Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
December 2015 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in December 2015, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in December 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2015Name the prophet believed to have been given the ability to understand the speech of birds and animals.
- 2nd December 2015Give one area of genuine scholarly disagreement about who is exempt from Hajj or umrah.
- 3rd December 2015Roughly which direction does the qiblah point to from the UK?
- 4th December 2015State whether sadaqah is compulsory or voluntary for Muslims.
- 5th December 2015What is the legal document that finally ends a marriage in England and Wales, since the 2022 reforms?
- 6th December 2015Name the person who typically leads a Christian wedding service and gives a sermon or address.
- 7th December 2015Give one piece of scientific evidence, other than the fossil record, that is used to support the theory of evolution.
- 8th December 2015State one difference between the idea of dominion and the idea of stewardship.
- 9th December 2015What does Jacob see in his dream, according to Genesis 28:12?
- 10th December 2015What process does suffering enable, according to the Irenaean theodicy?
- 11th December 2015State what is meant by retaliation.
- 12th December 2015In the Sermon on the Mount, what does Jesus tell his followers to do instead of retaliating against an attacker?
- 13th December 2015Name a Christian community in Northern Ireland known for its peace and reconciliation work.
- 14th December 2015Who supervises offenders serving community sentences in England and Wales?
- 15th December 2015Name one offence that can be treated as hudud in classical Islamic law.
- 16th December 2015Give one everyday example, other than worship at a church or mosque, of how a person might exercise religious freedom.
- 17th December 2015In which year did the Human Rights Act 1998 come into force in the UK, as opposed to the year it was passed?
- 18th December 2015Give one modern Christian denomination that is part of Western Christianity and so normally includes the Filioque clause in its version of the Nicene Creed.
- 19th December 2015According to Hebrews 9:27, what are people destined to do once, followed by judgement?
- 20th December 2015Name a site of Christian pilgrimage outside Britain associated with claims of physical healing.
- 21st December 2015According to the letter of James, why is faith without action described as 'dead'?
- 22nd December 2015How many roots make up the Shi'a summary of faith?
- 23rd December 2015Name one prophet, other than Muhammad, described as a Rasul because he was given a scripture.
- 24th December 2015Which chapter (surah) of the Qur'an teaches that Allah 'has already set a measure for all things'?
- 25th December 2015What is believed to have happened to the Twelfth Imam?
- 26th December 2015True or false: the Shahadah is recited only once, at the moment a person converts to Islam.
- 27th December 2015In which Islamic month does Ashura occur?
- 28th December 2015Give one condition some Muslims place on the use of contraception, even though it is generally permitted.
- 29th December 2015What is the Islamic term for the duty to maintain ties of kinship with relatives?
- 30th December 2015Which Christian tradition requires strict fasting from meat and dairy on many days of the year, including Lent?
- 31st December 2015Give one reason a person might travel abroad in connection with the euthanasia debate.