Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
April 2017 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in April 2017, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in April 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2017A group of 45 pilgrims share the 900 pound cost of hiring a coach to a shrine. Calculate the cost per person.
- 2nd April 2017According to the letter of James, why is faith without action described as 'dead'?
- 3rd April 2017Give the Arabic name for the Shi'a root meaning 'the justice of Allah'.
- 4th April 2017Define the term Nabi.
- 5th April 2017According to mainstream Muslim teaching, is a person's effort to seek a livelihood still required if Allah has already decreed their provision?
- 6th April 2017According to Twelver Shia belief, from whose family were the Imams descended?
- 7th April 2017Is reciting the words of the Shahadah alone enough to make someone a Muslim, or is something more required?
- 8th April 2017State the Islamic collection in which the hadith about the Prophet fasting on Ashura is recorded.
- 9th April 2017A couple using natural family planning identifies 8 fertile days in a 28-day cycle. Calculate the number of non-fertile days in that cycle.
- 10th April 2017Give one reason an extended family might find it easier than a nuclear family to support a member going through a health crisis.
- 11th April 2017Give two foods listed as forbidden (haram) in Qur'an 5:3.
- 12th April 2017Name one type of specialist care that aims to relieve pain and symptoms for a person with a terminal illness, as an alternative to euthanasia.
- 13th April 2017What is the common name for the argument that nature's order and apparent purpose point to a designer?
- 14th April 2017Besides Lourdes in France, name another well-known site associated with claimed Catholic Marian miracles.
- 15th April 2017What term describes the view that God used the process of evolution as his method of creating life?
- 16th April 2017State one practical action a religious community might take to support reconciliation after conflict.
- 17th April 2017According to the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), who counts as a person's 'neighbour'?
- 18th April 2017According to Matthew 18:22, how many times does Jesus tell Peter to forgive someone?
- 19th April 2017In what year was the death penalty abolished in the UK for all remaining offences?
- 20th April 2017Give one difference between Fair Trade certification and the wider Trade Justice Movement.
- 21st April 2017Give one example of a fundraising method used by faith communities, other than a collection plate or box.
- 22nd April 2017Give 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.
- 23rd April 2017Name the New Testament letter that states 'in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form'.
- 24th April 2017Name the Anglican service book, first compiled in 1549 and revised in 1662, that provides set liturgy for worship.
- 25th April 2017State one reason why some Christians use a physical aid, such as a prayer rope or beads, when praying.
- 26th April 2017What is another common name for believers' baptism, reflecting that it requires personal belief first?
- 27th April 2017Give one Qur'anic reference commonly used to support belief in Al-Mizan.
- 28th April 2017Give one belief that shows transcendence and immanence are not really contradictory in Muslim theology.
- 29th April 2017Give one reason a Muslim might consult a Tafsir when studying the Qur'an.
- 30th April 2017Name the charitable payment traditionally given before the Eid al-Fitr prayer, at the end of Ramadan.