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100 Hardest and easiest questions for SC as of April 2026

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Sentence Correction Question Directory Topic and Difficulty

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The analyst suggested that traders pay more attention to a broader mea

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qhoc0010

07 Jan 2005, 17:18

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26 Dec 2024, 02:48

SC - 50 One-liner Questions + Explanations

umg

28 May 2017, 07:05

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27 Oct 2022, 00:38

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Strawberries, unlike picking bananas that are green and can

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monirjewel

11 Nov 2013, 22:49

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Not only did Christopher Columbus refuse to accept the conventional wi

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PTK

08 Aug 2010, 12:16

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21 Jun 2023, 01:10

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The misnomer that sibling rivalry is a thing of the 'past' history- wh

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sajini

06 Mar 2019, 00:05

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11 Nov 2025, 15:51

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Believed to originate from a small area on their foreheads, elephants

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smritisingh8

08 Nov 2019, 00:03

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08 Feb 2024, 23:42

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SUBJUNCTIVE VERBS AND INFINITIVE VERB FORMS

manyu2409

23 May 2014, 11:11

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25 Jun 2023, 07:25

The rise in the price of crabmeat and an increase in demand

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sagarsabnis

23 Nov 2018, 06:29

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11 Jul 2022, 05:30

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Genetic research suggests that after cheetah ancestors had migrated fr

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BillyZ

01 Aug 2021, 04:53

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A scarcity of salt can threaten the very life of a community, a fact

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eybrj2

12 Feb 2012, 01:30

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Centuries ago, biologists undertook the challenge of defining the term

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execnitinsharma

21 Aug 2014, 09:15

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12 Mar 2023, 09:08

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Just as the free computer operating system Linux has of late

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fozzzy

03 Jul 2013, 01:06

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22 Jun 2023, 20:02

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Advertising that one of its many attractions has been the

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bschool83

19 Nov 2019, 07:18

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06 Oct 2023, 08:35

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At issue in the proceeding is whether the gaming firm can verify that

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iikarthik

22 Nov 2015, 14:28

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06 Jan 2023, 05:06

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The United States has the largest trade deficit of any country on Eart

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mikemcgarry

23 Jun 2021, 08:33

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09 Sep 2023, 15:38

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Salsa Dancers warm up before every performance by doing a series of wa

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perfectstranger

26 Feb 2019, 00:37

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19 Sep 2023, 22:52

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Although the sting of Egyptian Scorpions are rarely dangerous, they

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suyashjhawar

03 Sep 2010, 11:29

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28 Apr 2023, 14:07

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To many citizens of Napoleonic-era France, before Haiti was

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raviraj120

25 Oct 2014, 02:48

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05 Dec 2023, 14:00

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The brain is something of a stimulus reduction system, a means to redu

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trulyblessed

16 May 2019, 07:50

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In an effort to increase profits, the company moved itself from emphas

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VeritasPrepRon

04 Jan 2018, 00:18

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02 Aug 2023, 16:23

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By analyzing the advanced olfactory apparatus of Pleistocene chordates

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sagarsabnis

01 Oct 2018, 00:54

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According to a ruling by the state supreme court, the owner of pollute

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Bunuel

19 Dec 2018, 06:22

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24 Dec 2023, 14:05

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Cosimo de’ Medici, a great patron of the arts, sponsoring two of Dona

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mikemcgarry

02 Feb 2015, 17:55

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During the 1980s it became clear that soliciting private funds was far

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TIANMU

16 Aug 2004, 22:00

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The constellation that includes the North Star has been know

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gmattokyo

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Congress has enacted legislation forbidding state and local government

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solarzj

04 Oct 2018, 08:36

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If medical researchers are correct, then the human microbiome, made up

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Harley1980

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By law, a qualified physician can only prescribe medicine, protecting

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nightwing79

12 Dec 2019, 04:40

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Complex human traits such as artistic talent or social skill are likel

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Millions of people in the United States are affected by eating disorde

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09 Aug 2023, 01:46

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Despite an expensive publicity campaign, ticket sales for the new play

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aaron22197

21 Oct 2017, 08:38

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13 Dec 2022, 12:33

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Listing the XY idioms. "Consider XY"

zuberahmed

19 Jul 2011, 06:59

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03 Jun 2023, 11:53

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The federal government requires hospitals to tell a Medicare patient

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nightwing79

28 Sep 2019, 19:23

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31 Aug 2023, 14:49

Many investors base their choice between bonds and stocks on comparing

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WinWinMBA

06 Jan 2019, 03:51

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09 Nov 2023, 10:19

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Despite some initial lack of enthusiasm the work of William Faulkner

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generis

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The black hole has entered the popular imagination as an

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ankitmania

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New, strong varieties of antibiotics show the potential to

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bsahil

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03 Jun 2023, 01:33

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According to many military historians, Germany’s conquest of the mount

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souvik101990

16 Oct 2018, 03:59

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Seeking to spur science education, elementary and secondary

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Riuscita

16 Mar 2018, 07:48

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15 Mar 2023, 21:49

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Italian fashion house Prada, which has been among the most

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gmatter0913

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24 Oct 2023, 06:39

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As it becomes more frequent to have spouses who both work outside the

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Skewed

11 Jan 2019, 04:21

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Unsolicited electronic junk mail, also termed spam, has hurt companies

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souvik101990

26 Mar 2020, 06:44

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On the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa, water remains frozen, but the

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honchos

10 Sep 2014, 15:48

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The higher productivity rate of some Japanese companies relative to

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eybrj2

23 May 2018, 21:32

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Child care already a solid part of the employee benefits package at

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tenaman10

24 Oct 2019, 05:19

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19 Jul 2023, 09:26

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Inaugurating the Romantic movement with its publication in 1798, the a

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Harley1980

11 Sep 2021, 05:49

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A shy, religious-minded publisher who had married a dukes daughter

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Bunuel

20 Dec 2018, 03:31

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09 Dec 2023, 07:25

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Although many Whites, noting the presence of some Blacks in the middle

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Bunuel

13 Dec 2018, 21:48

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Studies of the human sleep-wake cycle have practical relevance for mat

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sudarshan22

15 Jul 2018, 06:48

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29 Apr 2023, 23:00

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More than have any of its competitors, Dynacorp, which will release it

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manugmat123

18 Jun 2019, 01:41

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08 Feb 2023, 17:35

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