The Ninja Academy's Incredible Legends (68): The Distance Between Ideal and Reality is Just One Good Teacher

Since Mizuki became principal of the Ninja Academy, the students had been getting far more holidays.

Because students of different ages and grades varied greatly in ability, various differentiated teaching plans had gradually been put on the agenda.

Especially for the senior graduating classes, the ridiculous old exam where passing the Three Basic Techniques was enough to graduate smoothly would no longer exist.

Compared to that negligible level of ninjutsu, Mizuki valued improvements in overall ability more.

The most highly valued aspects were independent learning ability and initiative.

Overall, the graduation class examinations would no longer be as simple as before, with all authority over elimination handed over to the team-leading teachers.

The examinations would be divided into two major parts.

The graduation examination before the end of the year would generally follow the previous format, except for the addition of a practical wilderness survival test.

Only those who passed the pre-year-end graduation examination could qualify for the genin promotion examination at the beginning of next year. Those who failed the graduation examination would be directly dismissed rather than sent back to the Ninja Academy to repeat their studies.

Those who failed the genin promotion examination could, depending on their wishes, return to the Ninja Academy to repeat their studies or be dismissed. However, each student would only receive two chances to repeat, and three failures would result in expulsion.

Only after passing both examinations would their names be submitted to the Hokage, giving them a chance to become genin.

Of course, making the assessment of graduates so complicated was not because they had nothing better to do.

In previous years, all the schools combined produced fewer than a hundred qualified ninja annually. Even including independently trained Anbu and secret ninja, the total would not exceed one hundred and fifty.