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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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05 Sep 2023, 21:02

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Hastily rebuilt after the Korean War, Seoul is shedding its

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getgyan

10 Oct 2012, 00:32

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26 Aug 2023, 03:45

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There is a big difference between government agents scanning items for

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getgyan

08 Jul 2019, 21:42

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26 Aug 2023, 03:49

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

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aanchalsinha

05 Aug 2011, 04:35

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26 Aug 2023, 03:52

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

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getgyan

09 Oct 2012, 23:04

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26 Aug 2023, 03:57

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

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Bunuel

15 Aug 2019, 02:02

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26 Aug 2023, 04:13

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

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Bunuel

01 Aug 2019, 02:24

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26 Aug 2023, 04:28

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

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sgrover

03 Oct 2018, 08:17

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26 Aug 2023, 04:32

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

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daagh

29 Nov 2018, 03:50

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26 Aug 2023, 04:44

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Two-thirds the students voted to visit the zoo

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mbaaspirant80

18 Aug 2017, 01:52

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26 Aug 2023, 05:11

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Dutch lawyer and politician Elisabeth van Dorp was an active participa

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MBA20

08 Jun 2019, 05:53

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26 Aug 2023, 05:45

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A study of children of divorced parents found that ten years

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hams7uc

01 Jul 2008, 17:21

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by: AndrewN

26 Aug 2023, 06:01

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Usage of "BEING" on GMAT

dragonball

28 Mar 2011, 06:42

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26 Aug 2023, 07:42

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

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Bunuel

30 Jun 2023, 01:30

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by: jl3572

26 Aug 2023, 16:01

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

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gautrang

05 Sep 2021, 05:24

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26 Aug 2023, 20:53

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

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shasadou

04 Apr 2016, 22:45

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27 Aug 2023, 00:55

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Alien words not so "alien"

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egmat

31 Jul 2013, 14:05

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27 Aug 2023, 01:29

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

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Shaheensingh17

31 May 2017, 00:32

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27 Aug 2023, 05:49

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

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Bunuel

03 Jul 2018, 20:48

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27 Aug 2023, 07:07

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

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DensetsuNo

31 Jul 2016, 14:49

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27 Aug 2023, 07:35

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Recent elections in a relatively young and historically unstable count

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pratikbais

04 Mar 2012, 22:18

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27 Aug 2023, 07:39

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Because of limited available funds, some non-profit companie

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Gmatbattle

25 Jul 2014, 02:44

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27 Aug 2023, 07:57

Many afflictions once thought to be caused by environmental factors or

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gloomybison

08 Jan 2022, 11:38

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by: yashikaaggarwal

27 Aug 2023, 08:12

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

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generis

11 Jan 2019, 13:28

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27 Aug 2023, 09:17

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

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Bunuel

27 Dec 2022, 12:21

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by: RandomUuser

27 Aug 2023, 10:01

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Perhaps the most significant medical breakthrough of the twenties, the

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ManishKM1

30 Oct 2017, 04:12

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27 Aug 2023, 11:32

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

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amolg

24 Feb 2015, 15:02

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27 Aug 2023, 12:54

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

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Rashed12

10 Apr 2020, 09:27

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27 Aug 2023, 13:08

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

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Bunuel

20 Nov 2018, 23:50

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27 Aug 2023, 17:06

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The agreement, the first to formally require industrialized

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GMAT TIGER

09 Jan 2009, 17:53

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27 Aug 2023, 20:26

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Textbooks for the used book sale should be in good condition and shoul

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Bunuel

16 Jan 2019, 03:29

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by: vishalsinghvs08

27 Aug 2023, 22:41

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Found even in ancient Egyptian mummies, the parasitic Guinea worm beca

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aditi1903

08 Oct 2012, 08:10

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27 Aug 2023, 23:06

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Having lived in Tahiti for several years, where life was slow and rela

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faifai0714

26 Nov 2018, 21:06

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28 Aug 2023, 00:15

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The football team, tired after four hours of practice and

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getgyan

26 Jun 2021, 05:16

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28 Aug 2023, 02:31

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The legislature seems to talk at great length about reform but to do

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mojorising800

23 Jan 2010, 07:39

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28 Aug 2023, 03:05

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The CFO's detailed analysis of the twenty-three years of Harmonic

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Harley1980

06 Aug 2015, 04:24

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28 Aug 2023, 04:26

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That twenty-one ceramic dog figurines were discovered during the excav

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zz0vlb

19 Oct 2017, 07:07

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28 Aug 2023, 06:42

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Psychological research suggests that women are more prone than men to

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Bunuel

23 Jul 2021, 06:00

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28 Aug 2023, 07:07

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Some State Department officials hope to end the border skirmish by bar

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Sajjad1994

30 Jan 2019, 06:01

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28 Aug 2023, 07:28

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Socially and environmentally responsible investing is on the

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marine

20 Sep 2004, 07:28

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28 Aug 2023, 07:51

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Planned reduction in orders for components for the iPhone 5 is

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egmat

30 Mar 2016, 04:24

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28 Aug 2023, 07:55

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Because of wireless service costs plummeting in the last year, and as

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sondenso

06 Jul 2021, 16:32

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28 Aug 2023, 08:13

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Lorinda Munson Bryant, founder of the Monrose School for Girls in Sout

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EMPOWERgmatVerbal

10 Jan 2020, 16:37

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28 Aug 2023, 13:33

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"as well as" vs "and"

manhasnoname

22 Aug 2016, 16:25

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28 Aug 2023, 13:46

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In one of the most stunning reversals in the history of marketing, the

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Ayrish

11 Sep 2021, 04:35

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by: GMATNinja

28 Aug 2023, 15:15

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Like the grassy fields and old pastures that the upland sandpiper need

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marine

21 Feb 2021, 04:44

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by: GMATNinja

28 Aug 2023, 15:16

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In the Afghan province of Daykundi, the arrival of improved banking se

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Blair15

23 Feb 2022, 11:58

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28 Aug 2023, 18:32

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Because of the multi-party system in the Netherlands, no single

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ApplicantX

29 Sep 2017, 09:15

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28 Aug 2023, 21:25

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Although the rise in the Producer Price Index was greater than expecte

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Bunuel

03 Jul 2021, 11:07

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by: tasos777btj

29 Aug 2023, 02:19

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Climate scientists predict that there is going to be significant

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Abhi077

10 May 2020, 15:42

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by: Ritik25

29 Aug 2023, 07:46

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An experiment in a recent nephrological study of glomerulonephritis de

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Bunuel

11 Jun 2021, 06:30

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29 Aug 2023, 08:05

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