Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
November 2014 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in November 2014, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in November 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2014Give two features that make dua different from the fixed structure of Salah.
- 2nd November 2014In what year did same-sex couples first legally marry in England and Wales?
- 3rd November 2014State one reason cohabitation has become more common in the UK.
- 4th November 2014In what year was Laudato Si' published?
- 5th November 2014What term describes giving less moral weight to an animal's suffering purely because it is not human?
- 6th November 2014Give one reason a believer might treat a vision as credible despite it not being independently verifiable.
- 7th November 2014In which book of the New Testament is Paul's (then Saul's) conversion on the road to Damascus described?
- 8th November 2014According to the free will defence, who is responsible for moral evil?
- 9th November 2014Name the secular philosopher who developed a rights-based, non-religious version of just war theory.
- 10th November 2014What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?
- 11th November 2014What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
- 12th November 2014Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
- 13th November 2014Give one example of indirect discrimination.
- 14th November 2014State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
- 15th November 2014Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
- 16th November 2014Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
- 17th November 2014State one feature of worship in a house church.
- 18th November 2014Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
- 19th November 2014According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 20th November 2014Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
- 21st November 2014Give one Arabic term for angels.
- 22nd November 2014Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
- 23rd November 2014Which month does Ashura fall in?
- 24th November 2014Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
- 25th November 2014Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
- 26th November 2014According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
- 27th November 2014Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
- 28th November 2014According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
- 29th November 2014Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
- 30th November 2014Which 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?