Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
October 2016 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in October 2016, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in October 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2016What is meant by Sawm?
- 2nd October 2016What is the Shi'a-specific religious payment, additional to zakah, called?
- 3rd October 2016Give two features that make dua different from the fixed structure of Salah.
- 4th October 2016In what year did same-sex couples first legally marry in England and Wales?
- 5th October 2016State one reason cohabitation has become more common in the UK.
- 6th October 2016In what year was Laudato Si' published?
- 7th October 2016What term describes giving less moral weight to an animal's suffering purely because it is not human?
- 8th October 2016Give one reason a believer might treat a vision as credible despite it not being independently verifiable.
- 9th October 2016In which book of the New Testament is Paul's (then Saul's) conversion on the road to Damascus described?
- 10th October 2016According to the free will defence, who is responsible for moral evil?
- 11th October 2016Name the secular philosopher who developed a rights-based, non-religious version of just war theory.
- 12th October 2016What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?
- 13th October 2016What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
- 14th October 2016Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
- 15th October 2016Give one example of indirect discrimination.
- 16th October 2016State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
- 17th October 2016Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
- 18th October 2016Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
- 19th October 2016State one feature of worship in a house church.
- 20th October 2016Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
- 21st October 2016According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 22nd October 2016Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
- 23rd October 2016Give one Arabic term for angels.
- 24th October 2016Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
- 25th October 2016Which month does Ashura fall in?
- 26th October 2016Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
- 27th October 2016Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
- 28th October 2016According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
- 29th October 2016Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
- 30th October 2016According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
- 31st October 2016Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?