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January 2014 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day

Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in January 2014, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.

Every sheet in January 2014

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

  1. 1st January 2014State whether sadaqah is compulsory or voluntary for Muslims.
  2. 2nd January 2014What is the legal document that finally ends a marriage in England and Wales, since the 2022 reforms?
  3. 3rd January 2014Name the person who typically leads a Christian wedding service and gives a sermon or address.
  4. 4th January 2014Give one piece of scientific evidence, other than the fossil record, that is used to support the theory of evolution.
  5. 5th January 2014State one difference between the idea of dominion and the idea of stewardship.
  6. 6th January 2014What does Jacob see in his dream, according to Genesis 28:12?
  7. 7th January 2014What process does suffering enable, according to the Irenaean theodicy?
  8. 8th January 2014State what is meant by retaliation.
  9. 9th January 2014In the Sermon on the Mount, what does Jesus tell his followers to do instead of retaliating against an attacker?
  10. 10th January 2014Name a Christian community in Northern Ireland known for its peace and reconciliation work.
  11. 11th January 2014Who supervises offenders serving community sentences in England and Wales?
  12. 12th January 2014Name one offence that can be treated as hudud in classical Islamic law.
  13. 13th January 2014Give one everyday example, other than worship at a church or mosque, of how a person might exercise religious freedom.
  14. 14th January 2014In which year did the Human Rights Act 1998 come into force in the UK, as opposed to the year it was passed?
  15. 15th January 2014Give one modern Christian denomination that is part of Western Christianity and so normally includes the Filioque clause in its version of the Nicene Creed.
  16. 16th January 2014According to Hebrews 9:27, what are people destined to do once, followed by judgement?
  17. 17th January 2014Name a site of Christian pilgrimage outside Britain associated with claims of physical healing.
  18. 18th January 2014According to the letter of James, why is faith without action described as 'dead'?
  19. 19th January 2014How many roots make up the Shi'a summary of faith?
  20. 20th January 2014Name one prophet, other than Muhammad, described as a Rasul because he was given a scripture.
  21. 21st January 2014Which chapter (surah) of the Qur'an teaches that Allah 'has already set a measure for all things'?
  22. 22nd January 2014What is believed to have happened to the Twelfth Imam?
  23. 23rd January 2014True or false: the Shahadah is recited only once, at the moment a person converts to Islam.
  24. 24th January 2014In which Islamic month does Ashura occur?
  25. 25th January 2014Give one condition some Muslims place on the use of contraception, even though it is generally permitted.
  26. 26th January 2014What is the Islamic term for the duty to maintain ties of kinship with relatives?
  27. 27th January 2014Which Christian tradition requires strict fasting from meat and dairy on many days of the year, including Lent?
  28. 28th January 2014Give one reason a person might travel abroad in connection with the euthanasia debate.
  29. 29th January 2014In which century did Thomas Aquinas write the Five Ways?
  30. 30th January 2014What is the name of the biblical account, found in John chapter 2, in which Jesus is said to have changed water into wine?
  31. 31st January 2014Which verse is often used by Christians who see Genesis and the Big Bang theory as compatible?