Is helping students by answering questions during an exam considered cheating?

Question:
May Allah reward you with good. Some students are older than their peers in the same grade level due to their academic weakness and social circumstances. So, is helping such students in the exam considered cheating? Knowing that helping them is not at the expense of others. And not helping them leads to their failure, and it may also lead to their deviation. Please guide us, may Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
It is not permissible to help students by answering in the exam, by helping them to answer for them in the exam, or by giving them what helps them to answer, for this is cheating.
Rather, it is among the greatest of cheating, because this is cheating in the pursuit of knowledge, and the one who is supposed to be a student of knowledge is one of trustworthiness.
In any case, cheating in the exam is not permissible, nor is helping the weak student in his studies. Rather, he is left alone; if he succeeds, praise be to Allah, and if not, he intensifies his effort and cares for his studies until he catches up with his brothers. And if he fails, there are many fields other than studies, he turns to other works, and praise be to Allah.