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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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New, strong varieties of antibiotics show the potential to

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30 Nov 2013, 08:59

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03 Jun 2023, 01:33

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By a vote of 9 to 0, the Supreme Court awarded the Central Intelligenc

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WinWinMBA

30 Jul 2019, 23:42

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13 Jul 2023, 09:34

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Federal incentives now encourage investing capital in commercial offic

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09 Jul 2021, 00:25

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20 Jul 2023, 11:31

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Out of public's interest in the details of and conflicts

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vashistvikas

16 Feb 2012, 05:59

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24 Jul 2023, 07:21

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Virginia Woolf was keenly aware that she had not enjoyed the advantage

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CAMANISHPARMAR

13 Mar 2019, 13:10

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04 Aug 2023, 00:58

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The CEO of Laminar Flow gave his R & D team a new $300 million dollar

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mikemcgarry

18 Mar 2014, 10:55

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The Parthenon is larger than usual for a Doric temple, with eight colu

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tonebeeze

18 Aug 2019, 02:16

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by: Raman109

01 Sep 2023, 04:35

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The Russian government, in response to the actions of an

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Skientist

12 Nov 2012, 02:50

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22 Sep 2023, 08:12

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bb

17 Sep 2012, 10:00

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27 Sep 2023, 03:57

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St. John's, Newfoundland, lies on the same latitude as Paris, France,

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07 Feb 2018, 23:08

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13 Oct 2023, 07:20

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John was one of the few people to get his hands on an advance ticket

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03 Nov 2023, 13:32

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Both the caribou and the reindeer belong to the species Rangifer taran

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mikeCoolBoy

26 Nov 2009, 03:43

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20 Dec 2023, 10:17

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12 Days of Christmas GMAT Competition - Day 9: The Fifth Council of

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Bunuel

21 Dec 2023, 07:00

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22 Dec 2023, 06:59

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12 Days of Christmas GMAT Competition - Day 10: A substance derived

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Bunuel

22 Dec 2023, 07:00

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by: rd1009

23 Dec 2023, 06:52

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The United Parcel Service plans to convert its more than 2,000 gasolin

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Bunuel

29 May 2022, 06:40

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27 Dec 2023, 14:44

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The original building and loan associations were organized as limited

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noboru

03 May 2022, 01:28

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06 Jan 2024, 00:31

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An archaeological excavation at what might have been a workshop where

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BillyZ

11 Oct 2022, 06:01

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20 Jan 2024, 10:03

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The energy source on Voyager 2 is not a nuclear reactor, in which atom

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bmwhype2

04 Feb 2019, 03:15

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21 Jan 2024, 01:39

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Some scientists have been critical of the laboratory tests conducted b

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laxieqv

05 Oct 2005, 22:07

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03 Mar 2024, 13:07

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Turtles, like other reptiles, can endure long fasts, in their ability

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AbdurRakib

15 May 2022, 04:14

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30 Jun 2024, 21:20

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The results of two recent unrelated studies support the idea

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vivek123

26 Dec 2005, 10:13

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08 Sep 2024, 15:05

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When viewed from the window of a speeding train, the speed with which

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Bunuel

25 Jun 2021, 01:28

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01 Nov 2024, 11:13

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With only 5 percent of the world's population, United States citizens

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bigoyal

12 Dec 2019, 05:28

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Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil int

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abiswas

09 Jan 2019, 04:57

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Many online retailers charge “restocking fees” on returns if the

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vatsas

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Found throughout Central and South America, sloths hang from trees by

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noboru

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22 May 2025, 07:31

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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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Although films about the American West depict coyotes as solitary

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24 Jan 2023, 09:16

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23 Jul 2025, 11:26

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Through experimenting designed to provide information that will ultima

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Bunuel

19 Jun 2021, 04:07

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09 Oct 2025, 02:32

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In the six-month period that ended on September 30, the average num

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generis

09 Aug 2021, 02:32

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24 Nov 2025, 23:43

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Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the

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lgon

06 Jun 2021, 10:34

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01 Apr 2026, 22:14

In addition to having a greater number of students than

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sudeep

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14 Oct 2019, 04:45

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Rising commercial real estate rates, a gauge that brokers

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guygmat

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While recognizing that lying often facilitates social ineractions, psy

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29 Sep 2012, 21:41

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It may someday be feasible to try to retrieve organisms from tiny unde

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daagh

24 Jul 2018, 04:21

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by: VerbalBot

10 Sep 2022, 04:42

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

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ykaiim

01 May 2019, 03:09

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12 Days of Christmas GMAT Competition - Day 7: The short lived Corsica

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Bunuel

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12 Days of Christmas GMAT Competition - Day 10: In evaluating the

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Bunuel

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24 Dec 2022, 05:44

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Efforts to equalize the funds available to school districts, a major

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nakib77

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15 Mar 2023, 09:44

Montana’s wolf population in 2013 numbered about 1000, four times time

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Bunuel

06 Apr 2020, 12:41

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25 Mar 2023, 21:20

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Obtaining an investment-grade rating will keep the county's

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humtum0

29 Jul 2013, 14:03

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01 Apr 2023, 05:13

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Unlike the other major planets, Pluto has a highly eccentric

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tarun

07 Dec 2017, 23:18

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24 Apr 2023, 04:43

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No one but him could have told them that the thief was I

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summer101

19 Dec 2018, 23:24

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10 May 2023, 00:58

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Indoor air pollution can threaten the health of closely confined farm

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Bunuel

30 May 2019, 07:31

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13 May 2023, 23:34

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The stomach and intestines of the pot-bellied pig adapts to new foods

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Bunuel

20 Jun 2021, 15:30

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19 May 2023, 11:26

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Until Berta and Ernst Scharrer established the concept of neurosecreti

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tarek99

14 May 2019, 01:44

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17 Jun 2023, 04:21

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In recent years, troubled airlines have exchanged their aging, ineffic

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DYNAMITE

28 Dec 2020, 02:40

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21 Jun 2023, 06:52

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When adjusted for body weight, children of various age groups in the

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BillyZ

21 Sep 2019, 04:46

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29 Jun 2023, 07:53

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Until 1868 and Disraeli, Great Britain had no prime ministers not comi

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mono

11 Feb 2022, 09:42

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23 Jul 2023, 22:56

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