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100 Hardest and easiest questions for SC as of March 2026

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Sentence Correction Question Directory Topic and Difficulty

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05 Sep 2023, 21:02

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Less than 35 years after the release of African honeybees outside Sao

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Dressed as a man and using the name Robert Shurtleff, Deborah Sampson,

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KC

09 Aug 2021, 02:30

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10 Aug 2023, 15:46

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Most of the country’s biggest daily newspapers had lower circulation

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01 Jun 2021, 13:12

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A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors

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redferrocene

01 Oct 2021, 02:27

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by: VerbalBot

15 Oct 2025, 06:11

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Unlike most severance packages, which require workers to stay until th

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sondenso

05 Jul 2021, 14:40

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09 Nov 2025, 08:01

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Since February, the Federal Reserve has raised its short-term interest

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neeshpal

16 Jun 2021, 04:19

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by: GMATNinja

03 Jun 2023, 11:43

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Sunspots, vortices of gas associated with strong electromagnetic

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skim

12 Jun 2021, 12:40

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22 Feb 2026, 01:43

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In Hungary, as in much of Eastern Europe, an overwhelming proportion

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notahug

11 Oct 2021, 00:59

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by: sumitgupta93

30 Dec 2023, 11:54

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Digging in sediments in northern China, evidence has been gathered by

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betterscore

20 Jun 2021, 10:01

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by: VerbalBot

18 Sep 2025, 06:06

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Rock samples taken from the remains of an asteroid about twice the

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TomB

18 May 2022, 02:22

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11 Apr 2026, 07:08

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Researchers hypothesize that granitic soil is the ideal construction

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jzchina

08 May 2006, 12:36

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by: VerbalBot

26 Dec 2024, 02:55

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According to scientists who monitored its path, an expanding cloud

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20 Jun 2022, 01:32

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by: TargetMBA007

26 Jul 2023, 21:27

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Found only in the Western Hemisphere and surviving through extremes of

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amatya

09 Jul 2021, 08:04

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by: shloka23

19 Aug 2023, 12:54

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When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950

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ricokevin

15 May 2019, 23:02

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by: VerbalBot

04 Nov 2025, 01:37

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She was less successful after she had emigrated to New York compared t

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bigfernhead

11 Jun 2021, 01:06

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20 Dec 2023, 01:51

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In 1981 children in the United States spent an average of slightly les

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humtum0

29 Jun 2021, 07:50

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by: Raman109

15 Nov 2023, 16:25

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Lacking information about energy use, people tend to overestimate the

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vaivish1723

11 Sep 2021, 03:46

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Scientists have recently found evidence that black holes—regions of sp

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amatya

01 Jun 2021, 14:13

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by: GMATNinja

19 Jun 2023, 14:30

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Like the grassy fields and old pastures that the upland sandpiper need

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marine

21 Feb 2021, 04:44

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by: GMATNinja

28 Aug 2023, 15:16

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According to scholars, the earliest writing was probably not a direct

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cool_jonny009

26 Aug 2021, 00:02

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by: TheUltimateWinner

02 Nov 2023, 11:58

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A new study suggests that the conversational pace of everyday life may

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ritjn2003

14 Jun 2021, 10:11

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18 Aug 2023, 10:55

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As the former chair of the planning board for 18 consecutive years and

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neeshpal

22 Aug 2019, 07:21

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Salt deposits and moisture threaten to destroy the Mohenjo-Daro excava

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go2venkat

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The nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the

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sacmanitin

06 Mar 2022, 03:24

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27 Nov 2023, 22:06

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To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable

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jimmyjamesdonkey

07 Jun 2021, 06:41

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01 Jul 2023, 12:40

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Although the restaurant company has recently added many new restaurant

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mendelay

29 Jul 2021, 00:56

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19 Nov 2024, 08:01

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With no natural predators and expenses of green suburban neighborhoods

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dreamgmat1

08 Jun 2021, 09:10

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by: Raman109

07 Dec 2023, 07:47

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In 1979 lack of rain reduced India's rice production to about 41 milli

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betterscore

04 Aug 2021, 02:17

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22 Feb 2026, 01:37

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The ability of scientists to provide models of the atmosphere’s comple

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Nihit

10 Aug 2021, 00:12

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26 May 2025, 06:31

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While most of the earliest known ball courts in Mesoamerica date to 90

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AbdurRakib

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Making things even more difficult has been general market inactivity

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AbdurRakib

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List of Idioms for GMAT

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Roc-a-fella

16 May 2010, 22:58

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The greatest road system built in the Americas prior to the arrival of

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scorpio7

07 Jul 2022, 14:07

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Prices at the producer level are only 1.3 percent higher now than a

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Arlene0504

21 Jul 2021, 07:38

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02 Jul 2023, 12:54

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Based on records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women

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10 Oct 2022, 04:31

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Unlike mainstream American businesses, more than half of which fail

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ritjn2003

09 Aug 2021, 23:53

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In 1995 Richard Stallman, a well-known critic of the patent system, te

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sandalphon

22 Oct 2021, 01:41

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It is well known in the supermarket industry that how items are placed

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grad_mba

25 Jul 2021, 11:02

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In a review of 2000 studies of human behavior that date back

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macjas

25 Jan 2019, 04:49

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22 Feb 2026, 01:33

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Most of the purported health benefits of tea comes from antioxidants

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raghavs

07 Oct 2023, 05:56

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by: GMATCoachBen

23 Jan 2024, 14:07

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The most widely known images of Yosemite National Park are those made

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Dmitriy

27 Jul 2021, 06:28

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29 Mar 2025, 09:08

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By 1999, astronomers had discovered 17 nearby stars that are orbited

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JarvisR

27 Jun 2021, 23:39

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by: GMATNinja

10 Sep 2023, 07:44

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In the early part of the twentieth century, many vacationers found tha

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seofah

16 Jul 2021, 00:50

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15 Apr 2026, 22:18

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A huge flying reptile that died out with the dinosaurs some 65 million

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monarc

28 Jun 2021, 11:25

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04 Nov 2025, 23:22

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Five hundred million different species of living creatures have appear

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nocilis

26 Jun 2021, 04:37

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by: TheUltimateWinner

24 Sep 2023, 02:41

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Recent interdisciplinary studies advance the argument that emotions

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AbdurRakib

06 Jun 2021, 05:23

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05 Jan 2024, 09:06

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Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the apes and so

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reply2spg

20 Jun 2021, 14:27

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06 Oct 2025, 07:06

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Hurricanes at first begin traveling from east to west, because that di

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LithiumIon

10 Jul 2021, 04:34

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by: MartyMurray

29 Sep 2023, 06:04

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Although the first pulsar, or rapidly spinning collapsed star, to be

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bakfed

19 Dec 2021, 04:47

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by: TheUltimateWinner

01 Nov 2023, 17:00

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November is traditionally the strongest month for sales of light truck

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JarvisR

09 Jun 2021, 04:05

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by: KK14

19 Jun 2023, 08:53

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