How do you deal with this?

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Yesterday, I had a talk to my teacher about a "friend" of mine. She's all nice and stuff, but yesterday, I felt that she was only using me as a cheat sheet. I'm very intelligent, and know almost all the answers to any question, and I felt as though that if I wasn't intelligent, I wouldn't have any friends. How do you deal with that?

I had this all through primary school, secondary school, college and university and even now in an evening class. Half the class hate me and half want to sit next to me to copy. Is this kind of friend better than no friend
You can test the friendship, or try make it work more for you, by asking the `friend`to do things for you also eg do an activity that you like to do etc.
I think all friendships are supposed to be about give and take and it is a trade off to get what you need from people by giving what they need.

I haven't really had this much, but some people have sometimes asked me for answers to problems in maths and other subjects. They say "What did you get for question 2?" which is basically their way of saying "Can I have the answer to question 2?"

I would actually take this as a compliment! This is because it's nice for people to know you are smart (although they don't need to know), and I think that it is good to be known for being smart. Although I don't care about this much, when someone calls me a Boffin, I just tend to reply by saying "Thanks!"