Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
May 2003 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in May 2003, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in May 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2003What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
- 2nd May 2003Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
- 3rd May 2003Give one example of indirect discrimination.
- 4th May 2003State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
- 5th May 2003Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
- 6th May 2003Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
- 7th May 2003State one feature of worship in a house church.
- 8th May 2003Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
- 9th May 2003According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 10th May 2003Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
- 11th May 2003Give one Arabic term for angels.
- 12th May 2003Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
- 13th May 2003Which month does Ashura fall in?
- 14th May 2003Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
- 15th May 2003Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
- 16th May 2003According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
- 17th May 2003Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
- 18th May 2003According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
- 19th May 2003Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
- 20th May 2003Which two philosophers are most associated with the objection that the universe as a whole may not need a cause, even though things within it do?
- 21st May 2003Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
- 22nd May 2003Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
- 23rd May 2003Name the idea, based on a well-known hadith, used to show that the internal struggle against one's own faults is considered greater than armed struggle.
- 24th May 2003State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
- 25th May 2003Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
- 26th May 2003Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
- 27th May 2003Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.
- 28th May 2003Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
- 29th May 2003Which two New Testament books are most often set against each other in the Christian debate about faith and works?
- 30th May 2003What does Job's response in Job 42:1-6, after God speaks from the whirlwind, show about his attitude?
- 31st May 2003Give one difference between an 'open table' Communion and a 'closed' Communion.