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December 2024 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day

Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in December 2024, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.

Every sheet in December 2024

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 2024State one activity the Corrymeela Community runs to bring divided communities together.
  2. 2nd December 2024Give one disadvantage often associated with short prison sentences.
  3. 3rd December 2024Who has the right to decide whether qisas, diyya or forgiveness is applied in a murder case?
  4. 4th December 2024Name one non-religious philosophical belief that UK courts have accepted as protected under the Equality Act 2010.
  5. 5th December 2024Which article of the Human Rights Act 1998 protects a person from discrimination in the enjoyment of their other Convention rights?
  6. 6th December 2024Give one modern Christian denomination that is part of Western Christianity and so normally includes the Filioque clause in its version of the Nicene Creed.
  7. 7th December 2024What extra state does Catholic teaching include, beyond heaven and hell, for those who die imperfect but not condemned?
  8. 8th December 2024A group of 45 pilgrims share the 900 pound cost of hiring a coach to a shrine. Calculate the cost per person.
  9. 9th December 2024According to the letter of James, why is faith without action described as 'dead'?
  10. 10th December 2024Give the Arabic name for the Shi'a root meaning 'the justice of Allah'.
  11. 11th December 2024Define the term Nabi.
  12. 12th December 2024According to mainstream Muslim teaching, is a person's effort to seek a livelihood still required if Allah has already decreed their provision?
  13. 13th December 2024According to Twelver Shia belief, from whose family were the Imams descended?
  14. 14th December 2024Is reciting the words of the Shahadah alone enough to make someone a Muslim, or is something more required?
  15. 15th December 2024State the Islamic collection in which the hadith about the Prophet fasting on Ashura is recorded.
  16. 16th December 2024A couple using natural family planning identifies 8 fertile days in a 28-day cycle. Calculate the number of non-fertile days in that cycle.
  17. 17th December 2024Give one reason an extended family might find it easier than a nuclear family to support a member going through a health crisis.
  18. 18th December 2024Give two foods listed as forbidden (haram) in Qur'an 5:3.
  19. 19th December 2024Name one type of specialist care that aims to relieve pain and symptoms for a person with a terminal illness, as an alternative to euthanasia.
  20. 20th December 2024What is the common name for the argument that nature's order and apparent purpose point to a designer?
  21. 21st December 2024Besides Lourdes in France, name another well-known site associated with claimed Catholic Marian miracles.
  22. 22nd December 2024What term describes the view that God used the process of evolution as his method of creating life?
  23. 23rd December 2024State one practical action a religious community might take to support reconciliation after conflict.
  24. 24th December 2024According to the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), who counts as a person's 'neighbour'?
  25. 25th December 2024According to Matthew 18:22, how many times does Jesus tell Peter to forgive someone?
  26. 26th December 2024In what year was the death penalty abolished in the UK for all remaining offences?
  27. 27th December 2024Give one difference between Fair Trade certification and the wider Trade Justice Movement.
  28. 28th December 2024Give one example of a fundraising method used by faith communities, other than a collection plate or box.
  29. 29th December 2024Give 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.
  30. 30th December 2024Name the New Testament letter that states 'in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form'.
  31. 31st December 2024Name the Anglican service book, first compiled in 1549 and revised in 1662, that provides set liturgy for worship.