GMAT Reading Comprehension (RC) Forum - Free Practice Questions

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Historically, sociologists have presumed that people will attribute

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Sajjad1994

29 Jul 2025, 12:58

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1,690

by: Sajjad1994

09 Aug 2025, 06:36

Literature from the Midwestern United States is often relegated to

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Carcass

20 May 2025, 09:32

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1,866

by: PSKhore

02 Aug 2025, 03:17

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Jury nullification occurs when the jury acquits the defendant in a cri

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Sajjad1994

23 Feb 2023, 07:00

6

5

6,401

by: VerbalBot

30 Jul 2025, 10:50

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Although some historians trace the origin of British trademark law to

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DerekLin

06 Feb 2024, 16:59

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11,281

by: kabirgandhi

23 Jul 2025, 22:40

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The dosage for any prescribed medicine is the result of compromise.

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guddo

09 Mar 2024, 11:44

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5

6,706

by: Jan17

23 Jul 2025, 02:16

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Technology is sometimes described as "driving" industrial and social

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guddo

10 Mar 2024, 05:10

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5

6,422

by: DrMock

18 Jul 2025, 13:31

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Naturalism, arising in the 19th century as a literary response to Darw

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Sajjad1994

12 May 2023, 07:30

9

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5,945

by: VerbalBot

17 Jul 2025, 10:04

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Outside the medical profession, there are various efforts to cut

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gmatt1476

23 Apr 2026, 08:30

35

5

17,599

by: VerbalBot

14 Jul 2025, 22:14

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Michael Graves' new study of Henry VIII leaves one wondering whether

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globaldesi

18 Nov 2019, 20:38

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5,600

by: PSKhore

13 Jul 2025, 00:24

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Indian firms have achieved the highest levels of efficiency in the

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Sajjad1994

17 Feb 2021, 23:30

12

5

7,585

by: dhruva09

13 Jul 2025, 00:15

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The term teleology refers to the doctrine that things in nature have a

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Sajjad1994

07 Aug 2023, 20:00

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3,338

by: Sajjad1994

30 Jun 2025, 11:17

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In just a few years, drones have transformed from a hobbyist affair to

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Sajjad1994

11 Mar 2022, 07:00

15

5

7,313

by: VerbalBot

25 Jun 2025, 09:42

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While days of the chain gang are long gone, the effects of meaningful

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Carcass

22 Jun 2025, 14:04

6

5

1,532

by: Carcass

24 Jun 2025, 17:09

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Neurodegenerative diseases were once considered disorders of the mind

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Nikhil

03 Sep 2019, 07:22

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10,291

by: VerbalBot

24 Jun 2025, 00:50

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The ill-fated Home Construction Lending Act of 1901 (the HCLA) was

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Carcass

25 Mar 2026, 06:15

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8,548

by: VerbalBot

22 Jun 2025, 07:25

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Lee Bollinger, rejecting traditional models of the defense of free spe

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AgarwalArpit20

23 Nov 2021, 09:05

31

5

10,652

by: JayBKK

21 Jun 2025, 18:42

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How to Read an RC Passage

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GMATPill

13 Aug 2019, 23:17

94

5

25,526

by: VerbalBot

18 Jun 2025, 08:23

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Tone of the passage.

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smartmundu

09 Apr 2020, 06:14

86

5

34,803

by: VerbalBot

15 Jun 2025, 22:48

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A recent study evaluated the prevailing explanation offered by economi

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Shrattitude

16 Oct 2019, 00:10

35

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8,796

by: anushree01

09 Jun 2025, 18:07

The first recorded example of what we would recognize as organized rel

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Carcass

03 Jun 2023, 10:57

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3,140

by: VerbalBot

04 Jun 2025, 11:39

The 1973 Endangered Species Act made into legal policy the concept tha

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suminha

19 Aug 2020, 02:23

8

5

5,301

by: VerbalBot

02 Jun 2025, 05:41

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Many baseball enthusiasts are aware of the story of how Abner Doubleda

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Sajjad1994

13 Jul 2023, 07:30

4

5

3,651

by: licrolicro

28 May 2025, 19:53

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For all their significant differences, these philosophers had one thin

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aashu4uiit

06 Oct 2019, 23:10

7

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10,498

by: VerbalBot

28 May 2025, 16:35

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The average Internet user was exposed to an estimated 950 banner ads

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Manser954

29 Mar 2025, 22:43

11

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3,710

by: Bunuel

25 May 2025, 23:36

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The industrial revolution in nineteenth-century Europe brought about a

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AkshdeepS

10 Dec 2019, 22:54

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15,237

by: Muqeet

21 May 2025, 06:02

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Universalism was most prominently set forward by the linguists Joseph

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Sajjad1994

16 May 2023, 20:00

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3,204

by: Sajjad1994

03 May 2025, 04:16

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At more than 195,000 square miles, Canadas Baffin Island is the fifth

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Sajjad1994

16 Jun 2023, 00:42

4

5

3,634

by: MS61

30 Apr 2025, 06:26

ER -1

Color is, first, a sensory event. Every color experience begins as a

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Sajjad1994

06 Jun 2022, 07:30

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5

5,940

by: Vibhatu

30 Apr 2025, 01:28

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When The Origin of Species appeared fifty years ago, Romantic speculat

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Sajjad1994

01 Jun 2023, 07:30

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5

3,716

by: VerbalBot

28 Apr 2025, 11:39

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There can be nothing simpler than an elementary particle: it is an ind

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daboo343

15 Nov 2020, 09:21

15

5

14,414

by: JOSH1967

22 Apr 2025, 22:01

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Currently, the paramount problem in the field of biomaterials, the sci

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Evo23

31 May 2020, 23:34

13

5

9,456

by: VerbalBot

21 Apr 2025, 05:22

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The molecules of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere affect the h

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nitya34

08 Mar 2021, 00:43

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14,191

by: VerbalBot

06 Apr 2025, 18:12

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Postage stamps have followers in every strand of society all over the

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Sajjad1994

01 Mar 2022, 21:00

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5

5,923

by: italicfire

30 Mar 2025, 15:32

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AzPro Corporation in central New York State recently ran into trouble

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Sajjad1994

20 Jun 2023, 20:00

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5

2,935

by: VerbalBot

21 Mar 2025, 05:52

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Criticisms of the automaticity model of reading acquisition include a

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Sajjad1994

13 Jul 2023, 20:00

3

5

2,603

by: VerbalBot

19 Mar 2025, 13:17

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One of the commonest forms of madness is the desire to be noticed, the

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Gmatsaiyan

05 Nov 2018, 09:44

12

5

6,586

by: VerbalBot

18 Mar 2025, 16:17

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Researchers, educators, and policymakers generally agree that school

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Sajjad1994

16 May 2022, 07:30

13

5

5,699

by: VerbalBot

16 Mar 2025, 18:09

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Nature is crammed with devices to protect and maintain the organism ag

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Sajjad1994

05 May 2022, 21:30

7

5

3,852

by: VerbalBot

12 Mar 2025, 09:34

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The complications frequently accompanying diabetes, such as impairment

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pathy

09 Jun 2020, 10:17

13

5

7,781

by: ajay0520

08 Mar 2025, 01:24

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In 1940, Benjamin Lee Whorf seduced a whole generation into believing

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Sajjad1994

23 Mar 2023, 20:30

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5

6,808

by: anirudh54545

05 Mar 2025, 05:25

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Sajjad1994

28 Mar 2022, 21:30

10

5

7,197

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25 Feb 2025, 23:16

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We know very little about the first true men. We have never seen the

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Sajjad1994

29 Mar 2022, 21:30

7

5

5,148

by: VerbalBot

23 Feb 2025, 20:46

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Since the early 20th century, researchers have sought to understand

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18 Feb 2025, 01:30

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1,878

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19 Feb 2025, 01:00

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The ancient cliff dwellings of the ancient Puebloans in the

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Bunuel

05 Feb 2025, 01:30

10

5

1,931

by: ManifestDreamMBA

06 Feb 2025, 10:30

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The practice of terrace farming, often associated with ancient

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Bunuel

27 Jan 2025, 01:30

8

5

3,597

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28 Jan 2025, 02:00

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Evolutionary psychology has taught us to examine human behavior from

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Sajjad1994

22 Aug 2022, 07:30

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8,127

by: VerbalBot

11 Jan 2025, 09:52

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Considerable debate exists in the self-perception literature over the

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Sajjad1994

14 Jan 2022, 06:30

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5

5,395

by: VerbalBot

08 Jan 2025, 20:47

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The domestic economy expanded in a remarkably vigorous and steady fash

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Sajjad1994

07 Mar 2022, 07:00

7

5

4,509

by: VerbalBot

14 Dec 2024, 01:41

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Global strategies to control infectious disease have historically incl

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Sajjad1994

03 Oct 2019, 01:20

11

5

8,477

by: VerbalBot

01 Dec 2024, 09:00

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Although Leiden was not a large commercial center, the first used-book

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guddo

08 Mar 2024, 12:08

27

5

7,871

by: Arjun123321

30 Nov 2024, 03:48