Advice for Students and Parents Regarding Examinations

Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, as the exams and tests are approaching, the questioner asks: What is the advice and guidance for Honorable Shaykh Al-Fawzan regarding performing these exams in the best possible manner? And what is obligatory for parents toward their sons?

Answer:
Yes, academic exams are a measure of achievement; they provide a stimulus for the student to study and learn. However, it is better and more fitting for him to have a stimulus from his own desire for beneficial knowledge. But making the exam a stimulus for him, on the one hand, and a measure of his perceptions and information, on the other, is also a means of fairness among students so that the diligent are distinguished from the lazy, and the successful from the unsuccessful. Therefore, the exam is necessary. If students were left without exams, few of them would care about studying and achieving. Yes. May Allah reward you with good.
It is obligatory for parents to fear Allah regarding their children, to protect them, and to help them in seeking knowledge and acquiring learning, because that is in the interest of everyone, in the interest of the child and in the interest of the parent. Yes.