Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
October 2018 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in October 2018, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in October 2018
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2018Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
- 2nd October 2018According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
- 3rd October 2018Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
- 4th October 2018Which 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?
- 5th October 2018Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
- 6th October 2018Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
- 7th October 2018Name 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.
- 8th October 2018State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
- 9th October 2018Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
- 10th October 2018Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
- 11th October 2018Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.
- 12th October 2018Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
- 13th October 2018Which two New Testament books are most often set against each other in the Christian debate about faith and works?
- 14th October 2018What does Job's response in Job 42:1-6, after God speaks from the whirlwind, show about his attitude?
- 15th October 2018Give one difference between an 'open table' Communion and a 'closed' Communion.
- 16th October 2018According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
- 17th October 2018What is the Arabic term often translated as 'the signs of the Hour'?
- 18th October 2018In roughly what period of Muhammad's life, in relation to the Hijrah, is the Night Journey traditionally placed?
- 19th October 2018State one difference between a Nabi and a Rasul.
- 20th October 2018What is umrah?
- 21st October 2018What is the Arabic term for the call to prayer announced from the mosque?
- 22nd October 2018Name the pillar of Islam that most closely parallels khums in being an obligatory, percentage-based payment.
- 23rd October 2018Give one practical issue a religious community might need to decide when a divorced member wishes to remarry.
- 24th October 2018What is meant by a wedding vow?
- 25th October 2018Which book of the Bible contains the account of God forming the first human from the dust of the ground?
- 26th October 2018Define the term stewardship.
- 27th October 2018Which of Joseph's Old Testament dreams anger his brothers, according to Genesis 37:5-11?
- 28th October 2018Name the philosopher who developed the modern version of the free will defence.
- 29th October 2018Give one non-religious cause of war.
- 30th October 2018Identify the religious group named in this topic that has a long historical tradition of pacifism.
- 31st October 2018Why might faith motivate someone to volunteer for a peace organisation, rather than just believing peace is a good idea?