Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
December 2014 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in December 2014, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in December 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2014Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
- 2nd December 2014Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
- 3rd December 2014Name the idea, based on a well-known hadith, used to show that the internal struggle against one's own faults is considered greater than armed struggle.
- 4th December 2014State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
- 5th December 2014Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
- 6th December 2014Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
- 7th December 2014Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.
- 8th December 2014Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
- 9th December 2014Which two New Testament books are most often set against each other in the Christian debate about faith and works?
- 10th December 2014What does Job's response in Job 42:1-6, after God speaks from the whirlwind, show about his attitude?
- 11th December 2014Give one difference between an 'open table' Communion and a 'closed' Communion.
- 12th December 2014According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
- 13th December 2014What is the Arabic term often translated as 'the signs of the Hour'?
- 14th December 2014In roughly what period of Muhammad's life, in relation to the Hijrah, is the Night Journey traditionally placed?
- 15th December 2014State one difference between a Nabi and a Rasul.
- 16th December 2014What is umrah?
- 17th December 2014What is the Arabic term for the call to prayer announced from the mosque?
- 18th December 2014Name the pillar of Islam that most closely parallels khums in being an obligatory, percentage-based payment.
- 19th December 2014Give one practical issue a religious community might need to decide when a divorced member wishes to remarry.
- 20th December 2014What is meant by a wedding vow?
- 21st December 2014Which book of the Bible contains the account of God forming the first human from the dust of the ground?
- 22nd December 2014Define the term stewardship.
- 23rd December 2014Which of Joseph's Old Testament dreams anger his brothers, according to Genesis 37:5-11?
- 24th December 2014Name the philosopher who developed the modern version of the free will defence.
- 25th December 2014Give one non-religious cause of war.
- 26th December 2014Identify the religious group named in this topic that has a long historical tradition of pacifism.
- 27th December 2014Why might faith motivate someone to volunteer for a peace organisation, rather than just believing peace is a good idea?
- 28th December 2014Give one requirement that can be attached to a community sentence.
- 29th December 2014What Arabic term is often used for the idea of justice that Shariah aims to establish?
- 30th December 2014Explain, in one sentence, what Qur'an 18:29 teaches about belief.
- 31st December 2014Can a UK court cancel or strike down an Act of Parliament using the Human Rights Act 1998?