Wait! No, no... I'd opened it completely wrong!
Naruto suddenly realized—the core of this exam was never the written test itself!
He looked around. Hinata had quietly activated her Byakugan, veins bulging around her clear eyes. Not far away, Satsuki's eyes had turned into scarlet Sharingan, their Three Tomoe slowly spinning.
Shino Aburame's Kikaichū were silently passing information between desks and chairs. Kiba was using Akamaru to spy, while Gaara was monitoring everyone with his Sand Eye...
It seemed that the only person in the entire examination room actually answering the questions was Sakura Haruno, scribbling away furiously.
What this exam truly tested was intelligence-gathering ability—the most essential reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance skills of a ninja.
Naruto fixed his gaze on the examiner's colleague disguised as an examinee, who was actually "putting on a performance" by answering the questions. He must have been the target they were supposed to gather intelligence on. After all, what kind of proper exam only deducted points when it caught someone cheating?
Although Naruto knew that, according to the original plot, he could pass this test even by turning in a blank paper, he still decided to go through the motions.
With a slight stir of his thoughts, a golden figure visible only to him—Golden Experience—quietly appeared behind him. It lightly floated above the "actor examiner," its line of sight perfectly overlapping with the test paper. The next moment, the answers the examiner wrote were clearly projected into Naruto's vision.
Good thing I didn't get Silver Chariot...
After copying down all the answers in sync, Naruto organized his test paper while watching several genin who had been "invited" out of the examination room after cheating too many times and losing all their points.
Come to think of it, both the Byakugan and Sharingan had been activated