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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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The animosity between those who regulate and those who are regulated

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priyankurml

04 Nov 2019, 06:23

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16 Jan 2023, 01:45

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Scientific evidence suggests that the benefits arising from

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fozzzy

24 Jun 2013, 07:55

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08 Dec 2023, 20:42

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Whereas pure science is mainly concerned with the discovery

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atish

16 Jul 2021, 12:06

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13 Nov 2025, 08:17

Violence in the stands at soccer matches has gotten so pronounced in

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vprabhala

28 Oct 2019, 01:10

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20 Sep 2023, 10:00

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Even though Béla Bartók’s music has proved less popular than Igor

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nakib77

29 Oct 2005, 06:01

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11 Feb 2023, 03:09

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Animals which were originally feral, such as dogs, horses,

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gmatpapa

27 Jun 2014, 05:01

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11 Mar 2026, 10:15

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For all their usefulness in facilitating comparisons between cities of

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BillyZ

28 Oct 2017, 05:26

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10 Jul 2023, 07:59

The impostor eluded detection for so long because she

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pavanpaone

29 Dec 2012, 12:09

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12 Nov 2025, 10:59

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As researchers continue to probe the highly expressive vocal and postu

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Bunuel

11 Jan 2019, 05:33

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04 Feb 2024, 09:28

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With brains shaped by evolution to respond primarily to immediate phys

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shasadou

09 May 2018, 08:49

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12 Jun 2023, 08:42

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Before converting to Christianity and marrying Jadwiga, the second of

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avohden

17 Oct 2020, 07:09

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by: DmitryFarberMPrep

30 Sep 2023, 22:49

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Geologists once thought that the molten rock known as lava

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RaviChandra

20 Oct 2009, 17:09

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by: Bunuel

27 Sep 2020, 01:05

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A male musician can find a career as a solo performer, an orchestra me

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RomiSingh

23 Oct 2018, 04:51

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10 Mar 2023, 01:58

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The telecom minister had been indicted by the Supreme court

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getgyan

07 Oct 2012, 21:48

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11 Dec 2024, 11:06

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psdeol

20 Feb 2019, 01:07

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19 Sep 2022, 08:07

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Even though the original text of the U.S. Constitution, adopted in 178

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Dipankar6435

16 Mar 2013, 09:02

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31 Oct 2023, 04:50

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Persistence of Vision, a condition when your eyes bridge the gaps of

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manhattan187

07 May 2018, 14:34

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08 Aug 2023, 09:17

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She was an educator, a builder of institutions and organizat

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Zarrolou

13 Apr 2013, 07:06

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24 Mar 2023, 03:27

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Selling two hundred thousand copies in its first month

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NightsKing

23 Jun 2015, 04:44

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29 Jul 2023, 02:12

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U.S. officials said they are convinced that by public demons

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mbadreamschool18

08 Sep 2013, 23:43

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07 Aug 2022, 09:11

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Lenders and building managers in the southwestern section of

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noboru

05 Sep 2010, 04:19

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22 Jul 2023, 04:22

Both weakened by concern about the government’s agreement with the Int

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alimad

06 Mar 2019, 08:38

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10 Jun 2023, 14:35

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Scoliosis, a condition when the spine curves abnormally and throws the

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Bunuel

05 Jan 2019, 11:17

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08 Jun 2024, 15:10

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If the ice of Greenland and Antarctica were to melt, the sea level wou

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KristinHR

03 May 2018, 00:42

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20 Oct 2023, 22:12

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Online matrimonial sites are becoming extremely popular in

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daagh

27 Feb 2011, 08:55

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05 Jan 2022, 15:07

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Like many famous jazz trumpet players, John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie

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13 Sep 2019, 05:43

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05 Sep 2023, 05:50

The United States will be affected by whether Taiwan develops a closer

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LM

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16 Jul 2023, 10:26

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My Notes - Absolute Phrases

aragonn

14 Oct 2018, 00:45

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23 Dec 2023, 11:00

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Like the thorny ballooning of a frightened pufferfish or the

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08 Aug 2013, 07:52

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10 Sep 2023, 04:52

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When Mary Webb died at the age of forty-six, literature lost

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16 May 2022, 09:31

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27 May 2023, 07:41

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Psychologists now contend that the way adults think and feel

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smashingpumpkins

24 Jul 2019, 16:50

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12 Jan 2023, 18:01

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Each of the movies were great and the choice for the best one among al

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Sajjad1994

22 May 2017, 12:00

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17 Apr 2021, 01:00

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Although many people assume that excessive use of the

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ritumaheshwari02

25 Nov 2012, 10:53

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09 Sep 2023, 20:44

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The “Mpemba effect” refers to the fact that hot water freezes more

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generis

21 Oct 2019, 22:06

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07 Dec 2022, 07:11

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Although nearly 30 percent of the more than 9 million residents of

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generis

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12 Sep 2023, 02:55

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The cheetah seems to be headed for extinction because, resulting from

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23 Mar 2023, 03:29

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Using the average wage of $200 a day to value workers time,

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emmak

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23 Aug 2025, 07:02

In Aristophanes Lysistrata women are seen as the means of bringing

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bmwhype2

17 Nov 2019, 01:26

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28 Nov 2022, 23:22

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Due to automobile-related jobs in the 1920's employing one of every

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23 Feb 2023, 02:37

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Legendaddy

05 Sep 2012, 16:00

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25 Aug 2023, 22:02

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In the last few decades, physicists have identified the existence of

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Marcab

22 Oct 2012, 03:47

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17 Nov 2025, 13:05

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After suffering the effects of several tsunamis, the residents of a Ja

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mbunny

22 Jun 2021, 00:54

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06 Aug 2023, 12:51

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A new study published by the Journal of the American Medical Associati

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harshap

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05 Jan 2023, 06:02

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With a total population of less than two hundred and fewer breeding fe

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Superhuman

16 May 2019, 04:12

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15 Jan 2023, 04:52

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It is equally well known that a GPS satellite needs an extremely accur

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Prajat

11 Sep 2015, 03:00

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02 Nov 2025, 13:04

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Because the 2009 swine flu was caused by the H1N1 virus – the same str

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chamisool

06 Apr 2012, 14:30

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17 Aug 2023, 00:27

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The consultant explained that companies that establish successfully op

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siddhans

16 Nov 2018, 08:14

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10 Aug 2023, 01:19

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Lincoln, discovering in young manhood the secret that the Yankee peddl

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Bunuel

12 Apr 2019, 04:33

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by: Deep32470

14 Jun 2023, 09:00

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According to the investigations of physiologists and psychologists

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souvik101990

06 Mar 2019, 00:56

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by: Uditakaushal1992

27 Oct 2023, 04:55

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In the late 1960s, the rising number of American casualties in Vietnam

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kinjiGC

29 Oct 2014, 21:32

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31 Jul 2023, 04:35

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