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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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I would like to thank whoever it was that wrote that piece

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06 Aug 2021, 00:35

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I-slate is targeted at millions of Indian school children

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09 Oct 2012, 02:35

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01 Mar 2022, 06:11

I'd rather you

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19 Mar 2022, 11:20

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28 Mar 2022, 01:34

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Ibsen's plays posed as great a challenge to middle-class Scandinavians

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Bunuel

04 Aug 2019, 00:30

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16 Dec 2023, 18:16

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Ice floats on water, making it an exception to the general rule of

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30 Sep 2022, 01:30

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02 Oct 2022, 04:00

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Ideal way for an IT professional to protect data is to periodically

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24 May 2018, 11:44

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19 May 2019, 22:47

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Ideally, groups focused on environmental justice should be concerned

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aimkp

04 Nov 2010, 04:13

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09 Sep 2023, 01:00

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Ideally, the professional career diplomat should help in the ongoing

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19 Nov 2019, 02:36

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05 Aug 2023, 12:46

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Identifying Subject & Verb in a Sentence

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19 Dec 2011, 20:42

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18 Oct 2022, 11:50

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Idioglossia is a phenomenon, incompletely understood at best, where tw

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Bunuel

16 May 2019, 02:31

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01 Jan 2024, 20:17

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idiom list

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02 Sep 2013, 09:40

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04 Sep 2013, 13:39

Poll: Idiom..Just as ...so

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04 Nov 2010, 20:14

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06 Jul 2023, 19:17

If a drug that is already on the market has the potential to help

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ju21

24 Jan 2022, 02:03

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15 Jun 2023, 13:35

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If a firm in a market with no entry or exit barriers raises its prices

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chesstitans

13 Mar 2018, 11:26

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06 Sep 2022, 04:30

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If a latter-day Robinson Crusoe was marooned on an island with an ecle

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neeshpal

17 Sep 2018, 20:40

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01 Mar 2021, 19:28

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If a law had been passed demanding that hunters will be punished

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generis

24 Nov 2020, 21:20

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26 Sep 2022, 01:02

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If a law had been passed demanding that hunters will be punished, the

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Bunuel

21 Jun 2023, 01:30

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01 Jul 2023, 22:15

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If a nuclear weapon were to be detonated above the atmosphere, it woul

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rohitgoel15

21 Sep 2010, 22:20

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25 Oct 2023, 09:22

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If a person wants to ascend up the corporate ladder

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HarveyS

02 Apr 2014, 05:16

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04 Dec 2023, 20:54

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If a red-tailed squirrel population grows too large and leads to a

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Bunuel

08 Dec 2023, 02:30

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06 Jan 2024, 12:00

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If a single strain of plant is used for a given crop over a wide area

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generis

25 Nov 2018, 08:44

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14 Oct 2023, 03:32

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If a song is played on the radio often, a practice favored by popular

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ABMVD

11 Oct 2018, 03:50

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17 Aug 2021, 06:38

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If additional deposits of oil are found, it will expand the amount tha

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18 Dec 2018, 11:25

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25 Mar 2023, 01:02

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If additional sources of deuterium are found, it will expand the amoun

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Bunuel

11 Oct 2018, 04:02

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07 Jan 2026, 04:46

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If all the local candidates would have participated in the debate, the

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22 May 2019, 23:26

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23 May 2019, 09:00

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If any student has a question, they should raise their hand and ask.

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Bunuel

02 Oct 2019, 02:33

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If anyone at InterCom Financial Advisers would have anticipated, or ev

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ugimba

16 Nov 2018, 04:47

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10 May 2023, 21:48

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If asked to name a favorite musical group, the Beatles would be the

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29 Apr 2022, 03:30

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04 May 2022, 01:30

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If birds did not have wings, they would not have been able to fly

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reto

30 Jun 2015, 11:51

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17 May 2023, 09:57

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If Caiyan ate pizza tomorrow, then she would become fat.

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mSKR

19 Jun 2020, 23:28

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08 Aug 2023, 13:41

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If Charles had spent half as much time attending his classes as he did

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17 May 2019, 01:51

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10 Aug 2023, 15:23

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If consumed in moderation, compositional analysis of certain types of

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Bunuel

08 Aug 2023, 01:30

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02 Sep 2023, 10:15

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If continued population growth is unmatched by increases in food supp

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generis

12 Aug 2021, 23:43

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15 Aug 2021, 03:11

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If current trends continue, by the year 2010 carbon emissions in the U

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15 Dec 2019, 07:53

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17 Jun 2023, 17:52

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If Dr. Wade was right, any apparent connection of the eating of highly

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gmataquaguy

11 Sep 2021, 04:46

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01 Apr 2026, 22:52

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If enacted, the proposed tax revisions will adversely affect

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eybrj2

12 Dec 2020, 02:09

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If ever there were a graphic illustration of the tragedy of the common

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27 May 2022, 01:47

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If he would have read “The White Birds,” he might have liked William B

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Sajjad1994

27 Jul 2019, 06:21

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03 Aug 2019, 22:11

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If he would have revised his first draft he would

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generis

16 Jan 2021, 23:02

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07 Aug 2022, 03:24

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If his longevity claim would be confirmed Carmelo Flores Laura

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generis

05 Apr 2020, 00:25

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27 Nov 2024, 03:33

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If I had worked a little bit harder in college, I could have became

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Bunuel

04 Oct 2022, 01:38

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08 Oct 2022, 00:01

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If I was a betting man, I would put my money down on the continued

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pranjall19

06 Mar 2023, 01:34

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18 Apr 2023, 21:38

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If I was President, I would call an immediate halt to the development

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Bunuel

04 Aug 2019, 00:06

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03 Nov 2022, 03:42

If I were he, I would lay that manuscript on the sofa and keep it away

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vasurajiv

11 Oct 2018, 20:38

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If I would have known about the team tryouts, I would have signed up

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05 Aug 2019, 22:11

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If industrial pollution continues to deplete the ozone layer, the resu

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Bunuel

18 Nov 2019, 05:17

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28 Apr 2023, 17:38

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If it is true that Netherlands' manufacturing sector declined in the 1

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Bunuel

09 Jul 2021, 06:30

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11 Jul 2021, 04:15

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If John had not applied sun protection cream, his skin surely would

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14 Jun 2023, 01:30

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01 Jul 2023, 13:00

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If Levi-Strauss is right, myths are constructed by a universal logic

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generis

03 Apr 2020, 01:12

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17 Feb 2023, 08:49

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If Marcel Prousts memory had not been stirred by the felicitous taste

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angel2009

11 Jun 2019, 02:27

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23 Mar 2023, 11:56

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