Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
January 2013 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in January 2013, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in January 2013
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2013State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
- 2nd January 2013Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
- 3rd January 2013Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
- 4th January 2013Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.
- 5th January 2013Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
- 6th January 2013Which two New Testament books are most often set against each other in the Christian debate about faith and works?
- 7th January 2013What does Job's response in Job 42:1-6, after God speaks from the whirlwind, show about his attitude?
- 8th January 2013Give one difference between an 'open table' Communion and a 'closed' Communion.
- 9th January 2013According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
- 10th January 2013What is the Arabic term often translated as 'the signs of the Hour'?
- 11th January 2013In roughly what period of Muhammad's life, in relation to the Hijrah, is the Night Journey traditionally placed?
- 12th January 2013State one difference between a Nabi and a Rasul.
- 13th January 2013What is umrah?
- 14th January 2013What is the Arabic term for the call to prayer announced from the mosque?
- 15th January 2013Name the pillar of Islam that most closely parallels khums in being an obligatory, percentage-based payment.
- 16th January 2013Give one practical issue a religious community might need to decide when a divorced member wishes to remarry.
- 17th January 2013What is meant by a wedding vow?
- 18th January 2013Which book of the Bible contains the account of God forming the first human from the dust of the ground?
- 19th January 2013Define the term stewardship.
- 20th January 2013Which of Joseph's Old Testament dreams anger his brothers, according to Genesis 37:5-11?
- 21st January 2013Name the philosopher who developed the modern version of the free will defence.
- 22nd January 2013Give one non-religious cause of war.
- 23rd January 2013Identify the religious group named in this topic that has a long historical tradition of pacifism.
- 24th January 2013Why might faith motivate someone to volunteer for a peace organisation, rather than just believing peace is a good idea?
- 25th January 2013Give one requirement that can be attached to a community sentence.
- 26th January 2013What Arabic term is often used for the idea of justice that Shariah aims to establish?
- 27th January 2013Explain, in one sentence, what Qur'an 18:29 teaches about belief.
- 28th January 2013Can a UK court cancel or strike down an Act of Parliament using the Human Rights Act 1998?
- 29th January 2013Give one modern Christian denomination that is part of Western Christianity and so normally includes the Filioque clause in its version of the Nicene Creed.
- 30th January 2013According to Matthew 25:31-46, on what basis are people judged?
- 31st January 2013Give one non-religious factor that might discourage a Christian from going on pilgrimage today.