Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
November 2016 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in November 2016, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in November 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2016Which 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?
- 2nd November 2016Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
- 3rd November 2016Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
- 4th November 2016Name 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.
- 5th November 2016State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
- 6th November 2016Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
- 7th November 2016Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
- 8th November 2016Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.
- 9th November 2016Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
- 10th November 2016Which two New Testament books are most often set against each other in the Christian debate about faith and works?
- 11th November 2016What does Job's response in Job 42:1-6, after God speaks from the whirlwind, show about his attitude?
- 12th November 2016Give one difference between an 'open table' Communion and a 'closed' Communion.
- 13th November 2016According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
- 14th November 2016What is the Arabic term often translated as 'the signs of the Hour'?
- 15th November 2016In roughly what period of Muhammad's life, in relation to the Hijrah, is the Night Journey traditionally placed?
- 16th November 2016State one difference between a Nabi and a Rasul.
- 17th November 2016What is umrah?
- 18th November 2016What is the Arabic term for the call to prayer announced from the mosque?
- 19th November 2016Name the pillar of Islam that most closely parallels khums in being an obligatory, percentage-based payment.
- 20th November 2016Give one practical issue a religious community might need to decide when a divorced member wishes to remarry.
- 21st November 2016What is meant by a wedding vow?
- 22nd November 2016Which book of the Bible contains the account of God forming the first human from the dust of the ground?
- 23rd November 2016Define the term stewardship.
- 24th November 2016Which of Joseph's Old Testament dreams anger his brothers, according to Genesis 37:5-11?
- 25th November 2016Name the philosopher who developed the modern version of the free will defence.
- 26th November 2016Give one non-religious cause of war.
- 27th November 2016Identify the religious group named in this topic that has a long historical tradition of pacifism.
- 28th November 2016Why might faith motivate someone to volunteer for a peace organisation, rather than just believing peace is a good idea?
- 29th November 2016Give one requirement that can be attached to a community sentence.
- 30th November 2016What Arabic term is often used for the idea of justice that Shariah aims to establish?