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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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When Mary Webb died at the age of forty-six, literature lost

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My Notes - Absolute Phrases

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14 Oct 2018, 00:45

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23 Dec 2023, 11:00

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Like the thorny ballooning of a frightened pufferfish or the

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fozzzy

08 Aug 2013, 07:52

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10 Sep 2023, 04:52

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If the ice of Greenland and Antarctica were to melt, the sea level wou

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KristinHR

03 May 2018, 00:42

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The United States will be affected by whether Taiwan develops a closer

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LM

10 Jun 2007, 00:20

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Online matrimonial sites are becoming extremely popular in

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daagh

27 Feb 2011, 08:55

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by: RanonBanerjee

05 Jan 2022, 15:07

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Like many famous jazz trumpet players, John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie

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aashu4uiit

13 Sep 2019, 05:43

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05 Sep 2023, 05:50

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Scoliosis, a condition when the spine curves abnormally and throws the

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Bunuel

05 Jan 2019, 11:17

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08 Jun 2024, 15:10

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Lenders and building managers in the southwestern section of

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noboru

05 Sep 2010, 04:19

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22 Jul 2023, 04:22

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U.S. officials said they are convinced that by public demons

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mbadreamschool18

08 Sep 2013, 23:43

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07 Aug 2022, 09:11

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Selling two hundred thousand copies in its first month

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NightsKing

23 Jun 2015, 04:44

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29 Jul 2023, 02:12

Both weakened by concern about the government’s agreement with the Int

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alimad

06 Mar 2019, 08:38

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10 Jun 2023, 14:35

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She was an educator, a builder of institutions and organizat

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Zarrolou

13 Apr 2013, 07:06

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24 Mar 2023, 03:27

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Persistence of Vision, a condition when your eyes bridge the gaps of

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manhattan187

07 May 2018, 14:34

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08 Aug 2023, 09:17

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Even though the original text of the U.S. Constitution, adopted in 178

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Dipankar6435

16 Mar 2013, 09:02

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psdeol

20 Feb 2019, 01:07

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19 Sep 2022, 08:07

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The telecom minister had been indicted by the Supreme court

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getgyan

07 Oct 2012, 21:48

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A male musician can find a career as a solo performer, an orchestra me

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RomiSingh

23 Oct 2018, 04:51

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10 Mar 2023, 01:58

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Geologists once thought that the molten rock known as lava

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RaviChandra

20 Oct 2009, 17:09

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27 Sep 2020, 01:05

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Before converting to Christianity and marrying Jadwiga, the second of

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avohden

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30 Sep 2023, 22:49

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As researchers continue to probe the highly expressive vocal and postu

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Bunuel

11 Jan 2019, 05:33

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04 Feb 2024, 09:28

The impostor eluded detection for so long because she

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pavanpaone

29 Dec 2012, 12:09

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12 Nov 2025, 10:59

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With brains shaped by evolution to respond primarily to immediate phys

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shasadou

09 May 2018, 08:49

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Violence in the stands at soccer matches has gotten so pronounced in

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vprabhala

28 Oct 2019, 01:10

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Even though Béla Bartók’s music has proved less popular than Igor

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nakib77

29 Oct 2005, 06:01

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For all their usefulness in facilitating comparisons between cities of

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BillyZ

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10 Jul 2023, 07:59

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Animals which were originally feral, such as dogs, horses,

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Whereas pure science is mainly concerned with the discovery

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atish

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Doctors still know little about how the Listeria bacterium is spread

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02 Oct 2018, 06:56

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Scientific evidence suggests that the benefits arising from

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fozzzy

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Neither my mother nor my father, both of whom are English

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rahulbsai

21 May 2019, 17:11

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24 Feb 2018, 20:02

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The animosity between those who regulate and those who are regulated

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priyankurml

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16 Jan 2023, 01:45

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As the former CEO of Burberry, Angela Ahrendts built tech-savvy retail

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souvik101990

05 Nov 2018, 09:33

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The Lake Manyara Park in Tanzania affords the visitor with unequalled

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pmenon

24 Dec 2018, 23:55

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07 Jun 2023, 11:37

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The Mayan civilization spread over many states with each having its ow

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GMATMBA5

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In spite of continuing national trends toward increased consumption of

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noboru

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Marc Murphy, the chef and an owner of the Landmarc restaurants in Manh

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In the "dead-ball" era of 1900-1919, Major League Baseball hitters in

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Harley1980

06 Aug 2015, 11:32

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In 1933 the rubber, clothing, and shipbuilding industries put into eff

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nehanishika

03 Oct 2018, 02:20

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21 Aug 2023, 10:37

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Left-handed people display quite a different pattern of

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eybrj2

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06 Jul 2023, 22:17

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The three-pointed-star on the Mercedes bonnet can now be in your

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getgyan

17 Nov 2022, 10:52

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29 Jan 2023, 04:08

Some archaeologists claim that the tablets found at Ebla could force

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bmwhype2

19 Jun 2007, 12:46

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Trying to mimic some of the pitch variations of a dolphin chattering

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daagh

31 Aug 2018, 00:41

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Since the mid-1990s, the central government of Botswana has been forci

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[email protected]

15 Sep 2017, 19:34

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Unique among the Romance languages, Portuguese features days that are

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Marcab

21 Apr 2018, 23:58

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A group of FBI investigators, in connection with the 1975 disappearanc

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souvik101990

27 Oct 2012, 08:27

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08 May 2023, 12:27

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Most energy analysts now agree that the costs of building and maintain

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ColumbiaDream

23 Nov 2007, 18:46

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03 May 2023, 23:25

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Social scientists in the United States have found that

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vishu1414

22 Dec 2012, 20:37

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14 May 2023, 04:14

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The data collected by weather airplanes that fly into the heart of a

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sacmanitin

03 Nov 2019, 02:18

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24 Aug 2023, 03:21

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The typical size difference between males and females

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nahid78

29 Jul 2018, 07:03

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09 Jul 2023, 08:59

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