Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
December 2012 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in December 2012, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in December 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2012State one reason cohabitation has become more common in the UK.
- 2nd December 2012In what year was Laudato Si' published?
- 3rd December 2012What term describes giving less moral weight to an animal's suffering purely because it is not human?
- 4th December 2012Give one reason a believer might treat a vision as credible despite it not being independently verifiable.
- 5th December 2012In which book of the New Testament is Paul's (then Saul's) conversion on the road to Damascus described?
- 6th December 2012According to the free will defence, who is responsible for moral evil?
- 7th December 2012Name the secular philosopher who developed a rights-based, non-religious version of just war theory.
- 8th December 2012What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?
- 9th December 2012What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
- 10th December 2012Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
- 11th December 2012Give one example of indirect discrimination.
- 12th December 2012State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
- 13th December 2012Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
- 14th December 2012Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
- 15th December 2012State one feature of worship in a house church.
- 16th December 2012Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
- 17th December 2012According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 18th December 2012Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
- 19th December 2012Give one Arabic term for angels.
- 20th December 2012Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
- 21st December 2012Which month does Ashura fall in?
- 22nd December 2012Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
- 23rd December 2012Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
- 24th December 2012According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
- 25th December 2012Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
- 26th December 2012According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
- 27th December 2012Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
- 28th December 2012Which 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?
- 29th December 2012Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
- 30th December 2012Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
- 31st December 2012Name 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.