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100 Hardest and easiest questions for SC as of April 2026

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In February 1995, Doris Schopper became president of the international

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Like some humans, some adult cats lack a sufficient quantity of the en

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It was anomalies in the orbit of Uranus that led to the discovery of

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Although the number of romance novels published by Harlequin

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According to two teams of paleontologists, recent fossil discoveries i

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prince13

01 Aug 2017, 03:55

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12 Sep 2023, 10:54

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The growth in the human population of the Amazon along with

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generis

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A new cancer drug, whose development depends on various scientific

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05 Oct 2019, 21:47

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12 Sep 2023, 15:56

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The Senator's warm recommendation of the popular Congressman seemed to

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04 Aug 2015, 09:31

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13 Sep 2023, 07:28

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Approximately one of four children are now born to mothers without

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Following the inordinate number of post-surgery complications, medical

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In times of economic difficulty young adults and old people tend to l

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The new “e-waste” salvage company collects electronic waste items

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The school officials believe that students will be equally likely to b

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23 Dec 2020, 01:15

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Of all the years in Einstein's life, possibly none is more impressive

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Much of the garbage that might otherwise be dumped in landfills in the

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04 Dec 2018, 07:19

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Defining a medical practitioner as any individual whose occupation is

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The legislature has proposed a bill requiring that firms should retain

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Of all the countries contiguous to China, the Soviet Union's borders

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31 Jul 2018, 05:03

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In 2002 lack of resources reduced the agricultural production of the

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Statisticians from the Department of Motor Vehicles have calculated th

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31 Aug 2018, 01:57

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Baseball is unique for the major sports because it is the only ball

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generis

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Glaciers that are seated in deep submarine basins are

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Golf games often turn out to be more tiring than they originally seeme

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The use of non-ionizing laser pulses, which do not interact with organ

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Managing your irrigation system well and watering your grass wisely no

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Anthropological research teams visited several Afghan cities, filming

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According to recent genetic analyses comparing the genetic

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In general, people support cuts in government spending until they disc

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Salsa Dancers warm up before every performance by doing a series of wa

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perfectstranger

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Members of Congress were surprised to learn that

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20 Sep 2023, 06:59

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Wary of potential predators, including humans, and prone to high level

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12 Days of Christmas GMAT Competition - Day 6: The new technology empl

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As the information technology field matures, programmers specializing

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3.7 million people collected unemployment benefits in the week

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A study of food resources in the North Pacific between 1989 and 1996

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Recent breakthroughs in technology have made it possible that high-def

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Each of the vegetables in the store had been washed with

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14 Jul 2013, 12:09

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A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies

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Pauline

23 Jul 2005, 03:04

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The high costs to taxpayers were mostly a result of policies

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Correct though it may seem, the problem with the theory is that it tre

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The environmental community across the globe is currently in the middl

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While studying the genetic makeup of corn, a new class of mutant genes

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14 Oct 2005, 13:30

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The voice box has been a subject of considerable investigation among

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03 Feb 2020, 09:38

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27 Sep 2023, 09:28

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The success of Khan Academy proves that learning online is much more

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haardiksharma

22 Jul 2017, 11:10

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27 Sep 2023, 23:25

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The number of people who say in surveys that they have health insuranc

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JarvisR

15 Sep 2014, 22:28

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28 Sep 2023, 07:18

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It seems as if just yesterday that we were in the Bahamas swimming

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13 Dec 2016, 17:34

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In October 2001, responding to the devastating attack on New York’s Wo

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gmatbull

03 Sep 2020, 23:17

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29 Sep 2023, 11:44

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The genetic code of hominids accounts not only for all curre

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29 Oct 2013, 10:53

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02 Oct 2023, 08:36

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By allowing the students to arrive at and leave the school at any time

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