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100 Hardest and easiest questions for SC as of April 2026

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By 1914, ten of the western states had granted women the right to vote

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I picture it as a botanical utopia: a place where flora is respected

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To make salt from sea water, you start by collecting some sea water

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Perhaps the most significant medical breakthrough of the twenties, the

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During the quality check last month a group of experts declared much o

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27 Aug 2023, 10:01

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Dorothy Parker's fiery personality was often mirrored in her caustic

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11 Jan 2019, 13:28

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Many afflictions once thought to be caused by environmental factors or

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08 Jan 2022, 11:38

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Because of limited available funds, some non-profit companie

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25 Jul 2014, 02:44

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Recent elections in a relatively young and historically unstable count

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04 Mar 2012, 22:18

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Located at the very coal mines that provided them with fuel, the use

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31 Jul 2016, 14:49

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Among baseball's all-time fastest baserunners, perhaps it is none that

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Not only speech enables man to handle and pass on more complicated ide

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31 May 2017, 00:32

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Alien words not so "alien"

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The plateau in global warming that took place in the 1950’s and 60’s i

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The bones of Majungatholus atopus, a meat-eating dinosaur that is a di

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05 Sep 2021, 05:24

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In 1983, Dr. Luc Montagnier and colleagues of La Pitie-Salpetriere

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Usage of "BEING" on GMAT

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28 Mar 2011, 06:42

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A study of children of divorced parents found that ten years

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Dutch lawyer and politician Elisabeth van Dorp was an active participa

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Two-thirds the students voted to visit the zoo

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18 Aug 2017, 01:52

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The Middle Stone Age, extended for 200,000 years from 300,000 BC TO 50

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The use of chemical pesticides in this country is equally extensive or

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03 Oct 2018, 08:17

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Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, freed recently from seven

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When not augmented appropriately by an increase in protein intake, a w

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In the Music Box volleyball game, players can hit the ball

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09 Oct 2012, 23:04

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Black children are three times as likely to live in single‐parent hous

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There is a big difference between government agents scanning items for

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Hastily rebuilt after the Korean War, Seoul is shedding its

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Timmy is learning about the war in which much of Europe will be reduce

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Although many citizens enjoy spacious and well-kept state pa

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By confronting a devastated economy through actions such as creating t

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Despite the influx of international aid to a particularly war-torn reg

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The people of the ancient Assyrian Empire were renowned warriors, alth

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Though Frank Lloyd Wright is best remembered today because of bold des

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Though it is now universally accepted that William Shakespeare was a

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Over the course of three decades spent as a field veterinarian

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Jan Micker’s 1652 masterwork Bird’s Eye View of Amsterdam, which had

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Benford’s Law, stating that certain numbers appear more often in

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THe reason I came late to class today is because the bus

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Production of the Ford Model T, which was colloquially known as the

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People with schizophrenia experience miscarriages at a higher rate of

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Stymieing the Armadas plans to meet up with the Duke of

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The Iroquois organized their kinship groups into matriarchal clans,

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In contrast to accredited universities that can grant degrees and whos

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Scientists are increasingly descending upon the small town

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Rejecting the apprenticeship model of training social workers in phila

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28 Jun 2021, 14:29

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The zoologist now believes that a recently located band of gorillas ha

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14 May 2021, 14:31

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In keeping with her commitment to her Christian faith, Sojourner Truth

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17 Jun 2021, 07:31

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Aerugo, also known as verdigris, is the green "bloom" visible on many

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