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December 2020 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day

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

Every sheet in December 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 December 2020What is the name of the meal eaten just before dawn, before the fast begins each day during Ramadan?
  2. 2nd December 2020According to Qur'an 62:9, what should believers do when the call to Friday prayer is made?
  3. 3rd December 2020State one difference between how a civil partnership is formed and how a religious marriage is formed.
  4. 4th December 2020What is meant by an extended family?
  5. 5th December 2020In what year was Laudato Si' published?
  6. 6th December 2020In what year did the UK ban testing cosmetics and their ingredients on animals?
  7. 7th December 2020According to Qur'an 96:1, what is the first command given to Muhammad in this encounter?
  8. 8th December 2020What word describes a religious experience shared by a whole group, such as during collective worship?
  9. 9th December 2020Name the philosopher most associated with the soul-making theodicy.
  10. 10th December 2020Which group of Christians is well known for rejecting all violence, holding an absolute pacifist position?
  11. 11th December 2020What Christian belief gives human life inherent value and dignity?
  12. 12th December 2020Name the Act of Parliament that sets out the five statutory purposes of sentencing in England and Wales.
  13. 13th December 2020Give one non-religious objection to corporal punishment, in addition to any objection about human dignity.
  14. 14th December 2020State what is meant by living in a multi-faith, multi-ethnic society.
  15. 15th December 2020Give one Islamic source used to support racial equality.
  16. 16th December 2020Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  17. 17th December 2020Near which Jerusalem hill does Acts 1 record the disciples returning after witnessing the ascension?
  18. 18th December 2020Name the denomination whose worship centres on the Mass, in which the priest consecrates bread and wine believed by Catholics to become the body and blood of Christ.
  19. 19th December 2020Name the Spanish city that is the traditional endpoint of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route.
  20. 20th December 2020According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  21. 21st December 2020Which Islamic festival commemorates Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son?
  22. 22nd December 2020According to Qur'an 13:11, in what order do angels protect a person?
  23. 23rd December 2020State the relationship between Husayn and Muhammad.
  24. 24th December 2020Give one festival celebrated by both Sunni and Shia Muslims.
  25. 25th December 2020Name one everyday situation, other than resisting temptation, that a Muslim might treat as an opportunity for the Greater Jihad.
  26. 26th December 2020State one action, other than seeking forgiveness, that a couple might take to try to rebuild trust after adultery.
  27. 27th December 2020Besides sex, name one other protected characteristic listed in the Equality Act 2010.
  28. 28th December 2020What is the related, but distinct, Islamic concept of an intermediate state between death and the Day of Judgement called?
  29. 29th December 2020What is the Christian term for being raised to new life after death?
  30. 30th December 2020What word describes an act that is strictly forbidden in Islamic law?
  31. 31st December 2020In which of Aquinas's Five Ways does he argue from the fact that things move or change?