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April 2003 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day

Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in April 2003, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.

Every sheet in April 2003

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st April 2003What term do Humanists use for a woman's right to make decisions about her own body and pregnancy?
  2. 2nd April 2003Give one form of practical support Catholic parishes or agencies might offer a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy, other than counselling.
  3. 3rd April 2003What does Ockham's razor state, and how is it used to argue for atheism?
  4. 4th April 2003What term is used for the sense of insight or truth that William James said often accompanies a religious experience?
  5. 5th April 2003State one action that would breach the principle of proportionality when handling a captured, unarmed soldier.
  6. 6th April 2003Name the three main categories of weapon of mass destruction.
  7. 7th April 2003Name one Christian denomination or group that actively campaigns for unilateral nuclear disarmament.
  8. 8th April 2003According to Qur'an 64:14, what does Allah do for those who choose to pardon and overlook a wrong?
  9. 9th April 2003What is the Christian term for turning back to God and expressing sorrow for sin?
  10. 10th April 2003Give one way financial pressure linked to poverty can affect someone emotionally.
  11. 11th April 2003What term describes lacking enough resources to meet basic needs such as food, clean water and shelter?
  12. 12th April 2003State which numbered chapter of Genesis contains the second, more detailed account of the creation of Adam and Eve.
  13. 13th April 2003Give one Bible reference some Christians use to argue that God chooses who will be saved before they are born.
  14. 14th April 2003State one difference between discrimination and persecution.
  15. 15th April 2003Give one example of a media method a church might use to spread the Christian message today.
  16. 16th April 2003What does Asma-ul-Husna mean in English?
  17. 17th April 2003Give the Qur'anic reference commonly cited for belief that Allah has protected the Qur'an from corruption.
  18. 18th April 2003Give the Qur'anic image used to describe the moment that marks the start of the Day of Judgement.
  19. 19th April 2003What is meant by Sawm?
  20. 20th April 2003What is the Shi'a-specific religious payment, additional to zakah, called?
  21. 21st April 2003Give two features that make dua different from the fixed structure of Salah.
  22. 22nd April 2003In what year did same-sex couples first legally marry in England and Wales?
  23. 23rd April 2003State one reason cohabitation has become more common in the UK.
  24. 24th April 2003In what year was Laudato Si' published?
  25. 25th April 2003What term describes giving less moral weight to an animal's suffering purely because it is not human?
  26. 26th April 2003Give one reason a believer might treat a vision as credible despite it not being independently verifiable.
  27. 27th April 2003In which book of the New Testament is Paul's (then Saul's) conversion on the road to Damascus described?
  28. 28th April 2003According to the free will defence, who is responsible for moral evil?
  29. 29th April 2003Name the secular philosopher who developed a rights-based, non-religious version of just war theory.
  30. 30th April 2003What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?