Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
December 2013 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in December 2013, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in December 2013
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2013A church's weekly Sunday attendance falls from 120 to 90 over five years, while its midweek 'Messy Church' grows to attract 40 new families. Calculate the percentage fall in Sunday attendance.
- 2nd December 2013Name the day that marks the start of Lent, on which some Christians receive an ash mark on their forehead.
- 3rd December 2013According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 4th December 2013According to Qur'an 2:37, how does Adam respond after his mistake, and how does Allah respond in turn?
- 5th December 2013Which two things are humans and jinn believed to have that angels do not?
- 6th December 2013Name the first four caliphs recognised by Sunni Muslims, in order.
- 7th December 2013Which two prayers do many Shia Muslims combine, alongside Maghrib and Isha?
- 8th December 2013Why does traditional Islamic teaching insist that armed jihad can only be declared by a legitimate authority, not by individuals?
- 9th December 2013Name the legal process a married couple must complete in England if they wish to end their marriage.
- 10th December 2013State one non-religious argument for treating men and women equally at work, based on the idea of shared human rights.
- 11th December 2013Give the Latin term for the Protestant doctrine that salvation is by faith alone.
- 12th December 2013Give one non-religious (for example, Humanist) reason for believing death is the end of a person's existence.
- 13th December 2013In which surah of the Qur'an does the verse most often quoted in these debates about the value of a single life appear?
- 14th December 2013In which year, and against whom, did Russell debate the cosmological argument on BBC radio?
- 15th December 2013Give one factor, other than education, that might cause someone's belief to change after a religious upbringing.
- 16th December 2013Give one practical need a refugee is likely to have immediately after arriving in a host country.
- 17th December 2013Give the primary, most commonly taught meaning of the word jihad for most Muslims, most of the time.
- 18th December 2013Suggest one reason a sociologist would treat addiction as a 'risk factor' for crime rather than a 'cause' of crime.
- 19th December 2013Complete the quotation: 'I was in prison and ______' (Matthew 25:36).
- 20th December 2013In what year was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted?
- 21st December 2013State what Zakah is calculated as a percentage of.
- 22nd December 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.
- 23rd December 2013According to James 2:26, what is faith without deeds compared to?
- 24th December 2013According to Hebrews 4:15, what does the belief that Jesus is 'tempted in every way, just as we are' mean for how Christians view God's understanding of suffering?
- 25th December 2013State the name given in some churches to a service that welcomes a baby without using water, instead of infant baptism.
- 26th December 2013According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
- 27th December 2013State whether 'widespread dishonesty in business' is described as a minor or a major sign of the Last Day.
- 28th December 2013Give one term used for the mosque in Jerusalem associated with the Isra.
- 29th December 2013Name the prophet believed to have been given the ability to understand the speech of birds and animals.
- 30th December 2013Give one area of genuine scholarly disagreement about who is exempt from Hajj or umrah.
- 31st December 2013Roughly which direction does the qiblah point to from the UK?