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September 2020 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day

Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in September 2020, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.

Every sheet in September 2020

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st September 2020According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
  2. 2nd September 2020Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
  3. 3rd September 2020According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
  4. 4th September 2020Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
  5. 5th September 2020Which 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?
  6. 6th September 2020Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
  7. 7th September 2020Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
  8. 8th September 2020Name 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.
  9. 9th September 2020State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
  10. 10th September 2020Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.
  11. 11th September 2020Which 1998 UK law makes rights under the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in UK courts?
  12. 12th September 2020Give one example of an alternative to a high-cost lender that a church or faith group might support.
  13. 13th September 2020Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
  14. 14th September 2020Which two New Testament books are most often set against each other in the Christian debate about faith and works?
  15. 15th September 2020What does Job's response in Job 42:1-6, after God speaks from the whirlwind, show about his attitude?
  16. 16th September 2020Give one difference between an 'open table' Communion and a 'closed' Communion.
  17. 17th September 2020According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
  18. 18th September 2020What is the Arabic term often translated as 'the signs of the Hour'?
  19. 19th September 2020In roughly what period of Muhammad's life, in relation to the Hijrah, is the Night Journey traditionally placed?
  20. 20th September 2020State one difference between a Nabi and a Rasul.
  21. 21st September 2020What is umrah?
  22. 22nd September 2020What is the Arabic term for the call to prayer announced from the mosque?
  23. 23rd September 2020Name the pillar of Islam that most closely parallels khums in being an obligatory, percentage-based payment.
  24. 24th September 2020Give one practical issue a religious community might need to decide when a divorced member wishes to remarry.
  25. 25th September 2020What is meant by a wedding vow?
  26. 26th September 2020Which book of the Bible contains the account of God forming the first human from the dust of the ground?
  27. 27th September 2020Define the term stewardship.
  28. 28th September 2020Which of Joseph's Old Testament dreams anger his brothers, according to Genesis 37:5-11?
  29. 29th September 2020Name the philosopher who developed the modern version of the free will defence.
  30. 30th September 2020Give one non-religious cause of war.