Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
August 2020 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in August 2020, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in August 2020
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2020Give one example of a media method a church might use to spread the Christian message today.
- 2nd August 2020What does Asma-ul-Husna mean in English?
- 3rd August 2020Give the Qur'anic reference commonly cited for belief that Allah has protected the Qur'an from corruption.
- 4th August 2020Give the Qur'anic image used to describe the moment that marks the start of the Day of Judgement.
- 5th August 2020What is meant by Sawm?
- 6th August 2020What is the Shi'a-specific religious payment, additional to zakah, called?
- 7th August 2020Give two features that make dua different from the fixed structure of Salah.
- 8th August 2020In what year did same-sex couples first legally marry in England and Wales?
- 9th August 2020State one reason cohabitation has become more common in the UK.
- 10th August 2020In what year was Laudato Si' published?
- 11th August 2020What term describes giving less moral weight to an animal's suffering purely because it is not human?
- 12th August 2020Give one reason a believer might treat a vision as credible despite it not being independently verifiable.
- 13th August 2020In which book of the New Testament is Paul's (then Saul's) conversion on the road to Damascus described?
- 14th August 2020According to the free will defence, who is responsible for moral evil?
- 15th August 2020Name the secular philosopher who developed a rights-based, non-religious version of just war theory.
- 16th August 2020What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?
- 17th August 2020What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
- 18th August 2020Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
- 19th August 2020Give one example of indirect discrimination.
- 20th August 2020State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
- 21st August 2020Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
- 22nd August 2020Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
- 23rd August 2020State one feature of worship in a house church.
- 24th August 2020Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
- 25th August 2020According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 26th August 2020Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
- 27th August 2020Give one Arabic term for angels.
- 28th August 2020Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
- 29th August 2020Which month does Ashura fall in?
- 30th August 2020Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
- 31st August 2020Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.