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100 Hardest and easiest questions for SC as of May 2026

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Even as success rates for surgical intervention increase, the number o

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The recent floods in Pakistan were caused by an incessant

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27 Sep 2010, 10:38

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The UN’s High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) indicates that while the

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generis

11 Dec 2020, 00:57

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19 Nov 2023, 02:33

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In the English-Speaking world Anton Chekhov is by far better

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hfbamafan

18 Jun 2018, 08:45

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18 Nov 2023, 15:17

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Taste buds are onion-shaped structures with between 50 and 100 taste

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02 Nov 2021, 08:27

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18 Nov 2023, 13:12

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HOT Competition 4 Sep/8AM: Editorial boards of modern universities are

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04 Sep 2020, 08:00

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18 Nov 2023, 13:11

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The neutrons residing in the nucleus of an atom have a mass virtually

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03 Sep 2021, 03:30

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18 Nov 2023, 12:43

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A harsh new tobacco law in Australia has encountered massive resistanc

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23 Dec 2020, 00:40

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18 Nov 2023, 12:25

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The previous time it snowed, which was in February, my dad lost

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Suraj0184

25 Oct 2022, 07:15

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18 Nov 2023, 12:08

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The seeming unlimited supply of fresh water and the apparently absent

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20 May 2022, 07:30

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18 Nov 2023, 12:04

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Without fully understanding the problem, it was difficult to

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Nilabh_s

09 Sep 2013, 16:27

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18 Nov 2023, 10:22

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For many revisionist historians, Christopher Columbus has come to

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Dmitriy

31 May 2021, 00:55

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18 Nov 2023, 08:27

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Unlike the way his colleagues wrote, Richard wrote books very

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MartyTargetTestPrep

08 Jan 2017, 01:07

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18 Nov 2023, 08:21

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A team of researchers reported that five endangered birds species had

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inakihernandez

23 Sep 2023, 02:53

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18 Nov 2023, 07:42

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Because the Supreme Court has ruled that the prosecution in a job disc

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09 Aug 2021, 03:15

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18 Nov 2023, 05:20

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Bo Jackson, who is widely believed to be both one of the greatest athl

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09 Mar 2019, 10:13

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Generic drugs with the same effect are available at one third the pric

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chanskr

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18 Nov 2023, 03:16

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Neither the urban planners nor the manager

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18 Apr 2018, 08:54

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Earthquakes can be lethal, cause extensive damage to property, and kil

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02 Jul 2021, 06:00

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17 Nov 2023, 19:36

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During the 1890s, while at the same time a student, Willa Cather

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Rumikido3

27 Oct 2016, 13:29

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17 Nov 2023, 18:18

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The complex tax dispute between the Covered Bridge Mall and Harris Tow

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iced_tea

07 Nov 2018, 03:53

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17 Nov 2023, 12:20

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In the wake of World War I, the terms of the Versailles treaty restric

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Bunuel

15 Oct 2021, 06:30

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17 Nov 2023, 05:14

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As exit polls are used to project the winners of an election, sometime

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11 Jun 2021, 08:00

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Each of Thomas Edison's most well-known inventions

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31 Jul 2018, 02:01

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In her later poems, Phyllis Wheatley's blending of solar imagery, Jude

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sondenso

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Carol Gilligan’s research suggests that by the time they reach early a

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25 Oct 2018, 10:25

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Ms. Chambers is among the forecasters who predict that the

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According to the Census Commissioner of India in 2005, Mumbai became t

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While some historians believe that the Peace Pact of 1928 put an end t

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11 Apr 2021, 02:09

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In addition to relieving stress and building strength,

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Vineetk

19 Nov 2012, 22:50

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16 Nov 2023, 05:14

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

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04 Nov 2018, 23:37

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16 Nov 2023, 05:13

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Lacking an understanding of the earth's massive and complex

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12 May 2012, 13:54

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Unearthed in China, fossils of feathered dinosaurs offer the most dram

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dkverma

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16 Nov 2023, 02:14

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GMAT Verbs: The Perfect Tense

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27 Jul 2012, 13:38

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Darwin was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; his tremend

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Nicknamed the Napoleon of the dinosaur kingdom, N. Hoglundi seemed as

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01 Oct 2023, 11:51

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15 Nov 2023, 19:58

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More than fifty years after the Second World War, a number of African

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Caas

30 Nov 2018, 01:32

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15 Nov 2023, 17:27

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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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He was more annoyed than we were by the boy's behavior.

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13 Nov 2023, 02:25

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15 Nov 2023, 14:35

The presence on the outer surface of a space station of environmental

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17 Mar 2019, 05:14

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15 Nov 2023, 11:19

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Noting that the price of oil and other fuel components, a major factor

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vikrantgulia

19 Nov 2013, 13:08

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15 Nov 2023, 08:03

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There has been a change in how men think of land, a change from thinki

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generis

06 Sep 2020, 00:57

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15 Nov 2023, 07:09

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12 Days of Christmas GMAT Competition - Day 1: Near the end of the Cre

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14 Dec 2020, 07:00

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Tropical bats play important roles in the rain forest ecosystem, aidin

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20 May 2019, 16:40

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15 Nov 2023, 04:41

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Genghis Khan's Mongol empire was, at its peak, considerably larger tha

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chesstitans

12 Jan 2018, 10:47

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14 Nov 2023, 23:37

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GMAT CLUB OLYMPICS: Since civil war erupted a decade ago, more than 5

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Bunuel

24 Aug 2021, 08:00

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14 Nov 2023, 22:20

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The discovery that Earths inner core rotates independently of and more

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raghavs

10 Jul 2021, 09:54

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14 Nov 2023, 17:23

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While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay

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pushpitkc

08 Sep 2017, 22:43

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14 Nov 2023, 16:37

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Galileo was convinced that natural phenomena, as manifestations of the

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Nihit

20 May 2019, 09:49

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14 Nov 2023, 06:27

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Research in developmental psychology has shown that teenagers are far

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Bunuel

23 Jul 2021, 08:30

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