Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

March 2009 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day

Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in March 2009, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.

Every sheet in March 2009

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

  1. 1st March 2009Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
  2. 2nd March 2009Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.
  3. 3rd March 2009Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
  4. 4th March 2009Which two New Testament books are most often set against each other in the Christian debate about faith and works?
  5. 5th March 2009What does Job's response in Job 42:1-6, after God speaks from the whirlwind, show about his attitude?
  6. 6th March 2009Give one difference between an 'open table' Communion and a 'closed' Communion.
  7. 7th March 2009According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
  8. 8th March 2009What is the Arabic term often translated as 'the signs of the Hour'?
  9. 9th March 2009In roughly what period of Muhammad's life, in relation to the Hijrah, is the Night Journey traditionally placed?
  10. 10th March 2009State one difference between a Nabi and a Rasul.
  11. 11th March 2009What is umrah?
  12. 12th March 2009What is the Arabic term for the call to prayer announced from the mosque?
  13. 13th March 2009Name the pillar of Islam that most closely parallels khums in being an obligatory, percentage-based payment.
  14. 14th March 2009Give one practical issue a religious community might need to decide when a divorced member wishes to remarry.
  15. 15th March 2009What is meant by a wedding vow?
  16. 16th March 2009Which book of the Bible contains the account of God forming the first human from the dust of the ground?
  17. 17th March 2009Define the term stewardship.
  18. 18th March 2009Which of Joseph's Old Testament dreams anger his brothers, according to Genesis 37:5-11?
  19. 19th March 2009Name the philosopher who developed the modern version of the free will defence.
  20. 20th March 2009Give one non-religious cause of war.
  21. 21st March 2009Identify the religious group named in this topic that has a long historical tradition of pacifism.
  22. 22nd March 2009Why might faith motivate someone to volunteer for a peace organisation, rather than just believing peace is a good idea?
  23. 23rd March 2009Give one requirement that can be attached to a community sentence.
  24. 24th March 2009What Arabic term is often used for the idea of justice that Shariah aims to establish?
  25. 25th March 2009Explain, in one sentence, what Qur'an 18:29 teaches about belief.
  26. 26th March 2009Can a UK court cancel or strike down an Act of Parliament using the Human Rights Act 1998?
  27. 27th March 2009Give one modern Christian denomination that is part of Western Christianity and so normally includes the Filioque clause in its version of the Nicene Creed.
  28. 28th March 2009According to Matthew 25:31-46, on what basis are people judged?
  29. 29th March 2009Give one non-religious factor that might discourage a Christian from going on pilgrimage today.
  30. 30th March 2009According to the letter of James, why is faith without action described as 'dead'?
  31. 31st March 2009In which collection of Hadith is the Hadith of Jibril, the source of the Sunni Six Beliefs, recorded?