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June 2013 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day

Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in June 2013, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.

Every sheet in June 2013

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

  1. 1st June 2013According to mainstream Muslim teaching, is a person's effort to seek a livelihood still required if Allah has already decreed their provision?
  2. 2nd June 2013According to Twelver Shia belief, from whose family were the Imams descended?
  3. 3rd June 2013Is reciting the words of the Shahadah alone enough to make someone a Muslim, or is something more required?
  4. 4th June 2013State the Islamic collection in which the hadith about the Prophet fasting on Ashura is recorded.
  5. 5th June 2013A couple using natural family planning identifies 8 fertile days in a 28-day cycle. Calculate the number of non-fertile days in that cycle.
  6. 6th June 2013Give one reason an extended family might find it easier than a nuclear family to support a member going through a health crisis.
  7. 7th June 2013Give two foods listed as forbidden (haram) in Qur'an 5:3.
  8. 8th June 2013Name one type of specialist care that aims to relieve pain and symptoms for a person with a terminal illness, as an alternative to euthanasia.
  9. 9th June 2013What is the common name for the argument that nature's order and apparent purpose point to a designer?
  10. 10th June 2013Besides Lourdes in France, name another well-known site associated with claimed Catholic Marian miracles.
  11. 11th June 2013What term describes the view that God used the process of evolution as his method of creating life?
  12. 12th June 2013State one practical action a religious community might take to support reconciliation after conflict.
  13. 13th June 2013According to the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), who counts as a person's 'neighbour'?
  14. 14th June 2013According to Matthew 18:22, how many times does Jesus tell Peter to forgive someone?
  15. 15th June 2013In what year was the death penalty abolished in the UK for all remaining offences?
  16. 16th June 2013Give one difference between Fair Trade certification and the wider Trade Justice Movement.
  17. 17th June 2013Give one example of a fundraising method used by faith communities, other than a collection plate or box.
  18. 18th June 2013Give the name for the Christian interpretation of Genesis 1 which reads each 'day' as a long period of time rather than a literal 24-hour day.
  19. 19th June 2013Name the New Testament letter that states 'in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form'.
  20. 20th June 2013Name the Anglican service book, first compiled in 1549 and revised in 1662, that provides set liturgy for worship.
  21. 21st June 2013State one reason why some Christians use a physical aid, such as a prayer rope or beads, when praying.
  22. 22nd June 2013What is another common name for believers' baptism, reflecting that it requires personal belief first?
  23. 23rd June 2013Give one Qur'anic reference commonly used to support belief in Al-Mizan.
  24. 24th June 2013Give one belief that shows transcendence and immanence are not really contradictory in Muslim theology.
  25. 25th June 2013Give one reason a Muslim might consult a Tafsir when studying the Qur'an.
  26. 26th June 2013Name the charitable payment traditionally given before the Eid al-Fitr prayer, at the end of Ramadan.
  27. 27th June 2013Roughly how many pilgrims perform Hajj in a typical year?
  28. 28th June 2013Name the New Testament letter, other than 1 Corinthians, that contains Paul's teaching to 'abstain from sexual immorality'.
  29. 29th June 2013What is meant by contraception?
  30. 30th June 2013What is meant by the steady state theory?