMAT Prep

56

Recently declassified information from military satellites in orbit

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Subject Verb Agreement, Source: Verbal Review 2022, Source: Verbal Review 2021, Source: Verbal Review 2020, Source: Verbal Review 2019, Source: Verbal Review 2018

57

Although schistosomiasis is not often fatal it is so debilitating that

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Parallelism, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2016, Source: OG 2015/OG13, Source: OG 12, Source: OG 11, Source: OG 10

58

It is good legal procedure to rehearse an argument before a group of

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Parallelism, Source: GMAT Prep

59

An increasing body of scientific research suggests that the overall he

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Parallelism, Source: Competition Questions, Source: GMAT Club Tests

60

Ancient hunter-gatherers developed instincts that

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Modifiers, Source: GMAT Prep

61

The average weekly wage nearly doubled in the 1970’s, rising from $114

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Meaning/Logical Predication, Pronouns, Source: 1000 Series, Source: OG 1988, Source: Official Guide (Pre-2000)

62

Parliament did not accord full refugee benefits to twelve of the recen

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Verb Tense/Form, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 10, Source: Verbal Review 2015/2ND, Source: Verbal Review 1ST

63

In her presentation, the head of the Better Business Bureau emphasized

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Parallelism, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2022, Source: OG 2021, Source: OG 2020, Source: OG 2019, Source: OG 2018, Source: OG 2017

64

Although neutron stars are only the size of an average city, they are

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Modifiers, Pronouns, Source: Kaplan

65

Like the Dreyfus affair in 1894 and the Sacco-Vanzetti trial in 1921,

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Modifiers, Source: Executive Assessment (EA), Source: GMAT Prep

66

The animosity between those who regulate and those who are regulated

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Modifiers, Parallelism, Source: 1000 Series, Source: GMAT Paper Tests

67

James Watt did not invent the steam engine

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: Magoosh

68

Natalie had [u]no intention of to go to the ceremony to receive her aw

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Source: GMAT Club Tests

69

Results of a United States study published in the Annals of Internal

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Comparisons, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Source: GMAT Prep

70

The key to control over the Eurasian steppes lay in the nomad’s abilit

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: 1000 Series, Source: GMAT Prep

71

The company's CEO backed away from her plan for dividing the firm into

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Meaning/Logical Predication, Verb Tense/Form, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2022, Source: OG 2021

72

The printing press, which Johannes Gutenberg developed in the mid-fift

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Source: Kaplan

73

Lawmakers are examining measures that would require banks to

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Parallelism, Source: 1000 Series, Source: GMAT Paper Tests, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 10, Source: Verbal Review 2017, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2015/2ND, Source: Verbal Review 1ST

74

Although the term “psychopath” is popularly applied to an especially

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Pronouns, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Executive Assessment (EA), Source: OG 2015/OG13, Source: OG 12, Source: OG 11, Source: OG 10

75

Having established that the rate of poverty, a major factor in the..

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Subject Verb Agreement, Source: CrackVerbal

76

An African scribe and mathematician, the first computation of pi was m

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Modifiers, Source: Kaplan

77

As contrasted with the honeybee, the yellow jacket can sting repeatedl

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Comparisons, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2017, Source: OG 2016, Source: OG 2015/OG13, Source: OG 12, Source: OG 11

78

Strawberries, unlike picking bananas that are green and can

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Clauses, Comparisons, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Source: GMAT Prep

79

Hoping to alleviate some of the financial burdens of a growing populat

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Modifiers, Source: Manhattan GMAT

80

The eighteenth-century Italian soprano Francesca Cuzzoni was known for

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Parallelism, Source: Manhattan GMAT

81

Hundreds of species of fish generate and discharge electric currents

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Parallelism, Source: Verbal Review 2022, Source: Verbal Review 2021, Source: Verbal Review 2020, Source: Verbal Review 2019, Source: Verbal Review 2018, Source: Verbal Review 2017, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2015/2ND

82

Iguanas have been an important food source in Latin America since

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Pronouns, Use of Being, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 10, Source: Verbal Review 2017, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2015/2ND, Source: Verbal Review 1ST

83

Even though sub-Saharan Africa often evokes images of

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Clauses, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Source: GMAT Prep

84

According to a ruling by the state supreme court, the owner of pollute

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Modifiers, Verb Tense/Form, Source: GMAT Paper Tests

85

The technical term “pagination” is a process that leaves editors, inst

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 11

86

When Congress reconvenes, some newly elected members from rural states

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Parallelism, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2016, Source: OG 2015/OG13, Source: OG 12, Source: OG 11

87

Ancient volcanoes, whose lava flows cover nearly 200,000 square miles

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Verb Tense/Form, Source: Veritas Prep

88

Disappointed by his students' refusal to complete the assigned reading

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Modifiers, Source: Kaplan

89

Researchers now regard interferon as not a single

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Meaning/Logical Predication, Modifiers, Parallelism, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2022, Source: OG 2021, Source: OG 2020, Source: OG 2019, Source: OG 2018

90

A prolific architect who worked from the turn of the century until the

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Modifiers, Source: 1000 Series, Source: GMAT Paper Tests

91

During the first one hundred fifty years of the existence of this

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Punctuation, Source: 1000 Series, Source: OG 1990, Source: Official Guide (Pre-2000)

92

Used until the end of the Second World War, the German army employed

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Modifiers, Source: Manhattan GMAT

93

The report recommended that the hospital should eliminate

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Parallelism, Subjunctive, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2016, Source: OG 2015/OG13, Source: OG 12, Source: OG 11

94

Native to south america, when peanuts were introduced to Africa by

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Source: Verbal Review 2022, Source: Verbal Review 2021, Source: Verbal Review 2020, Source: Verbal Review 2019, Source: Verbal Review 2018, Source: Verbal Review 2017, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2015/2ND

95

The airline company, following through on recent warnings

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Source: GMAT Prep

96

In a speech before the Senate Banking Committee, the chairman of the F

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Verb Tense/Form, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2022, Source: OG 2021, Source: OG 2020, Source: OG 2019

97

Like Auden, the language of James Merrill is chatty, arch, and convers

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Comparisons, Source: 1000 Series, Source: GMAT Paper Tests, Source: OG 10, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2015/2ND, Source: Verbal Review 1ST

98

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Grammatical/Rhetorical Construction, Source: Official Guide

99

One of the most powerful driving forces behind recycling is the threat

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Idioms/Diction/Redundancy, Pronouns, Source: 1000 Series

100

In contrast to vertically integrated companies that control every step

Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Modifiers, Parallelism, Source: Manhattan GMAT