Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
October 2020 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in October 2020, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in October 2020
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2020Identify the religious group named in this topic that has a long historical tradition of pacifism.
- 2nd October 2020Why might faith motivate someone to volunteer for a peace organisation, rather than just believing peace is a good idea?
- 3rd October 2020Give one requirement that can be attached to a community sentence.
- 4th October 2020What Arabic term is often used for the idea of justice that Shariah aims to establish?
- 5th October 2020Explain, in one sentence, what Qur'an 18:29 teaches about belief.
- 6th October 2020Can a UK court cancel or strike down an Act of Parliament using the Human Rights Act 1998?
- 7th October 2020Give one modern Christian denomination that is part of Western Christianity and so normally includes the Filioque clause in its version of the Nicene Creed.
- 8th October 2020According to Matthew 25:31-46, on what basis are people judged?
- 9th October 2020Give one non-religious factor that might discourage a Christian from going on pilgrimage today.
- 10th October 2020According to the letter of James, why is faith without action described as 'dead'?
- 11th October 2020In which collection of Hadith is the Hadith of Jibril, the source of the Sunni Six Beliefs, recorded?
- 12th October 2020What does Khatm an-Nubuwwah mean?
- 13th October 2020Give one Arabic phrase, other than insha'Allah, that a Muslim might say on seeing something impressive or blessed, showing that it happened by Allah's will.
- 14th October 2020Who was the first of the Twelve Imams, according to Twelver Shia belief?
- 15th October 2020What is the literal meaning of the Arabic word 'Shahadah'?
- 16th October 2020Name the animal that, in the Qur'anic account, replaced Ibrahim's son as the sacrifice at the last moment.
- 17th October 2020Name the 1968 papal document in which the Catholic Church restated its teaching against artificial contraception.
- 18th October 2020Give one possible disadvantage for a nuclear family if a parent becomes seriously ill and there are no relatives living nearby.
- 19th October 2020Name one Christian tradition that follows a mainly or fully vegetarian diet as a matter of religious conviction.
- 20th October 2020Give one difference between voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia.
- 21st October 2020Name the scientific process, proposed by Darwin, that offers a non-design explanation for adaptation in living things.
- 22nd October 2020Which 18th century philosopher argued that testimony for a miracle should never outweigh the evidence for the laws of nature?
- 23rd October 2020Name the scientific theory that describes the universe expanding from a hot, dense initial state.
- 24th October 2020Name one method the TRC used to encourage reconciliation.
- 25th October 2020Give one reason a captured prisoner of war should not be harmed, according to just war principles.
- 26th October 2020According to Qur'an 5:45, what happens when a victim's family chooses to forgo retaliation (qisas) in charity?
- 27th October 2020What is the difference between a retentionist and an abolitionist?
- 28th October 2020What does a Fairtrade mark guarantee about the price paid to a producer?
- 29th October 2020Give one example of how a place of worship supports people facing food poverty in the UK.
- 30th October 2020Give 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.
- 31st October 2020According to Hebrews 4:15, what did Jesus experience that shows his full humanity?