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100 Hardest and easiest questions for SC as of May 2026

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Sentence Correction Question Directory Topic and Difficulty

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05 Sep 2023, 21:02

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05 Sep 2023, 21:02

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Presque Isle State Park, a 31,000-acre peninsula that forms a natural

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21 May 2020, 12:30

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10 Jul 2023, 03:16

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Since the discovery of the Tufted Badger and other species in the ecos

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mikemcgarry

24 May 2016, 15:02

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09 Jul 2023, 22:40

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Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current, because he was

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sondenso

06 May 2008, 21:23

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09 Jul 2023, 22:11

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Implementation of the Worldwide Monetary Unit would begin as scheduled

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Bunuel

25 Mar 2022, 05:30

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09 Jul 2023, 20:50

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Despite the increased interest in automobile racing, the plummeting at

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generis

01 Jun 2021, 03:23

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by: VerbalBot

09 Jul 2023, 14:45

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Jim Smyth may be a charismatic speaker, but it seems to be counterprod

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Sajjad1994

20 Mar 2019, 07:33

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09 Jul 2023, 12:37

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Slips of the tongue do not necessarily reveal concealed beliefs or int

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sudarshan22

24 Nov 2018, 08:28

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09 Jul 2023, 12:31

High School students with high verbal Scholastic Assessment Test score

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Chembeti

29 Jan 2019, 03:07

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by: VerbalBot

09 Jul 2023, 09:56

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At the turn of the twenties century, forest covering as much

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selene

06 Jan 2019, 06:30

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by: raka99

09 Jul 2023, 09:10

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Before the seventeenth century, melancholy was regarded to be a diseas

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Bunuel

21 May 2020, 12:36

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by: VerbalBot

09 Jul 2023, 09:09

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In contrast to India where many early followers of Buddhism were

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mun23

05 Jan 2019, 20:21

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09 Jul 2023, 09:04

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A recent survey showed that while many banks have service charges on i

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honchos

18 Oct 2014, 11:01

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by: VerbalBot

09 Jul 2023, 09:03

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It is the powerful compound capsaicin that makes a chili pepper hot; a

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AdmitJA

01 Dec 2014, 06:03

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09 Jul 2023, 09:02

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Even though interest rates rose last year, they were not nearly as hig

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Nevernevergiveup

21 Sep 2016, 02:58

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by: VerbalBot

09 Jul 2023, 09:00

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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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by: VerbalBot

09 Jul 2023, 08:59

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The infant mortality rate has decreased steadily over the past several

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sidvish

19 Oct 2013, 06:39

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by: VerbalBot

09 Jul 2023, 08:59

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Historical revisionism is different from history in that the former

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pushpitkc

27 Aug 2017, 23:41

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09 Jul 2023, 08:17

There are more and more women with the wealth and buying power that

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lexiew

01 Jul 2023, 06:20

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by: walterwhite756

09 Jul 2023, 06:27

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Even as they never forgave the Crusaders who overran their homeland

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lgon

16 Nov 2018, 02:49

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09 Jul 2023, 00:16

List of Idioms for GMAT

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Roc-a-fella

16 May 2010, 22:58

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08 Jul 2023, 20:58

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After many years of feeling separated by a great divide, the doctor no

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mrmikec

13 Jun 2006, 21:31

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by: VerbalBot

08 Jul 2023, 20:38

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The endangered giraffes have sometimes been shot by farmers trying to

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Bunuel

02 Jun 2018, 12:57

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by: gmatsnow

08 Jul 2023, 11:55

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Presenters at the seminar, one who is blind, will demonstrate adaptive

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pi10t

07 Nov 2019, 08:46

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08 Jul 2023, 10:54

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It stood twelve feet tall, weighed nine thousand pounds, and wielded

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Gnpth

04 Jul 2016, 05:08

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08 Jul 2023, 08:33

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In June of 1989, Princeton Township approved a developer's plans to bu

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goalsnr

03 Jul 2021, 11:01

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08 Jul 2023, 05:16

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The idea of using plants, both transgenic as well as unmodified

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carma19

27 Mar 2020, 08:10

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by: singhall

08 Jul 2023, 00:02

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If my mother did not attend the London School of Economics

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Ekland

11 Jan 2019, 06:49

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07 Jul 2023, 12:06

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Among the 1,500 sources of gamma rays Fermi has mapped so

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getgyan

05 Oct 2012, 03:16

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07 Jul 2023, 11:52

Though at first glance the iPhone 5 looks just as an iPhone 4S

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mialanknox

05 Jul 2023, 05:53

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07 Jul 2023, 08:05

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To restore fishing grounds damaged by pollution

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paidlukkha

15 Aug 2016, 09:47

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07 Jul 2023, 06:18

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No less remarkable than the invention of nuclear power has been the wa

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Bunuel

10 Dec 2021, 04:30

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by: Ajay171999

07 Jul 2023, 05:18

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Agricultural scientists have estimated that the annual loss by erosion

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piyushksharma

08 Aug 2019, 00:20

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07 Jul 2023, 04:57

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The foresight that was evident in the courts selection of an independ

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Bunuel

28 Feb 2023, 02:30

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by: paritoshmahajan

07 Jul 2023, 04:50

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Reducing the population of Japanese beetles is done most easily by app

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generis

10 Mar 2020, 23:21

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06 Jul 2023, 23:36

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Left-handed people display quite a different pattern of

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eybrj2

21 Mar 2012, 15:03

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06 Jul 2023, 22:17

Poll: Idiom..Just as ...so

nageshshiv

04 Nov 2010, 20:14

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06 Jul 2023, 19:17

The rise in American exports was possible because international trade

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pineapple123456

07 Jan 2019, 13:49

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06 Jul 2023, 19:12

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Even though Carter had fewer quarters in his piggybank than did his br

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Bunuel

15 Feb 2019, 04:29

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by: VerbalBot

06 Jul 2023, 19:12

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The sales team not only exceeded their quarterly targets but also they

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HarshaBujji

12 Jun 2023, 19:18

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by: KeithJohnson

06 Jul 2023, 17:56

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Under a corporate bylaw that was never invoked, the board of directors

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Bunuel

03 Jun 2022, 07:00

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by: VerbalBot

06 Jul 2023, 12:54

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Since the teacher introduced the classroom reward system, students hav

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generis

19 Jul 2019, 21:21

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by: VerbalBot

06 Jul 2023, 12:06

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The art of Michelangelo, the inventions of Edison, and Shakespeare's

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Bunuel

12 Jul 2018, 03:32

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by: VerbalBot

06 Jul 2023, 06:15

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The Emperor Augustus, it appears, commissioned an idealized sculpture

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rohansherry

02 Jun 2021, 00:47

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06 Jul 2023, 02:04

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In order to conserve the energy and heat they need to spend

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hfbamafan

03 May 2012, 16:11

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by: Keshav1404

06 Jul 2023, 00:19

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A lawyer defending a doctor from malpractice charges easily avoids...

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CAMANISHPARMAR

29 Dec 2018, 11:35

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by: pratyush3284

05 Jul 2023, 13:52

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the public at large d

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chesstitans

19 Feb 2018, 12:11

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05 Jul 2023, 13:17

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Whether they will scale back their orders to pre-2003 levels or stop

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Gnpth

20 Sep 2021, 23:14

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by: GMATNinja

05 Jul 2023, 11:30

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The bank holds $3 billion in loans that are seriously delinquent or in

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Mishari

16 Jun 2021, 06:12

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by: GMATNinja

05 Jul 2023, 11:23

ER -1

The commission acknowledged that no amount of money or staff members

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acer2knight

03 Apr 2023, 01:21

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by: vivek1810971

05 Jul 2023, 11:18

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Flamboyant sybarites that they were, the later generations

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daagh

07 Oct 2014, 03:30

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by: VerbalBot

05 Jul 2023, 10:24

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