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100 Hardest and easiest questions for SC as of April 2026

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Work that is not finished is not work at all, it is merely a botch, a

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Bunuel

01 Oct 2020, 10:04

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01 Oct 2020, 23:16

A diet of sea foods, that contains in proportion ten times the iron,

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Abhi077

30 Sep 2020, 10:14

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30 Sep 2020, 12:52

The World Health Organisation has warned that international travellers

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30 Sep 2020, 10:28

During the 1930's, Ellis Island served as ...

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22 Oct 2013, 14:22

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29 Sep 2020, 21:52

The information presented in the most recent reports indicate that tur

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gmatgames

28 Sep 2020, 23:24

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29 Sep 2020, 13:09

Children presenting the dance, many of them who are mentally challenge

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Abhi077

29 Sep 2020, 11:19

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29 Sep 2020, 11:41

Although his approval rating is at an all-time low, the candidate's

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30 Apr 2018, 08:36

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29 Sep 2020, 09:10

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The recent discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb by Egyptologists has provid

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05 Sep 2017, 09:02

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28 Sep 2020, 08:27

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Do you know that these gloves have lay on the bureau all week? have la

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05 Aug 2019, 22:08

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28 Sep 2020, 08:17

Often affecting visibility, and therefore a potential danger to

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28 Sep 2020, 01:19

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28 Sep 2020, 07:02

The asset bust and unwinding of debt that lies behind the recession me

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26 Sep 2020, 21:29

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26 Sep 2020, 22:47

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The ancient Greek states boasted that within their domains word and sp

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26 Sep 2020, 06:11

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For homes in typically colder geographic regions, it is particularly i

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24 Mar 2019, 06:31

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26 Sep 2020, 01:12

Ignorance is not equal to stupidity, since you can often

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04 Jan 2018, 03:21

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22 Sep 2020, 08:34

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Everyone on both sides except the pitcher and me was injured in that g

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31 Oct 2019, 22:25

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22 Sep 2020, 02:58

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To judge the Tidy City contest, we picked an uninterested party.

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21 Sep 2020, 10:11

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22 Sep 2020, 00:27

The graduate students were eager to see the presentation by the

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21 Sep 2020, 00:59

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21 Sep 2020, 12:00

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The Maya are the indigenous people of southern mexico and parts of

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15 Sep 2020, 23:26

Experimenters have discovered that salamanders are many more times mor

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28 May 2015, 09:25

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Producers, entertainers and creatives who began in the theater and hav

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12 Sep 2020, 10:40

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During the tenure of Steve Jobs, which was known for his dictatorial

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02 Nov 2018, 03:24

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12 Sep 2020, 06:50

Delighted with the productivity increase for the last

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21 Oct 2012, 08:19

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12 Sep 2020, 04:19

The new chairs and sofabeds

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11 Jan 2017, 05:57

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11 Sep 2020, 10:10

Preliminary analysis of information collected by a NASA

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getgyan

05 Oct 2012, 04:04

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11 Sep 2020, 10:02

According to Greek mythology, Eris, the goddess of strife,

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08 Sep 2020, 06:29

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Inflation is rising rapidly within Britain as a result of

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22 Dec 2018, 04:53

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08 Sep 2020, 12:43

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During the 1920s, the U.S. stock market had undergone rapid expansi

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08 Sep 2020, 11:45

Although the decline in home prices

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Sedentary activity is less effective at burning energy than

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19 Aug 2014, 20:18

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06 Sep 2020, 22:02

Since Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun and is

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Attempts to maintain the current level of funding for museums

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05 Aug 2017, 04:36

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06 Sep 2020, 02:36

Vietnamese researchers have recently conducted the first com

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26 Aug 2013, 06:48

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06 Sep 2020, 01:15

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In contrast to Freud, many psychologists now think that “slips of the

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Bunuel

11 Jul 2018, 00:40

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05 Sep 2020, 12:46

Although Eden park is more better known than Jolly park, the

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Carcass

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05 Sep 2020, 10:09

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Engineering teams monitor over a hundred former nuclear test sites for

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02 Sep 2020, 05:11

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Freshmen college students are typically surprised to discover that

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Even though their structure and alphabet are not similar to those of

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The need of third-world countries for trained workers are partially me

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31 Aug 2020, 02:02

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02 Sep 2020, 00:20

Glacial lakes have grown rapidly around the world in recent decades,

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31 Aug 2020, 15:11

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To indicate the fact that they are in opposition to a bill, legislator

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31 Aug 2020, 02:10

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31 Aug 2020, 12:13

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Entering professional tennis as a talented but shy and awkward teenage

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04 Dec 2019, 09:49

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31 Aug 2020, 02:48

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Most people know what an eclipse is and have heard the terms “solar

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31 Aug 2020, 02:41

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Many of India’s museums, libraries, and its other cultural institution

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31 Aug 2020, 02:03

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31 Aug 2020, 02:22

Unlike her sister Heather, who would always put spiders safely outsid

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23 Dec 2018, 03:08

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29 Aug 2020, 04:40

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In this particular job we have discovered that to be

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27 Mar 2013, 07:06

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29 Aug 2020, 04:23

Mary Katherine Goddard was the first American printer

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17 Sep 2013, 00:36

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29 Aug 2020, 03:44

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Jenny’s dream was to become the first female mayor of her home city

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23 Dec 2018, 03:07

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27 Aug 2020, 06:53

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Due to racial discrimination, some of the most gifted and influential

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23 Aug 2020, 03:01

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24 Aug 2020, 20:13

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The fact that the tie between the Manchus and the Chinese was cultural

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23 Aug 2020, 02:42

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24 Aug 2020, 17:05

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