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100 Hardest and easiest questions for SC as of March 2026

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However much governments around the world may agree that nuclear proli

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16 Nov 2018, 02:19

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07 Aug 2023, 16:55

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With total sales of less than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer

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12 Dec 2018, 05:23

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Since savings banks have to use short-term deposits to finance long-te

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Many writers of modern English have acquired careless habits that dama

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spriya

09 Aug 2008, 00:10

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12 Jan 2024, 05:00

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For the last five years the Dutch economy has grown faster than Britai

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marine

26 Nov 2017, 05:30

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by: jugaljjain

22 Jan 2024, 03:04

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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Finland

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egmat

12 Jul 2018, 21:47

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16 Aug 2022, 00:36

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In 1994 the white house named Dr Ruth R. Faden chairperson of the

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windy_city

29 Jun 2018, 00:49

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09 Mar 2023, 01:08

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The beautiful cello solo at the end of the symphony may have

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yvonne0923

10 Nov 2018, 04:40

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by: Arindamad

16 Mar 2023, 18:37

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Although partially destroyed, the archaeologists were able to infer

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monir6000

22 Apr 2012, 02:59

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28 Mar 2023, 08:00

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In the "dead-ball" era of 1900-1919, Major League Baseball hitters in

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Harley1980

06 Aug 2015, 11:32

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02 Apr 2023, 21:38

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Although Belize borders Guatemala and Mexico, countries in which torti

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WillGetIt

25 Oct 2015, 07:13

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29 Apr 2023, 23:38

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Though it is now universally accepted that William Shakespeare was a

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samark

24 Mar 2019, 03:17

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25 Aug 2023, 20:53

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In the last few decades, physicists have identified the existence of

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Marcab

22 Oct 2012, 03:47

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17 Nov 2025, 13:05

Since hydrogen has very little mass, no hydrogen was retained in the

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gmatter0913

19 Aug 2013, 08:02

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04 Dec 2022, 21:39

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During gladiator matches, the unfair match-up between a prisoner with

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Kevalkhanna

03 Jul 2021, 02:05

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by: ExpertsGlobal5

24 Apr 2023, 22:59

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Bankers require that the financial information presented to them by mo

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ugimba

03 Dec 2019, 04:43

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29 Apr 2023, 20:41

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Geologists believe that the Bering land bridge, over which human being

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qhoc0010

06 Dec 2019, 20:52

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27 May 2023, 05:48

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Though Homo habilis made blunt cutting tools, Neanderthals fashioned

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Bunuel

29 May 2018, 22:25

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20 Sep 2023, 09:59

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Insufficiently trained for combat, the soldier was grievously injured

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daboo343

22 Feb 2017, 01:18

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21 Aug 2025, 02:02

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Sentence Correction Revision: Pronoun

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souvik101990

26 Feb 2015, 23:22

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29 Aug 2025, 14:32

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

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dipaksingh

10 Jan 2019, 06:00

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01 Apr 2026, 11:16

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A recent study has cited overcomplexity, increasing worker mobility be

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nishtil

19 Oct 2011, 00:23

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16 Dec 2022, 06:49

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Researchers have announced that the magnetic fields emitted by one

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mymba99

13 May 2008, 07:22

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22 Apr 2023, 01:44

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All-terrain vehicles have allowed vacationers to reach many previously

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nitya34

02 Jun 2018, 04:32

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04 May 2023, 06:39

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Upon their first encountering leaf-cutting ants in South America the

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generis

20 Apr 2020, 22:47

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16 Jun 2023, 07:51

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As envisioned by researchers, commercial farming of lobsters will enab

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leeye84

07 Nov 2018, 03:48

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13 Jul 2023, 04:41

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Africa’s population of elephants declined by nearly a third from 2007

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BillyZ

11 Sep 2021, 05:12

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14 Jul 2023, 16:50

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Rome’s great intellectual achievements laid in organizing th

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31 Jul 2014, 17:27

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21 Jul 2023, 07:57

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In an interview last month, the rebels estimated that a few

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sathyadev09

08 May 2014, 14:32

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02 Aug 2023, 07:52

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The reams of studies and drafts documented by Gustave Eiffel

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amostofi1999

22 Nov 2013, 15:52

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03 Aug 2023, 10:01

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If Charles had spent half as much time attending his classes as he did

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Bunuel

17 May 2019, 01:51

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10 Aug 2023, 15:23

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Opened in 1683, the Ashmolean was the first public museum in Great Bri

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Bunuel

16 May 2019, 23:27

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19 Sep 2023, 10:21

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Since 1990 the global economy has grown more than it did

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LM

21 Jun 2021, 07:30

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19 Oct 2023, 07:22

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The metabolic rate of sharks is low compared with the rates of most ot

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spriya

05 Feb 2019, 00:27

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21 Feb 2024, 10:11

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Intar, the oldest Hispanic theater company in New York, has moved away

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vineetgupta

18 Dec 2018, 01:51

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13 Aug 2024, 07:48

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Some of the most important long term or structural causes of the First

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daagh

22 Mar 2014, 02:09

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26 Dec 2022, 00:45

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According to scientists, people are genetically more similar to their

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Bunuel

01 Jul 2019, 08:00

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18 Jan 2023, 23:11

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During and immediately after the California gold rush, the

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christoph

23 Oct 2005, 12:20

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19 Jan 2023, 11:29

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Like other performance indicators, the growth rate of

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yangsta8

26 Jul 2017, 03:25

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14 Feb 2023, 20:53

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The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft will orbit the as

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ritjn2003

04 Jul 2020, 20:48

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Organized in 1966 by the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Breeding Bird

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pierrealexandre77

13 Dec 2018, 03:11

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19 Apr 2023, 22:43

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A revolution has taken place in medical science as a result

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Gears46

11 Dec 2004, 15:57

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30 Apr 2023, 05:37

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An international team of astronomers working at telescopes in the Cana

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LM

23 Jun 2007, 02:13

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17 Jun 2023, 03:46

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By Friday evening the proposal had been signed by

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generis

24 Jun 2019, 23:12

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13 Oct 2023, 10:07

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GMAT Verbs: The Perfect Tense

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margarette

27 Jul 2012, 13:38

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16 Nov 2023, 02:00

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Several Pentagon contractor firms are working on a new class of ventil

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tk1tez7777

04 Nov 2018, 23:37

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16 Nov 2023, 05:13

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The Commerce Department announced that the economy grew during the

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kman

04 Nov 2019, 04:53

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19 Jun 2025, 02:24

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MODIFIER Set (700-800) Although covered in about 11 inches

souvik101990

02 Dec 2012, 07:00

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30 Sep 2018, 00:46

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The physicist Richard Feynman presented a comprehensive introduction

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karlfurt

24 Jul 2019, 23:32

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08 Feb 2023, 04:21

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The fact that “dark matter” accounts for over 95 percent of the matter

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shobhitkh

06 Aug 2019, 10:15

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