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100 Hardest and easiest questions for SC as of March 2026

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The doctrinal dispute resulted in the dismissal of the president of th

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While the stock market was bouncing back from its 2002 low, U.S.

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Published anonymously and first attributed to George Eliot,

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SaraiYaseenGMAT

05 Nov 2018, 15:32

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Neuroscientists, having amassed a wealth of knowledge over the past

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22 Oct 2018, 00:50

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More than twenty-one centuries ago,

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25 Jun 2010, 00:27

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07 Nov 2021, 04:39

In the early twentieth century, an extraordinary painter

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22 Jun 2010, 19:36

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Because Miranda, the smallest moon of Uranus, has a large number of

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ykaiim

24 Jan 2019, 06:06

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The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to three scientists for their

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30 Nov 2018, 03:35

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GMAT Grammar Book: Basic English Sentence Structure

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dzyubam

02 Sep 2010, 00:38

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The boom in agricultural exports in the early 1970’s emptied United St

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21 Jun 2010, 12:35

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With surface temperatures estimated at minus 230 degrees Fahrenheit, J

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Now that so much data travels via light—i.e., is carried in glass fibe

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27 Sep 2018, 21:22

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India, like Italy and China, has no single dominant cuisine: Indian fo

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Besides adding complementary flavors to many foods, hot sauces stim

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12 Apr 2019, 00:57

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During the eighteenth century, widespread changes in agriculture, know

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ykaiim

16 Jun 2010, 06:08

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Roughly one-half of the worlds population, including virtually all of

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16 Jun 2010, 05:58

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In the 1820’s, anthracite coalfields opened in eastern Pennsylvania

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01 May 2019, 03:09

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Archaeologists in Egypt have excavated a 5,000-year-old

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noboru

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After the company recalled one of its best-selling products, it would

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The yield per acre of coffee berries varies enormously in

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Responding to the public’s fascination with―and sometimes undue alarm

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Computational analyses of data is used for the construction

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Studies of test scores show that watching television has a markedly

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arctic

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That/which usage

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Consumption of bread products made from ergot-infected grains often

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In almost every country, free, mobile-to-mobile viewing is

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08 Jun 2010, 01:55

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The reserve bank of India examines macro-economic

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One of Krishna Menon's many dreams for his dear homeland was to conver

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The policy of applying indirect taxes, like value added tax and excise

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Those who study ancient European history soon realize that before Gree

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06 Jan 2019, 03:31

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Though clearing and burning activities are kept in check by most affor

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11 Apr 2019, 23:19

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The typical military coup fails relatively bloodlessly, amassing littl

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21 Nov 2018, 04:33

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Unlike the other major planets, Pluto has a highly eccentric

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The banana that contains high level of potassium and other important

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In an effort improve the quality of patient care, Dr. Lydia Temoscho

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ykaiim

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According to some experts, carbon dioxide is accumulating in

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Released the first Friday of every month and covering the preceding

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Pulsars are generally believed to be fast-spinning neutron

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A substance from the licorice plant, 50 times sweeter than sucrose, wa

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noboru

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Sixty-five million years ago, according to some scientists, an asteroi

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Recent indications of weakness in the economy have lead consumers to

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21 Aug 2019, 05:24

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Medical researchers, who have identified a genetic abnormality in pare

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Because the financial review covered only the last few fiscal years

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Public-access cable television was created in the 1970s as a

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Costly X-rays often not needed, the OT rules were developed to aid in

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19 May 2018, 05:01

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People in the Philippines uses Englog, an informal type of English mer

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11 Apr 2019, 20:53

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Initiated five centuries after Europeans arrived in the New World on

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18 Dec 2018, 01:55

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At the completion of World War II, Japan agreed to abandon its positio

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DAYNE

30 Dec 2019, 12:48

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Scientists have recently received permission to research embryonic ste

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15 May 2010, 04:20

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