"I am Shimono Hisanobu, chief proctor of the theoretical portion of the first stage of the Chunin Exams. The exam will last until ten in the morning. The paper contains ten questions worth a total of one hundred points. Anyone who scores below seventy will fail and be eliminated immediately. If one person is eliminated, their entire team will be eliminated."
Shimono Hisanobu wrote the exam time on the blackboard, then addressed all the students in the classroom.
"Seventy points." Kakashi instinctively glanced at Obito, who was seated two rows behind him.
While Kakashi thought getting seventy was effortless, he seriously doubted whether Obito could manage it on his own.
"You may use every means at your disposal to complete the test, provided you do not get caught. If you are caught cheating five times, you will be disqualified immediately," Shimono Hisanobu added after a pause.
Cheating was permitted in the Chunin Exams, because it was itself part of the test.
The Chunin Exams did not assess a student's ability in any single area, but their overall capabilities. If they could not answer the questions themselves, they could obtain information from others to finish the exam.
To prevent an entire examination hall from being unable to answer the questions, Konoha also sent in some ninja disguised with the Transformation Jutsu to mingle among the examinees and write down the correct answers.
"Damn it, seventy isn't a passing score at all. That's already really high!" Obito grumbled inwardly about Shimono Hisanobu.
But once he was done complaining, he grew nervous. Although he had worked hard on practice papers these past few days, he had only scored a little over sixty on the last one.
Obito took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. In any case, he would pray