Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
May 2016 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in May 2016, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in May 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2016State one duty of Zakah that is relevant to caring for the victims of war.
- 2nd May 2016In restorative justice, what name is given to a meeting where the offender, the victim and community representatives discuss the harm caused and how to repair it?
- 3rd May 2016State one reason why a wrongful execution is considered worse than a wrongful prison sentence.
- 4th May 2016Complete the quotation: 'Do not defraud or rob your neighbour. Do not hold back ______' (Leviticus 19:13).
- 5th May 2016Name the specific percentage rate at which Zakah is normally calculated.
- 6th May 2016Give the name for the Christian interpretation of Genesis 1 which reads each 'day' as a long period of time rather than a literal 24-hour day.
- 7th May 2016At which Church council, in 431 AD, was the title Theotokos formally affirmed for Mary?
- 8th May 2016In which Gospel do the disciples ask Jesus, 'Lord, teach us to pray'?
- 9th May 2016State what is meant by contemplative prayer.
- 10th May 2016What is another common name for believers' baptism, reflecting that it requires personal belief first?
- 11th May 2016Name the two angels believed to question the deceased in the grave.
- 12th May 2016Which chapter (surah) of the Qur'an contains the verse describing Allah as 'the Creator, the Inventor, the Fashioner'?
- 13th May 2016Approximately how many years passed between the first and last revelations of the Qur'an to Muhammad?
- 14th May 2016Give one reason Muslims are encouraged to seek Laylat al-Qadr across several nights rather than on one confirmed date.
- 15th May 2016In which month of the Islamic calendar does Hajj take place?
- 16th May 2016State one way media or celebrity culture might reduce the stigma attached to sex before marriage.
- 17th May 2016What is meant by adoption?
- 18th May 2016Give one reason the Big Bang theory is described as a scientific theory rather than a religious belief.
- 19th May 2016Which psalm is often used to argue that God is involved in forming a person before birth?
- 20th May 2016Name the Christian theologian associated with developing situation ethics.
- 21st May 2016What is the difference between atheism and secularism?
- 22nd May 2016Name one natural theology argument that is sometimes described as a form of general revelation.
- 23rd May 2016What does jus in bello mean?
- 24th May 2016According to Genesis 1:27, why do many Christians believe every human life is sacred?
- 25th May 2016What does the theory of nuclear deterrence claim?
- 26th May 2016Explain why a victim who chooses not to forgive an offender is not automatically acting unfairly.
- 27th May 2016In Islam, who is believed to tempt humans towards wrongdoing?
- 28th May 2016Give one structural cause of poverty.
- 29th May 2016Give one reason why owing debt can trap a developing country in poverty.
- 30th May 2016State which numbered chapter of Genesis contains the second, more detailed account of the creation of Adam and Eve.
- 31st May 2016Which Christian tradition, associated with the reformer John Calvin, places strong emphasis on predestination and God's sovereign choice in salvation?