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100 Hardest and easiest questions for SC as of March 2026

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One of the most astonishing astronomical discoveries of the last decad

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17 Feb 2023, 00:39

By the designs from temples across India, the government has built a

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Under the restructuring, the huge organization that operates the compa

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28 Oct 2019, 03:18

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21 Feb 2023, 09:22

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While the average age of its population is below 40 years, the annual

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22 Jan 2023, 02:07

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While Raphael fills his canvases with beautiful creatures from another

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20 Feb 2023, 04:30

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22 Feb 2023, 21:03

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Like the 1890s Populists who exalted the rural myth, so urban leaders

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13 Nov 2019, 07:48

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23 Feb 2023, 02:00

Although, in case of an accident, a baby might be no safer with a seat

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17 Feb 2023, 11:35

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25 Feb 2023, 11:07

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People who live in coastal areas should fear hurricanes because those

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22 Sep 2019, 02:51

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26 Feb 2023, 07:09

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The personal reminiscences of many personal acquaintances and business

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23 Apr 2021, 02:00

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26 Feb 2023, 23:49

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In 1983, using both ground-penetrating radar equipment—much of it cons

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10 Oct 2021, 04:30

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27 Feb 2023, 10:16

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Having discovered the Roman aristocrats to be suffering from lead pois

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08 Sep 2017, 11:38

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28 Feb 2023, 09:45

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The fourteen-hour day not only has been reduced to one of ten hours

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11 Aug 2019, 04:06

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01 Mar 2023, 19:22

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Jane believes that to live peacefully with others around her is more

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17 Feb 2023, 02:30

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04 Mar 2023, 02:30

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When automatic teller machines were first installed in the 1980s, bank

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22 Feb 2023, 02:30

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04 Mar 2023, 08:45

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The judges were swift in deciding whether or not to disqualify the swi

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16 Feb 2023, 02:30

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05 Mar 2023, 01:30

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While hiring decisions for most types of jobs are based strictly on

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05 Mar 2023, 02:15

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A pluralistic democracy, in greater degree than any system of governme

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14 Feb 2023, 02:30

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05 Mar 2023, 06:00

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A court reporter can have trouble if a witness speaks too quickly duri

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05 Mar 2023, 11:00

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With laser technology, vision problems, skin disorders, and even many

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According to Newtonian physics, the greater the distance between two

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Although residents of the northcentral region of the United States are

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08 Feb 2023, 02:30

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05 Mar 2023, 14:00

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J. S. Bachs The Musical Offering, long considered one of his minor

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07 Feb 2023, 02:30

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05 Mar 2023, 15:00

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With crude-oil production peaking, the corporate suppliers of energy

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05 Mar 2023, 23:45

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Many of the frogs anatomical featuressuch as its long sticky tongue

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Carcass

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Recent study of symptoms performed at the Department of Symptoms at

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07 Mar 2023, 08:51

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The People’s Bank of China on Wednesday had injected cash worth $83

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Helium

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07 Mar 2023, 12:00

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Thousands of years before the Europeans began crossing the

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Although the colon is often used to introduce block quotations, they c

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globaldesi

03 Jan 2021, 22:22

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The jaguar, now extinct in most of Africa, is the largest cat in Afric

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Doctors sometimes have difficulty diagnosing viral pneumonia because

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11 Mar 2023, 01:15

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Unlike that of the Native Americans of British Columbia, the Plains

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12 Mar 2023, 07:46

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Sancho Panza warned his master, Don Quixote, that the evil giants his

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As certain Central and Eastern European countries are fast-tracked

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19 Sep 2021, 23:52

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Company policy restricts employees to, at most, three personal days in

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In the pursuit of self-interest, people seek not only to benefit thems

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Recent research has drawn a distinction between manic-depression, whic

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Some snakes are harmless, that others, like this one, are extremely da

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One of the most important decisions for most people experiencing

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World War II taught the United States the folly of punishing a vanquis

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As a result of increasingly disastrous economic fallout from mortgage

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Paleontologists believe that the Clovis community used sophisticated

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The Sherpa people, indigenous to the mountainous regions of eastern Ne

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At ground level, nitrous oxides are bad enough, but when up high, atmo

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Although neurologists have long been aware of the importance of sleep

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Although concerned with the number of venomous copperhead snakes he en

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23 Apr 2021, 04:00

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29 Mar 2023, 04:13

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For people who have never worked for a living, any job may instill a v

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24 Oct 2019, 02:53

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01 Apr 2023, 04:30

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The changes that may be part of a general global warming trend include

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31 Mar 2023, 01:30

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01 Apr 2023, 13:15

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The CEO stated that the company's profitability had been affected by t

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28 Mar 2023, 09:21

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Covering almost 40% of the South American continent, the Amazonian Rai

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