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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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An artistic presence of the first order, one frequently ranked with Pi

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On nearing the Earth, charged particles coming from the Sun

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The author seems well qualified to write the book: she is fluent in

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During the first nine months of 1979, textbook publishers incurred sub

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Responding to growing demand for high-end vehicles, the interiors of

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souvik101990

18 Jan 2016, 09:05

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10 Nov 2025, 16:23

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Kuru, one of the strangest and most insidious of the diseases know, is

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07 May 2005, 20:16

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24 Feb 2023, 02:58

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Reared apart from each other, a recent United States study showed

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aragonn

17 Nov 2018, 07:35

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In August 2013, India was the first nation on record to declare

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25 Jan 2018, 22:16

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04 Dec 2023, 07:01

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Poet laureates once served as courtiers to the royal family, composing

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It is impossible to truly understand a different culture neither havin

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26 Jul 2018, 22:11

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To those that are troubled, we should raise awareness of

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11 Feb 2013, 10:30

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Spanish guitarist and composer Andres Segovia led the

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After the Arab conquest of Egypt in A.D. 640, Arabic became the domina

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09 Jan 2019, 04:19

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31 Dec 2023, 16:27

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While the Senate of the Roman Republic did not have the power to enact

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16 Apr 2013, 11:11

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The new proposal will encourage larger transparency about what data is

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sandal85

24 Mar 2019, 03:15

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14 Dec 2023, 21:19

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Even though the costs of paying baseball players amounts to

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sheru34766

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Being unemployed can be difficult for anyone but, psychologists say,

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Unlike the steam locomotive, which required an hour or two

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02 Oct 2019, 06:34

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The idea behind the Personal Long Letter campaign is that a single imp

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12 Aug 2010, 08:07

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During the nineteenth century Emily Eden and Fanny Parks journeyed

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In addition to having a greater number of students than

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02 Aug 2009, 03:20

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It has been estimated that the annual cost of water and

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According to Kepler’s Second Law of Planetary Motion, as a planet move

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Usage of HAVE BEEN - Kaplan

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Astronomical occurrences can be viewed in a religious light;

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Houseflies that hatch in summer live only about three weeks, but those

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Ancient Celtic legend holds that the mythical figure of

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Like the one reportedly found in Monterey County also a county in Cali

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Yo-yo Ma, whom according to the classical cellists of the world is per

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In order to properly evaluate a patient’s state of mind and gain

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Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fast

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After leaving the ranch, the herd of longhorns, the historic cattle of

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On any city street in today's world one will encounter more women who

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Three hundred guests is as many as even the most ambitious host or hos

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A certain school's admissions policy requires of both undergraduate an

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Although Belize borders Guatemala and Mexico, countries in which torti

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Nothing quite like this Broadway production has ever been ma

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In the 1980s advertising revenues accounted for

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Insufficiently trained for combat, the soldier was grievously injured

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The nineteenth-century Russian composers known as "The Five" were unit

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As the stock market began its slow descent, many individual investors

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Comparing the Quechans with other Native Americans of the Southwest

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Neither Ramesh nor his friends is going to the ballet tonight, but one

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14 Jul 2017, 21:29

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Today anthropologists realize that there is great diversity among hunt

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25 Jan 2019, 04:00

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Though Homo habilis made blunt cutting tools, Neanderthals fashioned

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20 Sep 2023, 09:59

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The increase in unemployment rates, coupled with significantly increas

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29 Jun 2014, 02:16

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12 Dec 2024, 13:35

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