The Ruling on a Menstruating Woman Reading the Qur'an

Question:
Your Eminence, the father, the questioner asks: What is the ruling on a menstruating woman reading the Qur'an for the purpose of learning?

Answer:
This is a matter of scholarly disagreement among the scholars. The stronger position, or the precautionary view, is that she does not read the Qur'an for learning until she becomes pure and performs the full ritual bath. She is only granted a dispensation to read the Qur'an if she fears forgetting it; that is, if she was memorizing it, and if she stops reciting during menstruation, she will forget it. The Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah issued a ruling that in this case, it is permissible for her to read the Qur'an to preserve it from being forgotten.
In our present time, a ruling was also issued on a second issue, which is the student, specifically the female student, whose exam includes a test on the Qur'an. If she does not attend and does not read, she will suffer the harm of failing or having her graduation delayed. In this case, it is permissible for her to read for the exam to avert the harm? Yes.