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The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time 02 Jun 2021, 07:24
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The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time

Hello Everyone!

We have spent a handsome number of hours creating this thread, we went through all approximately 270+ available GMAT Official RC passages and found these passages the hardest among the available, we have compiled a table thinking it could be helpful for the aspirants trying to be high achievers. If you think you can deal with RC passages easily then be prepared and challenge yourself to ace these RC passages.

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1The impressionist painters expressly disavowed anyGMAC Paper Test
2Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal ideaGMAC Paper Test
3When A. Philip Randolph assumed the leadershipGMAC Paper Test
4Behind every book review there are two keyGMAT Advanced
5Despite their many differences of temperamentGMAT Advanced
6Recent feminist scholarship concerning the UnitedGMAT Advanced
7Since the early 1970’s, historians have begun toGMAT Prep
8The ultimate pendulum clock, indeed the ultimateGMAT Prep
9In a 1984 book, Claire C. Robertson arguedGMAT Prep
10Correspondences were a method of thought andGMAT Prep
11The brain contributes to the adaptive successGMAT Prep
12In mid-February 1917 a women’s movementGMAT Prep
13Over the last 150 years, large stretches ofGMAT Prep
14Although the industrial union organizations thatGMAT Prep
15Dendrochronology, the study of tree-ring recordsGMAT Prep
16Historians sometimes forget that history is continuallyOfficial Guide
17In Winters v. United States (1908), the Supreme CourtOfficial Guide
18Jacob Burckhardt’s view that Renaissance EuropeanOfficial Guide
19Nearly a century ago, biologists found that if theyOfficial Guide
20Because the framers of the United States ConstitutionOfficial Guide
21When asteroids collide, some collisions causeOfficial Guide
22It is an odd but indisputable fact that theOfficial Guide
23Conodonts, the spiky phosphatic remainsOfficial Guide
24Most attempts by physicists to send particlesOfficial Guide
25Antonia Castañeda has utilized scholarship fromOfficial Guide
26Micro-wear patterns found on the teeth ofOfficial Guide
27In current historiography, the picture of aOfficial Guide
28A review of the treatment of female charactersOfficial Guide
29Barbara Strozzi was a singer and composer ofOfficial Guide
30The antigen-antibody immunological reactionOfficial Guide
31Labeling Zora Neale Hurston "a writer of theOfficial Guide
32Photography in Europe was largely guided byGMAT Prep
33As the economic role of multinational, globalGMAT Prep
34Changes in the volume of unemployment areOfficial Guide
35The discoveries of the white dwarf, the neutron starOfficial Guide
36In strongly territorial birds such as the indigo buntingOfficial Guide
37Australian researchers have discovered electroreceptorsOfficial Guide
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Sajjad1994 this is awesome. Quick silly question though, the GMAC paper tests are different than the 6 GMAT prep tests right?
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Sajjad1994 this is awesome. Quick silly question though, the GMAC paper tests are different than the 6 GMAT prep tests right?
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Yes! they are different, paper tests are older version.
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Hey Sajjad1994, is the 2nd passage (Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal idea) an official passage? Few experts have commented that the passage is from the LSAT. The source tagged is 1000 Series.
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Hey Sajjad1994, is the 2nd passage (Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal idea) an official passage? Few experts have commented that the passage is from the LSAT. The source tagged is 1000 Series.
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Yes this is an official GMAT question from GMAT Paper based test.

PS: There are multiple GMAT official questions from OG that are also a part of RC 1000 series.
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Do any of these questions appear in Official Mocks #3-6 ?
Asking because I plan to attempt the mocks so I don't want to see any familiar questions there.
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Do any of these questions appear in Official Mocks #3-6 ?
Asking because I plan to attempt the mocks so I don't want to see any familiar questions there.
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­I am not sure but I think passages from GMAT Prep can appear in Official mocks.
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